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"and the meandering grace of wavelength dragons.."

Saturday mid-day fusion
Rhythm and lead guitar on my Gibson SG Standard
Bass on my Aria Pro II Wildcat Bassguitar
Drums is artificial from my recorder.

Both Hands

place without waves (r.s.stropharia + chr.ruoff) 13.08.2021

A colaboration with the composer Oghamyst and the songwriter Mary Kils.

Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

Que fais-tu baby?

My last track "Ataraxia" recently published in the 3rd M.A.D. Music Compilation (M.A.D. III) by Music Analysis Discussions Records (Malta) on Bandcamp.

Check it here too, on Bandcamp (please search track 86): 
https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-iii

Thanks to Ryan Muscat and the incredible amazing team and artists from M.A.D. Records 

Ataraxia

Nevertheless Again

Theatre theme for the play Iphigenie auf Tauris by Goethe performed in Straubing in 2008

Iphigenie

Monument

Updated June 7, 2023: Synline has made collaboration work for me.
https://soundcloud.com/synline/the-river?si=d85aada01c7b4a0a9c8e26a590f06cce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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In January this year, we lost the great musician and drummer of YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi. As if following him, last month, Ryuichi Sakamoto also passed away. Having lost two respected musicians, I find myself without emotional support and have been creating music daily, tracing their music and lives. Unconsciously, the songs I create are heavily influenced by their music. This song is one of them. When I listen to the finished piece, I feel it somewhat resembles YMO's "Expecting Rivers." These days, I find "HOPE" in the Milky Way, the heavenly river that spans the sky.

Rivers of Aspiration

method: merging emf recordings (soma ehter) with voice and electronic instruments
narration: are we even noticing in what way we are acting outside our immediate range of perception?
image: self-gimped from my own photo, copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

in other senses
prominent slivers have turned loadstone amber
fluctuating
surf spraying in intensely spiking charges
in alluring, apparently random patterns

listen in closer
to appreciate the peculiar nanopercolations
emenating
from devices attached to humanoid eels
crowded along a crust of diminshed plasticity

the oil-spill beauty
of chromatically shared capacitive fields
signalling
majestic confusion, an irradiating yearning
to shelter within forces of overload frugality

this harshness, too
will yield to the momentum of temporal fugality
giving way
to the meandering grace of wavelength dragons
singing their songs in the old astral tongues

E M F

Inspired by the following haiku written by Darren Bourne:
Caterpillar
Opens her new wings
Metamorphosis
You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual) and Youtube, and check out his website to find out more about his publications and merchandise: https://www.halfunusual.com.
Thanks to Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/23/naviarhaiku503-caterpillar/

My Naviar Haiku

The Painful Opening Of The Wings (naviarhaiku503)

the 2018 was a very difficult year for me ...
understanding after so many years of having come to the end of a relationship was not easy to accept. I tried with all my strength to save something that escaped me like sand in my hands.
at the same time I poured all my interior experience into the creative act, as a source of salvation, into a cathartic act.
suspension between abyss and ecstasy ...
I was feverishly working on the realization of my first album.
project which, moreover, was interrupted due to the breakdown of my mac .. I lost several important information, such as sounds created with the help of different vst plugins .. and I still try to recover data etc .. to continue the project.
even today it is not easy for me to listen to this piece again.
it takes me back in time, and inevitably a few tears still line my face.
however, it is one of the few pieces accompanied by a text written at the time. I find it extraordinary how pain is able to take new shape through art.
here is the text to follow:

Packaged lives.

Packaged lives.


And in all our going
Without an arrival

Enjoy the trip, at least

While pretending to be tired

Packaged lives

With the heart immersed
Inside a well

Packaged lives

Looking for my place
In the world.


A place in time, with you

Packaged lives

And in all our going
Without an arrival

Packaged lives

Enjoy the trip, at least

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Many thanks to Freesound.org  and the following user: 
TobiasLudwig - For the sample: heartbeat (on freesound.org)
Timbre - For the sample: Yet more static from another old cheap portable analogue television.flac (on freesound.org)
Rucisko - For the sample: traffic (on freesound.org)
for their great sound capture.

Packaged Lives

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. After all, sound is one way my poems know to materialize - insolently shapeshifting, indelibly greening into the cultural real.

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 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)

E M F

sonic structures and silent stretches

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