"Crystal Garden"
valhjim

Wander through a surrealistic garden where colors and textures shift to touch of eye and hand. Stroll through pathways of sound and note-clusters of neon music fruits delight the ear and the listener's taste in this musical ouvre by Valhjim. 
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valhjim: synthesizers and samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Crystal Garden

Another snippet from Caligo Paean - beware of gifts when chasing gods : ) 

Caligo Paean is a 1 hour long sound piece installed on river front property in the town of Franklin, Tasmania as part of the exhibition "When The Fog Clears". It formed part of the Ten Days on The Island Festival March 2025.
The work was installed in several locations across the property including a stack of subs under an old bus, in the main exhibition space and in an abandoned shed some 40 metres from the main area . The speakers were 'tuned' quite differently depending on their location and the sound was not delay corrected with the result of each mini-installation merging with each other in odd sonic ways - kind of calling the listener from one spot to another. The the work features field recordings, percussion, piano, bass guitar and Intonarumori as well as this special one off choir : )

Caligo is the Ancient goddess of Chaos. Born of the fog she controls the darkness, dwells in the void and is as old as the primordial matter that created the universe. This work is a tribute to the goddess as she continues to influence our lives and, in the case of this installation, the site and concept informing the show.

Official press release below for The Fog Clears

Every day, the mists of the Huon Valley perform a seductive dance, gently obscuring and revealing contours of the fertile land and waters. Situated in The Watershed Franklin, When The Fog Clears features six artists from lutruwita / Tasmania exploring the region’s iconic mists through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, illustration, sound, and video.

Developed exclusively for Franklin, this exhibit extends from the waterfront itself into the chambers, kilns, and rafters of the shed, inviting visitors to consider fog as an atmosphere that can cloak us in unexpected ways.



Caligo Paean (A gift, a choice)

Inspired by Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor Op.36
Overwhelmed by the pain and suffering of mortal men, women and children, she pleads for divine intervention.

Her Prayer

Time Travels

spinaround

“Smokey Hornz” by Luke

I figure I’d experiment using my old piano & my old trumpet my old skins and a touch of synth’s ..
it’s definitely a unique  piece

Keys & Piano & Synthesizer & trumpet & Drums  by Luke
Created & Composed & Produced by Luke
Music & Track & Album Photos by Luke
Photography by Luke
I use Open A.i for Album art pictures 

                           Beats by Luke©️
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“Smokey Hornz” by Luke

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The Compulsive Obsession - Short Movie main theme. Now on Fetchflix

Octave Buzzkillington is a janitor during the day working at the new baroque ballroom in Washington D.C. and hiding a pianist virtuosity after the sun is down and the ballroom left to itself. He can only play one masterpiece. The last movement “Scherzando ma Vendetta” of the “Evil” Piano Concerto in CBD Flat Medium Rare Opus 666 decomposed by Syrel because the composer was smoking cannabis while composing that concerto. Unfortunately, Octave Buzzkillington is also a psychopath and kills woman on the younger side during the night. He cleans his mess perfectly and complete his compulsive obsession by practicing over and over the same music, the last movement of the “Evil” Piano Concerto in CBD Flat Medium Rare by Syrel which disappeared mysteriously when the East wing was demolished. Only the Scherzando ma Vendetta movement was found few years ago by Octave while cleaning the Steinway Grand of the ballroom. Will Octave be able to continue his sequential killing without being caught by the police before his president being convicted for felony? Noooo, he will get a grace from his president.

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. And for those who did not get it, Fetchflix TV is also fictitious.”

Music: Syrel
Photography: Meta AI

Musical Note: Better have 6 fingers in each hands, seven if you are lucky and hands 12 inches wide to play that one Mr. Rachmaninoff. Syrel likes to use the classical cliché and there are plenty of those in the piano repertoire. Some concertos, if not most, could be summarized into a 15 minutes masterpiece if you remove all the uninspired filling, arpeggios and repetitions. Nevertheless, I believe it sounds more like Chopin. What do you think?

The Compulsive Obsession

pour changer d'ambiance, de style, de rythme

l'appel du soir

Heaven Lifts My Soul

Thank you Seagull and David for your exquisite musical canvas.

Find Seagull's brilliant music here: @farout-music-studio

Find David's sublime guitar work here: @david-dunhamuser589535203
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Oh dear.

We really haven't done very well with what we were gifted. 
 
Have we?

In any sense, under any interpretation, through any lens, via any belief system, under any political prism, upon any philosophical foundation, we have utterly corrupted the entirety of the social, cultural, spiritual, environmental and biological ecosystem that we touch, and which defines and sustains what we understand as "life" on our home planet.

And on every front, by all metrics, under any assessment - empirical, analytical, theoretical, logical, it gets progressively worse.

Every day.

Oh dear.
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Deep Inside

When your broken moral compass assaults his eternal soul
When folk apportion token fault upon what little faith I hold
When humanity has knifed itself, and hope bleeds from infernal holes
When night's arrival, day concedes, its warmth displaced by bitter cold

When evolution's vanities lie buried deep in fossil earth
When pagan rite insanities, render cheap, their measly worth
When any good God's lessons die 'neath cloven crackled mirth
When children' hearts bear tender fear from the very instance of their birth

When the simplest of kindnesses stands blatantly denied
When respect for fellow mortal lands gutter-bound, cast aside
When the spyglass is inverted to inspect what’s deep inside
When the court of civil fortitude finds us guilty as described

When the very least of all is but the best that can be done 
When portends toss and nightmares turn, and grace is on the run
When you, my friend must burn your shame, face the shadows of our sun
Then all is lost, accept the blame, for hell on earth has just begun.

Deep Inside .....with Seagull and David Dunham

Irish Night (Rehearsal)

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.