Hier sind Kooperationen mit Musikern auf Soundcloud zu finden. In den meisten Fällen stammen die Texte von mir, Ausnahmen sind unten beschrieben.
This playlist will be populated with more 'collabs' each time they come about.  It is an overwhelming joy to see my words honoured by sonic renditions produced by these great and wonderful artists. 
In Hawk Caught a Rabbit the magnificent lyrics are by Jeff and I just added little quibs in between. In the Administrational Heart only the first two sections of lyrics are by me. For Équinoxe-moi and Around the Bend, Wivresse and I swapped poems and sonified each other's work. Concatenandus, Small Gifts, Trilobite Quandary and The Passing are open collaborations in which you can still participate. The title for 'the wolf in me ....' was made by Mark from the Re-evolution Café Orchestra,  replacing the poem's original title Aeglaeca. With Amanita Muscaria and Know Ware, I only held roles far in the background of gestation, but Jeff and Terry and everyone else were kind enough to give me a honourable mention. Thank you, brothers and sisters in sound. The complete adventure of the Land of Zed story is out now on Bandcamp: https://thesmokingtrout.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-zed The E-bow Dao is unique in that Jeff's music came first and inspired my words. Later, the same course of composition came about with sun state, earth people, flying. Windover Hill by mono-orbit (former mono-lux) layers the words of my poem of the same name with those of a ballad by Maria Cunningham. Hanno has undergone some additional cleaning and enhancing at Rollo C's (muterial's) place. With the Holy Dumpling, I've only added some percussion. Adam was so generous as to allow me to add to his amazing originals Harmony and My Orders Never Came; the lyrics are all his on these two ...  just like Jeff's on Anthology .... where I had the honour of adding some sound into the mix. Would you go has some collaborators intentionally not named. KooJaa is all Kirk's invention, just rhe words and some of the voice are mine. At the moment, Vermillion Syncretism is taking shaoe in the studio of the Furico Music Team.

Sympoetic Ultrasounds

Jo and I have been "off the beaten path" soundscapes ever since he first complained about one of my promotional emails.
Since then, we've become friends and enjoyed the process of merging our two  artistic imaginations to break down the walls of the genre prisons.

The Mind Bending Poetry of Jo Richter

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Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 569

infinitely open ... except for the beat, no beat, or not enough to call it a beat, or too many of them either in succession or concurrent.

created: 2025/06/03

These tracks were uploaded in April and May 2025,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

Capitalized tags are SoundCloud's suggestions.

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

[TO BE COMPLETED]

hk_fantaisies_tracks_569

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Tradacoustic series no. 395

Music, mostly recent, a few days old, a few weeks.

created: 2025/06/15

hk_tradacoustic_395

-Download available -

Collaboration between Mono-Lux and poet Jo Richter (Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches)
@sonic-textures
Poem and conception by Jo Richter with narration and sounds by Mono-Lux - created between Dec 2021 and Jan 2022

“narcoleptic somnambules
consumers of hot summer dates
here’s another post hypnotic trigger
implanted by that giggly jingle
dance the transsomatic landfills
dance the cisapocalyptic skies
dance the tarmac, dance volcanic
dance the lord and dance the flies

narcoleptic somnambules
lost mnemonic virtuals
here’s another transtraumatic flipper
sponsored by your self-parenting guide
dance the cleptotronic chromosphere
dance the micro plastic surge
dance the trolley, dance the alley
dance chromatic, dance your urge

narcoleptic somnambules
purveyors of emoji eyes
here’s another sonoclastic ripper
tearing up with bluetooth kites
dance the thanocultic road code
dance the toxins pressed in shists
dance pollution, dance profusion
dance the hit and dance the missed”

The Gallery

- Download available -

This is the second collaboration between Mono-lux and the poet Jo Richter A.K.A. Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches
@sonic-textures
Poem and conception by Jo Richter with narration and sounds by Mono-Lux - created Jan/Feb 2022

“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”

Small Gifts

Collaboration with "sonic structures and silent stretches"!!

