Such a lovely presentation Jo---and thls poem ls simply Wow!

The original is titled
PerpetuALight - Kairo Contemplation
from thee album Great Enigma Manifestation 
https://neurologickthunder.bandcamp.com/album/great-enigma-manifestation
https://soundcloud.com/anubranchovlightning/perpetualight-kairo-contemplation-great-enigma-manifestation
Original music by SanjanG @anubranchovlightning
Original artwork by Astarte 23 @astarte23
Added lyrics, vocals, & cover design by Myrh @myrhyum

LIFT THAT HALF STEP | Kairo Contemplation - MAAT

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The Tabula Smaragdina (stressed tábula smarágdina, Latin for "emerald tablet") is a text traditionally attributed to Hermes Trismegistos, which forms the philosophical basis of Hermeticism and is considered the foundational text of alchemy.

The Tabula is one of the most famous texts of alchemical and hermetic literature. The twelve or so dark, allegorical sentences reflect the idea of a interrelation between the microcosm and the macrocosm. That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, an eternal miracle of the One.

The oldest extant version of the text is found in the appendix to a 6th century Arabic manuscript. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Tabula was commented on and received by many alchemists in the Middle Ages and increasingly in the Renaissance period. Even after the emergence of modern natural sciences, its fascination, at least for occultists and esotericists, remained unbroken until the present day.

Die Tabula Smaragdina (betont tábula smarágdina, lateinisch für „smaragdene Tafel“) ist ein traditionell dem Hermes Trismegistos zugeschriebener Text, der die philosophische Basis der Hermetik bildet und als Grundlagentext der Alchemie gilt.

Die Tabula ist einer der berühmtesten Texte alchemistischer und hermetischer Literatur. In den rund zwölf dunklen, allegorischen Sätzen spiegelt sich die Vorstellung eines Zusammenhangs von Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos. Das was unten ist, ist wie das, was oben ist, und das was oben ist, ist wie das was unten ist, ein ewig dauerndes Wunder des Einen.

Die älteste erhaltene Textversion findet sich im Anhang zu einem arabischen Manuskript des 6. Jahrhunderts. Im 12. Jahrhundert ins Lateinische übersetzt, wurde die Tabula im Mittelalter und verstärkt im Zeitalter der Renaissance von vielen Alchemisten kommentiert und rezipiert. Auch nach Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften blieb ihre Faszination zumindest auf Okkultisten und Esoteriker bis in die Gegenwart ungebrochen.

Tabula Smaragdina

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Mångata

Sakta nalkas nära

7 Days To Utopia was written on the piano with a future dystopian narrative in mind. Such a world instils in each of us the desire to be the hero/heroine of our destiny but also vulnerable and compassionate with the need to be saved - fragile threads of the human condition which we hope will persist through the ages to come. 

There is a certain saudade which haunts - a need to be loved without the pain of such commitment. The question remains as to whether humanity will rise above this existential crisis or whether an inferior appetite for hedonism will prevail. 

Although the scenario may be fictional, I think it retains and serves to amplify the pivotal qualities of humanity as we know it today. 

I hope you enjoy this musical interpretation composed on the piano with strings and percussion, aimed at capturing the "live" atmosphere of an auditorium (or perhaps an old ruin damaged in the battles that preceded such event....)

Thank you for listening...

Vikki C.

Piano, lyrics, vocals and production by Vikki

#ballad #rock #piano #soundtrack #film #dystopian 





7 Days To Utopia

This is another one from the recordings we did with our former chanteuse Julia back then. Credits and hugs! Cheers @user-20931549 & @bonetender

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6SMBhahy5J5Rg3lSPbiiGU

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Runaway

Run Away

Bone Slide

Method: Digging out the good old Miniak and letting the arp do some of the heavy lifting .... having soundcloud do the mastering (which made the overall result neither better nor worse - just slightly different).
Narration: Age is not what they say it is .... some six or so years after writing this poem, it is more true than ever before ;-)

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:

years passing, this I
resembles walls and mountains
more than walls and mountains
resemble this I

someone handed me
a cup of salty water
and I turned into the sea

to run down all this 
culture's spiral corridors
with just a single light on
you have to stand in 
for your shadow

walls and mountains

Walls And Mountains

All vocals and instruments by Brent Knowles
Additional vocals by Peter Knowles

Original by Todd Rundgren

Bang the Drum (Featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks)

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco
https://youtu.be/xILiEE5nRLc

Summer Dreams

Four Twenty

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 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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