For six spatialized percussionists.

Program Notes:

'The Merope Nebula, NGC 1435 in the New General Catalogue, is a faint reflection nebula and suspected supernova remnant located in the Pleiades cluster. The nebula surrounds the star Merope (23 Tauri), after which it gets its name. It is the brightest reflection nebula in the Pleiades cluster and is also known as Tempel’s Nebula – it was discovered by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel from Venice, Italy on October 19, 1859.–  NGC 1435 covers an area of 30 arc minutes in size, which corresponds to a linear diameter of 4 light years. In the next several thousand years, the nebula – or what is left of it after the encounter with Merope, which is eroding the interstellar cloud– will move on past the star.'

https://www.joseluisperdigon.com/ngc-1435

NGC 1435 (2022) for six spatialized percussionists l Live Recording

Original track - https://youtu.be/G-0YhNHaElQ
Eddy Jones - Vox & Lyrics
@eddy-jones-3
open.spotify.com/artist/1XXt1fquh…Sg_QSgX6hsg&nd=1
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming
Special thanks to Eddy for working with us on this project! check out his stuff!

Loop Diggers Acapella Challenge - Eddy Jones - Chillin

Umegorde

naviarhaiku490

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st May 2023
Haiku by Pritee Rel
Picture by Annie Spratt

The Cold Forest Flaunts (naviarhaiku490)

See the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/pcGYPoWRkqw

This piece uses sounds recorded in the process of making a loaf with a breadmaker ... enjoy!

visuals (YouTube)

halF kaleidoscopE

The Cold Forest (NaviarHaiku 490)

“Mind the Threefold Law you should, three times bad and three times good.” - The Witches Rede. The word "rede" derives from Middle English, meaning "advice" or "counsel". In the neopagan religion of Wicca a ‘rede’ is a key moral precept. In this case, that whatever be wrought, by magickal means or otherwise, it shall return thricefold upon the initiator. Wiccan karma… 

Recorded on iPad in AUM using the Wingie II hardware resonator and FX. No other instruments used.

The Rule Of Three

“Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.”  ― Philip K. Dick

Track list and start times:
00:00  Connect.Ohm – Take Off
06:28  Martina Bertoni – Inversion
13:04  Our Quiet Fog – Gorgonzola Has Landed
16:09  scorpion bowl – we watched the cities die
26:58  LapCore – CyborgWithinYou
33:19  HEAD JOINT – Ever Was
35:25  Sir Richard Bishop – Celerity
39:01  ste rozza – DEVILS LETTUCE
43:23  Scott Solter & Rohner Segnitz  – Mooring
49:17  Victor Rivkin – The Future More So
51:36  Sidney Bechet – Bechet’s Creole Blues
54:32  Aphex Twin – Tree
1:04:00  Terry Mullett – 20230605-1427
1:11:56  Tuonela – Drones of the ancestors (excerpt)
1:20:03  Radere & Offthesky – Heading for the Sea, We Left in Morning (excerpt)
1:27:42  The Seaman And The Tattered Sail – The Lighthouse Of Grey Sound
1:36:17  Solo Andata – Canvas
1:40:50  Bing Satellites – Catisio, Temple of the Night (excerpt) 
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Eclectic current – Reduced affect display

the moment of truth

This song is a middle finger to a few. But hey. Therapeutic. Gotta say, writing songs just gets me through life. Ya know?

Record Breaker

cat.rack (disquiet0725)

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...