Bringing a soulful sound to SoundCloud with this one.  Lifetime recording artist, soul vocalist, saxophone and harmonica player Johnny Pugh sits in with blues guitarist extraordinaire Justin Valente and me on an emotional Ray Charles type slow jam.  What a wonderful surprise to hear Johnny's beautiful harp lines, which fit perfectly with Justin's raw electric blues energy.  Real proud of this one, as it captures the heart and spirit of why we all love SoundCloud.   Check out Johnny and Justin's music here - you will love their playing.  Thanks for listening.

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Soul Brothers - with Justin Valente guitar and Johnny Pugh blues harp and horns

Astronaut Ape - Siddhi In Dub

A Slow Light

Deus Ex Machina — Nebbia

Title:
DayZi Suite
 Switch On
 Explore
 Alarm
 Cycle

Dates:
06-Sep-2025 (inception), 11-Sep-2025 (finalised), 12-Sep-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/xxx -- watch this space

Description:
A four track album, DayZi Suite

Track 1: Switch On (4:10)
Track 2: Explore (1:59)
Track 3: Alarm (1:03)
Track 4: Cycle (7:38)

Inspired from the modular synthesiser works of Sarah Belle Reid and Walker Farrell and hardware sequencing of the Soma Ornament from Vlad Kreimer; my own digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi; plus the eight track recorder of DayZi to capture the Soma Enner and Soma COSMOS magic.

This is a suite of four separate recordings of live improvisations using my digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi (Release 05), which I programmed in Max (Cycling 74). The synthesiser at it's core is a generative music performance instrument using linked timers to trigger other timers and the FM oscillators, some parts are planned ahead of the performance, others are conjured up during the performance. Key parameters liker timers, initiators (bangs, pings etc.) and frequencies are controlled through a patch bay, that can be altered during the performance. Not all synthesiser parameters are hard wired into the generative process, leaving room for the performer (me) to improvise twiddling the parameters live during the recording. All parameters can be saved to preset banks ready to recall later or saved/read from a text file. No midi interface was used for this performance, nor was this included in Rel 05 of DayZi, future releases will consider addition of midi for launching and parameter control via rotary encoders.

Some times the DayZi synthesiser provided the inspiration for the Soma Enner playing, other times vis versa.

No digital audio workstation (DAW) was used. Only minor editing of the recorded wave files using Audacity, to trim off the silent portions at the beginning and end was employed.

Development of the DayZi began on the 3-Sep-2025 as a proof of concept, happy with the initial prototype, I continued further, now at Release 05 on the 10-Sep-2025.

The tuning is largely just intonation (JI) based on the DayZi side, whereas on the Soma Enner is freely improvised tuning based upon the emotional drive created by the DayZi recordings and that of the performer, the crucial human element. There was no specific plan of a tuning scheme, largely at the whim of my imagination at the time of inception.

The suite is based on four performances, all related by the instruments used to play them and similar theme, though the timbral sounds produced very much changed from one performance to the next, but yet enough in common to function as a suite.

The first piece in the suite, DayZi Switch On (4:10), is turning on the sound machine. Typical tuning was 100,150, 300, 600, 700, 324 Hz.

The second piece in the suite, DayZi Explore (1:59), is rummaging around exploring the scene. The tuning here is rather bizarre, purely improvised tuning and experimenting with recursive generative tuning.

The third piece in the suite, DayZi Alarm (1:03), the exploration has triggered an alarm -- oops.

The fourth and final piece in the suite, DayZi Cycle (7:38), the alarms give way to an exploration of two linked sequences, each a daisy chain of events in their own right but with a common trigger in time. The Enner performance interprets the daisy chain of events. The starting point for the tuning, for the first daisy chain was: 
100 Hz, 200 Hz, 100*(2/3) Hz (#1), 100*(4/3) Hz;
whereas for the second daisy chain: 400 Hz, 400*4/3 Hz, 400*3/2 Hz,  100*(2/3) Hz (#1).

