“Ganzfeld: imposing a uniform space over the entire visual field. By altering your sense of sight you deprive your brain of sensory input. It begins to improvise. This may produce disturbing hallucinations. Some researchers also believe it also enables extra sensory perception.”

Made in AUM on IPad. No keyboards harmed in the making of this piece.

Ganzfeld Effect

Track created using software on iPad:
AUM, BLEASS SampleWiz/Phase Mutant, GeoShred, Sugar Bytes Aparillo, iceWorks Lagrange, Rozeta LFO, Altispace2 by Igor Vasiliev, AudioDamage RoughRider 3/OtherDesertCities, rymdigare by Erik Sight, Bram Bos Kosmonaut, Imaginando DLYM, Pagefall Ioniarics, 
Mixed and mastered in Cubase 12 with Ozone 10
Photo by zenbytes (2020, Bretagne, France)

summer night transforms - Naviarhaiku 479

The Good Witch

September 3, 2023

Herbert Weisrock - Akai-Synthi
Thomas Sander - Guitar
Recorded in February 2008

WORM

Analog remaster by Purple Android and Blackparticle

Inchoate

Inchoate (naviarhaiku510)

Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene
Book 5 Canto 6 verse 5

As if before she had not counted trew.
  For houres but dayes; for weekes, that passed were,
  She told but moneths, to make them seeme more few:
  Yet when she reckned them, still drawing neare,
Each hour did seeme a moneth, & euery moneth a yeare


10/8 [akin to Armenian Jurjina rhythm] with emphasis on 1[3]468
and some 3/4 or 3/8 and 4/4

[In/out] of Time        Music for String Quartet and percussion

Panacea

Mare Tranquillitatis

Tons

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Spirits Of Menghuanhu

Recent experiments with Envelop Followers and LoPass Gates.

Plinkies

Latest Albums :
https://senglarbraille.bandcamp.com/album/jt-chapman-senglar-susurrus
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Tons

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