Name: Forbidden Ground (naviarhaiku605) by ray_cobley
Duration: 6 min 9 s
Description: Electronic composition, an evolving textured drone sequence, original sounds created using Pure Data.

a way for a while

The mountain path (naviarhaiku602)

the silence, the darkness, the simplicity, this landscape in central Sweden has a very special charm: that's what I wanted to express with this track

Glaskogen.wav

Electronic composition, an evolving textured drone sequence, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Forbidden Ground (naviarhaiku605)

a version on Well's open collaboration song Psychedelic Dance
https://soundcloud.com/geomantvermin
the great Geomant
https://soundcloud.com/user-187518543

Well & Geomant -Psychedelic Wallcrawler Dance

Chord of the Charis

Set Yourself Free

shifty 36 bpm keys may 22 test 2

shifty 60 bpm key test 4 w hat 1

shifty 2.1 f1 10 bpm take 1 100525

Visions from the Trumpet: Miles in a Heroin Delirium

In that Norwegian delirium, when heroin circulated in Bill's veins like Scott LaFaro's improvised bassline, Miles Davis' visions were not mere hallucinations—they were full concerts in hell, a fusion of jazz and Nordic chaos. Bill laid on the floor of the cabin, cloudy-eyed, his fingers dancing involuntarily on invisible keys, and Miles materialized out of the smoke—not as a man, but as an ethereal figure with a trumpet for a head, dressed in a tuxedo of flames. 

“Bill, man, what are you doing here in this ice hole?” Miles whispered hoarsely, blowing a note on his trumpet that sounded like the scream of a burning church.

The first vision hit hard, like the intro to “Bitches Brew” – Miles stood on the altar of a burning church in Bergen with his trumpet pointed toward the sky, where the stars formed black metal notes. “Burn it all, Bill,” he said, his solo mixing cool jazz with Varg Vikernes' growls. Bill saw Miles handing a needle to Thor, the pagan god Varg worshipped. 

“Heroin is the elixir of the gods—it makes you immortal, until the last note,” Miles cackled, injecting himself with a dose straight into his trumpet. Wasn't that ironic? Thor, instead of thunder, threw improvised chords, and the church melted to the rhythm of jazz – stained glass windows flowed like melted her*in, forming puddles that reflected the faces of deceased jazzmen: Coltrane, Monk, Charlie Parker – all high on eternity.
 “This is true fusion—jazz burns black metal!” Miles shouted, and Bill laughed ominously, knowing it was delirium, but it sounded better than any recording session.


The second vision was deeper, more introspective, like a ballad from “Kind of Blue”. Miles sat next to Bill in the hut, smoking a cigarette (though in reality it was smoke from burning church wood). “Remember when I overdosed in ‘59? I thought I was playing for the devil,” he said, his eyes shining like needles in the moonlight. Suddenly, the scene changed: they were in a Norwegian forest where the trees were shaped like trumpets and Varg Vikernes was playing a guitar made of saints’ bones. Miles approached Varg: “Your black metal is my jazz on steroids — raw, merciless.” Varg, in the vision, nodded, and together they played a duet: Miles' trumpet harmonized with Burzum's riffs, creating the soundtrack to the apocalypse. Julie injected heroin into the trees, and they came to life, dancing in the flames. “Heroin is the glue that connects worlds,” Miles explained. “Without it, we're just notes on paper.” 



The Ghost of Miles Davis and the Trumpet from Hell

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Forbidden Ground (naviarhaiku605)

ray_cobley

Related tracks