Such a pleasure Jo--wonderful work you've done here--!!

amazing work my friends - love the poem and the music is interdimensional. You are both pure poets to me, so I am sorry about dinner haha.  most excellent art !!

I especially love the words and ideas on this one, particularly the final section. And wow, the soundscape is just incredible and otherworldly. At times it reminds me of early Pink Floyd at their most spaced out and conceptual haha. Giving the words room to breath between all of the extended interludes really adds to their weight and power. Fantastic work guys!

Great stereo production, some really nice touches with how things are panned.

Such a far out sound! I've entered into the unfamiliar territory...Where have all the people gone to? Take me back now, please...won't someone take me back home!

Wow Jeff! Love this piece mega! Incredible sonic world! Love Jo's narration style! Precision works!

Very evocative work gentlemen, in dark and disorienting colors.

@user-936947521 We both thank you very much for your kind words, Frans!

Love this poetry with wonderful musical frame

Shock the Algorithm

crafted pillars
of those alabaster flutes
that glow by candlelight
the flowers they hold
night scented stock
a megalith of stillness and perfection
on this summer night

and they remind me 
of the gentle shores
of coral seas
how you enrobed me
with the warm silk of your love

Those borrowed robes enfold me now
They pull me back...they pull me in
you are my love
until the stars end their fire
and the oceans run dry
and time forgets it was, no longer is, and never shall
be again

The crafted pillars
of these alabaster flutes
that glow by candlelight
the flowers they hold
night scented stock
a megalith of stillness and perfection

remind me
of the gentle shores of coral seas
how you enrobed me
with the warm silk of your love
those borrowed robes
enfold me now
they pull me back
they fold me in
you are my love
until the stars end their fire
until the oceans end their seas
and time forgets it was, no longer is, and never shall be again

Alabaster flutes

Ghost and Ashes

Jeg savner dig

Music and Painting by Paulina Gomis
Human architecture. The portrait of your sacred geometric being. Being is perfect in its human essence. this portrait is of my granddaughter Jaad.

PROD. BY P.G FOR JAAD

Because sometimes you feel like life is stringing you along… and so your only choice is to give in and dance….

Marionette

I had a debate over uploading this,
I said, "I can always work on it again later."
But I will say it was really good practice.
Kinda feels like I'm becoming an impatient waiter;
You should all keep calm and focus,
There is no need to become stuck in an emotional wager.
Hope you enjoy this,
Catch you all later.

Can You Feel My Heart [C.y. Remix]

“Maria”

Art work: AliceKeyStudio via Pixabay

いつか
とおい
むかし
ふたり
しまい
うたう
まりあ

“Decades ago, as a child, I learnt this song “Ave Maria” by listening to my two older sisters sing it.”　An old aunt told me this.

Maria

Melt

My friends and I pondered the importance of water, for humans and our planet. It has resulted in a series of trilogies, which we plan to present to you during the winter.
"The Water Planet Project" This is part 1.
For the best experience, see the visualization of our story, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/user/wcifarout.

First song - Snowdrop by Peter & Seagull
Second song - Meanders by Dan-DT
Third song - Drip by Drip by Seagull, David, Ed & Peter

All narrations, lyrics & vocals by Peter
Contributing vocalist. Clara Sorace

Here you will find the fantastic musicians I share this adventure with.
From France - Dan-DT: https://soundcloud.com/dan-t-3
From Canada - Ed Cunningham: https://soundcloud.com/westtracksmusic
From USA - David Dunham: https://soundcloud.com/david-dunhamuser589535203
From England - Peter: https://soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
From England_ Thommo @thommo_tunes

As Soundcloud for some reason does not allow more than 4000 characters, you will find the lyrics to the songs on my YouTube channel.
We wish you a pleasant musical and visual journey. ;)

The Water Planet Project - Part 1 - Watch it on youtube

all instruments: stonerjazz https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679
remix and narration: sonic structures and silent stretches
image: the same collab
info: there are more versions of this canto to emerge from other collab partners. LOOKING FORWARD!

narration: the thirteen canto poem finds its way into sound, a slice at a time

poem / copyright jo richter

How long he stayed, he could not tell.
He worked ferociously, sounding all
existence that had touched upon him into
being: the smell of meadows, the curl of
ripples, the calm that centers in a storm;
the timbre of voices, the straight lines of buildings,
the aloofness of announcers on the radio.
His desk was cluttered, his mind strove clear.


When he did not write, he‘d read up on
the origins of his ancient art: Vergil and Dante,
Marlow and Shakespeare, Homer and Joyce,
Ovidus, Cervantes, Rabelais and Wieland.
He felt the linguistic seeds, blown from foreign
stems, grow filaments deep in his native soil, he
saw them ripen, flower profusely, yielding
their beauty to ever-changing mentalities.


And as his insight widened and he gained
perspective, the rows of encyclopedias
and dictionaries that lined his shelves
slimmed down, as he gave up consulting
English for French and German, these for
Latin and Greek, those for Persian and Sanskrit,
until he only referred to Indo-European roots.
His desk turned clear, his mind became uncluttered.


Eventually, he also slept and dreamt
whenever the veil sank upon him.
Guarded by the spire‘s safe walls, he would
awaken slowly, remembering outlandish
lore, scribbling notes and poems of bizarre
truthfulness and penning recollections of his
archetypal ties. Some of his realistic verse de-
rived from fragments of prolonged poetic trance.


 His muse meanwhile taught him to cook, the
art of mixing individual ingredients to bring about
a taste all of its own that nourishes both mind and
physicality. The painters tend to fixate on surface
and colour, she said, the musicians on timing
the process, whereas the poets never get anything
done, enchanted by words like ‚ginger‘ or ‚yeast‘.
All of their dishes taste awful.

Departure Canto IV with Stonerjazz

Taken from the upcoming untitled yet debut album (TBR mid-2024)
(c) & (p) 2023, all rights reserved.
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/zx-OJMRaDuk?si=amkWhS-vgAJeabr6
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Explicit lyrics:
I think i had too much last night
i got shitfaced but nothing learned

Another lesson for trying to avoid reality
another trip into the dark insanity

The devil is a bottle and it's rotten to the core
Bring the fckn bottle, until i reach the "shore"
Listen UP everyone i got news for you
Bring this fckn bottle, and no one's gonna, no one's gonna, no one's gonna get harmed!

i think this headache don't wanna leave me
i got shitfaced but nothing learned

Rock and Roll Kills

The Devil is a Bottle

Dollar Store Batman: Vocals 
Zpeters: Music
James Toburen: Mixing

Duchess

Duchess (w/ Hollywood Worm & Zpeters) (Scott Walker cover)

Dracula's Castle

Mood Exhibit - Pleuvisaud Melancholia

https://soundcloud.com/event49 - backtrack /// joerxworx - EWI solo (Akai EWI USB with Vital (synth)
photo: Combined X-Ray and Optical Images of the Crab Nebula, Nasa* via pixabay
*Credits for X-ray Image: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.;
*Credits for Optical Image: NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.
Original source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/24/1248-Image.html

Pulsar by Event 49 / EWI Solo by joerxworx

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

On the 6th of August, please listen to STRANGELOVE'S BRAIN and be aware of kindness.

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)

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