Recorded by Unheard-of//Ensemble in San Antonio, Texas, August 2025.

Ford Fourqurean — clarinet
Matheus Souza — violin
Iva Casian-Lakoš — cello
Daniel Anastasio — piano

Sculpture Inspiration: Stomping Ground, by Orly Genger

Stomping Ground is based on Orly Genger’s sculpture at the McNay in San Antonio. Genger fabricated the sculpture out of brightly colored recycled lobster rope and fashioned them into large mounds with which you can climb over, sit on, and physical interact. This piece takes inspiration from the kinetic, extroverted, and playful quality of the sculpture and references its construction material with field recordings of lobsters communicating, underwater soundscapes, stomping, balls and other objects bouncing, children playing, and vibrant synths and groovy percussion intermingling with the live instruments. The sculpture’s inventive world captured my imagination; in building a sonic corollary to the sculpture, I fashioned a mystical and wild narrative path with which the listener can freely associate elements of their experience viewing and interacting with the sculpture.

Stomping Ground

Another 24 hours

Jam session from July 25.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdHJTCdzsro

I recently picked up a new iOS app, apeMatrix, which acts as a host for audio unit instruments and effects on iOS.



Unlike BeatMaker, which is focused on emulating a groove box, this app acts like a mixing board, and that's all.  You can't use it to make a track, other than recording audio out.  You can record audio directly in the app, but I ran the audio into my laptop, so I could record the video with the audio.


I have an Akai MPK225 and a Casio CTK3200 used as MIDI controllers for my iPad.  The Casio is doing most of the work, acting as a basic drum sequencer, as well as a keyboard.  The Akai is only used for drum pads on the intro.


ApeMatrix presents a grid / "matrix" of connections to route MIDI and audio.  You can actually have up to 3 grids, but I just loaded everything into one grid, keeping the drum and keyboard parts isolated.


The pads on the Akai and the rhythm part of the Casio are coming in on MIDI channel 10, and sent to the 808 emulation "Ruismaker" drum audio unit (AU), which is then routed / mixed with the output of the "Kosmonaut" delay effect AU.


The keys from the Casio are coming in on channel 1, then sent into the "Rozeta" MIDI effect AU to have the lower notes duplicated an octave down.  Notes above the middle of the keyboard or so are sent without the extra lower octave part.  The resulting MIDI is sent into the "Laplace" AU to provide a string-like synth, layered with the "bs-16i" AU to provide a basic piano romple.  These are then mixed through the "Blackhole" reverb effect AU.


These are all good iOS plugins, highly recommended.
* apeMatrix, by Apesoft
* Rozeta, by Bram Bos
* Ruismaker, by Bram Bos
* Laplace, by Icegear
* bs-16i, by Bismark
* Kosmonaut, by Bram Bos
* Blackhole, by Eventide

Cathedral Of The Muddy Noodle

A Swetexassippi Two-Stepper

Vocals, Whistling, Bass- Nic
All Guitars, Lyrics- Admiral Krank
Drums- Monkey Blood Lowdown 

Never Been Lonesome 

I’ve never been lonesome
Ain’t never been alone
You always come knocking 
Or calling on the phone
I can rest easy darling 
Knowing that it's true
No matter where i run 
there’s no escaping you

Listen to me baby, 
I must tell it true
I didn’t even know 
I was looking for you
You really get me worried
And give me a start
When i walk upon you waiting
And lurking in the dark

Why you gotta warn me
And threaten my life
When everyone knows
What you did to my cat 
I hope it wasn’t funny
Tell me you didn’t laugh
When poor little kitty
breathed his last

I’d like to try lonesome
Take my turn being blue
But no man alive 
Gets away from you 
I’d ask for mercy 
I’d beg you please
But I know it’s no use
Getting on my knees

Oh Baby 
there's nowhere to hide
My darling
I’ll never get out alive

Greatest Hits

Never Been Lonesome

Acid Dischord

One of my favourite early John Cale tracks, simple but beautiful.

Big White Cloud (John Cale Cover)

music by Somebody Bo @somebody-bo
instrumental here: On The Night From July To August
https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo/on-the-night-from-july-to-august

voice & it's mix + cover photo-art/design by Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

Two Full Moons

Fire Bead | Somebody Bo f. Myrh

A collaboration of @mystique_wind and @enigmacurry

This music was born out of the debate about whether music can heal. What do you think?

Brainwaves - Mystique Wind | EnigmaCurry

Rose Room

pict free wallpaper
a little experiment with Orba as a midi controller. The main line - free strings from Spitfire Labs in Ableton - Orba as a controller and the alternation of lead and chord positions - controlled by Orba. Then the standard keyboard line of virtual Ventus duduk and bass strings - Laboratory sound work, haha.

2020-11-18

frozen Time

Buy at Bandcamp

Emily (How Much, How Little)

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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