白昼夢

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Logic.
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 4th Fret) 
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
Lyrics:
The blind man lay down his walking cane
And rested by a stream
He thought he heard a minstrel sing
Or was it just a dream
A voice so calm and gentle
Full of love and full of grace
The air so sweet as if there was
Some magic in this place

The blind man sat contentedly
To hear the minstrel play
His words painted a picture
Of the dawning of the day
The rising of the morning sun
The light now giving shade
Such things he saw, such images
How could they ever fade

The minstrel played his song
And let the blind man be
At peace with at all the wonders
That his minds eye could now see
The oceans and the mountains
An eagle flying high
The colours of a rainbow 
Across the evening sky

He gathered up his walking cane
And softly bid farewell
My thanks to you kind minstrel
For the stories that you tell
Out there now ahead of him
A new path somehow lay 
As the minstrel’s voice began again
To sing and light his way

If all the stars could tell their tale 
What stories there would be
Of all that makes this universe 
Including you and me
What lies unseen beneath,
Beyond beginning with no end
For all we think we know 
What do we really “know” my friend

The Blind Man

When Charlotte sent me her rough idea for a song , it's working title was ' Sad Song ' , and it was going to be a ballad , as time went on it developed into a sort of dance track , we're so pleased with how this has turned out , hope you like it ! We've nearly finished a great Rock ballad , so excited about it . In the meantime I've nearly finished a super song with Lyricist Andrea Brennan from New York , we have our 1st song out on the 1st of May . Just before that on the 22nd of this month is a smashing Country Rock song I did with Alabama Lyricist Tony Harris , thank you for staying tuned !

No Album

Giving Up

Giving Up ( Charlie and the Fox )

method: crave, voice, vt 4, reface dx, voice, r20, samplitude ... it's more or less in b locrian, I guess ... a fitting mode.
Narration: the original title is ‘70s synthesizer‘ in the cycle SONIC CASCADES (as published in A SINGLE LOOP OF FORTUNES). imagine a family in Western Germany. it‘s the 1970s and  conforming to strict norms is the latest rage wherever the youth invasion (o for the horrors of the 'gammler'!!!!) had to be fought off. I spent the decade (and more) going to school and trying to cope with fellow human beings …. and there still was this all encompassing being …..  the best mode of survival (at that age, at any age) was identification ….. 
Image: copyright jo richter. it all started out with a portrait of my vt4 ;-) we're all robots anyways, aren't we? (still, no AI involved, - i'm just gimping my way to jerusalem!)

poem / copyright jo richter:

she steps in 
from the balcony
steps in to soothe
the tan on her skin

OH, WHAT A FIRE
MIGHT BE LIT
TO SMOKE OUT, TO BURN OUT
THIS SCENT IN HER HAIR

so many days
in her infancy
days she was told
to stop fidgeting

OH, WHAT A NOISE 
MIGHT BE MADE
TO FORCE OUT, TO DRIVE OUT
THE WEEDS, THE WEEDS

she spells out the spells
on her rosary
spices and herbs
flown in from the south

OH, WHAT A TIME
MIGHT BE HAD
JUST FIND OUT, JUST TURN IN
THE PLACE TO BE

so many veils
of dependency
too many veils
untangling within

OH, WHAT A SELF
MIGHT BE CUT
FROM STENCILS, FROM SHAPES
THAT WITHER WITHOUT

she sits down
in the living room
this is the room
where she lives

memory effect variation

'darlin''

Scratch Kelly: beats and backing vocals
Scotty: lyrics, vocals, guitars, art

Darlin'. You did leave me.
You set me free
from the chains you placed upon me.
And now I'm better off without ya.
Darlin'. I tried to plead.
Got down on my knees.
Still, you made my poor heart bleed
with your projections placed upon me. 

Oh, darlin'. I gave you everything
that you could need.
Yet in actuality
nothin' from me you were wantin'.
Now, darlin', I see through your screen
after smokin' the green
and it makes me believe 
that I'm better off now without ya.

darlin' (with Scratch Kelly)

In Session 140 BPM

I very much liked this version of Cyrano with wonderfull music such as this one! I could not help it making an arrangement of it.
But it's a question if it's works for you without text and voice......

Where ever I fall (from Cyrano, arr/perf. Ad van Nederpelt)

Dodecaphonic Tits Dancing In A Irregular Phone

GRIMEY STRING

01 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Cello Cloud
02 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Slow Motion Fall
03 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Nightmarez
04 - SA - EWC - Tutti - All In One - Dynamic Swell EH
05 - SA - WE - Episodic Bursts
06 - SA - Fragile String Evolutions - Tone Flickers

Forgotten Fields

The Edge of Your Mind (Instrumental)

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

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)

memory effect variation

sonic structures and silent stretches