This track was created in response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills"
 
Raymond Cobley (@ray_cobley) is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

haiku by Raymond Cobley
extract of picture by Inggrid Koe
 
Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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three 90s jungle beats, all slowed to 128bpm, switch out across two channels

morse code plays the phrase "fog dissolves to rain" on ableton's "EFX Small Cymbal" rack

four granular soundbeds

a melody i played through three sampled instruments (upright bass, piano, guitarophone)

one atmospheric drone from the "though-forms" patreon

mary says "maybe tomorrow"

[naviarhaiku586] clear the vista

MMXXIIIVIXIIINCCSSBL

grey shadows

Although this track was made as a response to:

after the typhoon
I walk around alone -
sunshine everywhere

Naviar haiku challenge 598, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

It strayed a bit; In the very early stages while I was designing a sound for "Walking in sunshine", everything is assembled in virtual modular using VCV Rack, I played a simple phrase that suggested that it wanted to be a sequence, divergence begins. Probably because I had another project in mind  the original phrase and subsequent sequence development borrowed quite heavily from Steve Reich, I split off that version and pulled back a bit for this track although the roots are still there hence the minimalism tag. 

With the sequences complete I went back and designed an intro, not quite a typhoon but serves as as opening. And an outro; not really sunshine but while experimenting with modulated frequency modulation I unexpectedly found a sound I'd been hunting for a couple of weeks ago, it made a nice contrast so I kept it.

With all the elements in place I set up and did a one take multi-track live improvised mix, I also manipulated a couple of probability parameters, other modulations were built into the patch. 

A couple of eternal effects:
There is a final layer of reverb wash derived from the sunshine element made with SpaceBlender from Soundtoys and included in the performance via recorded parameter automation.      

I added a little bit of tape echo, Stardust 201 from Cherry Audio, to the sequences.
 
After all the usual blending a tweaking I added The Free Vinyl plugin from iZotope, felt like it would fit on the opening of the track.

After The Typhoon - (naviarhaiku - 598)

2025-06-25

fish in the sky

#4217 92.97% 319 left): Jul. 1, 2025: old men jand young men and young girls (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

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Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

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"wind of mysteriousness" - the 30th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
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spotify:
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apple Music:
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old men and young men and young girls - #4217 (92R97 percent 319 left) by chair house 250701

2025-08-17

Perseid time

new happy

Aliens : the broadway musical, soundscape. 
A tense, minimal soundscape of drifting machinery and eerie emptiness. 
Pulsing sub-bass, metallic echoes, and 3D granular textures evoke deep space isolation.

Escape capsule

When The Gods Cry - Orinthal (Sora Shimizu)

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.

After The Typhoon - (naviarhaiku - 598)

Mr_Lamppost