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Upper Rooms - Epitaph 1

Violin-bow on electric guitar. Analogue bass synthesizer. Two tube amps. Summer rain at night. Heat. All Sounds/ Mix/ Image: VSS.

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Heat

‘sine experientia non sunt nisi ideae’
Modular Hedonism.
Track created in 2023.

A track produced with a modular synth and a hint of jazz & blues in mind.
A shout-out to @joerxworx for his work, his talent, and for introducing us to so many wonderful tracks through his reposts :)

Tools :
Marbles, A-160-2, Varigate, SIG.
- Basimilus.
- Drum2 (noise crush).
- Telharmonic (H out) > Sisters > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > Motomouth > Fold 6 > Verb.
Mutes, Buff Mult, Sinc Defero.
Zadar, Batumi (saw), Ochd.
Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

In Freiheit [modular hedonism]

Dark ambient approach to Sylvia Plath's Poem "Sheep in Fog", featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-3. Music VSS (guitar, percussion) & SnowOmen (4 hands, 8 glasses, water, table). Image: VSS. Poem: Sylvia Plath, read by VSS.

Sylvia Plath: Sheep in Fog (1965)

The hills step off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

The train leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Horse the cololur of rust,

Hooves, dolorous bells - 
All morning the 
Morning has been blackening,

A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.

They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.

Dark Water

https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/passages
Number 4 of five pieces combining a solo-piano improvisation by VSS with a live-recording of Snow*Omen: https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/improvisation-nr-4 (excerpts).
Snow*Omen: e-guitars, violin-bow, singing glasses, voice. VSS: e-piano, effect pedals, non-synchronized loops, two tube amps. Edited and mixed in Audacity. Image: VSS.

Passage Four

More interesting audio @ https://adammajdecki-janicki.bandcamp.com/. Vinyl @ https://herbyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/adam-majdecki-janicki

"Maszyneria Edenu"

‘redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris, et quae sunt Dei Deo’
Wastes & Sequences.
Track created in 2023.

“To meet and balance the needs of our society, our economy and our planet, European companies are developing new processes and technologies that are based on biology. (…) As defined by the OECD, biotechnology applies science and technology to living organisms, as well as parts, products and models of them, to alter living or non-living materials to produce knowledge, goods and services.” (europa.eu) [sic]

Tools :
Marbles, A-160-2.
- Nebulae (vocal sample) > Data Bender.
- Morphagene (low pitch sample) > Verb.
- Disting mk4 (H-7 Noise) > DSP (reverb).
- Telharmonic (H out) > Sisters > A-138s > Desmodus Versio.
Zadar, Batumi, Ochd, Rnd Step, Buff Mult, Sinc Defero.
Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Biotech [wastes & sequences]

Nero Ex Tutti.

Inside The Open

Firebreaks

what did you expect

Handmade (Dark) (Experimental) Ambient

Velvet Something Superdark creates ambient, post-rock and experimental sound art with guitars, piano, analogue synthesizer, field recordings, found objects, voice and noise. The spectrum ranges from roaring drones to dreamy improvisations, from abstract or cinematic soundscapes to poetic songlike pieces. No artificial ingredients. 

Velvet Something Superdark is 1/2 of  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen