release date :29/10/2023   
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Once Full Of Life (naviarhaiku 512)

LOOPDIGGGERS SUNDAY ROULETTE N° 138 / GINO'S DIARY N°10

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.

Disquiet Junto Project 0622: Know the Shadow
The Assignment: How do you depict a shadow in sound?

I started playing around in the DAW and somehow ended up with old step samples. The simplest idea of musical shadows are certainly delay and reverb, and initially I built a (virtual) modular thing behind the steps that changes the shape of the steps but still lets us think of the original, just as shadows only hint at what cast them.

The second idea was the drums, and what could be the shadow of a drum kit? I used a looping noise sample (coming in very late, and not too loud) and carved out a kind of kick drum with negative noise using filters, so the absence of sound is the shadow here. I'll tell you why it has to be like this at some point far, far away … 

The third idea was to use two different types of motifs in one scale: An FM synthesizer using only the black keys of a blues scale (the real thing), and a classic basic saw synthesizer using only white keys (the shadow). 

Em ... and in general: first comes the real and then you hear the shadows, and in the end there are only shadows, because the word also stands for a kind of vague memory that continues to have an effect even after the real has disappeared. And remember, samples are shadows of real sounds …

The result is undoubtedly overly intellectual and musically not a gem. But it wouldn't be experimental music if the experiment couldn't - as here - go badly wrong. That's why I kept it under 3 minutes ...

Image: Dall-E

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More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

3 Shadows [disquiet0622]

This track uses the latest - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-dark-naviarhaiku518 - Naviar Haiku submission as a starting point for some bluetooth mangling ... All sounds you hear are derived from a recording of the remote headphone connection breaking up whilst playing the haiku original. You can see the 'recording setup' in the middle of the accompanying image.

More on this 623rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Kinda Bluetooth (The Assignment: Experiment with the sonic qualities of a failing signal), at: https://disquiet.com/0623/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0623-kinda-bluetooth/

more halF unusuaL

halF bluetootH [disquiet0623]

Finding Your Way

This lovely haiku inspired a gentle improvisation on VST synth (LABS). Recorded in Reaper. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Winter Sky (naviarhaiku520)

2024-04-09

Don't Rush At All

26May24
My haiku542 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/751171702013181952/naviarhaiku542-sudden-dazzling-glare

the low sun briefly pierces a veil of dark cloud [naviarhaiku542]

MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: all music, lyrics, and production
Lux Astralis, New York: recording studio
140bpm

FAREWELL LULLABY

Dec 17

A composition inspired by a hike through the beautiful Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park. 

Jennifer Symons: clarinet
Olivia Kieffer: vibraphone
Greg Secor: crotales, glockenspiel

Field recording courtesy of Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®. Excerpted from his Hoh Rainforest recording One Square Inch of Silence.

For sheet music, visit www.billryanmusic.com
For more information about the forest soundscape, visit www.soundtracker.com

Secret Forest

I hope the Wild Edges speak for themselves. The rest is what happens between them.

I have limited know how and equipment, but think that feeling is more important than hardware and technical ability. 

I decided to stop liking other artists tracks, even if i do like them. I was feeling the pressure to like tracks when i listened to them, especially when people sent them to me to listen to, worried that if i didn't i would upset or offend the artist if i didn't like them, its easier just to like privately. Misunderstandings sadly happened too easily, so i'm distancing myself from the possibility of hurting anyone and of being hurt myself.  Maybe it is better being alone after all. Soundcloud is just like anywhere else where there are lots of people...it can be difficult.

I won't follow, listen, or like, for followers, listens, and likes, so, please, don't ask me to. 

This is a creative escape.

I am always trying to be quiet, but often fail, and to do better.

For Headphone listening
Thank you for listening

Finding Your Way

Notes From Your Wild Edges