what a strange and wonderful trip this is!

Suzaku y el mar was born as an ephemeral experiment carried out in the space of 2 hours, video, sound and editing. It reflects the closing of a ritual, a fire offering to the sea, the consummation of the parts that gave way to proclaiming a tattoo on her skin, a gift for her… @ María Emilia Perez
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Suzaku y el mar nace como experimento efímero realizado en el lapso de 2 horas, video, sonido y edición. Refleja el cierre de un ritual, una ofrenda de fuego al mar, consumación de las partes que dieron camino a pregonar en la piel un tatuaje, una regalo para ella…@María Emilia Perez
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El nombre de ‘Vermillion’ quedó como un sello o símbolo de protección a raíz de las circunstancias de encontrar un significado a lo que estaba emprendiendo en aquel momento. Años atrás antes del 2016, pasaba por momentos muy difíciles de mi adolescencia y sus transiciones entre mantener una vida social activa y también poder sentirme cómoda en mi refugio, mi habitación. Donde sentía que podía ser yo, crear y producir ideas en torno a lo visual y sonoro. Encontrar una sensación de protección y seguridad contigo misma y con el exterior me llevó a buscar en internet “algo”relacionado a la cultura asiática y sus simbologías, cosmovisiones y sin pensarlo llegué a un enlace que hablaba de las constelaciones chinas y sus cuatro monstruos divinos de la mitología japonesa / china. Al leer, caí en un artículo que hablaba de la bestia divina llamada en en varias partes de Asia como (Zhu Que, Suzaku, Ju-jak, Chu-Tước). También hablaba de sus características: Suzaku forma parte de uno de los cuatro símbolos de las constelaciones chinas. Los chinos lo llaman ave bermellón. Además de representar al sur, también simboliza a la estación del verano. Su apariencia es la de un Fénix Bermellón, que a su vez representa el elemento fuego. Y había un relato en el que interpretaba a Suzaku como una bestia que protegía a lxs habitantes de aquellos lugares donde la veneraban y creían en ese ser. Dentro de la cosmovisión asiática, se le ve al ave bermellón como una criatura que resurge entre las cenizas para salvar al universo del mal. Descubrirle me llevó a sentir que había encontrado el calor entre las llamadas protectoras del ave, coincidía con la fuerza que necesitaba para seguir mi camino, mi pacto como artista y como creadora de universos visuales y también sonoros. He ahí la iniciativa junto con Damián Alférez de realizar un ritual para plasmar en mi cuerpo, mente y alma el sello / sigilo de una de las criaturas más hermosas de la vida y quien me acompaña día a día en mis procesos creativos. Gracias por tan hermoso handpoke. Mar del Plata, 12 de Julio de 2021.

https://vimeo.com/687738025

Suzaku y el mar

Capitalism And Schizophrenia (part 1)

Just Say The Word (lyric below)
© 2022 All Rights Reserved
Janice: vocals, melody & arrangement
Ray Cochrane: lyric, melody, progression, mix & arrangement
Peter Fulham: guitar and arrangement
Bud Merritt: mix, mastering and photo
Thanks to Ray, Peter & PG Music

V1
I can't tell who I'm talking to
All I know is that you're not here
It would be a different time
It could just be I've imagined it
Little seeds of truth
Might hold me here again
I know it could be true
You & I 
Were something once.   

C1
Just say the word
All it takes is you
To say the words you could not say
So you showed me that there was no way
Spoken truly
Spoken clearly
Spoken voluntarily
That is all it takes
All it takes to end the day.

V2
Our future was so long ago
And I know you were unwilling
It was such a different time
It was not as I'd imagined it
Little seeds of doubt
Shifted you each tiny bit
I know that it was true
You & I 
Were something once.   

C2
Just say the word
All it took was you
To say the words I would not say
Show me that there was no way
Spoken truly
Spoken clearly
Spoken so carefully
That is all it takes
Takes to say go away.
 
solo 

C3
Just say the words
All it took from you
You spoke the words I would not say
And showed me that I held no sway
Spoken bluntly
Spoken slowly
Spoken so deliberately
Even as you shook
Makes it all yesterday.

V3
Our futures were so far apart
I know you saw the truth
While I hoped for  more time
It clearly wasn't meant to be
Little seeds without
Tenderness don't sprout
Yet of this I have no doubt
You & I 
Were something once.  

C4
Just say the word
All it took was two
To bring a stop to what was not
To show me what I've not forgotten
Spoken truly
And sincerely
Though it cost dearly
That is all it takes
Takes to say a last goodbye.

Just Say The Word

Trampelfâd
rec.name: " PD Algorithm Tryout Phase 2"
credit: korg ms10,pure data,vst,granular
date:10-07-2022
work in Progresssss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kNo_q2Ao0

Linear Plan 019

A great friend, fellow musician, and one of my collaborators has died.  This is my tribute to him.  I attempted to express sadness, pain so bad that you just want to scream, happiness that he is going to heaven,  then back to sadness. 

Via my wind controller I am playing the alto sax while Band-in-a-Box is supplying the balance of the tracks.

I Lost A Friend

Instead

Reflections

Tides

“Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly
Of the black cone amid the polar waste…” 
H.P. Lovecraft, The Fungi from Yuggoth

Created using multiple instances of Fluss, the new granular audio mangler app from Hainbach and Bram Bos for the ipad

On Arcturus I Listened To The Ice Sing

Disquiet Junto Project 0573: Float Mode
The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track.

I liked https://soundcloud.com/tendigits/disquiet0572-rythm-kit by Tendigits and because it seemed to be made completely "by machine" I wanted to add only things without machines/automation. 
So I improvised around five additional tracks of sounds (and tried to leave room for some variation on the original drum track by Tendigits while doing it). In this week I also had field recorded the sound of icicles that I had knocked off the corrugated roof above the bicycle stand in the inner courtyard of my flat (my wife recorded, I knocked of the icicles – they can be seen on the track cover) and somehow felt they would fit as a mysterious element (hence the title) and because there was something like ice rain I heard in the original track (maybe its just me…). Finally I felt something was missing and added a live sung/spoken session of some kind of acoustic nagging to the track, which I edited with a lot of fx and manually painted parameter curves. 
It now feels like a hit.


There is a video on instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmem4hepeBb/

More on this 573rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Float Mode (The Assignment: Add material atop a pre-existing beat to form a complete track) — at: https://disquiet.com/0573/

Project discussion takes place on https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0573-float-mode/60250

Instagram video here

Icicle Hunt (by Krakenkraft & Tendigits) [disquiet0573]

Just some swell chords

60 BPM

Emin, Eb, Emin, C#
Caug, Bb #4, Caug, Fmin
Gsus, F #4

More on this 591st weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Loneliest Number (The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio), at: https://disquiet.com/0591/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0591-the-loneliest-number/

Disquiet0591 SwellChords

Desolate street at dawn
Last night’s turmoil
Whispers in the wind

Second haiku written by me that makes it to the Haiku challenge. I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

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

Deadline: 21st June 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi https://www.naviarrecords.com

Picture by K8 https://unsplash.com/photos/vEESxiQXASk

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Whispers In The Wind (naviarhaiku493)

We enjoy writing and producing Americana songs.  Janice's 2018 Americana album All Over The Map, her 2020 blues album Am I Blue Enough and her 2023 blues album Deep In The Domain are streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon,  Youtube and other platforms.  We appreciate you checking them out!

Just Say The Word

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