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Dark ambient approach to Sylvia Plath's Poem "Sheep in Fog." Featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-3. Music VSS (electric guitar, percussion, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps) & SnowOmen (4 hands, 8 glasses, water, table). Mixing and production: VSS. Image: Miniature installation (photo: VSS). 

Sylvia Plath: Sheep in Fog (1962/63)

The hills step off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

The train leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Horse the cololur of rust,

Hooves, dolorous bells - 
All morning the 
Morning has been blackening,

A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.

They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.

Dark Water

Synaptic Reveries is an audio-visual work produced in collaboration with visual artist Mario Kolarić. Mario and I have a few collaborative actions behind us, and we hope this is only the beginning of a larger-scale collection, exhibition, or AV installation.

The new collaboration is symbolically inspired by the synaptic space — a scientific model of synapse function where "communication" between two neurons occurs, a space for information exchange essential for most subsequent functions of the nervous system. Ultimately, the context of this work relies on the concept of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who extensively studied the state of ataraxia — a state of lucid calmness. This complex ancient philosophical concept has various interpretations, and "Synaptic Reveries" aligns with those that bring mental-emotional balance and support sensory ecologies opposing the cacophony of everyday life, informational saturation, and the commercialization of human perception and attention.

Some of the sounds included in the work are the biggest waves on Earth, recorded at Praia do Nort and Praia da Nazare, in Portugal.

All sounds recorded & composed by Manja Ristić
All visual content by Mario Kolarić
Mastering by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio

This project is supported by the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Department of Education, Culture, and Sports.

Synaptic Reveries

A very beautiful interviev found this morning
about love, life, death, consciousness, science and other things..
on a live stream. 
I don't know further details

THE VERY BEST OF ART BELL (U7RADIO.ORG)
C2C 062609


i liked too much, really interesting things
editing on the fly in ableton live
work in progress

The Love Study

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

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gennaio 2025

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - [year's end] Farewell

Inspired bu this poem:


one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon


Haiku by Senjo
Photo by NASA @nasa

@naviar-records

Another Winter Moon - naviarhaiku578

Created as a response to:

one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

Naviar haiku challenge 578: details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

With the exception of the gongs, a combination of a modified Dreamsynth bell preset and Gong Amp, everything was made with one monster virtual modular patch using VCV Rack (Mostly Surge XT modules). 

Probably not the best way to do it, I should have learned from how easy it was splitting things last week, but everything including the gongs was multi-track recorded as a single live performance. Apart from pushing my far from shabby CPU to it's limit I wasn't able to modulate as many things as I'd have liked, ran into the not enough physical knobs/sliders limit.  ,

One by One - (naviarhaiku - 578)

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 578.
Sur un haïku de Senjo:
one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Winter Moon

shifty take 3 july 30 55 bpm

crooked smile 1 10 bpm 111624

Gretsch Bariton

I will open the ground beneath you
Let it swallow your voices first
Your words will choke you
Your tongues will blister in smoke

I will turn your blood to fire
Your hearts will beat in agony
Every pulse every scream
Every breath a confession

I will burn your homes from within
The walls will whisper your sins
The air will taste of metal
And your shadows will flee from you

I will make the night eternal
The sun will beg for mercy
The stars will turn away
And leave you blind in heat
in heat

Synaptic Reveries

Manja Ristic