This speaks of the pew where I'd like to be. Where I need to be. Happy New year to you, Uncle.

Uncle Hassell's creativity coupled with his ordained shenanigans has created a whole new meaning for church keys.... for me anyway. Liking this meditation.

Wow, thanks a lot for this, and taking care of those recordings!  Priceless : )  ... Lomax is looking at you smiling.

"Winter Sunrise" is the lead track from an upcoming collection of Uncle Hassell's recordings now being assembled for release of the Careful Disorderliness label. Watch for an announcement soon.

As a deacon at United Methodist of Mer Rouge, Hassell Clark had keys that allowed him to enter the sanctuary during off-hours, of which there were many, and record the sound of various settings on the church organ--usually single notes and sustained chords--which he would later edit and manipulate extensively in his home studio, resulting in impressionistic pieces like this one.

Winter Sunrise

This week's Naviar Haiku challenge was based on this haiku by Kashyapi: "Silence arrives / as mountains / wrapped in rain"

I tried to represent the mountain as a contant, solid feeling bass note, with a cloud layer drifting over the top (the brassy sound). The rain was represented fairly literally with the random sequenced high notes, but then a second 'rainlike' sequence that morphs and changes over the course of a few bars is also present to give the chilly feeling and add more weight. By opening filters and adding harmonics the 'mountain' is given shape, and then disappears as the whole piece dissolves into silence at the end.   

Not only was this a single live take, it was also the first take! :-)

Update: Following some feedback, I have tried a second version, with the mid-range sequence much less prominent: https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/the-mountain-take-2

The Mountain (naviarhaiku-118-silencearrives)

This week's Naviar Haiku is by Subtle Seas:  "Evening light / sipping from the glassy rim / of high moon". 
For more information visit: http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

To prove how much of an inspiration these Haiku are:
The sound ideas came to me straight away on reading it, I sat at my un-patched modular, took aim, and there it was - from my head, into a bundle of wires, and recorded in the space of an hour.  I think that is a record for me :-) 

My track was made using my modular synth - I wanted to create a sort of glassy tone, but also to evoke evening. I find that the sound of a slowly played harmonica evocative of evening, so I aimed for a sort of harmonica / glass hybrid as my main 'melody'. I added another voice making some random twinkles to evoke the stars and twinkling lights.  This all needed something to contrast against, so a deep bass was added to add the weight of the evening shadows.  I then added a field recording of some birds to add a bit of air to it all.  

The Glassy Rim Of the High Moon (NaviarHaiku128)

This week's Naviar Haiku was written by Argentinian haiku writer Ertore José Palmero: 
"Sound of waterfall / in the night. I don't see it/ but I feel it's freshness"

I took my lead from a patch I had started yesterday, which had a sort of nocturnal feel to it, and adjusted some of the settings. I also added a 'waterfall' - white and pink noise through two filters - one to provide a deeper roar, the other to provide the lighter spray. I adjusted the settings as the track proceeds ,to give the feel of a distant waterfall getting closer and further away as you walk past.  

Waterfall Nocturne (NaviarHaiku134)

This week's Naviar haiku is by Michael Dylan Welch: 
"Meteor Shower / A gentle wave / wets our sandals" 

As usual, a modular synth piece, one take with no overdubs or post processing.  

This track uses two short sequences to generate all the notes, through various treatments such as adding them together, sampling the resulting sequence, highlighting notes with volume and timbral changes, and also through audio-rate amplitude modulation of one oscillator by another, with each oscillator fed a different sequence.  

I wanted it to evoke a starlight sky and water, but not too directly. I shied away from adding a high falling sound, instead just adding a little portamento to the bass.   


 

A Gentle Wave Of Starlight (NaviarHaiku137)

mp3350 single sided – multi purpose tray (The inner life of office equipment, part 1)

Really chuffed that I was asked to contribute a track for this,  Anti f:Orm volume 5 at  https://sylphidesblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti%20f:Orm%205  and https://godhatesgodrecords2.bandcamp.com/album/anti-f-orm-compilation-vol-5. It can be downloaded free here, along with 26 other ambient and experimental tracks.

Free download

Anarchy extraction in two parts

More on this 398th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Rauschen Bern / The Assignment: Make music by making a collage of noises — at:

https://disquiet.com/0398/

This week’s project is the first of three being done in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern, which runs in Switzerland from September 11 – 15, 2019. More details at:

https://www.musikfestivalbern.ch/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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This week's junto is to make a collage of white noise. 
I did this by making a patch on the modular synth that uses white / coloured noise and various filters. I recorded this, and then processed it in Reaper to add some ducking glitches. 

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0398-rauschen-bern/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Rauschen Bern(Disquiet0398)

music by 
Marco Lucchi : keyboards

with contributions by
Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

for the Naviar Haiku project

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Creativity,
for which springtime light is lit
like fire in my mind

Raymond Stull

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Like Fire in my Mind (Naviar Haiku # 329)

536 Years

This is an oldie from 2016, floating around out there on a limited-edition memory stick called Nagual 2, released by ...txt 

Something to relax to...

Watching waves break on styrene shores

This page is dedicated to the legacy of Ford Hassell Clark, Jr. (1913-1997): businessman, cotton farmer, former mayor of Mer Rouge, Louisiana and secret electronic music pioneer*.

This collection of the music of "Uncle Hassell" is curated by his great-nephew,https://soundcloud.com/hanklebury.

*Don't believe everything you read, folks. I'm just indulging in a little imaginative exercise here.--HT

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