Late to the party with this IPG1 open collab, but as a revenge there's a quintuple shuffle rhythm lurking around the corner. Thanks Ian, that was fun!

https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/taking-it-back-vocals-95-bpm

Taking It Back ft. Ian Greaves aka IPG1

AN UNINHABITED METROPOLIS ... A POLICE SCANDAL ... TWO PEOPLE WHO SEARCH WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE ... THE TENSION, THE FEAR SCANDED BY THE PASSING OF THE INEXORABLE TIME THAT WILL END THIS INTRIGUE.

TIME MACHINE

The Great Escape

Unbreakable

Cast of characters:
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and composition
Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez– guitars, bass, production and composition
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell -- organ and synth
Thanks to Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary) for the original inspiration

Ken sent Tez the drums for the track High Noon (with Entheogenic Psychonaut and TexMex Shaman) with the aim of building up a new track - a worthy challenge :))))
Tez did a touch of remixing of the drum track and added the guitars and bass before inviting J.J. to add the finishing touches with his keys adding a new sonic dimension.

Bad Noon Rising - when you wake up at noon you know something interesting has gone on the night before but if the sun rises at noon you know you're in serious trouble (or in the Arctic circle)
Hope you enjoy :)

Listen to High Noon here

High Noon - with Entheogenic Psychonaut (Josh Clary), K2 and the Three, and TexMex Shaman by Llanpsych
https://soundcloud.com/llanpsych/high-noon-with-entheogenic-psychonaut-josh-clary-k2-and-the-three-and-texmex-shaman?si=9ca78f1359414e75b5a1f6842c0521c8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Bad Noon Rising (Eclectic Collective)

This track was made on an ipad with the korg gadget 3 app in a night.
I could do some remixing but the point is to rather create a new track instead :)

FASTER FORWARD

Faster Forward

L-Cherry Blossom Buds

Cast of Characters:
The Mysterious Decibel-- @themysteriousdecibel –MD-- vocals and lyrics in the choruses
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– guitar, production, and mix
J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –piano 
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and vocalized tones at the end, verse lyrics and melody, composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –-four string fretless bass, vocals on the verses

This is a song that originated with Ken several months ago. He wrote the whole thing on piano, guitar, and drums and presented it to the rest of the band. Of course, everyone was very excited to add their spin to it. Josh added his bass part first, as the foundation. Then JJ added his dynamic piano part, which ended up being both foundational and stylistic. Stephen added his solid foundational guitar to it, too, soon after. Then it sat, stalled out for need of some vocals. Of course, we asked TMD to add some, which he did in grand fashion. All that was left were the verses. Ken wrote lyrics, and gave Josh an idea for the melody, so he sang the verses to wrap it up. Of course, we asked Stephen to produce and mix it for us, which he did so well, as always.

  We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed making it.

Homeboy (The Eclectic Collective)

method: sound sources (field recording, flute and jazz drums vst, voice) and recording and morphing devices (zoom H2, behringer swing, samplitude)
narration: the cycle ON PRINTING deals with projection, representation and the like. it consists of six poems: rubble - horse - relic - spawn - banner- offset. this poem sonified is horse and horse alone.
image: copyright jo richter
Poem (as published in
A Single Loop of Fortunes) /
copyright jo richter:


their fingers touched the stone
and they felt the horse within:
this is horse-stone, their fingertips agreed

their eyes touched the clay
and they felt the horse within:
this is horse-clay, their views agreed

their fingers melted stone and clay
following the shapes without:
this is a horse-place, their minds agreed

you feel them rear and neigh
when you approach through the dark:
this is a horse-place, the cavern agreed

modern man wonders, awed
by the image where never a horse did roam:
is this art or an ancient act of ancient creed?

horse

horse - on printing 2/6

as featured on:

Radio Eclectus #74: Haroun & the Sea of Grunge (Dec. 10, 2020)

Join us as we clear out some Seattle avant-grunge, with buzzing new tracks by several Northwest musicians. We also bid farewell to Noah Creshevsky and Harold Budd, and honor the late Charles Wuorinen with highlights from a recording of his opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a surprisingly jocular setting of Salman Rushdie’s novel by this notoriously serious-minded composer.

There’s more: the debut recording of Body Meπa (a new power quartet featuring Melvin Gibbs), the latest albums from British live-electronic band Langham Research Centre and “lowercase music” inventor Steve Roden, a new project from Marina Rosenfeld that’s a hybrid of composed music and sound installation, Wergo’s new CD dedicated to Younghi Pagh-Paan’s cross-cultural music on her 75th birthday, and a remarkable and prophetic early example of English minimalism that’s just been rescued from 47 years of oblivion. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond, guaranteed carol-free for the Holidays!

Photo credits: Harold Shapero via Brandeis University, Noah Creshevsky by Michael Hafftka via Open Space, Younghi Pagh-Paan via Ricordi, Langham Research Centre via the artists, Charles Wuorinen By Javier Del Real, Dorota Czerner via the artist, Salman Rushdie by Kubik, Melvin Gibbs by Michael Hoefner, Harold Budd by Masao Nakagami, Thomas Simaku via University of York, Yarn/Wire via the artists, installation by St Celfer, Marco Stroppa via the artist.

Suite #3- Dirge 1

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

.... 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)

horse - on printing 2/6

sonic structures and silent stretches