Nap In The Hammock

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Unendlicher Raum

method: all the sounds you hear, apart from the voice, stem from a piano that is more than moderately out of tune, most of them morphed by audacity and samplitude
image: copyright jo richter

wunderbar geborgen / copyright jo richter

am wunderstumpfen ende
einer zweispur-einbahnstraße
senkt sich eines planers wendeplatte
zwischen steile bordsteingrate
in deren runden schenkels wölbung
die allerletzte eiderente ein
einzelei ausbrütet - solch memento
prospektiver nostalgie lädt
karrussellgenau zum grübelkreisen
ein, zum rasend innehalten

wunderbar geborgen

While waiting for the next tracks, which are a long time coming, here are two field recordings made in Vietnam with some very special animals!...
The first time I heard a gecko, I couldn't believe it was this kind of lizard making that sound, but it was! At the beginning of this recording, we can hear a gecko "singing" in the night of the Mekong Delta, and then the quiet atmosphere of the city of Can Tho at those hours…
January 2024, Cần Thơ, Việt Nam 
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En attendant les nouveaux morceaux, qui se font attendre, deux nouveaux enregistrements de terrain réalisés au Vietnam avec quelques animaux très spéciaux !...
La première fois que j'ai entendu un gecko, je n'arrivais pas à croire que c'était cette sorte de lézard qui faisait ce son, mais c'était le cas ! Au début de cette enregistrement, on peut entendre un gecko "chanter" dans la nuit du Delta du Mékong, et ensuite la calme ambiance de la ville de Can Tho à ces heures-là...
Janvier 2024, Cần Thơ, Việt Nam

Geckos in the night of Can Tho

Please listen with headphones

Soundscape Maa was released by the Istitute For Alien Research (ifarlabel) in a compilation entitled Sonder.
https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/sonder

The composition combines everyday sounds such as footsteps on different surfaces, the tearing of paper, lighting a match, playing tennis, clapping hands, horses clattering, machine noises and the like with voice samples from my archive, which the Dutch mezzo-soprano singer Jannie Pranger made available to me some time ago and of which a few have been electroni- cally manipulated. These two components are tghtly interwoven and form an exciting, multi-layered and multi-faceted musique concrète.
The everyday sounds are treated in the same way as the vocal sounds; for example, in the way one deals with the sounds of percussion instruments, which are also largely noisy. A drum roll, a cymbal crash, a rattle ... or an electric saw, a creaking door, shattering glass, the impact of a golf ball, a swarm of bees, etc. The mezzo-soprano voice involved is extremely varied. Snapping or hissing sounds, whispering, speaking, singing, whistling, blowing and every conceivable sound that can be produced with the voice are included. Earth is the only planet known to date that sounds; where we are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises produced by humans and animals, wind, water, etc. I wanted to represent and celebrate a tiny section of this unique sonic diversity of planet Earth in my composition. The word “maa” in the title is the Finnish word for earth/land.

Sonder

Soundscape Maa

Spell

Graphe

528 Hz - Reawakening Cells

Totally laidback instrumental to sooth your cares away.  All made up on a tiny little Reface DX synth... 

Celestial Traveller

Phantomlike

I'm here to share and appreciate all genres of music.  Most of what I am currently recording is electronic, and largely ambient, in nature; however, I have recently started recording cover songs of various tunes.  So, since I'm no longer strictly ambient (only mostly), I've changed my SoundCloud name to Smooth Waters Sonic Journeys.  Headphones greatly enhance the listening experience.  Thank you for listening.