Akhira Sano – 'Keep Making Selects'

this is a sketch of mine from 2020, before i was releasing any music as marine eyes. i recently shared this on bandcamp via my new collection 'lessons in letting go: sketches + b-sides'

find that here: https://marineeyes.bandcamp.com/album/lessons-in-letting-go-sketches-b-sides

thanks for listening <3

triggers

This week's haiku challenge:

I write, erase, rewrite
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.

Haiku by Tachibana Hokushi

Submission deadline: 11th September 2024

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

I write, erase, rewrite (naviarhaiku557)

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/recollections

Recollections

Something Remembered

Skies

Tracklist

01. Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - Anther
02. Innesti - Around this Space
03. Halftribe - Elegant, Golden
04. América Analógica - Cortezas (i)
05. Hotel Neon - A Possible Past
06. Lorenz Weber -  Kokoro-nokori
07. Ohio - Crépescule
08. Richard Ginns - Incolors
09. Steve Pacheco -  Coming Into form
10. Twincities - In The Light Of The Carolina Hills

396. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Edited sample from the upcoming album, Anemoia. My thanks to Ian Haygreen for the photo. Full album now available... https://cousinsilas1.bandcamp.com/album/anemoia

Anemoia

Anemoia Part 1 (Edit)

Created in response to:

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Naviar Haiku challenge 580, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I used a combination of the probabilistic generative instrument Ongaku from Giorgio Sancristoforo; https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net Ongaku is just over half way down the page. And Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio: https://cherryaudio.com/products/voltage-modular I experimented with running Voltage as a plugin which allowed me to run it in parallel with Ongaku and make a single "Live" performance, the downside to this was that I couldn't assign physical controls, all mouse and window flipping.

The bell samples used at the beginning and which reappear later processed through granular synthesis and multiple delays are my own recordings.  

Quiescence-(naviarhaiku-580)

vandrarhem

A cover/remake of one of my favorite songs of all time. I made this as an inquiry into themes associated with my root chakra. I envisioned an empty desert at night, with me under a tree with bare branches. This image has accompanied me throughout my adolescence quite a lot, always as some sort of imaginary save haven, even though it feels like a place of great solitude. I hold a certain sense of melancholy and solitude very close to my heart, even though I can't quite put my finger on what it is exactly, there is something in those states that is incredibly dear to me. Maybe it is because in this image - alone under a tree in a desert, endless horizons, the sky always waxing and waning between twighlight and night - there is a quality of peace, and absence of hostility and danger, that enables a part of me to be and unfold itself.
At the same time - this is where the double-edged-sword-likeness of the situation lies - I'm alone. I'm by myself. There is no one around. I - the part of myself in that imagination - perceive other people as a threat. Still I long for company.
But I need to be here - this is heaven, even though it hurts.
This song is that place, that feeling, that part of me, made audible. This is what helps me connect to silence when I'm in the need of solitude. This helps me to accept that part of me, so it too may find true peace and love one day. This is what aids me in transforming the loneliness and sadness I hold. Or in relating differently to the loneliness and sadness I hold.
I sincerely hope and wish, for those of you who can relate, that this song can offer something of similar importance.
Maybe we are together in solitude. 

Hiatus [Stone in Focus Cover]

Canto 30: more sins than thou
In the circle of falsifiers, the sinners argue about who has the most sins.

This track contains modified Creative Commons samples from:

tictac9
https://freesound.org/people/tictac9/sounds/517057/
nthnh
https://freesound.org/people/nthnh/sounds/489077/
BaDoink
https://freesound.org/people/BaDoink/sounds/544694/
TheFlyFishingFilmmaker
https://freesound.org/people/TheFlyFishingFilmmaker/sounds/641703/
JohnLaVine333
https://freesound.org/people/JohnLaVine333/sounds/723055/
frederic.font
https://freesound.org/people/frederic.font/sounds/427590/

Thank You!

30 canto: more sins than thou

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

I write, erase, rewrite (naviarhaiku557)

undermulden