Another preview from the electronic/ambient album I'm currently working on (my first), titled 'Landing Party' which I will release before the Summer. "Eclipse 1979", written and produced by Editor Cole.

At over 12 minutes long, this track goes on a sonic journey of sorts. Try to wear headphones.

Eclipse 1979

Drone improvisation performed entirely on the Soma Labs Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer. Reverb courtesy of Korg NTS-1.

Phantom Oscillator - Drone Painting No. 04

Played/made with Roland D70
Artwork by Pentti Sammallahti
https://www.peterfetterman.com/artists/156-pentti-sammallahti/works/

Thats All For Today, Because Now It's Tomorrow

photo - mosa - pal
track made just after cycling the Oregon Coastal HWY 101, 08/23.

Postcycle

naviarhaiku518

dark clouds menacing
– I doubt we shall reach shelter
before the deluge

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 13th December 2023
Haiku by Raymond Cobley
Picture by Malte Schmidt

Dark Clouds Menacing (naviarhaiku518)

This longish recording focusses on First Light rather than Dawn (Second Light and Sunrise), although it includes the beginnings of the latter. It ought to be listened to with good quality headphones, or good quality speakers, at a mid-range volume of around fifty to sixty per cent. The recording is unedited: one of the things that particularly interests me, and that I especially enjoy, about this early spring First Light forest soundscape (and other similar early spring forest Dawn recordings that I made during this road trip to Tasmania) is precisely its very gradual, slow, minimal, and spacious development. This sounds nothing like an overly-busy tropical rainforest. The 'silence' never completely disappears.

In this rich, dense, moist, cool-temperature southern forest of Tasmania, at the time that this excerpt begins, it is still fairly dark to the human eye. The first First Light call is (as usual) from a Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa), a species of Currawong that is found only in Tasmania. Its call is quite unique, very unlike any mainland Currawong, and I grew to adore it, and to recognise it as the main Tasmanian forest sentinel of dawn.

We also hear the final few night calls of Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, which I would prefer to refer to as the 'Tasmanian Boobook', rather than its more common and familiar name, 'Morepork'. Both names are, of course, onomatopoeic labels provided by Europeans. But the name 'Morepork' suggests, to me, an image of radically displaced Europeans in an unfamiliar landscape, craving pork meat, and hearing this beautiful owl call as though it were expressing their own cravings: 'More pork!" (Interestingly, DNA evidence has suggested that Ninox novaeseelandiae is more closely related to the New Zealand Boobook (also commonly known in NZ as the 'Morepork') than to the mainland Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook).)

The other early caller, here, is the Yellow Wattlebird (Anthocaera paradoxa), also found only in Tasmania.

Gradually, the 'Dawn Chorus' stirs and unfurls into a more richly-populated wakefulness. Thankfully, the introduced and now feral Superb Lyrebirds, which have seriously infested this region, seem to be late risers that enjoy sleeping in: somewhat later in the original recording, they pretty much take over most of the forest soundscape.

Recorded with meditative respect upon the land of the Nuenonne tribe of the Palawa people. The recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF into an F3 recorder.

2023.09.23 First Light. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

Made for Naviar Records' 526th Haiku Challenge

Sumitaku Kenshin (1961-1987), who died of acute myeloid leukemia just before turning 26, devoted the last 20 months of his life to haiku.

https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/i-see-my-shadow-in-the-moonlight-naviarhaiku195

Arc of moonlight [naviarhaiku526]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
532
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku532-wordless/

2024-03-14

Wordless (Naviarhaiku 532)

øne | Album 'N​Ø​INMI TWØ'

18 May 2024

Rustic Bunting breeds in swamp forest in the northern Palearctic boreal region. It is a long-distance migrant with Fennoscandian birds overwintering in eastern Asia. There has been a strong range-wide population decline in RB and it has been classified as globally threatened. In recent years there are hopeful signs of a stabilization in population numbers, at least locally. 

Rustic Bunting is one of my favourite birds, and I have spent many hours searching them home and abroad. The best time to find them is in May upon arrival when they are most actively singing. One should preferrably listen in the early morning hours, even before sunrise. I compiled a sequel of sound clips recorded during the same morning in an attempt to capture the Rustic Bunting soundscape.

Clip #1 Setting the scene. Early morning hour and still pretty dark and damp in the swamp forest. Mics placed as tree ears close to a calmly floating creek. RB has been singing since sunrise and is now joined by Eurasian Siskin, Song and Mistle Thrush and Cuckoo. #2 Closing in, thirty minutes later. The singing choir has multiplied, and one can now also hear Redwing, Willow Warbler, Black Woodpecker, Brambling and Common Redstart. #3 Close quarters. The singing RB male exposes its rusty coloured breast, perched high in a birch with a displaying Wood Sandpiper in the background. Stereo-mounted mics in a parabolic dish.

Botsmark, Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (64.26 N, 20.14 E)

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Rustic Bunting – the gem of boreal swamp forests

I was inspired to share this track from the album The Second Continent as it was used as the closing track in a short film called Fledgling that was released earlier this year. In terms of arrangement it's probably the cleanest track from the album and, for me personally, stands out as one of the most heartfelt. 

Watch out for a new album dropping later this year on Esc.Rec.

Rustic Bunting – the gem of boreal swamp forests

Lars Edenius

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