An ode to the Yuletide Season! ☃️🎄

Glittering Snow Under Moonlit Skies

Daffodildo

BS, one day I'll finish something of my own LOL

Promise Me (Unfinished)

Number 9

Lyrics : R. Higgins 
Vocals : R. Ives @rick-ives-668407855
Instrumental track : Mahan Mahan

Music arranged & recorded @ Pahlavi Sound Studios in Los Angeles by Mahan Mahan.
Rick Ives vocals recorded @ Dive Bar Superstars Hideout in Sylmar by Mahan Mahan.

Original version : https://soundcloud.com/rick-ives-668407855/big-pharma-number-9

In the shadow of the valley on a dark dusty trail
Ahead is a desert with the past on his tail
A psilocybin sinner with a gleam in his eye
Past his prime still alive feeling like it's time to die

Oh help him lord please one more time 
This cat's had 8 lives and I'm on number 9

Number 9 - BIG PHARMA (Mahan Mahan Production)

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This track can be downloaded and altered.
Jeff (stonerjazz) - who brought about the idea of opening up this cycle of creation, deconstruction, reconstruction for  'any adventurous soul' - has created a terrific version himself: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679/song-0049wav/s-xPwc6uwYFVM
Would you like to do the same?
The only obligation is to keep the copyright to the lyrics.

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Method: The basis is laid by feeding a subharmonicon into a c9 pedal - and field recordings made at Lake Constance.
Narration: A moment of understanding is explored in a time lapse.
Reference for the title: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concatenandus , hence https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concateno#Latin
Reference for key concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein and of course the deep understanding of interconnected relationships developed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson and others. Sartre is said to have turned to phenomenology because it allowed him to sit with a glass of wine, drink and ponder on it simultaneously. A passing reference is also paid to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_as_Will_and_Representation

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Lyrics / copyright jo richter:
concatenandus - (on the meaning of wind generators in fashion photography)

she kept wondering about all those photographs
that show flowing hair and wide, wind-swept robes
until she understood: those ropes connect halves
of a self that's caught and its dasein-based scopes

what is my real size if it's not epidermical skin?
the reach of my voice? my status, hierarchical clout?
my environmental footprints, global, within?
my life's agenda? some will being lived out?

what is my true reach into psyche, space, time?
which pasts do shape my tribulations and loves?
she thought of herself as a poor poet's rhyme,
as a reflection of life in a stock photograph.

a stranger wave of understanding hit her
when she unfolded into the moment -
she was not singled out, her whole world was with her
she was connected in a well-worn arrangement

of events manifest: she yelled out with joy:
birds nest in my hair, my feet walk the ground
this self tried to bind me, this gravitational ploy
but beyond all that hassle, spins a world that is round

Open for collaboration: Concatenandus - on the meaning of wind generators in fashion photography

improvisational xuckery

Take My Hand Precious Lord, Debbie Pipkin & Gene Jumper, Debbie Is My Baby Sister.

Take My Hand Precious Lord, Debbie Pipkin & Gene Jumper, Debbie Is My Baby Sister

Gotta Feel

DAM nasty boogie / fun with slide and horns

Yeah I'm still on a noise kick, so what...

Open Collab by AXIS PROJECT
https://soundcloud.com/axis_project

Original Track
https://soundcloud.com/axis_project/piano-string-down

AXIS PROJECT - piano string down (Insatiable Void Remix)

About the myth of the self made man.
The cover artwork is a photograph of a sculpture by Bobbie Carlyle I understand

Self Made Man

You did it all alone
you built your own throne
creating employment
in this enterprise zone

always say that you can
You say you're a self made man
You're some know-it-all
But you're just lucky, that's all

You went to the best schools
You're nobody's fool
Your daddies got money
and your prospects are sunny

You can level up little towns
With you're wealth that will trickle down
You say you're a banker
But we think you're a wa........

So you're a self made man
Always say that you can
demonstrate your capability
Relieving God of the responsibility

Self Made Man

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--This gesture is so meaningful, both financially and emotionally-- I prefer to let the music be my bio--a huge thank you to those who listen and to those who give."

.... 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)

Open for collaboration: Concatenandus - on the meaning of wind generators in fashion photography

sonic structures and silent stretches