This Track is the first Jam Session with the Atomic Oscillator , an additive Oscillator beast with 72 partials. I am still scratching at the surface of what this unbelievable thing can do and it is pure fun !It was recorded directly in Reaktor and left as are. Only a cutoff for low frequencies below 20 Hz was applied. As the Oscillator allows FM too,
I ran some very low FM in the beginning. Hope you enjoy.

Low FM

'green nails'
https://www.instagram.com/one.man.verity.show/reel/C9JVNvzuc-u/

lyrics: Scotty & Gems

Baby, paint your nails green today,
naked on the couch as I play with my lady.
As the sun shines through the curtains delicately. 
And the birdsongs that surround us match my melody. 

Greeeeen naaails.
And soooo free.
Come back one day and make me feel this way.
One day.





green nails

Music: SnowOmen https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen (e-guitar, e-bow, e-piano, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, three different amps). Field recording (jackhammer at construction site), mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Deep Sea Ghost Shark (pd)

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Chimaera

Days in the sun
Wonders of love

What we gave up
Can’t believe us
How could we not find a way forward?

Stars off course
A black hole in my heart
Pulls me 
Always with remorse

I feel the force
I fall apart
When I think of what we could have been

Jupiter spins
With 95 moons when 
Venus has not one
For lovers like us

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us
Could have been us

Love Love Love
Is such a fleeting light
Love Love Love
Is it worth the fight tonight

Tonight
I’m waiting all night

And I’m still willing to try
Is there a way for us to save us

I feel a pull
I feel our hearts
Gravitating

Is there a way for us to save us
a way to save us



Stars still off course
Rip open my heart
Fools pulled apart 
Once more

Love and divorce
The fight’s no more
And all I think 
What could have been 
Us

Jupiter spins
Even worlds end
Venus cools when
Lovers give up

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us.
Lyrics written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2024

Wild Christopher & Unguided Express-We could have been

Chorus

This isn't the end
it's a new beginning 
you haven't lost
you've won
A brand new start 
An open door
to more 
Can you see it

Bridge

Open the door 
see what's waiting 
on the other side
Open the door
you won't regret 
unless you don't try 

vs 1
Letting go
of what you thought 
it would be like 
is never easy
walking away
from what thought 
you set in motion
that fell apart 
along the way
but what you gained
in believing 
something better
would come to be
you sparked 
where you're going 
keep going, you'll see

vs 2
It's been a
long time coming
but your new life
is waiting for you
you've reached 
so many 
pivotal moments
that have gotten
you here
don't you
dare stop
don't you dare
give up
you've got it in you
to go 
way farther
than this
to reach that goal
that finish line


Open Door

method: multi platform, partly disassembling and recycling material from other creations
narration : the title track of the latest album
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

the neighbourhood app takes perfect care 
the shiniest surface has the prettiest glare

the pure are the ones creating the dirt
soiling the waters to sport a white shirt

for twelve thousand years of acculturation
we've been the noise, the noise generation

noise generation

My improvisation of the Bass part over the song «THUD of Bill Bruford Earthworks », I'm playing on my NS Upright Bass tuned B E A D, It's actually been over 30 years since I've not played Upright Bass, I 've just started back 4 weeks ago playing an Upright bass on september 2024

My Improvisation Upright NS Bass (Steve Roy) over «THUD  De Bill Bruford Earthworks»

Modal Fusion Funk #161

Midtempo uplifting instrumental with celtic instruments- bagpipes, fiddle, flute and some percussion

Summer song

lil peep type beat
prod. by idkyunggreggy
EP dropping before january 

EP DROPPING BEFORE JANUARY, FOR NOW TAKE THIS BEAT

I am overjoyed to partake in sounds beautiful:
https://youtu.be/1TnalFltP_Q?si=VidMVZ9VDKGZiNUm  by Dan and
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out by Jeff.

Jeff also gifted me a visiting role on his previous album: 
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/quintessential

.... and here is my own test account:
https://sonicstructuresandsilentstretches.bandcamp.com/track/eliza

POETRY IS VITAL

This threshold space exists for those who feel like listening to some of my quite professional poetry embedded in rather amateurishly recorded but judiciously arranged sound, a modicum of purely acoustic work notwithstanding.  Fortunately, some other artists have also transformed the symbolic expression of my words into the tangible beauty of real songs and soundscapes - just listen to Sympoetic Ultrasounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/sympoetic-ultrasounds !

SOUND, SPACE AND TIME

Tend your listening senses gently. Even though my general approach welcomes and embraces lo-fi concepts like the precision of spontaneously occuring imprecisions, headphones worth their membranes are recommended - unless you like your sounds flat, mangled, battered and helpless. You don't, do you? Be kind to these soundscapes.

STRUCTURING IMPULSE

Due to the nature of "poetry soundscapes", your listening expectations regarding traditionally structured "songs", sonically purified "raw wildlife soundscapes", keyboard-laden "ambient recordings" or voice-centered "readings" might not be met. You will find some of those in my list of /likes/. "Noise" is a recurring structural element like any other. This is what this sounds like - within its own rights, limitations, tangents and interconnections. Sonic structures. Silent stretches. Poetry emerges from the gaps between the ruts, seeps in from the undergrowth, sweeps down.

CARVING, CHISELLING, KNEADING, MORPHING

A quick glance into my toolshed rests on Zoom recorders, Samplitude software and a dizzying array of diverse sonic machinery.

LARGE AND SMALL GIFTS

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Small Gifts

the less to remember, the more to listen
gifts from the ice age reverberate
a simple story, a forest, a coastline
entangled in silence, one starts to relate
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In case you have read up to this point, you might be a sonic creator yourself. May I ask you for a helping ear? Above, there is a tiny poem of mine that I do not understand how to translate into sound. If you do - please act on it. It is a matter of common decency, of course, to keep the title (Small Gifts) and to credit the lyrics to me (jo richter). And please do notify me of your version via a soundcloud message. One bewilderingly beautiful version crafted by mono-lux has already gone public, as well as an amazing version by cthonicist.  You'll find both in my playlist Sympoetic Ultrasounds. This is just a small gift, not a challenge - life already has more than enough of those on offer, doesn't it? Treat it this way.

POETRY IS VITAL
sound, space and time
structuring impulse
carving, chiselling, kneading, morphing
large and small gifts
poetry is vital

GENERAL POLICY regarding the use of LIKES, REPOSTS and FOLLOWS:
I like what I like and want to hear again.
I only repost what I've had a hand in creating.
I follow when I see directions or arrivals I like, not when followed (though I might peek in to get an idea of what your sounds are about). I have set myself a limit of accounts I follow not to be all too overwhelmed. Not following does therefore not mean I do not appreciate what you contribute to the enjoyments of soundcloud.
Do not expect other behaviour from me.
(jo richter)

noise generation

sonic structures and silent stretches