wonderfully tragic. Those cellos sound so fresh.

the playing is brilliant, empathetically responsive and deeply moving

Mourning plays on us every time! And even more so nowadays! Nice study! ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Entangled Shamans

Orbiting Glow In The Dark Rubber Eyeball

Fireworks recorded from my apartment, Montreal, on 2011/07/27.

Recorded with a Zoom H4n (wide pattern setting, kind of like a wide angle lens, but for sound), 16 bit stereo WAV format, 44,1 kHz sampling rate.

P.S. The picture may be misleading, my home does not offer a view of the marina ; )

Gigantic Popcorn

To begin with I would like to thank you for coming to listen to what I have presented you today. Staying true to my motto of creating experimental electronic music that results from unscripted jam sessions, here comes my latest upload which features plenty of quirky sounds and curious samples.

As always, the Boss RC-300 loop station is the MIDI clock master to which I sync my humble Eurporack. As an inspiration for the whole session, I played back the Youtube video "Minimal Glitch - Modular Improv" by Modular Cult (@user-451526715), just to start things going, and then I added my sounds on top of his experiment and also modulated his original soundscape in order to put my spin on the whole affair. To spice things up, I decided to employ yet another Youtube video, "Saraz Handpan F Harmonic Minor 9" by Saraz Handpan. Since I love the intricate but calming timbre of handpans, I employed sounds of this lovely handpan playing F Harmonic Minor, that I put through the Mutable Instruments Clouds which was heavily modulated, again, to put my spin on it.

As you might have read in one of my previous write-ups, I love to include speech samples, especially by narrators who talk about music, which may or may not fit the session's narrative. This time, I settled on a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is considered to be influential but also somewhat controversial composer, and one of the pioneers of electronic music. His explanations of changing musical moments really matched my approach, since I love to change up the flow of my jam sessions to keep things interesting. Additionally, to emphasize the transition from one particular segment of this track to another I used a famous Monty Python catchphrase.

During the course of this particular session I heavily relied on a combination of several modules, most prominently the Turing Machine with its expander Pulses, the LxD, the A-147, and the Radio Music. This setting ended up creating some glitchy rhythms, which very much reminded me of the track "Vertical Invader" by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree (@frankbretschneiderofficial, @taylordeupree). I decided so sample this track directly onto the loop station and after adjusting the tempo to my session's original tempo of 112 BPM, I was able to quite successfully incorporate this amazing minimalist track into my musical flow. 

Interestingly enough, the harmony of Vertical Invader went really well together with the sound snippets that came from the Radio Music module at this stage of the jam session. Also, the conglomeration of all these sounds matched the E Phrygian scale that I have been toying with for the last couple of weeks on my guitar and my synths. Since I am not much of a player, I decided to play back a couple of related Youtube videos and see if anything comes up that really fits the whole narrative. Indeed, in her Klezmer lessons, Robin Seletsky usually plays in E Freygish (which basically corresponds to the E Phrygian Dominant scale) and her clarinet's timbre tied the whole picture together. However, I mostly wasn't able to play back her videos in a rhythmically meaningful way, so I put many of the samples in post production.

Most of my tracks can be downloaded for free, and I encourage you to use them in your jam sessions and live sets. If you use any of my material, I really would like to know what you could come up with. So drop me a message and please give a shout-out to Mrs. Audio Boy!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I hope you enjoy this one!


Samples from the following material were used:
* https://youtu.be/MFvynwLkGco
* Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree - Vertical Invader
* https://youtu.be/NOSGbVNYFq8
* https://youtu.be/B83Iu_4FIIU
* https://youtu.be/M6hT2mGIlKo
* https://youtu.be/fK8nyiolmas
* https://youtu.be/7ZuAH-6E2vk

Electroacoustic Moments [Jam session sections: RAW2021 - 8]

Ambient 4

Words and Music Antipodeans 2022. Recorded and Engineered at Grovehill Studio, and mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack. Blue Auckland photo by Patrick Pellegrini on Unsplash

Last Bus

Never Know Why

Never Know WHY ( Collab Cabaret Club)

Based on true events. The people of Gausdal vs the authorities.

Rusty stuff Piling up in heaps
Ol’ John’s very own pension scheme 
Maybe a fortune, maybe worth a dime
But the authorities said it is time

//
To clean it up  
The harassment had begun!
“Time to resist!
Something must be done!”
//

All kinda people coming to defend
Ready to fight to the bitter end
Blocking the road with Deeres and Volvos
“Nothing gets past our 240s»

//Tensions are high
Will someone die?
In the upcoming battle
They’re Shaking like rattles 
//

There is mr Longwall who is heavily armed (with a flashlight!)
police must be cautious so (that) nobody’s harmed (in a fistfight!)
Youngsters standing guard like in a war
Blocking the entry for the police corps

The police retreat!
Didn’t expect to meet
The people - they won
Long live Ol’ John

So ended the harassment of Ol’ John

The Harassment of Ol’ John (demo)

Broding

During my trip in March of 2024 to Munich, I encountered a lively  scene of Klezmer musicians performing at the Marienplatz. This is my  sonically shadowy impression of the scene.

Munich Klezmer Nr 1

Lightning Before Us

This collage of synthesized soundscapes and noise dates back to 2005, still I thought it was worth releasing it. I really couldn't figure out that a pandemic was about to spread around the world shortly after this upload, by the way!

Teth Sin : synthesizers

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Static Disease

Music for vertical trips.
Instruments: guitars, bass, shamanic drum, flute and ocarina, percussions.

Short video clip: https://vimeo.com/423248674

Lonely Day In May

Lonely Day In Lonely May

Metanoia: (psychology), the process of experiencing a psychotic "breakdown" and subsequent, positive psychological re-building or "healing"

________________
oh sweet friend
you wanna know the truth
I’m so tired of the world 
and all the news
the places people go
they’re crazy in their heads
it’s everywhere,
and I’m just too confused

I’ll swim until I’m sane
until I’m far away
I’ll bleed into the ocean
I’ll melt into the sky
I’ll bleed into the earth
and then I’ll be gone
at peace

oh don’t ask why
I really wanna live
I really wanna die
I’ll crawl into the ocean
I’ll bleed into the sky
until I’m far away
I’ll swim until I’m sane
I’ll find another way
that no one ever sees
where no one ever goes
and it’s all light

Metanoia

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Julia Kent - Cello
Paul Éluard - Title
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Mournful Game

music . Somebody Bo @somebody-bo
lyrics, vocal performance & their production, artwork . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

A Molecule of Water
---------------------
"yaad ho" "yaad heh" "yaad ayoo"
remembrance, remembering, come remembrance

A Molecule of Water - Somebody Bo | Myrh

In The Main Waters

In The Main Waters/ Mirror Images/ The Optical Paradox/In The Main Waters

Hi. My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in literature, music, visual art, theater, and film.

My texts have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, in 7 languages, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Review, the Salzburg Review and Evergreen Review. My visual art and sound art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, and 58th Venice Biennales.

On my sound art and music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

I am working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate, and an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist and filmmaker David Lynch.

I am currently working on a number of visual art and music and performance projects, including a music project with poetry and vocals by Jim Morrison.

Soli Deo gloria.

Paul

First album, "That's Sin", is out on Bandcamp @ https://tethsin.bandcamp.com/album/thats-sin

The Mournful Game

Paul Amlehn 2

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