Thanks for the mention and cool to see it inspired you to try some loop slicing... my experiments were inspired by your creative sound collages so we have a 'virtuous cycle' of creativity set up here!

Dreamy Ethereal Ancient lyrical imagery--:):)

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In Notte Placida

The Philosopher

Method: Toy lyre (perpetually losing tuning - I had vainly aimed to keep it in sth akin to g minor), pedals (esp wah, hall and shimmer), field recordings, digital voice (her name's supposed to be Hazel), further effects (including some slice-looping to honour Terry's approach), some pizza, a glass of wine. I tried sc-aurora mastering but was disgusted with the results. Sorry. As usual, good headphones are recommended. 
Narration: Another historic poem, ballad-style.
Recommended reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States
Image: The piezo pickup on the soundboard of the toy lyre, gimped.


Poem / copyright jo richter:

mesopotamian season
irrigation canals
first rule and first treason
in huge, gated walls

round seals and flat tablets
enkidu's tale
infections run rampant
merchant ships sail

a priest on a tower
watches far clouds
amid smells of the hour
and slave-driver's shouts

the king's tall figure
shadows the priest
'we will last forever'
he states, gazing due east

the priest nods demurely
accustomed to lies
west's cloudlines, unruly
denote otherwise

mesopotamian rivers
flood and run scarce
feel joy, suffer grievance
and care for your heirs

(Note: Is it just me .... or does the digital voice make the last word sound awkwardly like another one ; -)

augurs of uruk

Augurs of Uruk

Loose Bruce [Demoose]

This most powerful Incantation made available to the reader is in fact intended to exhume or exorcise anything which has become attached to the subject. Again, the correct interpretation of this Incantation requires some triangulation between subsequent reference texts and various analysis. The language pertaining to the spell is particularly obscure. Written in a curious blend of Latin and the authors own arcade idiolect. Here and now are several facts about The incantation ...

Assassin Monk Speaks With Out Voice

Sing A Song That Sings Forever

20230526-1543

Nuntius

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. After all, sound is one way my poems know to materialize - insolently shapeshifting, indelibly greening into the cultural real.

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)

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