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For thousands of years, people of different cultures have sought advice from sages and scholars and drawn strength from their teachings. Thus, the wisdom of Buddha has long become guidelines not only for Buddhists, but also for people of other cultures. I will implement some sayings of the Buddha, Siddharta Gautama, in musical form.

Siddhartha Gautama - The Problem is, you think you have time (4-2023)

Old school New Wave/Synthpop/Electropunk.  Thanks to Rupert Pertwhistle for helping out with the vocals.

Cold

Another melody in appreciation of the natural beauty in and surrounding Springville, AL.

Please listen to my "Sights of Springville" playlist.
https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716/sets/sights-of-springville-1

Canoe Creek

affectionate

method: adam received a track with a reading and some subharmonicon from me, added instruments and turned it into this moving work of waveform art. visit his page here: https://soundcloud.com/adammajdeckijanicki
narration: coincidentia oppositorum and all that ....
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

der schaukellack blättert
in rostbraunen schuppen
hier spielt kein kind
es sind nadeln im sand

so hochgrau die wand
als taumle tag blind
zwischen staubaugenpuppen
kein vorhangstoff flattert

hier, wo sich sinne nicht nähren
hier sei die anmut zu finden
hatte der seher verkündet

hier, wo güte still schwindet
hier, wo die augen erblinden
kehre sie ein um zu gebären

interlinear translation: fair faced // the veneer on the swings flakes off / in rusty brown scales / there is no child playing / there are needles in the sand // the wall rises high and grey / as though day stumbled blindly / among dusty-eyed puppets / no fabric moves in the windows // here, where senses don't feed / here you will find grace / the seer had prophesized // here, where kind hearts are fading / here, where eyes are blinded / here she'd come to give birth //

sichtbeton - with Adam Majdecki-Janicki

Rollo  (sped up remix)

Enough Of It

those interested in a traditional recording of a Blake original, please be directed here: https://soundcloud.com/nadiaselvaggi/and-did-those-feet-april-3-5-20242 

method: sound sources (reface dx, voice, boss dr01s, vintage lemon drop) and recording and morphing devices (roland vt 4, hotone soulpress II, nux amp academy, zoom r20); intentionally no post production, raw
narration: the cycle ON PRINTING deals with projection, representation, pattern recognition, the energy of awareness and the like. it consists of six poems: rubble - horse - relic - spawn - banner- offset. this poem sonified is spawn and spawn spawns.
image: copyright jo richter

poem (as published in
A Single Loop of Fortunes) /
copyright jo richter: 

infernal energies, blake said
are unleashed in printing,
etching their way to Jerusalem

once I slept, Blake said
on a mountain and the heavens
weighed down on me, hard

now I drink, Blake said
the deep-sea ink of the valleys,
saturating every fibre in me

as for relief, Blake said,
the relief must spawn, for who wants
to make do without colours and copies

spawn

spawn - on printing 4/6

Nice Latin Jazzy sonnday with my friend Joerxworx on his fabolous Saxophon https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics 167 // Cuba libre // Joerxworx & Ratzzz

I am overjoyed to partake in something beautiful:
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out

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)

spawn - on printing 4/6

sonic structures and silent stretches