Up the mountain

A subtle ending

slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way

DMT West Coast Suzanne Ciani patch with very liberal use of Waverley Instruments Quadelay

As always, were it not for the SpaceDog's Kennel, this dog would still be on the porch with nary a bark

slightly faint NaviarHaiku 606

Part of: Dark Bouquet. Variations on a theme. soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/dark-bouquet
All material - cut, altered, mixed at will - comes from a nocturnal solo improvisation with fretless acoustic bass guitar with piezo pickup, effect pedals (Carcosa - Dark Star - Obscura), non synchronized loops, three amps. Recorded in the room with Zoom H2n, edited in Audacity. All sounds made with the instrument. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

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Dark Flower Drone

A sonification using soil and rain data from the Arlington Agricultural Research Station in Wisconsin.  Data courtesy of Wisconet (https://wisconet.wisc.edu/)

A Year in Rich Silt Loam

we have lit upon the gentle sensitive mind - #4274 (94R22 pc 262 left) by chair house 250827 (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

*** NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVES ***

" Gentleness, carried on 4,536 leaves of sound "

*** "PIANO TEN THOUSAND LEAVE" COMPLETE WORK ALBUM SERIES START ***

VOLUME1-3 just released! 

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we have lit upon the gentle sensitive mind - #4274 (94R22 pc 262 left) by chair house 250827

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

not yet bent-naviarhaiku608

An interpretation of:

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Naviar haiku challenge 608, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I had an idea of the structure and development of this track quite quickly. Young grass tempted to deviate by sequences entering from either side, temptation resisted, unbent growth represented by a final melody. Decided to use VCV Rack for this one. As I was going to be assembling the elements in a live mix I knew I wouldn't be able to play the final melody and manipulate everything else, hence VCV I was able to assemble the melody as multiple sequenced blocks that are played randomly, leaving my hands free for other things.  There is a lot of subtle modulation in each of the elements some of which had to automated; even using PatchMaster from MindMeld to set up performance macros where one knob controls multiple things I quickly ran out of physical controls; so like the melody I made a few practical compromises in what I manipulated live.  

I set everything up to record live to multiple tracks giving me the freedom to tweak the mix during the mastering stage. Other than EQ, saturation and gentle compression on both individual tracks and the master; the only extra effect I added is a very light touch of K7D - Tape Delay from imaginando on both sequences, the subtle ping-pong echoes integrated them intp the whole.   

Young Grass - (naviarhaiku - 608)

4Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793657063087767552/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark
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The sadness of things [naviarhaiku609]

Various authors with some real-time processing captured from Radio Aporee.
It is interesting to discover how inspiring the single nuances of concrete sounds can be, with rhythms, melodic/harmonic cells, textures and more.
This material certainly lends itself very well to further processing for the creation of something else.
Radio Aporee is an excellent source of inspiration.

work in progress

The hidden beauty of concrete sounds v.1

where did they go?

liminal, compositional ambient using glitch and orchestral textures

where did they go?

Paul Beaudoin

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