Surreal Martian experience. When I listen to this I cant stop thinking that Martians generally have green skin, then I wonder how they react on to many hours on the beach?

HELLO/hear the echo/like deep inside/ feel the tunnel/time N travel

For the dream I took a soundscape I’d been working on for another track and “alienated” it even more than it was.

Treated bird noises from an English coastal village were stretched and distorted further to add exotica.

Then real train recordings from a British railcam were brought into to represent the “real” world.

The dream has the last tweet…


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The Assignment: Record the sound of a Martian daydream, interrupted.

Step 1: Early on in the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” a man name Quail has a daydream interrupted. He dreams of visiting Mars, but then reality intrudes: “the daylight, the mundane noise of his wife now brushing her hair before the bedroom mirror — everything conspired to remind him of what he was.” As the reader will learn, Quail has in fact already visited Mars, subsequent to which his mind was wiped free of the visit. His daydream at the start of the story is as much a remnant memory as it is a wish to be fulfilled. Keep this scenario in mind, and maybe read the short story.

Step 2: Record the sound of some realistic-feeling alien landscape, perhaps Martian, and then at the very end of the recording have real-world sounds appear to break the spell.

More on this 501st weekly Disquiet Junto project — PKD Playback (The Assignment: Record the sound of a Martian daydream, interrupted) — at: https://disquiet.com/0501/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The railwayman’s dream of an undisclosed planet [disquiet0501]

Part 4 of Glasswork - A series of improvisations for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table. Recorded with Zoom H2N in 4 channel stereo, cut and amplified, no effects, no further processing.
https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/sets/glasswork

Glasswork Nr. 4

Part 5 of Glasswork - A series of improvisations for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table. Recorded with Zoom H2N in 4 channel stereo, cut and amplified, no effects, no further processing.
https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/sets/glasswork

Glasswork Nr. 5

sudden dazzling glare
- the low sun briefly pierces
a veil of dark cloud

https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.
 
haiku by Raymond Cobley

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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Pierced Veil (naviarhaiku542)

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My haiku542 track;
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/751171702013181952/naviarhaiku542-sudden-dazzling-glare

the low sun briefly pierces a veil of dark cloud [naviarhaiku542]

Behind the Stratosphere Naviarhaiku 542

sudden dazzling glare
- the low sun briefly pierces
a veil of dark cloud

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

haiku by Raymond Cobley

a veil [naviarhaiku542]

Locking Shift

a mirror in the stream

Guess I shouldn't have deleted this one from my account… here it is again… I dedicate it to all people who, like me, love Ligeti, Stockhausen, Schönberg, Webern, Boulez, Bartók, Berg and so on, love equally Miles and Trane and Sanders and Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Joel Ross and love equally Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Prince, Co Shu Nie, Bjork, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Sting …and love Bach and Mozart and Josquin and Chopin… and besides love the music of the Gbaya, and Gamelan, and Japanese traditional music… why should we feel confined to ANY genre?

Chaplin

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...

The railwayman’s dream of an undisclosed planet [disquiet0501]

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