Another wonderful collaboration project! Thank you Robert for experimenting with my sounds!!

Wonderful combination - the bassoon soars elegantly through the powerful electronic matrix. Excellent piece!

released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel In Adelaide Part 1

Bastl Instruments PIZZA test.

This is a collaboration with Stan Magendanz (https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz)
Hear the awesome original at https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/opheretri
K995 Fagott

Bridge (Stan & Robert)

believe 3

‘in principio creavit Deus cælum, et terram’
Travel Stories.
2025 semi-live performance.

A trans-lunar injection is a maneuver designed to send a spacecraft to the Moon. Its first use in a manned mission enabled Apollo 8 to reach Earth's satellite in December 1968.

(A modest track dedicated to Jim Lovell, who passed away on August 7th, 2025, a crew member of four space missions including Apollo 8).

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles.
- DFAM > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Drum2 (noise crush) > DSP (leslie speaker).
- Polygogo > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Plaits (vowel and speech synthesis) > Sisters.
- Basimilus.
Ochd, Diode Chaos, Rnd Step.
Tetrapad, 3x MIA, Mutes.
StMix, Black Stereo Mixer, Listen IO.
Logic Alchemy & Ultrabeat, UADx Model 84 & Minimoog.
Samples from Glitchmachines & Loopmasters Movie Dialogue2.
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Trans-Lunar Injection [travel stories]

Acaju - 21-8-2025

Xamana Sugaropa

poem, morphing and arrangement: copyright jo richter
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures
all sounds by well

she believes in the beauty
of pebbles and in the logic
of living sustainably -
amulet wheel, amnesic

as seasons and perfumes drift by -
a bearer of shields and magic,
her carpet is worn - she will die
an unapologetic aesthetic

the lyre and the wheel -  with sonic structures and silent stretches

Villagers whispered that when El Chalambra appeared, time bent sideways—clocks stuttered, rivers reversed, and memories no longer obeyed their owners. His presence was both omen and invitation: to step beyond the known map, to risk dissolving in the kaleidoscope of his gaze, and perhaps never return the same.

El Chalambra

Dark ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - VALLEY OF TEARS

This is the Gyre.

A durational field where measure loses its grip. The unconscious as factory rather than theatre, time as pure form freed from the curve, and subjectivity as the residual effect of machinic processes rather than their ground.

Refrains are temporal organising principles that create rhythmic assemblages rather than linear progressions. They operate through "asignifying semiotics"; sounds that produce effects without representing meanings, functioning directly on affects and intensities.

"Time penetrates artistic works through the singular rhythms that accommodate it, rhythms in which custom, memory and death intermingle." - Felipe Kong Aránguiz

Repetition that returns only difference, the absolutely new.

This returns.

Oct 9 -1

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

Bridge (Stan & Robert)

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