Free Improvisation Session in Vienna / 29-07-2024
Elisabeth Kelvin - soprano sax
Isolde Werner - vocals (except track 1/3)
Stefan Strasser - electronics

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Stefan Strasser
Cover photo: Detail of a painting by Elisabeth Kelvin

Vienna Session

Bezirk 17.1

"VASCULAR DYNAMICS" is a sonic exploration of life’s unseen systems, inspired by the intricate flow of nutrients and water within a tree. This track by DREVA combines lo-fi textures, ambient layers, and experimental soundscapes to evoke the rhythmic pulse of vascular networks in nature.

Drawing parallels between organic processes and human resilience, the composition unfolds with meditative intensity, blending atmospheric tones with subtle yet powerful movements. "VASCULAR DYNAMICS" is a tribute to the quiet yet vital forces that sustain life.

VASCULAR DYNAMICS

Oidhche Mhath (pronounced oiche vah) is
Scottish Gaelic for Good Night.

Analogue mix using following instruments: Beat: Elektron Model Samples
 Bassline: Roland JU-06a
Midrange sequences: Roland Jx-08
Lead strings & brass: Prophet Rev2
mixed on a Behringer X12222

Photo by my Dad, Pete Grafton.


Oidhche Mhath

Ceart Gu Leòr

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.” ― William Gibson

Track list and start times:
00:00  Mel Blanc – This Is It (Bugs Bunny Show Theme)
00:55  PureH – Metatron
07:47  MKN REKORDZ – the song of disintegration
13:47  Tau Sagittarii – The Clouds of Neptune
19:58  Swoop And Cross – Sykkel
24:12  Tomas Järmyr – Entrails (excerpt)
35:56  Aultone – Ascending order of disintegration 
48:56  Mr_Lamppost – Liquid Flowers Shatter - (naviarhaiku - 568)
58:14  Baldini/Dafeldecker/Strüver – Drehimpuls I
1:05:53  Darkstar – Cimmerian II
1:11:23  rikardfvs – year's end all corners of this floating world swept-naviarhaiku573
1:15:38  Leyland Kirby – And Nothing Comes Between The Sadness And The Scream
1:22:07  Bing Satellites – A Wave of Light  (excerpt)
1:27:36  Olivier Cong – solace
1:34:11  Sonologyst – Sleeper Agent
1:38:42  Robert Rich & B. Lustmord – Delusion Fields
1:47:50  William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (excerpt)
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Eclectic current – Memoirs of disintegration

FAR BEHIND

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kagami Shikō’s poem “Even though afar / a feeling of coolness / comes from those mountain pines.”

Tracklist:

tetkik ve tedavi - Forest Magic https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/be7da0d1-de7b-4746-86b2-2ae893de2bd2
Addisonic - Moutain Pines https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/moutain-pines
Debroc - Feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/feeling-of
Terry Mullett - atmospheric perspective https://soundcloud.com/terry_mullett/atmospheric-perspective-naviarhaiku575
Ray Cobley - Coolness from Afar https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/coolness-from-afar
Anne Versailles - Coolness feeling https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/coolness_feeling
Robert Knote - a feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/a-feeling-of-coolness-naviarhaiku575


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #352 - Even though afar – Wednesday 22nd January 2025

first day of the rest (of yr life)

Weltenbrand Leise

nye44'

Prologue: The call of the cosmic sirens

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...