Created on iPad with AUM
Mixed and mastered with Cubase 13 and Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 541:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku541-heat-in-waves/

Photo by zenbytes (2015, La Palma, Spain)

stones angry reverberations - Naviarhaiku 541

Of The Armies

2024-09-25

NLS - 2024 - 09 - 25

A city is often a cacophonous space. Of course, cacophony comes in many forms. The roar of the ocean can feel cacophonous, as can the intensity of surrounding bug life in the wild. The cacophony of the city is unique from those other forms because the noise comes not from manifest dense uniformity but from myriad distinct, often unidentifiable sources acting as if at once. All this was running through my mind as I stood on a corner in San Francisco listening as hotel workers were engaged in a lively strike halfway down the block. The noise of their activity joined with that of passing foot and automobile traffic to create something that was at once noisier than a normal Thursday afternoon, and yet also that perpetuated the city’s ability to absorb all sounds into one sound. No matter the sounds, it was the sound of the city.

(The image is a reworking of a public domain photo via Wikipedia of a 1956 strike.)

A Subsumed Cacophony

The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski.

Background: Achim Szepanski (1957-2024), founder of the Mille Plateaux record label, among numerous other accomplishments, died this week. This project is in his honor. You needn’t know much if anything to begin this project; just follow the instructions. As always, discussion of the topic at hand in the project’s llllllll.co message thread is encouraged.

Step 1: Listen back to the first Clicks + Cuts compilation album (originally released in 2020). It is streaming on YouTube (the first hour or so of that playlist).

Step 2: Consider the common elements in various tracks: the glitch effects, the sense of space, the attention to tiny details, the industrial minimalism, the emphasis on sampling, the tempo, the groove. What else do you hear?

Step 3: Record a track in the spirit of that first Clicks + Cuts album.

More on the 665th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Clicks + Cuts Music Factory — The Assignment: Record a track in honor of the late Achim Szepanski — at https://disquiet.com/0665/

churn [disquiet0665]

Sonic collage created in response to:

Through a world of sound
the only filter I have
my discerning ear

Naviar Haiku challenge 562, details here; https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

In a change from my usual live method this track was very much assembled. That said each synth element was improvised in conjunction with and added to the existing material as the track evolved. 

I started by taking a long ambient drone (Borrowed from another project), generated with Points And Lines* and processed it through the Free Ghost  Radio VST plugin from Quilcom to produce the short wave radio like sounds, details here: (it's near the end of the list): https://flowstoners.com/quilcom

Then in conjunction with that I assembled the field recordings that open the track. A bit of a mish-mash,

Circus Atmosphere,
brixton road, london, busy afternoon with voices, passing busses, traffic,
11 o' clock bells from the catania cathedral of st agatha, sicily.

All from this sound pack sold in aid of WWF Denmark: https://www.luftrum.com/free-field-recordings

And a dog from Freesound: Dogs barking in small town by BonnyOrbit -- https://freesound.org/s/442485
 -- License: Creative Commons 0

With the opening set I then recorded the rhythmic pulses and sequences using a small virtual modular VCV Rack patch that I'd prepared earlier. With that done I went back and added the synth surf, separate VCV patch, synth wind, Bento* and random chirps and synth whales to swim in the synthetic sea, Creature From Then ID.* 

Points And Lines, Bento and Creature From The ID  are stand alone virtual instruments by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

A World of Sound - (Naviarhaiku - 562)

More on the 668th weekly Disquiet Junto project, All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets — The Assignment: Bury a secret sound until it is no longer identifiable — at https://disquiet.com/0668/

This project was proposed by Mahlen Morris.

more halF unusuaL

halF secrecY [disquiet0668]

Beatscape Experiment #1

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Jack Kerouac’s poem “The sound of silence / is all the instruction / you’ll get”.

Tracklist:


JRBjork - Silence of Sound
Stan Magendanz - The sound of silence
LazenbeeIndustries – silence
Voidborn Horde - The Sound Of Silence
Night Note - The Sound Of Silence
Oxebe - the sound of silence
ray_cobley - The Silence of Sound


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/


Naviar Broadcast #328 – The sound of silence – Wednesday 17th July 2024

Surrounded by and giving life to one of the northern-most, temperate rainforests in the world, the Pacific Northwest's chalak’At’sit (Hoh River) carves its way from the glaciers of Mount Olympus towards the Pacific Coast.

Close your eyes and let the soundscape of chalak’At’sit envelope you in her emerald, verdant embrace. Layered embers of ethereal tones flicker, then quickly disappear across undulating waves of pirouetting idiophonic vibrations. Thus begins a psychedelic trip through exothermic rainforest-scapes and climaxes nestled in lush, majestic reverie.

Headphone listening recommended, for the sonic details.
The immersive audio-visual trip is best viewed in HD on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_b8tHoI4jI

Read more about the Hoh people, their land and the inspiration for this work:
hohtribe-nsn.org/oral-traditions/

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Upside down people

Berlin label Oscilla Sound presents XENIA REAPER with zumi3, the latest instalment in the label’s Liminal series. Across seven deftly crafted tracks, XENIA REAPER navigates the outer edges of spectral ambience and delicate breakwork, drawing listeners into shifting, liminal spaces. Subtle and immersive, xumi3 glistens with fine detail, dissolving boundaries and guiding us through soundscapes that feel both intimate and otherworldly.

XENIA REAPER
@xeniareaper
www.instagram.com/dolphindream_/

Oscilla Sound
@oscilla-sound
www.instagram.com/oscilla_sound/

xumi3

Premiere: XENIA REAPER - exd | Oscilla Sound

I'm primarily a visual artist both 2D and 3D, for the last decade I've operated almost exclusively in the digital 3D realm.   since the late 80s I've made periodic forays into the sonic world, MIDI sequencing, minimalism, musique concrète, found sounds  and improvisation. I am seldom happy with anything and seldom consider a piece finished.

A World of Sound - (Naviarhaiku - 562)

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