Name: Ruffled Pages (naviarhaiku587) by ray_cobley
Duration: 5 min 10 s
Description: An electronic composition created using Pure Data.

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
585
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku585-a-splash-of-colour/

2025-03-20

a splash of colour (Naviarhaiku 585 )

fog dissolves to rain - cool breezes clear the vista, showing cloud-topped hills

haiku by Raymond Cobley.  I took the first line of this haiku as a world of inspiration, actual thunder and rain recordings as well as rainstick instrument, granular treatment in Live, Resynthesis in Metasynth, Production in Logic.

Fog Storm Rain (Naviar Haiku 586 )

Following this week's Disquiet Junto project this track was created using a historic recording of the Ravel string quartet from 1928.
This is the sound of a dream, dissolved beyond recognition, but still present as the conscious cause of this unconscious music.

The audio was transformed using spectral synthesizers and effect chains to create this dreamlike rendition. No other sounds or instruments were employed.

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

rêver  (Disquiet0691)

“Unraveling a revealing Ravel” takes the final twelve seconds of Ravel’s Capet string quartet in F Major (1903) as the material to apply the idea proposed in Disquiet Junto 0691: “it should make the Ravel sound like it is falling apart — that is, like it is unraveling, or un-Ravel-ing”. 
The tripartite microstructure of those final measures has been mapped into the three sections of the track: the first one starts with the clean original audio and quickly derives into a vivacious sequence of micro-editions, gating and spectral smearing; the second section transitions from energico to adagio until the chords seem to be suspended for a while, just to be submitted to different kinds of decimation, downsampling, aliasing, vacuum tube distortion, vinylic noisification, and bitcrushing; the piece closes with an exagerated ritardando, and wild filtering and cutting of excerpts that maybe expose some microfeatures of the final chord before leaving it totally unravelled. 
More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

This piece uses a 1928 recording by the Capet String Quartet of Ravel’s string quartet (Col. D 15057-60).
The original audio source can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/3-capet-sq-col-d-15057-60-ravel-1928-mov-3/

Unraveling a revealing Ravel [disquiet0691]

three 90s jungle beats, all slowed to 128bpm, switch out across two channels

morse code plays the phrase "fog dissolves to rain" on ableton's "EFX Small Cymbal" rack

four granular soundbeds

a melody i played through three sampled instruments (upright bass, piano, guitarophone)

one atmospheric drone from the "though-forms" patreon

mary says "maybe tomorrow"

[naviarhaiku586] clear the vista

An electronic composition created using Pure Data.

Ruffled Pages (naviarhaiku587)

sulfurtopia
(disquiet692)

feature-reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIzNJ_kuvMA/

A place of heat and decay
swallowed voices
rhythms spark from what remains

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More on the 692nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Combust a Move — The Assignment: Make music using fire for the rhythm track — at https://disquiet.com/0692/

sulfurtopia

Base

another contribution to the haiku challenge of Naviar Records.
As always, this little poems spark musical creativity like nothing else.
Thanks Marco!

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

- Marc Sheridan -

hazy rays (naviarhaiku592)

GG Promises Volumes 1 - 15  
Producer, Benjamin Hill, coproducer IBen Morton, written by Benjamin Hill and Benjamin Morton

Rhythms of the Rain

I'll take that to my grave

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.

Ruffled Pages (naviarhaiku587)

ray_cobley

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