Watch the accompanying video: https://youtu.be/qrWdyiw30bk

broken guitar —
in its hollow body
a whisper of C
(from the 2025 British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology)

A haiku, a generative patch, and a robot’s dream of music.
This piece begins with an improvised out-of-tune acoustic guitar recording — the same Atelier structure as the earlier music box patch, reshaped into something moody and oddly atmospheric.

The visuals? A robot trying (and failing beautifully) to play guitar — an AI imagining itself as musician, all bendy fingers and impossible strings. A perfect mirror for what generative sound really is: identity blinking between intention and accident.

🎶 built in GRM Tools Atelier
🎥 visuals generated + reinterpreted
📖 haiku by Darren Bourne (halF unusuaL)

✨ perhaps failure is the most honest play

visuals (YouTube)

halF whispereD

les étoiles violettes

dorémifasol

Nearly 5 years ago, I uploaded a track called halF nutS ... https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-nuts ... Who'd have thought I'd be going nuts again now! 😁

This is another GRM Tools Atelier noise experiment ... and you can see the accompanying visuals (as well as the original nuts recorded for mangling) on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/At3lfc1nK6M

Oh, and you can see me turn into a sock puppet ... 😜 Weresock transformation around about 1:30 ... 🤫

halF nutS 2

Émission réalisée dans le cadre d'une semaine d'initiation à la radio avec le pôle jeunesse du Centre socio-culturel du Neudorf en partenariat avec La Maison Bleue à Strasbourg 

Conçue et présentée par Alicia, Charlie, Ezékiel, Pénélope et Thomas
Merci au musicien Mehran pour sa participation et sa disponibilité !

Émission "Schmeugueleu de musique" - CSC Neudorf x La Maison Bleue - octobre 2025

Dans le cadre d'une semaine d'initiation à la radio, les jeunes du centre socio-culturel du Neudorf ont pu interviewer le groupe COLT, en concert à la Maison Bleue à Strasbourg. 

Merci à Coline Debry et Antoine Jorissen pour leur disponibilité et leur gentillesse ! 

Interview conçue et réalisée par Alexandre, Anatole, Charlie, Charlie, Ezékiel, Lily, Pénélope, Thomas et Valeska 

Interview du groupe COLT - CSC Neudorf x La Maison Bleue - octobre 2025

radio pré-texte le 27 octobre 2025

The third GRM Tools Atelier workshop is now available on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel. This is the audio-only final piece, to simply enjoy sonically, with no distraction. 15 whole minutes of audial intrigue ... I would normally edit a track like this down, but it might be good to hear the whole thing as a companion piece for the video.

If you'd like to see the video and hear me explain how it all comes together, then you can watch at xxx

The video explains how halF weT was formed from some samples of my rainy day in Nottingham, the amazing new GRM Tools Atelier and the older suite of plugins from GRM Tools - first released in 1992! - a fusion of old, new and wet! 😁😜 Enjoy! 😊

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/grm-past-present-and-future-experimental-music/

halF weT

Immersion dans le monde des fake news. Les réseaux sociaux emballent la prolifération de ces fausses informations. Jusqu’où va la désinformation et comment ne pas tomber dedans ?  Cette émission a été réalisée par les élèves du stage radio-podcast de la Toussaint au Pôle Simon Lefranc en partenariat avec le Centre Arras.

FAKENEWS le VRAI du FAUX

Under the burning sky -
a procession of ants,
without end.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda: https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF processioN [naviarhaiku622]

Performance radiophonique en déambulation et média sur roulettes tout terrain !

Welcome tσ th!s εvσlving space … inspired by thε playful sp!rit of hai (meaning “fun” or unμsuΔl, like in haiku) …

I dig around thε edges t0 uneΔrth non-mμ§ic musics — sliding into nσ!§ε, glitch, chΔnce, Δ$MR, and σther soundwσrlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity …

✨👂 L!§†εn cΔrεfu!l¥ … 👀 εxplσrε dεεpl¥ … 🎵💫

And for the full hΔlF unμ§uaL trεΔ†ment for your eyes Δs well as your εars, check σut the Yσutubε channel… ░▒▓█ ᵒ(≧▽≦)ᵒ ░▒▓█▒░

Thanks f0r joining thε journey! Your support kεeps this all afloat — HUGΣLY Δpprec!Δted 🙏🥰

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