c'è in giro da tempo una specie di 'nuova musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucc…155811583217624/

"musica assoluta" (febbraio 2019)

First Terrace Records is thrilled to announce that Justin Wright - the Montreal cellist & composer hand-picked for support duties by luminaries such as Colin Stetson, Hauschka,  Bing & Ruth, and the late great Jóhann Jóhannsson - is gliding calmly into the spotlight with his debut long player. 

With an assembled quartet of violin, viola, cello and double bass, the record was tracked in Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and carries in its sound the location’s stately beauty.

Over the duration of Music For Staying Warm, nine experimental compositions and improvisations are unwound for the listeners pleasure, each with its own gentle patience, as Justin invites you to “relinquish your sense of anticipation” and enjoy the drift. 

Announcing itself like sunshine on frost, Harmonic Loops opens the record and begins to thaw the path ahead. Throughout the album, woollen strings swell at their unforced pace and combine to swaddle the brain’s pleasure sensors in frequent moments of pure hygge.

These beautiful sounds have been mastered by Lawrence English (Room 40) and will be released on vinyl and digital formats on March 1st, 2019.

Music for Staying Warm

Buy LP

Justin Wright 'Drone I - Meditation'

Shuta Hiraki 
Not Here, But There [RTE 009] 
"ここではない、どこかへ"

Music for falling asleep. 
Lower the volume a little & lie down. 
“入眠のための音楽。スピーカーで、音量を少し下げて、横になって”

OUT Feb. 01 st
https://rottenmaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/not-here-but-there

Shuta Hiraki - But There

leise der Schnee

The stars are always falling

I visited the Jewish Museum in Berlin a week ago and I felt overwhelmed since I walked in the first corridor.
The Memory Void, one of the symbolic spaces on the ground level of the Libeskind building, includes the installation Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) by Menashe Kadishman. More than 10,000 faces with open mouths, cut from heavy round iron plates, cover the floor of the ground floor void.
Menashe Kadishman’s sculptures stir painful memories of the victims of war.
The soundscape you hear within the composition is a recording I made in the Void of people stepping on the iron plates.

10,000 fallen leaves

10,000 Fallen Leaves

Marco Lucchi : mellotron and synth

1 febbraio 2019

Tristan and Iseult

Comfortable Winter

finding the right wavelengh

gravitational push and pull  of moon and planet
improvising for the first time in art-pyrite
a little distortion and detuning in audacity

..
dark moon
    the pull of a planet
beyond pluto
..

The haiku selected for this challenge was first published on Presence #58.

Most recently publisher, managing editor, haiku editor and features editor of A Hundred Gourds, Lorin has written haiku since 2004. Selections of her haiku are anthologized in, eg. Haiku in English, Where the River Goes , Haiku21 and Nest Feathers. Her a wattle seedpod (PostPressed 2008) won a first place in the HSA Merit Book Awards, the first Australian book to do so. Her e-chapbook, A Few Quick Brushstrokes,was a 2011 Snapshot Press winner.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 6th February 2019

haiku by Lorin Ford https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/poet-details/?IDclient=69

image generated on ganbreeder.app

Gravity Tides - naviarhaiku265

Covered in snow, the most remote places of Berlin have the same hazy feeling of the hot summer days in Salento but the glacial weather gives a different perspective and transforms the atmosphere perception.

Il Vento Disperderà la Schiuma

Fabio Orsi - Il Vento Disperderà la Schiuma (side B excerpt)

I followed these lines:

1st Line: Northwoods drum initiate - https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/disquiet0367-trio-initiate?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0367

2nd Line: Carlin McClellan's droney drummy duo - https://soundcloud.com/carlin-mclellan-751824513/northwoods-droney-drone-disquiet0368?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0368

3rd Line: MtnViewMark-Bits drummy droney bass - https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark-bits/drummy-droney-bass-disquiet0369?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0369

I took the original line (Northwoods drums) and doubled it to get more of a stereo image, and added some ping pong to the right side which was EQ'd brigher. I took the drone from the second line and added a gate sidechained to the drums. Lastly, I weaved Mark's bass in with some distortion and reverb which made it end up having more of a drone quality than the original drone, which became percussive. Was a fun project, many thanks and kudos to the original artists.

