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haiku #571: stillness: / the sound of petals / sifting down together.

a long experimentation session between different live recordings, post-process samples and piano improvisation held last summer.

Anti_matter

Anti_Matter

C'est une vieille piste que je partage à nouveau, réflexion sur une peur de la mort, fondée sur une perception erronée de l'altérité.
Pas vraiment fier du résultat, mais je le partage malgré tout.
Il faut avancer malgré les blessures du passé.

Terrible solipsisme (2008)

"Doomsday Clock"-Remix. Electric guitar, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps, wind chime, voice. All sounds, mixing and production: VSS. Original Track: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/doomsday-clock. Image: Miniature installation, photo (VSS).

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Deeper (Doomsday Clock Remix)

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Haiku by Miura Chora: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7303145.Ueda_Akinari

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

more halF unusuaL

halF siftinG [naviarhaiku571]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
571
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku571-stillness/

2024-12-13

stilnes  (Naviarhaiku 571)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 11 Dec 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this I used 3 instances of VCV Rack running Voxglitch ArpSeq within Ableton Live. In Live, I was running FL Studio with Sytrus loaded, Live's Wavetable and Arturia's Arp 2600. From about 23 minutes, I used this small section towards the end and did a bit of editing.

This original version of "So Glad To See You Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 571, Stillness.  

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.
by: Miura Chora

Miura Chora (1729-1780) was a Japanese poet from Toba (present-day Mie Prefecture). Early in his career, he came into contact with the Teimon School, and bonded with the great Yosa Buson. An admirer of Matsuo Bashō, he strived for a return to the simple tones and spirit of the latter's poetics, criticizing the vulgarization of haiku of his era and advocating the so-called "return" to a Bashō's style.

Photography/visual editing by Jim Lemanowicz, 30 Nov 2018, Whitney Museum Of American Art, NYC, USA

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

So Glad To See You Again (naviarhaiku571)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Sifting Down (naviarhaiku571)

stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

by: Miura Chora

Phase Out Tenfolds - Naviarhaiku571

Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 571.
Sur un haïku de Miura Chora (1729-1780):
stillness:
the sound of petals
sifting down together.

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Petal's Stilness

We will withstand!

miXture_02

vayovoorth_02

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

17 moon sea

Balance

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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Petal's Stilness

Anne Versailles

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