Investigator

We've All Done Things

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

Blade Rumor RAM Doubler

pict free poster

Krakatit is the name for an explosion with an unimaginably destructive effect. Its inventor himself, the engineer Prokop, is frightened by it, but for many others it represents the desired instrument of absolute power. In Karel Čapek's novel of the same name, published in 1924, Prokop's attempts and their consequences were purely the author's vision. On the other hand, the film adaptation, which was created not long after the Second World War and the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, apparently partly reflects real events. Apart from the urgent moral appeal, it still captivates today with its delirious atmosphere and visual ingenuity in real exteriors and fantastic backdrops

A message from the movie that is still very relevant and very dangerous today, said by the character of the demagogue

Demagogue: "Where has the victory of democracy, government, led you? To humiliation and hunger, to confusion and helplessness! Noble nations are in want; for those who were destined to rule have been worn out by the lot! We are chosen by providence to raise from the dust the chosen nations and they showed the inferiors their place.

2023-04-24

Krakatit

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

Soldiers Lament - Cry From The Battlefield

Motif

INTERNALIZED GUILT

The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film.

Step 1: It’s intriguing that the word “spook” regularly means “haunt” (verb) but also can mean “spy” (noun). Consider this.

Step 2: This project coincides with Halloween 2025, so imagine a spooky spy film, and write some music for it.

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

eye spy [disquiet0722]

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - AETHEL'UIN

mostly a downtempo diary

long-haul landscapes floating
over misted highways while

wipers smear droplets into
polyrhythmic haiku

sounds to do something
else by, for those who

have Logged Out

We've All Done Things

sel-sync