Ferdinand Gerhards

Created for the 600th Naviar Haiku Challenge

nostos

you know the game - but this time it's the 600th haiku challenge by 
Naviar Records

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

- Andrea Cecon -

wind & pine (naviarhaiku600)

this is a live recording for Naviarhaikus famous Haikuchallenge:

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

- Kogetsu Eguchi -

cricket's theme (naviarhaiku603)

a very rough edit of a much longer improvised ambient piece

for the moment

Meditation 1.12

From my album "Brittle Fractures" which is available to buy and download on Bandcamp. Only available on Soundcloud for a limited time... 🙏

a beginning

afloat

EYES WIDE SHXT

“Glissando” – an abstract orchestral–ambient soundscape with a cinematic edge.  
Blending real instruments and string samples, it evokes the mood of a modern trailer soundtrack: immersive, expansive, and atmospheric.


For this haiku:
naviarhaiku613

Star above the peak -
a silk worm-breeding village
silently asleep

Poem by Mizuhara Shuoshi
Photo by Fabrizio Conti

Above The Peak, Glissando - naviarhaiku613

Tibetan Ruhe

Endlose Zeiten

Traum eines Weltraumreisenden, die Reise zum Pluto

Pluto


„Fallende Rosenblätter“ (18.10.2025)

Mein kleiner, musikalischer Klangzyklus über Blumen geht weiter.

Fallende Rosenblätter 

Zarte Rosenblätter liegen auf dem kalten Marmorstein. 
Ist das alles was geblieben ist vom Leben. Ein Marmorstein mit Gravur und verwelkten gefallenen Rosenblättern.

Eine Blüte einer Rose bleibt nicht ewig.
So auch die Liebe wie das Leben.
Wie eine Knospe einzeln gewachsen, so welken und vergehen einzeln Momente wie Rosenblätter. 
Ob gelebt oder geliebt oder auch nicht.
Wir werden zu gefallenden Rosenblättern. 
Fallen aus dem Leben und in das Leben hinein.

Vielen Dank für Eure geschätzte Aufmerksamkeit.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music

Musik            		:   Björn Cloppenburg  Alle Rechte vorbehalten
Foto & Design	:   Björn Cloppenburg
Text/Lyric		:   Björn Cloppenburg
Es wurden für dieses Projekt virtuelle Instrumente der folgenden Firmen verwendet:
https://www.native-instruments.com    OMNIA CHOIR
https://fracturesounds.com		Midnight Grand Piano / ZEN

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"Falling Rose Petals" (October 18, 2025)

My small musical sound cycle about flowers continues.

Falling Rose Petals

Delicate rose petals lie on the cold marble stone.
Is this all that remains of life? A marble stone with an engraving and wilted fallen rose petals.

A rose blossom doesn't last forever.
So does love and life.
As a bud grows individually, so do individual moments wither and fade like rose petals.
Whether lived or loved or not.
We become fallen rose petals.
Falling from life and into life.

Thank you for your valued attention.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music

Music: Björn Cloppenburg. All rights reserved.
Photo & Design: Björn Cloppenburg
Text/Lyrics: Björn Cloppenburg
Virtual instruments from the following companies were used for this project:
https://www.native-instruments.com OMNIA CHOIR
https://fracturesounds.com Midnight Grand Piano / ZEN


Falling Rose Petals

Najaden

- incantation to whiteness " Part 2 "

Sunshine filtered through the interstices of the arching trees

Bass & Keyboard , Picture : Josef Sudek " ≃ 1924  ( it robbed them of words )

p e r i p h e r y ❇️

Introversion

Hülsertroll Perilous

My attempt at a suspense cue for an imagined film. 

I got commissioned to write a film score recently. It ended up being rejected but as luck would have it, shortly thereafter  Marc’s @disquiet assignment came up. So I had quite a bit of material left over from these sessions. I felt they fit the “spooky and tense” bill just nicely. So using these as a starting point, I proceeded to add and remove layers, and a bass synth makes a rare appearance here, as well. Hope you enjoy it!

More details at: 

The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/

Ferdinand Gerhards

Dirk