What are the Drones, Mr. Jones?

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This track is a union of three different drafts found in the archive were composed between November 2023/2024 and February 2025. The initial piano part is totally improvised and freely inspired by the world of serial music.
The title of the work of the first part had already been conceived when I found the cover photo on the web which somehow refers to the concepts and contents of the track.
Following a brief description (not mine) of the contents of the photo: 

"It is 1966 when the reverend Ralph Hardy decided to take a photograph at the imposing staircase of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.
At the time of the development of the roll, however, here is a strange figure resting on the handrail. The photo quickly becomes a source of great curiosity and the original negative is examined by several experts, including even some Kodak men, who, however, do nothing but ascertain their lack of manipulations.
To date, the shot is one of the most famous ghosts photographs. "

work in progress

precious ghosts_nothingness

this collapsing

fog dissolves to rain - cool breezes clear the vista, showing cloud-topped hills

haiku by Raymond Cobley.  I took the first line of this haiku as a world of inspiration, actual thunder and rain recordings as well as rainstick instrument, granular treatment in Live, Resynthesis in Metasynth, Production in Logic.

Fog Storm Rain (Naviar Haiku 586 )

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Ossarium Animarum Perditarum

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”  ― Guy de Maupassant

Track list and start times:
00:00  Jake Muir – Siren's Call
04:31  Ecclesiastical Scaffolding – Heavy Lies The Afternoon Heat*
10:14  Belial Pelegrim – TAFFETA | 234
16:54  Amby Downs – Garrawang Biderap Black Field Cricket Mating Song (Excerpt)*
21:48  Object Collection – Disappear By Fire
25:26  Pharmakon – Nakedness of Need
31:38  claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmofind – yourself in a hole on the beach
36:06  Erik Griswold & Rebecca Cunningham – Sounding Tides
42:20  Loop(c)y - Afterglow Of Memory
45:36  Ambient Annie – When The Gale Has Passed
52:08  Hari Maia – Static Eyes
58:29  Lost Ether – Mavis and Roland have a Picnic*
1:02:25  Throbbing Gristle – Exotic Functions
1:06:35  Velvet Something Superdark – Those Were The Days
1:11:09  Mat Ward – Caligo Paean (excerpt)
1:25:03  Jake Muir – Spectre's Bonfire
1:31:28  Jimmy Lem – Downstream Procrastination
1:34:43  vheissu77 – hazy rays (naviarhaiku592)
1:39:50  Cadlag – Integral (excerpt)
1:45:44  Deaf Center – Rev (edit)
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* From the recent release “Anthology Of Experimental Music From Australia” from Unexplained Sounds Group
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-experimental-music-from-australia

Eclectic current – Memory upgrade required

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a somewhat melancholic dialogue between two different personalities :-)

2025-06-21

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