Interesting approach of a narrative soundscape. This accordion is particularly evocative :)

l am dlggln everything about this Jo--What  a vlbe!!

Man Eats Bat

Mountain alien is a mysterious song played with piano and sung beautifully with clear voice.

Mountain alien

Still processing my father's loss, and struggling to put fingers to keys of late. But I know that I need to push through this wail and return to the you-n-i-verse eventually.

He'd want it that way.

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LYRICS

The Truth about axes
is they smash through the frays
of the eyes and the neighs,
chunk rough trunks in their ways,
but harvest vines and scythed hays
are immune somehow

And then my father died


The thing about truths
is they burst veins with their use
as they bump and they bruise
debase and abuse
while made-up monks gussy down for pastel plaster plays,
giddy-thrup and are amused somehow

As they watch my father die


To axe about things
that make wishes with rings
grains of sooth waxed to wings
whether leather or feather
they weather the soul with
the truths that they bring
sun-drunk lay in their daze 
flippant, mince with loose ways
and flap lips like goosed fools

While my father dies

The Truth About Axes

My thanks to muterial for the joy of working on his original track, “Off The Rails”, which was composed of sounds that came from just two seconds recorded by him of water flowing across a ford and then slowed more than 100 times while treated through filters, reverb, EQ and compressors. The result was an invitation to further treat his innovation with additional music and sound for spacial effect for this collaborative version. I, of course, could not resist. :)

- Hverheij

But wait – there’s more! To hear additional outstanding work by muterial, you can follow the direct link to his site: https://soundcloud.com/muterial

Plus Notes:
Off The Rails (open collaboration) – composed by muterial © 2023 licensed under a Creative Commons License. Original track link: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails

Original photo concept and many more are at www.instagram.com/rollocarpenter/
This photo version liberally mangled by Hverheij solely for this collaboration. 

I try, okay?

System Off The Rails

System Off The Rails - muterial + Hverheij

For Éliane Radigue

You are so beautiful
That’s what he’d say
Then drift on away
Keeps drifting away

My body is storing up
All the things I can’t say
Leave them for another day

Drifting away

Lyrics:
umbrella couples
walking together
through the storm

plastic coverings
and their loving
keeps them warm

take it one step at a time
as long as i’ve got you by my side
my feet may be wet but i stay dry
take it one step at a time

inspiration and cover art taken from “klara and the sun” by kazuo ishiguro

<3 theta

This excellent little song was written  entirely by Theo, A.K.A. Theta-0-State which I was honored to play some parts on. I had to post it since I recently came across it. 
I added bass, guitar lines and electric guitar. I always loved how this one turned out. Here's to Theo, wishing him well... wherever he is these days and here's to hoping I'll hear from him again someday.

Umbrella Couples (Collab with Theta-0-State) ~~~From over a year ago~~~

From the album "As The Bluebird Flies":
https://nathaniel-ehrnman.bandcamp.com/album/as-the-bluebird-flies

Osage Orange (Jun. 2023)

method: computer keyboard, voice and mouse only - no physical instruments were harmed
narration: There are places where things begin and end. A wanderer follows a brook upstream and reaches the spring which is in deep shadows under a large rock and trees. The soil underfoot is nearly liquid. This is a beginning, not understood. A single leaf lands on his head, splitting it open. The liquid protruding from it runs  throughout his life. It's a story crackling with age. A romantic movie? Yes, why not.
image: self-gimped

gedicht / copyright jo richter:
(as published in Auslegpapier)

Später war da ein Rinnsal,
das sich den Abhang hinabwand.
Dem Wasser zu folgen, führte
den Wanderer bergan.

Die Quelle fand sich
unter einem gewaltigen Felsen.
So feucht war der Grund dort,
dass die Füße einsanken, als weile
felsab ein Gewässer aus fließendem Gur.
 Ein Schatten lag baumwipfelschwarz,
wuchtig und unberührbar darüber, von
vereinzelten Lichttupfen durchnetzt.
Hier ist ein Anfang, den keiner versteht,
der einfach da ist, so oder so.

Ein Blatt löste sich und
fiel auf den Scheitel
des Wandernden, sanft und so
chirurgisch präzise, dass
es die Schale des Schädels aufbrach
als sei die Fontanelle eine ur-
sprünglich angelegte Sollbruchstelle.
Das Nass, das sich daraus ergoss, floss
als ein Menschendasein durch
die Zeit seines Lebens.

chasma ges

Chasma Ges

Navigate Blind

Many thanks to Jaime for adding her beautiful harmony to this raw cover. Love this John Denver song!

Country Roads - Raw Cover by Tony and Jaime J. Ross

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 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)

Chasma Ges

sonic structures and silent stretches

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