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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.

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paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson's most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson's haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

paperweight [naviarhaiku587]

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

accidental scary art

Visages Antiques: For Guitar

MST. From the album Flight of the Airborne Phantom.

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Composed and Produced by linakamura
Artwork/photography by linakamura
Released August 17th, 2025

Flight of the Airborne Phantom

Weltenbrand Absturz

Somewhere between ambient-drone, minimalism, experimental, post-rock and sometimes field recordings. Without computer editing.

Dreadful the stream (naviarhaiku590)

Daniele Marx