i think i will pull up a lawn chair and stay here:)

Hey Jo man, love how your voice rides this languid, dreamy tune. Very melty feeling. Love it, my friend!

mixing with mid afternoon sun, wonderful experience

Beautiful sound design‼️ Nice production‼️

Daily Drops

Beyond Tomorrow

70_ Waiting in Berlin-Tegel at Night - released on 16 November 2024 only on Soundcloud

Late at night, I had missed my train home and was waiting for the next one. I was listening to music from the album "Colors" by Christopher von Deylen aka Schiller and was inspired. This is what came out of it! #minimal #nodrums #ambient  #liverecording

(produced with BlocsWave & LaunchPad)

Waiting in Berlin-Tegel at Night

Rush hour

Exneuvermbrute.

travel diary 4 part

Recorded and produced 
by greyshoes#music-berlin 

pre-production 07/2024 
final-production 02/2025

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Artwork by P. Werzlau 
using the photo:  Landscape, Uckermark, (detail) 
2017

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© All rights reserved

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Between Landscapes #1

Art can sometimes be radical and have a strong impact on people. Hardcore is the attitude of sticking to self-expression without pandering. I don't care if my songs are art or not. Oh, the English word "hardcore" also means that "art can go beyond a hobby or a job and become life itself. That stoicism and passion" is what makes it hardcore. I would like to emulate this meaning.

№318 Art is hardcore (318)

Lana being honest about how she is in a morning

No Good In a Morning

method: recording, then overdubbing. eventually; a friend I asked encouraged me to just dish it out ;-) I like that dirty, berliny backdrop of the sound, although it comes from quite a different reach of this country and from a moment in time that has very nearly  been forotten  
narration: the poem says it all, does it not?
the title:  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compleo#Latin
image: apart from the cropping and the writing, this photograph is a hundred percent unaltered, as is. Copyright jo richter 


poem / copyright jo tichter:

lured into life 
by orpheus' silence
he has been dreaming in verse
just to survive

is there a word to express
both the presence and absence
of beauty, he wonders

observing his fingers
cradle the table's edge
he holds his breath
for just a moment too short

complerit

Surfers like Us ….. composition and all guitar parts

Hi Everyone!
The surf season 2025 is open! 😎
This is a special extended version of my older surf song.
I hope you enjoy the vibe!
Thanks for listening and any support!
Surf’s Up!
Artur

Surf Season is open

       This was written in collaboration with Katarina Jovchevska last year. Kate Jo wrote and performed the music and I wrote the lyrics, added some guitars, sang, and produced the video. I thought Kate Jo did an awesome job with the music and I tried my best to sing it, not very well I'm afraid. The story is about a whale calling for her mate across the vast ocean but then she turns out to be a mermaid instead. A diver is lured to join her in the ocean by her calls & whispers. The story really goes nowhere but I wanted to write something about whales & mermaids. I had tremendous fun recording it and it was great putting the video together as well! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/tjmetS-_yOw

This song was our second collaboration, we also wrote "Sunny Miami Day" which was a blast as well! Check out Kate Jo's songs they are awesome, she's here on SoundCloud! (https://soundcloud.com/katarina-jovchevska-1) Thanks for watching and I hope everyone enjoys this Sea Shanty but beware of Mermaids, they literally take your breath away! Cheers!🙏

“WHISPERS”

A SOFT VOICE LOST AMONG THE OCEAN TIDES,
I CAN HEAR HER CALLING ME,
FROM A DISTANCE OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES,
I STILL HEAR HER CALLING ME,             

WHISPERS, A SOMBER REVERIE,
WHISPERS, A HAUNTING MELODY,
WHISPERS, I HEAR HER IN MY SLEEP,
WHISPERS, INVITATIONS FROM THE DEEP,
WHISPERS, MURMURS EBBING FROM THE SEA.         
WHISPERS, RUSHING OUT TO ME,

FIND ME, FIND ME, FIND ME, 

A SIREN LURING ME ACROSS THE WAVES,
A BEACON GUIDING ME, 
MY INHIBITIONS HAVE ALL BEEN SWEPT AWAY,
BY THIS SEABORNE MYSTERY,         
WHISPERS FROM THE SEA,
WHISPERS FROM THE SEA,
WHISPERS FROM THE SEA.
          
BY JIM VALDES & KATARINA JOVCHEVSKA © 2024

"WHISPERS" (Video - https://youtu.be/tjmetS-_yOw)

method: as described in the title; grit in e flat major, JS Bach's spiritual scale
narration: a moment of presence
image: one of the pedals played, copyright jo richter

haiku / copyright jo richter:

allein die trägheit
des lichts verleiht ihr gewicht
und hält sie im jetzt

interlinear translation: LIMINALIA - a haiku recital, accompanied by electrified guitar // just the momentum / of light endows her with weight / a solid present

ein haiku, vorgetragen zur elektrifizierten gitarre

Liminalia - ein Haiku, vorgetragen zur elektrifizierten Gitarre

"The Quilcom Trout synthesiser is a tribute to the Trautonium in its many incarnations and versions", Quote Rex Baxterfield, who created this free vst. The Trautonium is the first Synth from 1930, well known from A. Hitchcock's The Birds. Well, I used Trout 5 times in this track + drum and bass vst + flute ! ....  Famous are compositions for Trautonium from Paul Hindemith, German Composer, who accompanied the development of the Trautonium as a university teacher and was a kind of "Bürgerschreck" (musical bogey) at that time, because of his "modernity" ... :-)

Eclectic // 5 x Trout

method:  this is a version of this extremely evasive poem in simple, intertwined loops; sc mastred auora 67 per cent
narration: this is one of the sequential, reflexive poems in my DIE ODRADEK VARIATIONEN collection, in the section titled DAS BUCH DER ZUMUTUNGEN – I might add the lyrics or even an interlinear translation when time permits
image: copyright jo richter

zuflucht

method: I only wanted to test run a compression pedal .... balabolka helped out with a voice ....  this is not about beauty, you know
narration: later on, epimetheus and pandora will prove that recreating reality (looking back) can actually save the day
image; my photograph, taken at the Greek National Museum, 2012

poem / copyright jo richter:

shards of broken mars
strewn on a tummy hum drum
saluting solar flares
where are you, my dear dear, from

winter shadows rang too harsh
to grief for saturn’s bloom
are you the one who dares
(or, better still, who cares)
there is no other song

woo pandora

woo pandora - the epimetheus conundrum

Produced by me.
Impending doom, dread, I fear something's very wrong.
@sweetgraves

IMPENDING DOOM

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos

I am overjoyed to partake in something beautiful:
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out

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)

complerit

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