Hell Canto

On 7.10.23, Palestinian forces, led by Hamas, broke down the fence separating the Gaza enclave from Israel and unleashed a savage day of slaughter and kidnapping that ended with 1,195 dead on the Israeli side and 251 taken as hostages. The Israeli response was just as savage but much longer lasting and much, much more devastating. It resulted (at the time of writing) in around 72,000 deaths (70,000 - most likely, many more - Palestinians, largely non combatants, and 2,000 Israelis, largely soldiers) in Gaza, as well as at least 170,000 Palestinians injured, compounded by a genocidal policy of starvation and destruction of civil order. A response that has destroyed most of Gaza and accelerated the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank - where there have been around 1,000 Palestinian deaths caused by Israeli settlers and the IDF since October ’23. There have also been many deaths and injured in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen.

The horrors of the Unholy Land felt near at home, and like the invasion of Ukraine, pushed me to give some kind of personal response - however pointless and inadequate - beyond following and sharing news and commentaries. Already far into Luna rising, a text and electronica album about Ukraine and Russia, I didn't feel capable of responding with texts so I embarked on a wordless album called Hell Canto.

The parameters are the same for each of the Hell Canto pieces. I’d call the methodology a way of comprovisation, of making sound poetry, derived from vocal improvisations and electronic manipulations. In November '25, having recorded 50 pieces, decided to stop adding more - also the fragile and unlikely October '25 ceasefire remains in place though in practice the word ‘ceasefire’ is a bad joke, with no sign of real peace and humanitarian and political solutions on the horizon. I’ve listened through the 50 pieces and chosen 27 that I’d like to be included in the album and 23 which are orphans for the time being at least. The 27 pieces come to a total of 80 minutes which might be too long for a CD. It’s not sure yet. Anyway, for now there are 2 Soundcloud playlists - the 27 in the draft order for the album, and the 23 which for now are in order of recording.

Raining Spiderling
Istanbul, December 2025

Foraging (mix 3.1)

Armistice (mix 2.1)

Collective punishment (mix 1.1)

Weeping (mix 1.1)

Manmade (mix 1.2)

Threshold (mix 3.12)

Deserted (mix 2.1)

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-270/

FFFoxy Podcast #270

Une improvisation vocale faite de souffles, de sourires et de jeux sonores.
Ici, la voix devient matière : elle chuchote, rit, pulse, apaise.
Sans mots, sans narration, juste l’instant — un espace libre où le corps s’exprime avant le langage.

Un voyage intime entre groove malicieux et berceuse aérienne,
où chaque son est un geste, chaque silence une respiration.

À écouter les yeux fermés,
comme un retour à quelque chose de simple,
organique,
vivant.
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A vocal improvisation made of breaths, smiles, and playful sound textures.
Here, the voice becomes material: it whispers, laughs, pulses, and soothes.
Without words, without narrative—just the moment, a free space where the body speaks before language.

An intimate journey between mischievous groove and airy lullaby,
where every sound is a gesture, every silence a breath.

To be listened to with closed eyes,
like a return to something simple,
organic,
alive.

Improvisation Tendre

Сосредоточение.
Интерес.
Внимание.
Поэт — беспрерывность —
 волокнами дуальности
  поёт
по своим правилам:
на шершавой границе
 асимметрии крайностей,
хрустящая корочка
  из детства радости,
шелестящих восторженных
   хлопковых ресниц
    папороть;
это там, где я не умею спешить,
 умею быть
  безупречной формой
   бескрайности.
Я — живое искусство —
 лавинами лайвами
  зашкаливаю валом;
залетаю капель шайбами
   за шиворот
    осеннего пальто
     на музыканте
      в переходе
       безгайдовом.



