Selective Memories and Whatnot

extended noise mixtures

madness.

the darkness

music for losers.

songs that tell an abstract story out of noise

sonic storytelling

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 449

infinitely open ... except for the beat, no beat, or not enough to call it a beat, or too many of them either in succession or concurrent.

creation: 2024/05/24

These tracks were uploaded to SC in April and May 2024,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

hk_fantaisies_tracks_449

mind virus inversion

2025

Piano solo improvisation on my own heartbeat recording.

Cardio (Mon cœur mis à nu)

https://youtu.be/dM5HKC14ZgY
Actually, though, this poem inspired me to write the song. It is by Susan Nottingham from Montana, U.S.
https://soundcloud.com/encourage-2 

Her friendly nature is priceless. She kindly gave me permission to use her poem. Now read and enjoy....

Gift of the Notes:
Tendrils of memories
that tease from days gone by.
Whispers of notes so sweet
that bring a tear to the eye.
Who will make these sounds
that bring such joy to the soul?
Well I , said the heart,
I'll play the biggest role.
For the breath taken away
by the moments profound,
the grass and the granite
where the footsteps tread ground.
Things just imagined
and things that were real
were all mixed together
to become what we feel
It's the sum
of all that we've lived,
put together in the notes,
It's the gift that you give.

A poem by Susan Nottingham

(German translation):

Das Geschenk der Noten:
Ranken von Erinnerungen
die aus vergangenen Tagen locken.
Geflüster von so süßen Noten
die einem die Tränen in die Augen treiben.
Wer wird diese Klänge machen
die so viel Freude in die Seele bringen?
Nun, ich, sagte das Herz,
Ich werde die größte Rolle spielen.
Für den Atem, der weggenommen wird
durch die tiefgründigen Momente,
das Gras und der Granit
wo die Fußstapfen den Boden betreten.
Dinge, die man sich nur einbildet
und Dinge, die real waren
wurden alle miteinander vermischt
um das zu werden, was wir fühlen
Es ist die Summe
von allem, was wir gelebt haben,
zusammengefügt in den Notizen,
Es ist das Geschenk, das du gibst.

Ein Gedicht von Susan Nottingham

🎞️ Video

Tendrils Of Memories

Verlorene Seelen

Female Vocals done by my girlfriend
All Music, lyrics and production done by this guy.

Tell me again just what you mean
When you're being so fucking mean
Tell me again it's warranted
You're full of shit I didn't do anything
Come on now yell again
Show me how your such a Man
Treat me like a piece of shit 
Watch it crumble the end of it

All of it gone 
Leaving you frowning alone
Why must you break up our home
Break up our home

Why did you have to break up our home 
Why
Why did you have to break up our home
Why

Tell me again how I'm the worst
Yelling in vain screaming in curse
Tell me again how you're so perfect
With a halo on your head 
Your wings are burnt
You don't see it  
You don't have a clue
I'm not the problem
The problem is you
We used to have magic
We fell under the spell
The fairytales over
Welcome to Hell

All of it gone 
Leaving you frowning alone
Why must you break up our home
Break up our home

Why did you have to break up our home 
Why
Why did you have to break up our home
Why

www.archive.org/details/IP-014
https://innerspaceprod.bandcamp.com/
@innerspaceprod 

Dust
Station 3
Static Dance
CW
Valentine
Suburban Light
3. Exit

‘Dust’ contains a drum sample from ‘Instrumental No. 2’ by My Bloody Valentine

IP-014 | vv. – AM Sound (INNERSPACE Prod.)

Suspect

Fleeting memories

From a short segment of Scheherazade recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1928: https://archive.org/details/78_the-sea-and-the-vessel-of-sinbad-2nd-record_philadelphia-symphony-orchestra-rimsk_gbia7005112  

Combined with a few seconds of a gate squeak: https://freesound.org/people/The-Sacha-Rush/sounds/398006/

Sound Ensemble For Vinyl And Steel

David Markoff, the creator of the comic book Superhero Memory Man, is about to put his comic book character up on the silver screen ... and he asked me to compose a number for his movie. Most likely this track will end up on the cutting room floor, in its entirety ... as almost reaching success but failing at the last minute has become sorta like my thing. Still I am just grateful that David is even considering me to be the composer of the main theme song to his movie.