<< Poetry >>
it‘s not like
she doesn‘t understand
what this silence
around her
is for

after all
there‘s this desire
feeding meditaton industries
monetizing inner calm
awareness

each human being
a kettle about to boil over
spill watery, bubbly, glittering marbles
sweet nothings kept for
nobody‘s sake

each mind‘s mouthpiece
a pressure valve, vibrating
under strain not to let off steam
verbosely explode
right nto her face

she still wouldn‘t mind
for this audience of roaring silences
to turn a listening ear
towards her artistic endeavours
every now and then

Poetry

The Silent Treatment (collab with sonic structures and silent stretches)

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This is the third collaboration between Mono-lux and the poet Jo Richter @sonic-textures… enjoy

Poetry is Vital
sound space and time
structuring impulse
carving chiselling kneading morphing
large and small gifts

Poem and conception by Jo Richter
Narration and sounds by Mono-Lux

Vital

Guitar: Ingvar Tautra, There is no Regrets Big Enough 
Ingvar Tautra's track is protected by a creative commons license - please check there: https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/there-is-no-regrets-big-enough
He is generous enough to allow me to use his track with my poem. Thank you!
Narration: I wrote this poem nearly thirty years ago, embroiled in all the aftermath messiness of a split-up. It was first published in a collection of poetry  bearing a line of this poem in the title that was published under the pen-name 'sonogara' which I had used during that period - three copies sold ;-)

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

Tjost

sie, in seide gehüllt
blüte um blüte um blatt
ihr stolz hat wolken gestillt
die sind nun müde und matt

er, aus höllen empört
von glut im kometenkranz
und plasmaströmen genährt
halb loh, halb zunder, halb glanz

noch tanzen roh die säbel
noch rast ein loser sturm
verschlungen hängen nebel
im windschnitt hinterm turm

Tjost - with guitar by Ingvar Tautra

Note: Kirk and I met connected by opposing views on how the soundcloud messaging system should be used. Pretty soon, an intense and interesting dialogue emerged that eventually led to his wonderful, very cinematic rendition of the trilobite quandary. Thank you, Kirk, for the frank exchange - it is worth this outcome a million times - and maybe further cooperations in the future. Please listen to his versatile work here: https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716


Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

following the nutritional trail
a trilobite moves from a place
like that to a place like this

agile senses in a chitin shell
alarm in a world made of hunger
muscles react: volvation

when is it safe to stretch out again?
how long do you remain in stasis?
what is duration in trilobite terms?

you need to show strength, to feed,
to moult, to live your trilobite
lifestyle in cambrian waters

when does that urge undo precaution?
a theory of mind for trilobites
does not exist: we are not aware

of their mental cues, their inner states -
do they deliberate or just change shape
as some behavioural timer runs down?

in ancient seas, in its own time
a trilobite moves from a state
like that to a state like this

Trilobite Quandary

Trilobite Quandary - Kirks Version

Like An Hourglass

Razorflower

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

method: Kirk of Kirk's Trax has created an amazing soundscape, retaining all copyright: https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716
narration: another poem more neurodiverse people might understand more easily than those less neurodiverse
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

the skies have lifted
clouds from the sea
just some freightened blue
reflects from below

you know how to toil
to be with the crowd,
in the crowd, toil
to be of the crowd

all veil, you agree
to be veil, all veil
(this is what it's like)
to be cloud

does anymore dare to remain
unfurled (by the sea) unfurled
(in the rain) three times
unfurled (in the flock)

these tired skies, exhausted
(too exhausted to believe
in sight) being seen
as of today

As Of Today - with Kirk's Trax

Visit Jo's SoundCloud page for more of his mind-blowing poetry.
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures

The female voice you hear in the hooks is Solaria by Synthesizer V.
https://dreamtonics.com/synthesizerv/

Lyrics?  You'll have to ask Jo for a copy.
Meaning?  You'll *REALLY* need to contact Jo for that!  Or make up your own... :)

KooJaa - Poetry and Recital by Jo Richter

No More

Jar Of Jarre 5

GxP - guitar / BxS - accordion / Gnz - drums - 2024

ANTIJAZZ ACCOUSTIC

De temps à autre, un animal

thatstorminside

May (f1)

shanyio- guzheng,electronics, fx

recorded in 2025, Timișoara, RO

moon shadow

never open a box, if you don't know, what is inside

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)