Disquiet Junto Project 0370: Through Lines
The Assignment: Follow a single strand in the accumulated material resulting from a multi-part, multi-thread collaborative endeavor.

Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the fourth in our ongoing trio sequence. (That might seem contradictory, a fourth in a trio.) The plan is for you to record a short piece of music using only material from the previous three projects. In case you are coming upon this effort for the first time, here is some background: the previous three projects enabled the collaborative creation of numerous musical trios, each containing work by three different musicians. In the first project (0367), musicians each recorded a solo line in the left channel. In the second project (0368), musicians selected a solo line from the first project and added another line in the right channel. In the third project (0369), just this past week, a third musician finished the trio. You can locate the three previous projects and there related links here:

Solo: disquiet.com/0367/
Duo: disquiet.com/0368/
Trio: disquiet.com/0369/

Step 2: The next step is to find a “through line” amid the accumulated audio. It can help to work backward from a final trio (project 0369), and to then listen to the duo that led to it, and to see if another trio was created from that same duo — and to then go back further to the left channel’s solo rendering in the first project, and see if any alternate duos were created from it. In other words: locate a single original solo piece of music in however many subsequent pieces as possible.

Step 4: Listen to the various pieces of music that resulted from the search in step 2. There may be as few as three, but there may be more than that.

Step 5: Construct a single piece of music that follows that one “through line” amid its various contexts (solo, duo and possible alternate duos, trio and possible alternate trios). Do not add audio to the source audio tracks at all; filtering and processing is fine.
More on this 370th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Through Lines / The Assignment: Follow a single strand in the accumulated material resulting from a multi-part, multi-thread collaborative endeavor) at:

disquiet.com/0370/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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Disquiet Junto 0370: Through Lines

This is the first attempt I've made to record something with my newly obtained EBow. It's also about ten minutes into my first attempt to even use the EBow. The electric bow employs a magnetic field to strum individual strings for you, which explains the gorgeous and limitlessly held tones it is capable of. Here I layered three notes, one by one, from a single chord, an A minor, and then put a separate note on top of that — the device was so new to me, I didn't even pay attention to what the fourth note was; I just listened for something that sounded complementary. The accrual process isn't evident in this recording. I didn't hit record until the chord was accomplished. 

I did this all in a Ditto Looper, recording directly from my amplifier into my cellphone. I used Adobe Audition to limit the higher frequencies in the audio, and to introduce a fade-in and a fade-out. The track's title is "Maybe" (adapted from the first two letters each from "EBow" and "A minor — E, B, A, M — backward).

Guitar Learning: Maybe (A minor on EBow)

Things Found

Impromptu N°8 (Piano Bösendorfer)
Recorded on February 3, 2019
Franck Douvin © 2019 recordings
I hope you'll like it!

Instrumental

Impromptu N°8 (Piano Bösendorfer)

original work by 
 s e v e n i s m : dulcimer and treatments

reworked by 
Marco Lucchi : analog synth, soft synth and treatments

re-reworked by

Theofil Tsiolakakis : keyboards and treatments

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febbraio 2019

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pic by Antonio Palmerini

s e v e n i s m , Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - early dawn, silent waves

Ambivalence

Mutagens

Thin

Marco Lucchi : mellotron, piano, synth and treatments

4 febbraio 2019

Tristan and Iseult (alt version)

Marco Lucchi : analog synth and treatments

variations on the finnish popular chant "Luullahan jotta on lysti olla"

11 febbraio 2019

Kantele

"I'm a mellow artist, aging 67. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli amateurs, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute