You may notice some similarity to „Charlie”, song by The Mysterious Town of Oak Hill. 

There's nothing violent and dreadful about this one. Since I had no idea how to name it, I've opened the book of stories by H. P. Lovecraft at random page (again), and read the part of sentence that goes like this. It's from „The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.

Violently Dreading the Fall of Night in This Decaying and Half-Unlighted Town

Cast of Characters:

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 4-string fretless bass

Mysterious Decibel-- @themysteriousdecibel  --MD—effected vocals

J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- organ, trippy synth

Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and seed idea 

Composition – The Eclectic Collective

This song began about half a year ago, as part of a three song set that Ken started with some really cool beats. Josh was first to the trough for here, laying in his fretless bass groove to complete the foundation and give it some tonal direction. 

Stephen came next and laid in the really trippy textural guitar that you hear throughout. JJ was next with his serious, no joke organ playing, which sets the mood for the whole thing. 

Last, but not least, Tez joined by adding some really cool accent guitar throughout.

  Of course, every great song needs a great producer, so we tapped Stephen to do the honors on this.

  We had originally made this and the other two song with the intention of having The Mysterios Decibel and his friend Modes About Me sing on them. However, life got in the way, so we sat on them. Finally, MD let us know that he wasn't able to complete the project with us, much to everyone's, including his, disappointment. However, MD did lay down a rough vocal demo for us, which Stephen very ably processed to sound almost like another instrument in there. So, we're releasing this song as a tribute to them both, with gratitude, especially to MD for all the great work he's put in with us. If you're not familiar with either of them, do yourself a favor and check them out. Modes about me is at  @modesaboutme and the link to The Mysterious Decibel can be found in the link in the cast of characters above. 

  This is an example of what it sounds like when the whole band composes a song together. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

Mysterious Modes  - (Eclectic Collective)

from the Bandcamp album "Songs for Audio Succubus"-
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-audio-succubus

Songs for Audio Succubus

Mood Exhibit - soft.mystique

Cantarolando

郭公（Cuckoo）

うき我をさびしがらせよかんこ鳥　芭蕉 (1644-1694)　

Cuckoo, make my melancholy heart lonelier.　Basho (1644-1694)　

Art work: Benji Tran via Pixabay

郭公 (Cuckoo)

Shrillbite, for ensemble and multichannel electronics (stereo mixdown)

Ensemble Collettivo_21
www.collettivo21.com/

Lorenzo di Marco – flute
Lorenzo Moretto – saxophone
Giulia Pastorino – electric guitar
Alberto Anhaus – percussions
Daniele Nava – piano
Alessandro Mazzacane – cello
Luca Guidarini – electronics

Recorded live at To listen to festival, Torino, Conservatorio G. Verdi, 28/09/2024.
https://www.to-listen-to.it/

Shrillbite

Finally found the time to play around again. Got myself the latest Ableton and the Ableton Move and had fun :)

Hope you enjoy ...


Sag mir schatz isses denn n wunder?
Hoellenhitze das geschwitze
Da trag ick doch nix drunter

Politiker sind immer da
Tanzen ringelreih 
Luegen froehlich
Sind dann selig
Ist doch nix dabei

Sag mal schatz ob sommer oder winter
Haben ne grosse fresse
Und trozdem nix dahinter

Billionaer sein 
Heutzutage ohne frage
Eine feine sache
Ueber's ander leute elend lache

Sag mir schatz warum ich platz
Euer leiden macht mich munter
Und da das ganz schnell messy wird
Trag ich auch nix drunter

Freiheitskaempfer Musk and Trump sprechen fuer das Volk
Und wo die beiden haare tragen
I am sadly bald
Holy Putin fights for god
As long as he is white
Der russe, einst ein grosser held
Betruegt die ganze welt


Klimawandel, oh wie fein
Heißt nur, ich kann schwitzen
Also renn wir nackig rum
Ick lass den degen blitzen

Ick lass den samen flitzen
In ganz viel loecher spritzen

Wenn ihr jetzt erschrocken seid, treib ich's noch viel bunter
Das vermehren nicht erschweren
Drum trag ich auch nix drunter

Sag mal, Schatz, isses nicht famos?
Ich kann die stimmen kaufen
Im geld soll'n sie ersaufen
Da kribbelt es gleich wieder schoen im schoss
Der kinder hab ich lang noch nich genug
Verteile fleissig samen, hass und wut

Is that legal?

traegst du gar nix drunter

Traegst Du Gar Nix Drunter

method: dr 01s; voice; vst (bells'n'chimes); the cover image shows part of the 'ultimate distortion engine' consisting of one exciter module, one piezo pickup (pledging for mono today) and one slate plate (it could be any other more or less sonically transducive material, though, including shaped materials like springs, material with other material spread out on top, etc .... which renders this engine ultimately versatile, incl all the processes feasable during amplification, eqing and gainstaging); white tape pedal;  vst (balalaika): more voices and then some; several eqing instruments (including CS-5 compressor pedal)
narration: 'we' did start the fire, by the way, and keep rekindling it 
title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
image: part of the 'ultimate distortion engine'; copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

[hey you - can you smell it as well - must've been here just a moment ago]

nunamnir was here who tied the first knot
enkidu was here before he was tamed
vaidehi was here who was and was not
sharada was here who names and is named

heraclitus was here, a delian diver's lot
helen was here, booty to be blamed
archimedes was here, circles mark the spot
turanna was here ruling unashamed

heimdallr was here, threshold polyglot
boudica was here, rapists will be maimed
the morrigan was here, kin to thrive, foes to rot
mimir was here, as well he claimed 

il duce was here, traitors will be shot
de beauvoir was here, l'autre appears ingrained
ray kurzweil was here, future is a reboot robot
three sisters were here, looked on and remained

was here

kilroy

P.C.PALEO -indians 10:23:24, 9.32 AM

Feedback Madness
Track 1, "From This", 01:04, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
Track 2, "Feedback Madness", 02:15, PulDeFilt
Track 3, "Wander", 02:41, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
Track 4, "Uncover", 03:21, Soma Enner + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
Track 5, "Leaving", 02:00, PulDeFilt + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS


Dates:
26-Oct-2025 (inception), 30-Oct-2025 (finalised), 30-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/feedback-madness

Description:

Following up an idea on feed back loops, looper cross amplitude modulation with my software based digital modular synthesiser, PulDeFilt; plus analogue synthesisers: Soma Enner, Soma Lyra 8 and Soma COSMOS.


Track 1, "From This", 01:04, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt:
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Records a short Soma Lyra 8 performance, two motifs introduced and recorded into Loops 1 and 2, ready to use in Track 2.


Track 2, "Feedback Madness", 02:15, PulDeFilt:
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*(1). This is where is all began. Having recorded two short 11 and 12 second samples from the Soma Lyra 8 from track 1 into loops 1 and 2, it was time to experiment with loops 1 and 2 amplitude modulating (AM) each other.

I wanted to explore the possibilities of dynamic assignment of multiple looper outputs to cross amplitude modulate each other. So I decided to start simple and just cross link only two looper outputs.

The audio signals from looper 1 and looper 2 where then multiplied together, i.e. amplitude modulation. Now to add some spice, after amplitude modulation, this was fed into a delay+feedback+gain block and added back to the looper 1 AM input. This delay was necessary as a technical matter but then later proved to be a useful timbral tool by playing the delay times according to a prescribed discrete set of delay times (as assigned to 8 midi note pads, along with the feed back gain assigned to a rotary encoder of the midi instrument again played by the performer. The discrete delay time tuning was determined by ear, old school style, play one delay time, write that down, play the next delay time that sounded right, write it down and continue, then assign to the tuning library.

Since the original audio from the Lyra 8 was feed into the Soma COSMOS for reverb, no reverb VST was necessary in the digital modular synthesiser, PulDeFilt.


Track 3, "Wander", 02:41, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
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A purely Soma Lyra 8 performance.


Track 4, "Uncover", 03:21, Soma Enner + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
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Here the Soma Lyra 8 played a dual role, firstly as the delay+distortion for the Soma Enner performance and secondly, the Lyra 8 played in it's own right. This was then feed into the Soma COSMOS to layer in and out various motifs and play the Blur and Drift dials. PulDeFilt was used here purely as a mixing console and to layer up performances.


Track 5, "Leaving", 02:00, PulDeFilt + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
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After all the hyper activity, a calming finale. PulDeFilt was used to play a pulse oscillator drone through a single delay+feedback block then off to a band pass filter, adjusting the centre frequency dynamically during the performance. This provided the backing for the Soma Lyra 8 performance. The Lyra 8 audio was passed through to the COSMOS for a touch of reverb.

Uncover

A mix between different textures find recently with other sonic material from the last two years archive 
further refinement could be made in the future 
work in progress

Neural engine

Composer, musicologist, sound director www.lucaguidarini.com
Member of Collettivo_21 
https://www.collettivo21.com/

Shrillbite

Luca Guidarini

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