Music Maker JAM

Repressed Memories of a Future Life (Soundtrack to David Markoff's upcoming film "Memory Man")

Abysses

This track is part of Athenian Truckstop Issue #4 Songs for Dreaming release, found here:
https://atheniantruckstop.bandcamp.com/album/issue-4-songs-for-dreaming

The theme was dreams

https://soundcloud.com/douglasmseidel: banjo, bass, beans, drum, cowbell, gong, organ, other stuff, penta guitar, toy piano, water jug 

todd: drumset, crow call, percussion, semi-modular, voices, whistling, words



it started with a plastic 24oz jar 
half filled with foamy yellow liquid 
and some very sticky residue at the top

tom of tom and jerry
fame
had one broken ear
he was sitting on the ledge 
of the garage window

I can’t remember what I was doing

but I know I was wearing a 
poultry keel necklace
that laid so elegantly 
over my clavicles

every thought 
every measure 
gets bigger and faster 
and further from the next

plumb shucks said to thumb plucks 
untuck that loose end of the dumpling lover
and wrap some warm rising dough around your head
dumb luck kept ducking under the fun chunks 
until he realized he was bouncing on a shingle instead
he said that’s some kinda skipping slip of the bliss bud

chimichuck said to raisin brains

wrench mouth woman has a heart in her throat
with the wave of her stick arms she weaves me a coat 
the birds that are flying carry sticks to her breast
crescent wrench moon lucky charms and the rest

sticky residue

Memory Cloud

Todd Tuttle (https://soundcloud.com/user-849753517-658869299)
bass, drums, percussion, semi modular, voices, words

Doug: bass, guitars, organs, saw blades, other stuff

words:

I froze at the podium
blinky blinky in my turtle shell
i got the hot wax anemia short circuit
i almost fell
she asked me how can you live without sunlight
we turned our heads and we agreed
you tell me now the weeds we pulled out were stuck in tight
i said the recent rains made them easy to pull
she pulled up in a quick way and rolled down her window
I dropped the flowered bag in there and then she was gone
there is a scrungie on that fish
there is a scrubber on that fish
you are delightful as a wish and I’m glad you’re gone
she asks how can you live without sunlight
we turned our heads and we agreed
frozen at the podium
blinky blinky in my turtle shell

recent rains

DEBUT SINGLE FROM ANEURYST. FULL EP "VS. YOU" DROPS ON DECEMBER 29TH. FOLLOW ON BANDCAMP AND INSTAGRAM FOR UPDATES.

FREE DOWNLOAD: https://aneuryst.bandcamp.com/track/here-we-were-when-we-were-there-then

(Here We Were) When We Were There Then

From jazz to dog

#	Artist	Track Title
1	Plastikman - Plasticine (Remastered)
2	I-Robots feat Donna McGhee - Dirty Talk
3	ANTWON FAULKNER	- Freak Nasty 
4	Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
5	TB - Closer
6	Silicon Scally - Revelations
7	Extrawelt - Neongrau
8	Max Cooper - Swapped
9	MLLE CARO/FRANCK GARCIA	- Dead Souls (Radio Slave Long Distance Kiss mix)
10	Paris The Black FU - Dark n Lovely (Kenny Larkin Remix)
11	Jace Syntax - Acid Earworm 
12	jAcid - Secret
13	Jay Strata - A Drop of Acid.
14	Martin Eyerer & Ruede Hagelstein - Hey Hey (Afftkt remix)
15	JIMPSTER - Alsace & Lorraine (Josh Wink interpretation #2)
16	Jace Syntax - Chicago Acid
17	Lucca Leeloo - Say Goodbye feat. Pierre Pascual (Phunkadelica Remix)
18	Fred Giannelli - 1st Premonition (DBX Remix)
19	SERi - Acid Room 2
20	Distant Echoes	- Apocyna
21	Max Cooper - Repetition ft. James Yorkston (Josh Wink Interpretation)
22	Stereofunk - Genau So! (original mix)
23	DJ Naughty presents Silver & Gold - Rojo Caliente
24	Unknown Artist - I Lost My Shoes On Acid
25	Kevin Saunderson, Kweku Saunderson - Roll On (Original Mix)
26	Lex Acida - Genesi (Oriental Version)
27	Legowelt - Institute of the Overmind (Photonz Remix)

08.12.03 TCDS Ep 19 Outer Limits - Acid Disco Mix

Type R Ek9

The Zone

Naryech

Narypul

Φ dɝspɝrat¡ōn k¡ll sw¡tch Φ (relentless mix)

