Name: The Figment by Electric Supply Station
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: Original score inspired by the Collin Armstrong novel Polybius

ambient 10

a project created in december 2020 found from the archive 

Procedure:
A MIDI sequence was created with Elektron Octatrack,
which drives a piano track in Ableton.
The sequence was then broken down into four melodic lines.
The first line were transposed by +7 semintones
the second by +11 semitones
the third -13 semitones
the fourth line remains in the same pitch
then the harmony was extracted from each melodic line.
For each track, the ghost plays its part and sings as it pleases.
Next, for the sake of musicality, each ghost decides which notes to play and which to omit from its part.
During the performance the Time increase and the ensemble takes place
second take with the "singing ghost" track add

work in progress 

cover art is a waterpaint made by me in 1999

ghost I *take two

breaking open

For Anthony Cutrera Morales
https://soundcloud.com/carum-2
October 3, 2025

LETTER TO ANTHONY

I felt like fabricating another dadagedidicht - dada poem ;-)
The acquaintance depicted is a chance encounter in Delphi quite some time ago.
all the sounds, words, composition and image: copyright jo richter



aliquot

das ich verlangt vom gegen-ich
aliquot zu tönen
als gelte es unweigerlich
sich nach sich zu sehnen


cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliquot
interlinear translation: aliquot // the ego asks the anti-ego / to resonate in harmony / as though it was invetable / for the ego to long for itself

aliquot -ein lofi dadagedidicht

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #613. More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Star Above The Peak - naviarhaiku613

Original score inspired by the Collin Armstrong novel Polybius

The Figment

This was the last song I got to play for my mother...the original was just one track of  hog fiddle (mountain dulcimer) and the only time she acknowledged that I might have had a spark of something...the picture from https://soundcloud.com/remnant60/projecta-minute-50/comment-2434934928 was taken when I helped inter her...
This has a couple of synth tracks to get closer to my first vision...
PS, bending strings on a mountain dulcimer will just get you a scratched up fretboard...

Old Barn Cat

A reworking for this track in my archive originally created in autumn 2024, after a few versions in the last year i  find it fits well with the context of Haiku Music Challenge Naviarhaiku 617



an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki



Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

more info here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/

an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku#617)

The Universe Will Respond (2025).

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I DO NOT ACCEPT REPOST COMMUNITY REQUESTS, PLEASE DON’T WASTE MY TIME

Music composer and Soundscape designer.

Heavily influenced by Beaumont Hannant, Autechre, Brian Eno and a wealth of styles ranging from classical music through to DC Hardcore.
I love the organic feel of music and the creation of warmth within patterns.
Trying to create soundtracks to everyday life and images.


Tracks available on my YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29fEzmTPEV69UKepjsDHxQ?view_as=subscriber

New EP available on Open Case Recordings https://www.facebook.com/1683424458553112/posts/2506179442944272/

The Figment

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