This is so strangely beautiful! A wonderful track to get lost into...

Hey Jo man, love the delicacy of the melodies in here. Thrillingly minimalistic arrangement is fascinating, too. Hey my friend, awesome work here!

Soothing in this dark november evening--just Lovely:)

@dgem9iu Sure. Pattern based yet unpredictable ;-) the better the less obvious ;-)

Rocktober day and track 27.
Finally some oldschool synth, phew. Last year I had a few more and after that, I hardly made something like this. I was afraid I lost "it" ...... but no, I am very pleased with this one!!

"Somewhere between circuit and soul, the giants move on.
Their steps echo through analog skies — slow, luminous, unending."
Inspired by the vast calm of the 1980s imaginary future.

I looked at the sky tonight and was thinking, am I seeing stars or satellites? What are these "tech giants" actually? What is nature? Isn't everything eventually "nature"? Why doesn't it feel like it yet and why do I feel excited and anxious at the same time?

27 Giants

Ghost of my Rage

Der Wind und ich

Dig Deep

work in progress

cover image take from here: https://threwthelookingglass.com/cognitive-biases/

cognitive bias

method: the reface dx is an amazing device
narration: understanding does not happen because it claims to have already happened 
copyright for the poem, the image and the composition: jo richter

im sinklicht lehnt sie
ihren leib zurück, drängt
die adepten ihres sonnenichs
nun die strahlen nachtfest

zu verzurren - fühlt sich
blickdicht verwobenes nicht
schmaler an als
schlafspliss-katzenzwirn

interlinear translation: amathia // in the lowering of the light, she / leans back her body, demands /from the suitors of her sunlight self / to tie down the rays // for the night - don't / blackout textures feel / thinner than / sleepfrayed catyarn

amathia

https://ajkaufmann.bandcamp.com/album/huxley-invisible

"Huxley Invisible"

Can't take credit for the brilliant patch named "bliss out" that I used on my Nord Modular throughout this rather long track. The patch consists of 5 oscillators, 4 filters, 5 sequencers, 1 Lfo/3 slave Lfo's, Random pulse generators, a sample & hold module, envelopes and mixers!  
This is a cut from a 60 minute jam (patch is used at the beginning and end). The creator of the patch  is ”ZonSounds" so only used it as a starting point to improvise around with my usual "live setup" consisting of: 3 Behringer Semi-modular (Neutron/Syncussion/K2), a RD-6 drum machine + a Teenage Engineering PO35 tiny sampler + mixer/Fx.  Vox samples are me saying various silly things like "Hello" and "Unreal". Also played various other Nord Modular patches during the track's progression while editing from the excellent front panel on this classic VA synth. Not sure who would listen to this (probably other synth nerds:)) but decided to upload it anyway. Headphones recommended, enjoy!

Hello (bliss out mix)

Piano Solo

bbb2

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)

amathia

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