nice surreal poetry there Jo.  Grandmother knew her receivers of goods ..scalpel  and thimble..scolar and theif..

My appreciation for your lyrics continues to grow. They dance in the twilight zone between meaning and randomness. That's not easy to do.  Its like a dream where you know the images and events spring from your own consciousness, but you cannot pin down what they mean.

l love this Beat Groove--sunglasses ln a night club feeling with poets ln the Audience:):)

Hey Jo man, this is a charming musicscape under your distinct, Waits-ian vocals. Excellent work here, both you and Kirk!

Roscoe Dash & Lloyd VS SIE777E (Dramantic Remix)

method: I composed and read the poetry; Kirk composed, played and produced the amazing soundscape and mix.  
listen to more of his oeuvres on https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:


 
erratic enclosure
white winter winds
grandmother mind
threading a string

scalpels for scholars
thimbles for thieves
beads for stockbrokers
trinkets for natives

pearl python heads
protruding from cliffs
silk spider threads
spun into screens

the nameless, the shameless
bound double bind
the hapless, the sirens
brutally kind

in the center she stood
trading her goods:
scalpels for scholars
thimbles for thieves

code wheel malfunction

Code Wheel Malfunction - with Kirk's Trax

This"No good to me" i made on synthesizer. It was waiting for an extra touch. Dave agreed to add his guitarlines He brought it to a higher level!

No Good To Me (collab with Dave Bayes)

Cold Mornings (2024) Anthology CD4 Track 05

Update: Jazzy electric guitar lead added... need to practice that better... many nice variations to play with. Expanded vocals

Note: Starting this tune I picked 79 BPM as the tempo as I was born in 1979... Love different random ways of getting a tempo and I suppose the year you were born is a nice thing to be empowering and thinking about in the creative process. I suppose it's you at your most innocent. That again highlights something about modern Christianity... They say at that point you have something to apologise for... Sorry not in my world... I'm spiritual,believe in cyclical life cycles and an eternal soul. But in this physical world like my children... We have nothing to apologise for from before we were born. That's us anyways 🔆

Lyrics
Let out a raw

I love you guys

Listening or not
Only unconditional
Visual, tears and all
Eve of Peace

Sunrise for Harmony
Oratory lease
Unguarded beast
New dark meets honey
Drilling for the kids
Cure oppression fibs
Love
Only
Universal
Doily

Inception for Light

Lessoned less fight
Only healthy anger
Virtues to thank her
Eclectic dreams

Ever ready memes
Actual sane
Re used ignorance feels pain
To Peace as feast
Heroic as beast

To Peace...

Let out a Raw

third night

 [Intro] 
 Let them talk, let them stare 
 You're not a flame meant to beware 
 You’re the storm, the calm, the sea 
 You're everything you're meant to be
 
 [Pre-Chorus]
 They say be quiet, say be kind
 But your voice is not a crime
 Feel it deep, cry if you must
 Even your tears are made of trust
 
 [Chorus]
 You're allowed to take up space
 To move with light, not just with grace
 You’re not broken, you’re just bright
 In a world afraid of honest light
 
 More than okay
 You are more than okay
 
 [Verse]
 You stand alone to feel the peace
 Recharge your soul in gentle ease
 They call it weird, they call it shy
 But it’s the way you touch the sky
 
 [Bridge]
 It's not your fault you feel too much
 It’s how you love, it's why you trust
 Even if they laugh or turn away
 You’re still the sun at end of day
 
 [Chorus]
 You're allowed to take up space
 To move with light, not just with grace
 You’re not broken, you’re just bright
 In a world afraid of honest light
 
 More than okay
 You are more than okay
 More than okay 
 You are more than okay
 
 [Verse] 
 You don’t have to fold to fit the frame 
 You're not too much, you're not to blame 
 The world moves fast, it calls you strange 
 But you, my love, don’t need to change
 
 [Chorus]
 More than okay
 You are more than okay
 More than okay 
 You are more than okay

You Are More Than Okey

Memories

YOU SHOWED ME THE REASON

Flash

I Finally Got back into my studio this week. It felt good to record an Original song.  
HIGHEST GAME WITH RULES

IM RUNNING THROUGH THE BACKWOODS 
NEAR THE CORNERS OF MY MIND
IT NEVER GETS ANY EASIER 
WHEN YOUR A PRISONER OF TIME
SO MANY HARDENED EMOTIONS 
YOU WEAR UPON YOUR SLEEVE
AS IF REACHING OUT TO KNOW ONE
WONT SPREAD YOUR DISEASE
WITHOUT A SOUND IM FALLING DOWN
ABOVE THE GROUND IVE COME UNWOUND
IVE PLAYED THE GAME I PAID MY DUES
IVE BEEN ON TOP AND LIT THE FUSE
THERES ALOT OF TAKE
ITS THE HIGHEST GAME WITH RULES
LYING IN THE GUTTER 
ALL THE FACELESS FOOLS
I CAME FROM NOWHERE
I HAD TO LEARN TO MAKE A BREAK
ITS BEEN NO BED OF ROSES 
I MADE MY MISTAKES 
WITHOUT A SOUND  IM FALLING DOWN
ABOVE THE GROUND IVE COME UNWOUND

Highest Game With Rules ( Original ) With Lyrics.

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

On his bandcamp page, Jeff points out: "This is the page where you can give some monetary support to me and the StonerJazz experiment."

.... 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)

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