"Rattling Echoes" is a 144-second Electronic Poem inspired by Edgard Verase's Poeme Electronique. Employing 41 samples from real life, this piece is composed using  techniques only from 1958 to capture the spirit of the style. The main sections in this composition are divided according to the Fibonnaci sequence.

Rattling Echoes

Step 32 of the 2025 program is here silent: The call to eliminate NPR & PBS.…

Text for study is…

Project 2025
PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT
End no fault divorce
Complete ban on abortions without exceptions
Ban contraceptives
Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1% Higher taxes for the working class
Elimination of unions and worker protections
Raise the retirement age
Cut Social Security
Cut Medicare
End the Affordable Care Act
Raise prescription drug prices
Eliminate the Department of Education
Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools
Teach Christian religious beleifs in public schools End free and discounted school lunch programs End civil rights & DEI protections in government
Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education
Ban books and curriculum about slavery
Ending climate protections
Increase Arctic drilling
Deregulate big business and the oil industry
Promote and expedite capital punishment
End marriage equality
Condemn single mothers while promoting only "traditional families"
Defund the FBI and Homeland Security
Use the military to break up domestic protests
Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in "camps"
End birth right citizenship
Ban Muslims from entering the country
Eliminates federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more
Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges

PROJECT 2025, A billionaire dictator’s 31-step plan to destroy democracy…

Loop based guitar and drums, spoken word lyric

Torment Edit 1

corpus callosum, limbico precauzionale

"The Summoning of the Dead—A Symphonicc Poem"
Valhjim


'Tis the Midnight hour
and the bell is tolling twelve.
There are whispers in the air
as the dead begin to wake.

The wind blows, the moon groans,
Death plays a plaintive tune.
The dead, they shake their bones,
Death's a melancholy boon.

They moan, they groan, they whisper thrice,
Death's violin plays a haunting melody.
On the piano, a soul replies—
they lead the dead to stir and rise:
They dance in dreadful ecstasy!

They dance, they dip; they twist
and twirl, they rattle and roll. 
The moon, it gleams and clothes
The dead in shimmering silver light.

The clarinet sighs, the whispers fade,
low rumbles linger, faint and far.
The bell tolls again—despondent, distant.
The bones return to dusk.

Click on the link below for a phonetic analysis of the poem: 
https://1drv.ms/w/c/f689b32f49a73ede/ERLRo6SzxmtFjAyJDCBWouABlxFxBqD_tpOW4mzYSeic1Q
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Valhjim: synthesizers, samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

The Summoning of the Dead: A Symphonic Poem

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

of language within its multi faceted forms / words-based free associations / vocal improvisation on textual content either written by me either found / multilingual imaginative universe diverse in idioms, gestures and glossolalias / voicescaping /of monologues & free flux of consciousness / most of my recordings are taken in the very moment — rarely i rehearse something before recording process. 


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formerly under the name of http://soundcloud.com/lactea — where you can still find past works. 

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besides a visual arts and writing practice, i’ve started making vocal recordings around 2014 as a way to explore meditative processes, altered states and self-healing methods. 

calling it music would reduce my making to that very organised form which is not, therefore I'd rather prefer to call it sound in its broadest and most amplified sense. 

poetry, free improvisation, polyvocalities, both analog and/or softsynths, acoustic guitar, a broken off-key violin or whatever could be object of sound. 

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more previous works at
     http://soundcloud.com/lactea

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.

New tracks tagged #Electronic Poem