This week's task is rather serendipitous in that I am actually engaged in some minor wood working this weekend. I recently built a small Buchla 100 system (and its case), consisting of what is shown in the image and the as yet unhoused (and not shown) 114 touch control module, which is what the piece of unstained pine sitting on top of the Buchla is destined for. I selected pine because my woodworking skills are still rather rudimentary so working with higher priced and more difficult lumber makes me nervous. Plus, there is something comforting about pine's ubiquity and approachability. Making a mistake with pine seems excusable. Doing so with walnut or oak less so. That said, I got to thinking about the pine that I picked up at my local lumber shop in terms of the conditions under which it is grown and the vast quantities of trees that are stripped from the land so that people like me can make boxes for their vintage synthesizers. Sonically, I imagined this as a somewhat discordant drone, with peaks and valleys and occasional moments of harmony. The trees grow, mainly in a state or quietude, before they are cut down and processed to the sound of chain saws and saw blades. And then everything goes quiet again as the next crop is planted.  Graphically, I notated this imagined scenario as a series of constant lines, punctuated here and there with peaks, valleys, bright and dark spots, representing in part the knots and impurities in the pine but also the experience of the piece of wood in its transition from tree to commodity. Everything you hear was created on my humble System 100, which was first fed through the Empress Zoia pedal using the "soft focus" effect created by Christopher H.M. Jacques and then further transformed in Logic using "fragments," and "motion" from Arturia, with hints of the unprocessed Buchla emerging here and there. And there was panning. Lots of panning, so headphones are the preferred listening approach.

disquiet0690

First Reeds

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku590-dreadful-the-stream/

Thank you Marco.

Dreadful the stream (naviarhaiku590)

2025-05-03

opposites

Resisting Eternal Oblivion

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” ― N.K. Jemisin
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Track list and start times:
00:00  Malady of Knots – Roads like seas like fossilised thought (excerpt)
04:50  Ramón Sánchez – Orbiting Mendacem
13:39  Night Note – The past, immutable (Naviarhaiku 588 )
19:05  Andrew Lang – Regime Shift
24:14  Pendro – Red Veils and Black Sands
29:22  Kazuya Ishigami – kiii
37:30  Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – night in our eyes
44:21  fr0ggy5 – my father's antique cowbells FOUR
46:42  Ian Craig – Ghost of the Radiophonic Workshop on LV-426 (Emporium Edit v8c) (excerpt)
56:02  Laboratorium Expiravit – Wormhole Freedive
1:02:53  Battle Elf – Behind the Wilderness
1:12:30  Plague Relic – Storm Wizards Madness
1:16:44  Kloob & Onasander – Khthon
1:23:33  Monogoto – In Situ - Upper Air (deletion 19)
1:31:01  vheissu77 – touching the water (naviarhaiku581)
1:35:05  Kazuya Ishigami – Cancel Again
1:40:00  loscil – Lake Fire
1:46:47  Jaime Munarriz – The Little Travels Of Delia Derbyshire
1:49:57  Jonah Segers – Mesozoïcun
1:53:34  Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – we fall into heaven
2:05:34  Un Festin Sagital – Bajo un Sol Inclemente
2:23:00  T – Endmix
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Eclectic current – For a moment we thought we were home

accidental scary art

Exile Elixir

Visages Antiques: For Guitar

go to the church [inside]

chasing signals 2

In dialogue with sound and resonances within ambient-drone, minimalism, and post-rock. Playing guitar and using pedals, with occasional field recordings. Captured without digital post-production, letting the moment’s constraints collide and emerge.

Dreadful the stream (naviarhaiku590)

Daniele Marx