Unsettling and comfortable--the foreign and Familiar conspire-:)

Saw you walking last week
Down a stale local street
And the colours, they all fade away,
As we step through this dance of dissolving

My friend is beginning to melt
All her edges beginning to fade
All the lines on her face become cages
Tied up with all the nooses she has laid

I called out, but she can’t hear through the changes
All the ways that she has chosen now to be
Pulled aside the warp and weft, a little bit bereft
Like a fleeting streetlight trembling out to sea

Saw you walking last week
Down a stale local street
And the colours, they all fade away,
As we step through this dance of dissolving 

A tangle of matchsticks combs her hair
Just a woman who is never really there,
In a melting dream of someone, watch the edges drift apart
All out to sea…


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Written sung made and played by Emma

All out to sea...

Photo taken and edited by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Nobody-Else-Was-Willing-To-984867197

Stressful Stillness

C'est une vieille piste que je partage à nouveau, réflexion sur une peur de la mort, fondée sur une perception erronée de l'altérité.
Pas vraiment fier du résultat, mais je le partage malgré tout.
Il faut avancer malgré les blessures du passé.

Terrible solipsisme (2008)

mrs timbertoe captioned a photo of ray harryhausen with a clash of the titans prop -say what you see

Here's Me With The Decapitated Medusa Head

method: bass guitar and y8 (via pog III), voice (via vt4), all three via r12, vst handbells and chimes (via samplitude) - I've kept the clipping noises without creating them intentionally: such a warm vinyl sensation emerges
narration: I've never held back with my admiration for some compositions of the combos assembling around  miles davis, herbie hancock, ron carter, joe zawinul and others who have brewed what witches and bitches concoct, in a silent way ... as simple as intricate. although their tonal, instrumental and atmospheric skills are way beyond mine - I can still have a good time trying to evoke a similar atmosphere, however comically I may fail .... the poem itself is one of those linguistic life-savers in the the more turbulent waters of existence, I hope ..... 
image: an elevator shaft in the house I live in, copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

breathe, she insisted
for the dark won't do
to bear witness

listen, she hissed
for light has no clue
what caresses

allow to go slow
she smiled passing you
who hastens will miss

in a slow way

Plinery aftizi_02

easy slow chill

Science Inspired Electronic Music for your pleasure

Ex Nihilo

Before you judge me...I ain't a psychopath(lol)
This tune was a project for my composition class, where we were asked to write something really dark and scary and annoying maybe? Yea, so here it is :)
STOP VIOLENCE
Dark ages, war, murders, hunger, 
earthquakes, climate change...
Where will all these lead to?
How will the world look like in the future? 
How would the end of the world sound like?
Remains of a world that sometime was beautiful.

REMAINS

Composed
January 6  2021 ,  main synth: Moog sub 37

Photo: H.Skeneby
Kungälv - Fontin forest 4/1 2025
Picture has nothing to do with the music

Riot

Time Lapse

Time Lapse 1

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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