Name: Shimmer by Marc Dauncey
Duration: 3 min 36 s
Description: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9wmaVl5HqE

Senescence

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

as soggy neutrons - naviarhaiku608

Any The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans around?

Brief conversation with a somewhat upset sentient elevator

Red Moon Is Rising (Is there a moon on the back of my sky?)

While the far-flung Asarian homeworld is the first inhabited system that we've discovered, this is not our first time encountering the intelligent cloud beings of Asar. We've learned that Asarian explorers visited our earth thousands of years ago, touching down somewhere in the Nile river valley. When the gas giants finally departed, the Pharaoh whose hospitality they had enjoyed bestowed two gifts on her alien visitors. The first was a scroll with plans they could use to build their own pyramids back home. But the most remarkable gift was a papyrus describing a peculiar set of frequencies that, when resonated in certain sequences, could reveal spiritual and mathematical truths. We believe the audio captured by our surface drone may be a sacred performance of this ancient harmonic "spell".

This one was a lot of fun to put together! It gave me a great excuse to experiment with microtonal composition, and learn how to configure custom tunings in Logic. I chose the Maqam scale, a traditional scale in Arabic music believed to have originated in ancient Egypt. The scale consists of two "half-flats": in this case, A, B half-flat, C, D, E half-flat, F, G, and A. The main melodic line is typical for the scale, arcing from root to  octave and then descending again. The percussion was inspired by reading about Wahda w-Nuss rhythms. 

More on the 718th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Planet Jam It — The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization — at https://disquiet.com/0718/.

The Asar Sequence (disquiet0718)

EXcursion11

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9wmaVl5HqE

Shimmer

Marco Lucchi : piano and found sounds

freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/779962/

Farewell

TUSCON+J

wrecked car

Fragments of Tomorrow – Ambient Ethereal Dystopian Soundscapes

Fragments of Tomorrow drifts through a hauntingly beautiful world caught between decay and hope — a soundscape of ambient, ethereal, and dystopian textures that evoke the remnants of a fading future. 🌌⚙️ Layers of ghostly synths, fractured echoes, and atmospheric tones intertwine, painting scenes of forgotten cities, endless skies, and dreams suspended in static.

This collection captures the quiet pulse of desolation and renewal — music for those who find beauty in stillness and meaning in the ruins. Perfect for writing, reflection, or cinematic immersion in the world beyond the horizon. 🕯️💫

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Welsh musician and composer. If you like my stuff, please like, repost / share. And follow for more tunes

Shimmer

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