this is an open collab - here's how it works:

- this is an open collab

- these are the lyrics you are provided with

- you are not supposed to use my recording but to create a work of art on your own - based on these lyrics

- when you publish a work based on these lyrics, do credit the copyright of the lyrics to me: copyright jo richter

- please notify me via soundcloud message when you publish, so that I can repost and add to a playlist

- nic sent over some nice bass and flute. in case anyone wants to include those into a larger composition: please contact nicklas  https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic or me

- no, I am not funded by any industry, not even the nettle seed producer's guild ;-)

nettle seeds

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

nettle seed - the poem and the songs - do read the description

Higor Gym

New 1

Autumnal Vibe '25

blood its my blood x itadori yuji x let me cut you down already

Tokyo Ghoul - XXXTENTACION King

silent hill 2 ost black fairy x kaneki scream

Natsuki Subaru - Pain  made by ProYasuoo on YouTube

Natsuki Subaru - Pain (Re:Zero) [by ProYasuoo]

Guts pain

Full extent of EQUATORIOUS recording on Zoom R24 prior to DAW processes.
(Version on the Windscale Blues Experiment page: https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/equatorious?si=f6d8b199abbc430899b9ed80466c3730&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing )
Recording notes:
[As an experiment saxes were recorded with just left hand - right hand attempting to match on synth....not immediately discernible but it was fun to try....] [Flutes and other synth track played normally!]
Photo by NM.

MOO155M3 Equatorius pre-DAW

Basic track mix - straight off my Zoom R24. Leaving it alone for a while..(earworm!) 
Synth bass with multi-clarinet riffs / alto flutes/oboe sections with tenor sax on bass pedal. Flute solos with synth middle sections.
Final mix:
https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/vanessa-atalanta-red-admiral-final-mix?si=ca265eebd9c240529c76df65d8ce284a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Picture by Cathy Alexandre (c/o Pinterest)

RED ADMIRAL [CLA158M2 early mix]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
610
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass/

2025-09-11

dropped glass (Naviarhaiku 610)

kadük

three different textures from the archive of last two years combined in a track
work in progress

take your pills

- this is an open collab

- these are the lyrics you are provided with

- you are not supposed to use my recording but to create a work of art on your own - based on these lyrics

- when you publish a work based on these lyrics, do credit the copyright of the lyrics to me: copyright jo richter

- please notify me via soundcloud message when you publish, so that I can repost and add to a playlist

- ADDENDUM: nic sent over some nice bass and flute. in case anyone wants to include those into a larger composition: please contact nicklas  https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic or me

- no, I am not funded by any industry, not even the nettle seed producer's guild ;-)


nettle seeds

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles
 
go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

nettle seed - lyrics for an open collab - please read description

Wild weather blowing up a storm - becoming the 'new normal'.
Heavy moog with 2 saxes and 2 flutes conjuring a swirl of a tempestuous sea.

Pic c/o Tristan Alaric Ravencroft (Pinterest)

TEMPEST

this is an open collaboration based on Jo's Lovely poem,vocals, and drumbeats @sonic-textures- I added some acoustic guitar and some FX  and grew those sunflowers--

nettle seeds (copyright Jo Richter)

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bitterswee

Nettle Seed-with Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches

sonic structures and silent stretches
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures

Open collaboration based on Jo's  Poem, vocals, and drumbeats
https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/nettle-seed-lyrics-for-an-open
I added some synthezisers 

Photo: H Skeneby  - Laxbäcken i Kopparberg

nettle seeds (copyright Jo Richter)

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

sonic structures and silent stretches and well   -   nettle seed

Thank you https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic and https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679!
Nicklas (nic) sent bass and flute
Jeff (stonerjazz) sent guitar
I provided the poem, the voice, the toss-up called composition and an attempt at mixing
When reading, I voiced an earlier version of the first verse - just for variation's sake

nettle seeds

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

nettle seeds

nettle seed, the serial rendition - with nic and stonerjazz

FM SQ FX EX

Shih-Lin Hung: L'atlas n°1 "Le Songe de Filaments"
Composition acousmatique d'après la partition graphique de Ju-An Hsieh


Composition acousmatique : Shih-Lin Hung (洪世霖)
Partition graphique: Ju-An Hsieh（謝茹安）

L’atlas n°1 “Le Songe de Filaments”（2025）

Synchromysticism

Jo's lyrics sounded sad to me.  What began as a sad folk song gradually evolved into a full blown cry-in-your-beer country song - with crying steel guitar.  I don't know the first thing about playing a steel guitar so I had to sort of trust my ears.  I'm always open to suggestion from anyone, but I'd especially like to hear from you steel guitar players out there :)

Visit Jo's Page!   https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures

My tribute to Jo's poetry:  https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716/sets/the-mind-bending-poetry-of-jo

Lyrics:

Nettle Seeds
by Jo Richter

He got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
As he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

He found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
And to cultivate defiant plants 
and to get scarred by willful brambles

Go feed on nettle seed
Thistle oil and fibre weed
There is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

Haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

Go feed on nettle seed
Thistle oil and fibre weed
There is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

Nettle Seeds - Lyrics by Jo Richter

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)