Ferdinand Gerhards

Art by Odilon Redon, "I Am Still the Great Isis! Nobody Has Ever Yet Lifted My Veil! My Fruit Is the Sun!" (1896)

Kenoma (To Go Without Light)

See the Wind (naviarhaiku554)

Based on recording of an anxious rehomed cocker spaniel awaiting our return and howling the place down... her name is Tully. We’ve had her for five days. She is still very anxious about the huge change in her life. This recording was made because I was curious to see if she howled when we went out for an hour or so without her. A big “yes”.

I was going to do something a little more adventurous/interesting, but ended up just folding, compacting, cutting and reverbing a chunk of it. Also overlaid is a big furry sound. That’s the ambience of the house when she was silent. The odd ringing effect is because one track was pitched up and that5’s how it turned out – an Audacity accident.


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More on the 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

Tully is anxious [disquiet0661]

Recorded & mixed on 13 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Process notes -
Bitwig - I started in Bitwig by pulling four samples from Freesound.org, including the one offered for use with this project. After this, I applied different settings of the Tuner device, very wet, different stretch modes and some limiting before exporting the 4 stems. 

I grabbed my iPad and sat in the cool night air with AudioKit’s Synth One and recorded a few slow takes on the same arpeggio. 

Ableton Live - 
- I pulled in all four of Freesound samples. I warped each one differently, grouped the HDD Sounds together & applied pitch correction in Nectar along with some CHOWTapeModel. I grouped the other two sounds together and applied Corpus on a beam setting.
- I used 6 different pieces of the Synth One recordings, with some filtering applied to some and used Caellum Audio’s Tape Cassette 2 on one of these tracks.
- I pulled three bits of a Max session from 19 Apr 2024 as some icing on this cake, using the same basic Corpus patch as the second Freesound set.
- I mixed it - just went with it

Title - I just liked how the word "orchard" contains the word "hard." 

Artwork/Photography - 
Sunnyside, Queens, NY 08 Sep 2022

Samples used from ffb.soffa obtained from Freesound.org
- 04 625269__ffbsoffa__toilet-flush-gentle-w-water-admission
- 02 625266__ffbsoffa__1

Samples used from eardeer obtained from Freesound.org
- 03 379004__eardeer__wire_sawnoise_4
- 01 401271__eardeer__toshiba-hdd

This work is published under a Creative Commons License.

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This original version of “Peach Orchard Skiffle” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way. The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 663rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drive Way — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that complements the hum and whir of a hard drive — at https://disquiet.com/0663/

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Peach Orchard Skiffle  (disquiet0663)

49 - Peacefulness Of Balance

The first release of a compilation of remixes from artists of the Ambient Cat label.

Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev with AI
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1

Sensitive Moments (Brannan Lane Remix)

Burning Sky (naviarhaiku567)

Vetrnætr

Silent Fjords

burgundy and mustard yellow blends deep, resonant tones with warm, noise-textured layers, creating a sonic landscape that feels both grounded and luminous. burgundy evokes rich, velvety depths through slow, evolving piano tones that pulse like the quiet rhythm of breath, underscored by shadowy string and electronic harmonics that draw you inward.

mustard yellow brings a vibrant energy, introducing shimmering textures and radiant motifs that ripple like sunlight filtering through aged glass. These brighter elements weave through the composition, offering warmth and contrast against the darker foundation.

Together, burgundy and mustard yellow create a meditative balance, oscillating between earthy richness and ethereal light. This ambient track evokes quiet elegance and nostalgia, perfect for moments of introspection or creative inspiration.

burgundy and mustard yellow

[disquiet0675] reversal

Eine Reihe die sich Mira Betitelt, Verschiedene Richtungen einschlägt

ArticMira

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
572
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku572-cool-breeze/

2024-12-19

Cool Breeze–  (Naviarhaiku 572)

Erle

So manches mal lauf ich mit Gedanken durch diese Welt. Die vor Traurigkeit wieder schön sind

Depressive Traurigkeit

This week's haiku challenge:

Year's end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.

The final poem of the year is by the greatest haiku master of all.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō (translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto)

Submission deadline: 1st January 2025

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

This floating world, swept. (naviarhaiku573)

Spheren Spannung

lost or ever

ETHERE4L #06

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, which you can find more information on here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/.

The haiku this week is by Yosa Buson:

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

The image used is a portion of a picture by Wyxina Tresse.

fresh (naviarhaiku579)

Cascades
does not fall.
remembers.

A thread undone, a breath unspilled,
a sound collapsing
not breaking, but becoming smthng new.

grey echoes shatter in slow motion,
spilling light into places unnamed,
a tide that never reaches shore,
a river that forgets the mouth that bore it.

What is it to descend without landing?
To dissolve without vanishing?
To stretch without ever having been whole?

Somewhere, between the first note and the last silence,
it lingers — as the space between —
cascade

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Artist: αnnø-nÿm
Title: Cascade
Label: Entropic Minds Rec.
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: #experimental ambient
Release date: Februar 19, 2025

Artwork: Polyminds

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Contact: maggowitsch@wittbronsky.de

Ferdinand Gerhards

Dirk