Dozage

Tech Metal

Shaaa

Unidentified Astral Phenomenon

The Clown Prince

Φ fractal bra¡nwavɝ malfunct¡ōn Φ (demo)

Loser Kid

Artist Picture. NASA
Cover Art Editor. Shyntwirl
PROD. Shyntwirl
Ambient Beats Atmosphere
(My fav. Planet)

Shyntwirl - Saturn (PROD. Shyntwirl)

even the moon is sleeping (version 1)

For #Disquiet0634 based on Percy Grainger’s recording of his 1918 composition “Country Gardens” from ca. 1929 (archive.org/details/04-colonial-song)

Photograph by Eugene Binder

Stranger than Grainger (disquiet 0634)

Artist Picture. Shyntwirl
Art Cover Editor. Shyntwirl
Birds Sounds Editor. Shyntwirl
PROD. Shyntwirl
Ambient / Relax / Electronic / Atmosphere 


Shyntwirl - Mother Goddess (PROD. Shyntwirl)

Dream Cult

i grabbed the chance to work with the excellent stems from the great Insatiable Void !!!
Here is the original and the playlist
https://soundcloud.com/insatiable-void/sets/limited-remix-collab-by

Insatiable Void - Ancestry noxpox remix

A X6402 collaboration:

STEPAN
TaNezha x Six Four Zero Two

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THE COLLABORATION
This X6402 Collaboration is with 'TaNezha'  (Tetyana Nizhynska) who is a singer based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The lyrics were written and sung by TaNezHa, a capella, in the style of a traditional Folk song. 'Six Four Zero Two' created the music, responding emotionally to the story and mood: "I wanted the music to soar and weave fluidly around the constant that is the voice".

THE TRACK
‘Stepan’ is a story about the strength of a young girl whose partner goes off to war and is lost for some time. When the people eventually gather to hail the Cossacks triumphant return, he is not with them. The girl is forlorn and returns home where, she finds him waiting in the courtyard. A joyful return to love, peace and their homeland.

CREDITS:
Lyrics and Vocal: Tetyana Nizhynska.
Music, Instrumentation and Production: Six Four Zero Two.
Design: 6402.

LYRICS:
Translation from Ukrainian.

There, in the meadow at the edge of the forest, a girl was walking,
looking for healing thyme, mint and roses.
She was singing as she walked "I am collecting the potion for Stepan,
so he can stay strong and defeat the enemies".

When she went to the valley she saw Cossacks,
returning home to Nenka (homeland) in a big crowd.
"Oh, you men, you dear fellows, how happy I am to see you.
Where is my beloved Stepan? I yearn to see him".

"Oh my dear, we do not know, he did not follow.
We know not of his fate, we have not seen him".
The sweet girl burst into tears and went home.
“Where have you gone, my Stepan? My eternal love".

"Oh, you dear man, if only you all would come back home.
Let all of our enemies be gone!", the sweet girl cried.
Then, as she entered the yard she saw Stepan,
waiting there, to joyfully meet his beloved girl.

Stepan (TaNezha x Six Four Zero Two)

Photo: La Paz, Bolivia 2013, pixels on purpose...

Started as bass groove after going to a Thundercat gig, needed something else so came up with the 11 note repeating figure on guitar which was then doubled on keys to give an almost Steve Reich type effect. 

One to check out start to finish if you have the time, thanks for listening. For the guitar geeks there's a wee solo at the end.

Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig and during the 11 note sequence section sustained notes on NI Monark synth bass.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Strandberg Salen Jazz through a few instances of NI Guitar Rig. Short solo at the end is the Suhr.
Keys: various NI, Arturia and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Talk It Up

The Eclipse Apocalypse, take from the soon to be release album

Darkened

Cavity

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

Enjoy this wonderful, gentle soul singing voice... a "gem" that is just at the beginning of a very promising career... have fun... 👍❤️

The colorful symbols are my message to everyone... 🌍 ☮︎ 👍 🍀 2024 for a better world...!

Not Meant To Be

Don't You Remember

The Modernist

New ambient piece, enjoy!

Pictured: Barbican (detail), City of London.

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

In fact, I'll be staying in tonight

In Fact, I'll Be Staying In Tonight

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)

memory effect variation

sonic structures and silent stretches