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Haiku #187: Flood waters recede / Narrandera eucalypts reflected / Which way is up?

Villagers whispered that when El Chalambra appeared, time bent sideways—clocks stuttered, rivers reversed, and memories no longer obeyed their owners. His presence was both omen and invitation: to step beyond the known map, to risk dissolving in the kaleidoscope of his gaze, and perhaps never return the same.

El Chalambra

September Sunshower 1977

Always Just Beyond

Mala Tempora

underwater

Another snippet from Caligo Paean - beware of gifts when chasing gods : ) 

Caligo Paean is a 1 hour long sound piece installed on river front property in the town of Franklin, Tasmania as part of the exhibition "When The Fog Clears". It formed part of the Ten Days on The Island Festival March 2025.
The work was installed in several locations across the property including a stack of subs under an old bus, in the main exhibition space and in an abandoned shed some 40 metres from the main area . The speakers were 'tuned' quite differently depending on their location and the sound was not delay corrected with the result of each mini-installation merging with each other in odd sonic ways - kind of calling the listener from one spot to another. The the work features field recordings, percussion, piano, bass guitar and Intonarumori as well as this special one off choir : )

Caligo is the Ancient goddess of Chaos. Born of the fog she controls the darkness, dwells in the void and is as old as the primordial matter that created the universe. This work is a tribute to the goddess as she continues to influence our lives and, in the case of this installation, the site and concept informing the show.

Official press release below for The Fog Clears

Every day, the mists of the Huon Valley perform a seductive dance, gently obscuring and revealing contours of the fertile land and waters. Situated in The Watershed Franklin, When The Fog Clears features six artists from lutruwita / Tasmania exploring the region’s iconic mists through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, illustration, sound, and video.

Developed exclusively for Franklin, this exhibit extends from the waterfront itself into the chambers, kilns, and rafters of the shed, inviting visitors to consider fog as an atmosphere that can cloak us in unexpected ways.



Caligo Paean (A gift, a choice)

||| Treasure |||
Be the Glitch in the Matrix

Watch the video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MB1ecGlRs

Treasure

2025¨10-05

uncertain prospects

Acoustic thunder-drums, electric piano, non synchronized loops, two tube amps. Field recording: Electromagnetic waves made audible with Soma Ether. All sounds mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

This piece is related to “Ariel”; it uses some of the same material: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/ariel

Magnetic Clouds

This work that features Italian Soprano Silvia Pepe explores the possibility of a revolution, a Revolution of the Mind.  Is it possible to still have a truly independent thought in this era that is dominated by the Information Society who attempts to manipulate the minds of the people and control the narrative by spreading false, deceptive and misleading information.   

Silvia Pepe sings lines from Puccini's Tosca "e avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma."  and "io quella lama gli piantai nel cor".    Translated "and all of Rome trembled before him."  and " I planted that blade in his heart".   

Vincent Eoppolo recites his poem Revolution of the Mind

Revolution of the Mind feat Silvia Pepe

Acoustic naive instrumental divertimento in 2 parts,  5/4 time signature
spacedrum
hang
ukuleles (2)
upright bass
synthesizer
marimba
xylophone 


Music for this Haiku:
"flood waters recede
narrandera eucalypts refelcted
which way is up?"


poem by Julie Briggs
picture by tommi saltiola

more info @naviar-records
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life after the flood (naviarhaiku187)

Flood waters recede
Narrandera eucalypts reflected
Which way is up

Haiku by Julie Briggs
Music by Fiona Caldarevic
Instrument sounds by ComposerCloud

For this haiku  I created a more classical piece for piano quintet (piano + string quartet). I imagined more turbulent floodwaters eventually receding into more calming sounds, with the sustained strings being the water and the more and more random high piano notes being the eucalypt leaves reflecting on the water.

Flood Waters (naviarhaiku187)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
187 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2017-08-03

Flood waters recede (Naviarhaiku 187 )

Chasing Echoes (naviarhaiku187)
Naviar Haiku Flood Waters Recede

Flood waters recede
Narrandera eucalypts reflected
Which way is up?

A collaboration with curator Jason Richardson and the Western Riverina Arts with a poem by Julie Briggs.

Chasing Echoes (naviarhaiku187)

As a child I used to visit cousins in Naranderra, then a far-away place of dirt roads, bare-footed kids and swimming in the Murrumbidgee River, which floods regularly and spectacularly.

One of the abiding memories of those visits was swimming in a smaller tributary of the river, looking up and seeing the bones of cattle still lodged high in the gum trees that bordered the river, a legacy of recent floods and an indicator of just how high the floodwaters could rise in a short time.


Made for http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/02/naviarhaiku187-flood-waters-recede/

Murrumbidgee [Naviarhaiku187]

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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

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

*****

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...

Murrumbidgee [Naviarhaiku187]

Tuonela

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