I love it, the background music is fantastic and the whole thing is sublime, I appreciate it! ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Amazing sense of space and dimension in this piece

The horns are an interesting piece, I'm enjoying the somewhat dissonant effect.

Fantastic words and reading Jo, very deep vibes

beautiful sound and poetic experience! 💚👍😉

Lovely poem, reading and additions to muterial's ambience.

great classical orchestral vibes and an fantastic poem melted to a joyful journey! ☻

Super spannendes Intro mit “Tristan chord effect” - klasse Struktur, eine musikalische Fahrt durch ein phantasiereiches Land

Spectacular!!! Material Always make such powerful music--a great paring and wonderful poem too!!:)

Note: This is a re-upload (after 21 plays) you are listening to. Muterial was very kind and helpful in cleaning up some sections of the soundscape and nursing it through some of the mastering paces. With a deep bow, I say thanks.

Method: Allowing muterial's material to mutate into the pre-existing poem: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails?si=4a2ab77b50cb4c83b361f314cef3e061&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing There is a playlist with all the different alterations of his track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations?si=c30eef3c590c478da58913eaaf27c23c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing  muterial based his recording on slowed-down sounds produced by the sea. Drifts, waves, currents, tides in a fjord. Everything, though, is undergoing constant mutation in interrelation. Change creates time and unidirectional time lays down the sediments we call history. This is what we are looking at, what we are listening to, what we are wading through.The momentum of past changes forces on, creating, pushing 'the world' as well as this particular self into being. This is quite an immersive, all-encompassing experience. Any attempt at free choice would require a movement of consciousness and awareness. Several hardware and software effects have beeen involved in the processes that have taken place on my side of these sounds.

Narration: With historical persons, we not only tend to adopt the victor's stories - but even more the underlying narrative of 'completeness from the beginning'. Both - of course - is nonsense. Exactly that is why it is so joyful to give in to both of these urges - as in this poem - for it allows us to remain in the comfort zones of our preconceptions.

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

As a young man in the fertile lands north
of the Atlas mountains, Hannibal climbed
a tree in the foothills and allowed his curiosity to
patiently focus on what really happened below.

Watching the incredibly slow, muddy
river called soil, restrained only by
the lay of the land, by forests, orchards
pastures and reeds, Hannibal understood
that it was the mountains he had to
rely on, for they stored deep history.

This is how you conquer an empire:
you shrink it to the size of the thin layer
of soil it inhabits. In his march on Rome, Cesar
will only cross a swifter river - nothing basic at all.

Picture: A self-taken snapshot of the public-space sculpture 'Mauerhocker' by Richard Emmans is included in the accompanying picture, apart from other photographic material taken by me. Here is a German newspaper article on this sculpture: https://www.suedkurier.de/region/bodenseekreis/markdorf/mauerhocker-ist-mit-gefaehrtin-zurueck-die-buntsandsteinfigur-ist-zurueck-auf-ihrem-platz;art372484,10843604

Ending: Somehow it has taken on a Dvorak, New World symphonic flair.... this happened unintentionally ... but I have to admit that I have grown fond of the allusion.... Here is the motive I had half-wittedly stumbled into in a Metropolis-like presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1N6_O254g

hanno - based on material by muterial

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)

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