Name: Unfamiliar (naviarhaiku481) by ray_cobley
Duration: 4 min 5 s
Description: Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

A wonderful whiff lies like a wisp of mist around the homely soul!

Method: Layers upon layers, intermingling ....
Narration: Dharma bum sleepwalking through life. 
Image: Taken by myself (yes, that's my hand in the reflection) at the prehistory museum in Bad Buchau: http://www.federseemuseum.de/das-federseemuseum/

Poem / copyright jo richter:

he invented a name
when arrested for loitering
next to a mural 
not made by Banksy

asleep in an ashram
someone smeared 'god' on his brow
revealed in reverse
in the mirror

there were very few moments
he awoke from his stupor
and fewer still
he chose to remember

on his way to the mountains
where silence prevails
he lapped sweet nectar
from drainwater pipes

during the earthquake
a squirrel hid in his pouch
he later found
an acron of thanks

drift

travel home
even the air
has changed

haiku by Wai Mei Wong https://twitter.com/wmwongcreator

picture by Kate Bezzubets https://unsplash.com/@k8_bzz

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF homE [naviarhaiku481]

Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Unfamiliar (naviarhaiku481)

naviarhaiku481:
travel home
even the air
has changed

haiku: Wai Mei Wong https://twitter.com/wmwongcreator
image: Kate Bezzubets https://unsplash.com/@k8_bzz
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Travelling Home [NaviarHaiku481]

I made a video for this track and it can be found here.
https://youtu.be/s_ofqGKi23I

travel home
even the air
has changed

Wai Mei Wong is a former early childhood educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her picture book Hello, Dark was shortlisted for the 2022 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and chosen for the 2022 CCBC Spring Best Book for Kids & Teens Selection. She enjoys poetry, nature walks and funny movies.

She started writing Haiku in October 2022, after she became curious about this deceivingly simplistic form of poetry. Her inspiration comes mostly from her experience or the stories from people close to her.

Travel Home (naviarhaiku481)

Torpedoed

HOWLINWOLFBACKDOORMAN(REMIX)

Nice Day

OLD TRACK I MADE FOR CULT TAPE 002
FROM https://kavarimusic.bandcamp.com/album/cult-tape-002-selected-ambient-works 
ANOTHER NAME BUT THE IDEA STAYED THE SAME

TEREPHTHALIC NOISE - BLAUPUNK

Wave-5

The haiku that guided this;

Winter waterfall
a rock untouched
by sunrise or sunset
(Naviar haiku challenge 607, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge ),

has an obvious staring point, "Winter Waterfall" the track has finished up quite experimental.


Waterfall = white noise.
So I started with a noise source in Voltage Modular and created an evolving sequence that processed the noise output through a spectral filter bank using two instances of the WC-96 Spectral Processor from DMT Audio. I then created a rhythmic element by feeding that output through an LFO controlled envelope, passing the output on to Quadelay from Waverley Instruments. 

With the noise elements in place I added some pulses using basic VM modules then moved on. Having used a couple of tweaked Dreamsynth presets last week I decided it was time to take the deep dive and learn how to patch Dreamsynth from scratch. Dreamsynth (https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth) is deep, almost modular. I made a patch for the chord sequence; yes I know it's a bit weird but I liked it in isolation while developing the DS patch so kept it all be it sequenced, converted to MIDI and passed out from VM. While experimenting I found that if I played in a low register I got a rumbly semi random texture so I split that off and tweaked it a bit to represent the rock, triggered by a separate sequence in VM. The final element is a drone layer made from DMT Audio's "West Coast" modules (Uncertainty and Harmonic Oscillator), left over from an early experiment and passed through a band pass filter modulated by reused control, voltages from the noise sequencing. 

With all the elements in place I made two changes before recording, I added a small amount of ShimmerVerb from Eventide to the chord sequence and replaced the pure white noise that I'd planned to use at the beginning with a sample of a real waterfall from freesound (Staying close to waterfall by trader_one -- https://freesound.org/s/670515/ -- License: Creative Commons 0), because I wanted a touch of gurgling water.

With everything in place; opening waterfall, mapped physical controls, multitrack recording and no real plan. I hit record and improvised, one take, longer than I'd expected.
I'll own up to doing a lot of mastering to make the dispirit elements gel but didn't add anything significant.

Winter Waterfall - (naviarhaiku - 607)

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.

Unfamiliar (naviarhaiku481)

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