The common node of the two chains is marked as (#1).

See my BandCamp page for the full description.

DayZi:3 Alarm

https://soundcloud.com/balance-3 & https://soundcloud.com/beat-d-fender

Balancé & Beat D Fender - Earth Soul

Often there is sacrifice for freedom.  Bringing these emotions to you is Ohio's superb guitarist Joe Bongiovanni, who tears out his heart and soul again on this blues.  Joe's a many times finalist at the World Championships of Blues competition and brings with him a sound as sweet as it gets.

Follow Joe's wonderful playing at https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanni and the 17 tunes we have recorded together here https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/jammin-with-joe-bongiovanni-1

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Freedom Blues - Joe Bongiovanni / Jamie Rhind

Mixed Feelings speaks for it's self...I let you feel it~

Watershadows

Mixed Feelings by Irina Mikhailova & Stephen Ross

Live improvisational set from Make Noise New Years' Party at the Mothlight in West Asheville, NC, on Jan 4, 2019. Recording courtesy Noah Kalos. Sorry for noise floor and clipping in the recording! I think the point gets across anyway.

Improv Set from Make Noise New Years at the Mothlight

Wandering After the Rain

Here a new collaboration track made in Arambol Goa
with 2 great musicians Tetouze Goa and Veda Ram.
Tetouze playing the Violin
And Veda Ram singing and providing the beautiful artwork.
Its a breakbeat song, a fusion of Electronic and Acoustic elements and a' lot of emotions.
Super exited to share it with you all now.
enjoy listening and dancing. 👂🎶💃💞🙏
Thanks so much for the support.

Find out more about:
Tetouze
tetouze.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/tetouzemusic
www.tetouze.com/music
www.youtube.com/user/tetouze3
open.spotify.com/artist/4L2vZe0dcqomV8OAhWNmQy
soundcloud.com/tetouze

Veda Ram
www.facebook.com/vedarampainter
www.instagram.com/vedaram.ru/
www.facebook.com/vedaramart/
vedaram.ru

Tikki Masala
tikkimasala1.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/Masalarecords
soundcloud.com/TikkiMasala
www.mixcloud.com/TikkiMasala/
www.youtube.com/user/TikkiMasala1
open.spotify.com/artist/18kmBPrnYJRXfuxAq3QLum

World Peace

Tikki Masala - World Peace (Feat. Tetouze & Veda Ram)

Welcome to my place of musical experiments and my endless journey of exploring new sound textures, rhythms and melodic ideas. I am a multi-instrumentalist coming from a background of having actively played, harmonica, recorder, piano, organ, clarinet, tin whistle, pan pipes, guitar, violin, Shakuhachi, jaw harp, didgeridoo and accordion. My genre is mostly a fusion of Jazz and Soundscape, however I often seek inspiration from a wide variety of music, Celtic, Rock, Heavy Metal, Classical, Folk, Micro-tonal, just to name a few. I also build my own instruments, various Shakuhachi using them either directly in recordings or sample the sounds to incorporate in pitch shifting tools in Ableton Live. I often set myself a music challenge, taking every day sounds not considered musical, sampling, transforming and moulding them into a virtual musical instrument. Experimenting with evolving polymeters is a favourite feature of my works. I have been classically trained but soon ventured into free improvisation, which is my happy place.

I am based on the South Island of New Zealand, enjoying the great outdoors there. I often take inspiration from this for my music and associated cover art.

I have a no cover’s policy, all my works being original compositions, the only exception would be the odd jazz interpretation of a Bach piece from the Baroque era. My percussion sections do not use any artificial intelligence drum machines, nor do I use auto tuners for my violin playing. Paid likes and plays — none of that either. 

I also participate in musical collaborations, from accepting sound samples to see what I can do with them, to instrumental collaborations. Send me a message if interested.

Please join me on this wonderful journey of music exploration.

DayZi:3 Alarm

Norman Freund

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