Amazing poem and super interesting delivery!!

If You Love Me, Say That You Do

Unknown Horizons

Method: Actually, more melodic than expected because I wanted to experiment with some material. 
Narration: It is what it is, as real as horrific.

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

the business end of ancient animus
is still on fire, unabated
grossing sparks of spiteful surplus
all reinsurance underrated

the case is made for making corpses
the strive to stir quenches all hope to quell
war drums beat on cinder markets
up in arms and arms for sale

purple priests bless patriotic weapons
as targets are assigned and met
the price of life stock plunges as it happens
there is no need to feed the dead
be calm, my child, it‘s just a proxy conflict
the horror‘s shipped, we reap the profit

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Proxy

From Moscow to Siberia, people have taken to the streets in many Russian cities to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine. People chanted "No to war!". The anti-war protests had begun on Thursday after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Hundreds of protesters have been detained daily since then. The protests appeared to be smaller than those on Thursday, when thousands gathered in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the true scale was difficult to gauge...

No To War! (свобода)

Hop The Juice

Meow..and pseudo yoruba..groove..analog electronic

Yoruba

Which Way To Go?

Thee First Day OV Forever

Dear friends - a genocide is going on!
Today, the 24:th of february 2023, is one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. The people of Ukraine have been subjected to enormous suffering.
We pray that the Russians end the war and go home.
We pray for the people of Ukraine.
Lyrics:
The Birds sing for Ukraine
The birds are singing for the people of Ukraine
who suffers a lot of bombs from the sky
The birds want to remove all danger from this folk
and they want all the kids to feel safe
This is the reason why they sing these lovely tunes
for the people of Ukraine


The birds are witnesses, they have seen who sent the bombs
they can not understand how cruel man can be
they have seen and they have heard the disgusting man in charge
for the terrible invasion force
This is the reason why they sing these lovely tunes
for the people of Ukraine

There are some hopes for an eternal peace some day
and that the warlord comes to an understanding of
the misdoings that he made against this innocent folk
and he asks for forgiveness some day
This is the reason why they sing these lovely tunes
for the people of Ukraine

The Birds sing for Ukraine

fire video.

- Download available -

Fourth collaboration between Mono-lux and poet Jo Richter @sonic-textures... enjoy

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)

Proxy

sonic structures and silent stretches

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