Самодельная изнанка
  парадоксального бархата,
   аккуратного вороха
    увлекательных процессов-дел;
сама-выпархивает.
Нравится звук,
 которым наполнены мы;
  смысл складывается сам,
   формирует устойчивость картины Ми_ра,
    забвенное разносплетение
     свето-тьмы.
Отдыхать под ноль
  скворцами нового времени;
инкрустировать себя
   в янтарь
    неиминуемой трели-келии;
жизни бесконечность
  к моим услугам —
   она в трении с миром,
    в забвенном сосредоточении.
Не быть в позиции жертвы —
 важное убеждение для тех,
  кто движется
   в темпе-радении.
Инкрустировать себя
  в однозначное,
   непоколебимое
    летне-весеннее.

Сосредоточение_Интерес_Внимание

Midnight Flight

Am I a Whouhouman I am a Whouhouman

The final studio recording of the improvised piece presented as part of the Wilmington, NC-based Hooked on Sonics Series, January 28, 2026

Parts of Me Are Dying

Слова опускались на поверхность восприятия,  
                                                                                       рождая в самом внешнем слое сознания легкую рябь,  
и она тут же успокаивалась … 
 
                      Вибрации звука проникали глубже, растворяясь и смешиваясь с подвижностью тишины 
 
размеренно 
                                    подобно каплям ночного летнего ливня,  
целуя поверхность моря,  
                                       сливались с тёплой тёмной соленой водой

911_На_поверхность_восприятия

Eros is loud. Already unstable, it cracks now. It’s the truth not the wound, calling. Hand me a map, so I can slip inside. Stop pointing at the finger, I crave the moon.

Horny Music for Ambient People (05.02.2026)

Ash is a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She listens for the voice as a hinge between the physical material of the body, and the unreliable social fabric of language.

Ash @ Kiosk Radio 14.02.2026

It's very fitting that today, February 22, 2026, Facebook reminded me about the poem I wrote on February 22, 2022 — two days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, four years ago today:

ощщщщщущщщщщщщаю 
щщщщщемящщщщщесть 
сущщщщщщщщщщщего 
сущщщщщщщественнно 
лучшшшшшшшшшшшше
в щщщадящщщем рeжиме

Under the flood: ощущаю щемящесть сущего существенно лучше в щадящем режиме — "I sense the aching of existence substantially better in gentle mode."
Every word containing Щ or Ш has been filled with more of itself. The consonant replicates inside its host words. The meaning survives. The line physics change.

This is what I mean when I talk about the physics of a poetic line. Take ощущаю — it takes about a second to say. ощщщщщущщщщщщщаю takes four or five. Same word, same meaning, different velocity. The line has been decelerated — but not by weight. Щ is a continuant fricative: you can hold [ɕː] indefinitely, the way you hold a note. Adding more Щ's doesn't create a cluster that locks the mouth — it extends the sibilant. A Russian ear recognizes ощущаю inside ощщщщщущщщщщщщаю instantly. The meaning arrives at the same moment. But the sound takes four times longer to get there. Same destination, dilated path. Time dilation, not gravity.

Compare мгновение — the poem I discussed earlier in this series — which works in the opposite direction: stripping material from the line, compressing it, accelerating it toward the speed of the instant it names.

Two operations, one principle: the poetic line is a bounded space with physical properties. It can be made faster or slower. Stretched or compressed. These aren't metaphors — you can hear the difference, feel it in the mouth, time it with a clock.

Poems like these opened the door to thinking about what I now call Quantum Poetics: the idea that a line has measurable behaviors — velocity, density, interference — and that these can be engineered.


Щемящесть

Imi (Meaning)

Infinite Spirit Music: 4th March '26

"Ветрование" - Пилигримы из государства Клим-Брим.

В нашем государстве главной ценностью является свобода творческого самовыражения. Этой ценности подчинен жизненный уклад и распорядок.
В Клим-Брим приветствуется здоровая новизна, импровизация и чёткость исполнения.

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Мы знаем, что:
Правилом любого пирата всегда было жить, как добрый, честный человек.

Правилом воина - не идти в битву, а служить природе.

Правилом свободного человека - не связывать причину и следствие.

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Делай так, чтобы было легко.

Если ты всё, то Всё сделает для тебя всё.

Делай что хочешь!
Всё можно!
Есть только любовь!

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