Perfect entanglement of a sung reading and a guitar declaiming poetry

really beautiful..Ingvars music seems so right for this..

Nice images of John McLaughlin in with your poetry Jo, great collaboration. Mr. T

Awesome mood and spirit.✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

The 24 conducted by Jonathan Brigg.

Tales of darkness in a circle of light...

Guitar: Ingvar Tautra, There is no Regrets Big Enough 
Ingvar Tautra's track is protected by a creative commons license - please check there: https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/there-is-no-regrets-big-enough
He is generous enough to allow me to use his track with my poem. Thank you!
Narration: I wrote this poem nearly thirty years ago, embroiled in all the aftermath messiness of a split-up. It was first published in a collection of poetry  bearing a line of this poem in the title that was published under the pen-name 'sonogara' which I had used during that period - three copies sold ;-)

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

Tjost

sie, in seide gehüllt
blüte um blüte um blatt
ihr stolz hat wolken gestillt
die sind nun müde und matt

er, aus höllen empört
von glut im kometenkranz
und plasmaströmen genährt
halb loh, halb zunder, halb glanz

noch tanzen roh die säbel
noch rast ein loser sturm
verschlungen hängen nebel
im windschnitt hinterm turm

Tjost - with guitar by Ingvar Tautra

the thought is enough / ulrich langenbach/trampelfäd / 2024

Trio (Soprano Saxophone/Clarinet/Flute) in parts 1/3/5/7/9/11/13
Soprano Saxophone solo in parts 2,4,6,8,10,12

Thirteen 3/1

The tall grass (Instrumental)

“Aprilis”

アプリリス冬ほろぼして勝ち誇る
アプリリスわが滅び待つ櫻花

April. Spring has won over winter.
April. Cherry blossoms await their doom.

Yamaha Vocaloid5 Editor
Magix Music Maker
Vocals: Yukari Yuzuki  AH-Software
Art work:　
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprilis#/media/File:Sousse_mosaic_calendar_April.JPG

Aprilis

Lyrics:

You wanted to try something new
Hackepeter, a mett sandwich too
Minced up raw pork on some bread
Will have you sick and dying in bed

Delectable dish of German cuisine
Shitting your guts out on the latrine
Host is eaten alive by worms
Lymphatic system compromised by germs

Trichinella Spiralis
Living in my intestines
Viviparous nematodes
Regurgitative episodes

Consuming all my sustenance
Killing me is the consequence
Organic viral parasite
Is gonna end my life tonight

Death by invasive tapeworms
Inside your gut the larva squirms
Eating you alive inside
You never thought this is how you’d die

Hunching over, can’t take the pain
Constantly your bowels drain
Time and time again you puke
If you survive, it’ll be a fluke

Invasion of the intestinal wall
So dangerous, but yet so small
Anaerobic organism
Destructive to my metabolism

Larva forming in nursing cell
Microbiological hell
Infection spreading inside of me
To my heart and my kidneys

Infiltrating the tissue cells
Damaging endothelial
Reaching a state of hypoxemia
Building of fluids causing edema

Consuming products of uncooked swine
Your life has reached the end of the line
Gasping for air, you can hardly breathe
Suffering traumatically

Safe As Raw Pork

Autopilot

Improvisations and experimental materials recorded live in Berlin 2024 - feat. Stephan (trumpet), Martin (violin), Katja (drums, percussions) &Montserrat (bass)

The Night And The City

Ball Of Poison

Like Before

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. After all, sound is one way my poems know to materialize - insolently shapeshifting, indelibly greening into the cultural real.

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 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)

Tjost - with guitar by Ingvar Tautra

sonic structures and silent stretches

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