While visiting Hawaii in March of 2022 I enjoyed unique patches of the bamboo forest on Maui. The sound of the environment completely changed as soon as I entered the thick forest. In the dense bamboo a compelling percussive sound starts in the distance and ebbed toward me as the wind swayed the tall skinny shoots. Clicking and clacking together it felt as if this spontaneous rhythm passed through me.

Hawaii - Wind In The Bamboo Forest - 25 minutes of Nature

A long soundscape across Dawn in the Queets River Valley rainforest of the Olympic National Park. Starting in Astronomical Twilight, a small herd of Roosevelt Elk walks in from a distance, though a small forest glade, an away towards the Queets River bed.

Early Autumn rainfall and dropping Maple Leaves are the dominant sounds to begin, their pak-pak-spaks are a reminder that time passes, even in the still quiet of a moss-covered forest.

Highway 101 in less than 12 miles away, and distant traffic is funneled up the Valley, showing the difficulty of escaping human-generated sound. This has been mitigated somewhat with light processing, but close listening and inspection will make remnants evident. There are no other edits or processes committed.

I love the crisp cold air of the rainforests in the fall. Sounds, natural and human generated, carry into the distant. Tucked into my sleeping bag, I lay back in my small tent, listening to the forest awaken. Where once there was just the soft distant wash of the river, the elk are joined by the local birds. Steller's Jays shriek their song with grating-yet-amusing "CHA-CHA-CHA-CHAs". A Northern Saw-whet toots in the forest canopy. Young Varied Thrush practice their songs, not quite reaching the beautiful and haunting signature fluting of their predecessors, instead emitting a silly buzzer-bell-like noise. Pacific Wren singing at the end of their season and the occasional Kingfisher make an appearance as well. Noe of these complete with the sheer vibrance of the elk.

Roosevelt Elk or Roosevelt's Wapiti or Rainforest Elk are the largest remaining elk species in North America and thrive in shadowy silences of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. Bull's bugles and roars echo through the trees, becoming one of the signature sounds of the Olympic Mountains. The cows mew and squeal in return, listening for one another to not wander far astray.

The small herd is a tight-nit family group, a with one, maybe two, dominant bulls, five or six cows in their harem, and a handful of young. The dominant bull leads the group on a daily hike, down from the upper valley to the river and back again. Their bugles urge the group, both signaling the direction to go and scolding those that dawdle. As they pass through the glade, their heavy footfall on the vegetative floor thump-thump-thumps their presence as much as the vocalizations and the continued crushing of vegetation as they push by.

I can't get enough of their energy. They pull back frequently. No matter how many times I encounter them, Elk never cease to awe me.

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Northwest Soundscapes

Queets River Valley Rainforest Dawn with Roosevelt Elk

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The album: Future of the Universe
The Future of the Universe.... dark territory. Our fates will have been sealed long before the last black hole of the universe dies out, long before total heat death, long before time ceases to exist...

Release date: 02-12-2022 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:
01 Aestheia - Unrecognizable Constellations
02 Andawan - Vanishing Rings of Saturn
03 Big Beech - Unpredictable Orbits
04 Orbital Hum - Galactic Year
05 Xavion - Blinding Sun
06 Time Away - Living On Mars
07 Tuuligan - Milky Way Collides With Andromeda
08 Talking To Ghosts - The Giant Sun
09 Cosmic Cadence - Slowing Stars
10 Colin Stevens - Exhausted Stars
11 Wane Of Summer - The Big Rip
12 Roberto Sass - Super Galaxy
13 Ambient Indigo - Orbital Decay
14 Progeny-1 - Death Of The Last Star
15 Hellweed - Frozen Sun
16 Ancient Astronaut - Galaxy Ejection
17 Ivan Black - Black Holes Eat All
18 Colin Stevens - Death Of The Last Black Hole
19 Time Away - Time Ceases To Exist

The artwork:
Roberto Sass

Mastering:
Chris Held

Time Away: https://soundcloud.com/timeaway
Roberto Sass: https://soundcloud.com/dj-rubberman
Colin Stevens: https://soundcloud.com/colin-stevens
Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Ivan Black: https://soundcloud.com/ivan-black
Progeny-1: https://soundcloud.com/progeny-1-617773258
Tuuligan: https://soundcloud.com/tuuligan
Orbital Hum: https://soundcloud.com/orbital-hum
Tolubai: https://soundcloud.com/tolubai
Ambient Indigo: https://soundcloud.com/ambientindigo
Big Beech: https://soundcloud.com/big-beech
Wane of Summer: https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
XaVioN: https://soundcloud.com/xavion79
Talking to Ghosts: https://soundcloud.com/talkingtoghosts
Cosmic Cadence: https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-cadence
Hellweed: https://soundcloud.com/hellweed
Aestheia: https://soundcloud.com/aestheia
Ancient Astronaut: https://soundcloud.com/ancientastronaut9

Future of The Universe

Vanishing Rings of Saturn

Vanishing Rings Of Saturn

Piano piece written for Piano Day 2023 and dedicated to an artist that means a lot to me. 

Be is a piece about just being in the here and now while being a part of this mystical and magical universe that surrounds us 💫

Hope you like it and enjoy 🎹

Bjørn-Henrik Zink - Be (Piano Day 2023)

On April 8, 2023, 3/4 of the target number of songs for this project is just achieved. Taking that opportunity, I plan to change the thumbnail for each song on soundcloud. I plan to change it to an image of a Japanese anime woman that I feel is pretty good these days. It has already been used in the music video below. Please take a look if you like.

Today's music video with beautiful anime girl with her face animations here.. 
https://youtu.be/vhzg04qN7cc

#3406: Apr. 12, 2023: How far away the stars seem (this title is from "The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3406(75.1%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

How Far Away The Stars Seem - #3406 By Chair House 230412

From April 23, 2023, I decided to use the AI-ART registered on #Artstation, which I create using image generation AI every day, as my daily cover art instead of the female art created by image generation AI. . I hope you all enjoy it.

Today's music video with beautiful goddess with her face animations by Stable Diffusion, AI here.. 
https://youtu.be/_o1cMiwAHCY

#3419: Apr. 25, 2023: Eternal beauty wandering on her way ("The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats") 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3419(75.4%) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.

######## NEW 23rd SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Golden Light" - the 23rd selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

Youtube: Full(20 songs, 50 minutes) and Free 4K Video with Super Beautiful Motion Graphics of Artgrid
https://youtu.be/3Gc813k8eec

Youtube: Digest of "Golden Light" music video. 12 minutes in 4K
https://youtu.be/GB7oBTB0yOo

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kJ3Xoy0jSjx1AmUNyKu6T

apple music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/golden-light-piano-ten-thousand-leaves-volume-23/1662304120

amazon music
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BRJ258Z7?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

Line Music
https://music.line.me/webapp/album/mb0000000002b2e80a

AWA
https://s.awa.fm/album/948948aecf74cfc9ee19

Other Every music streaming services in the world
https://linkco.re/QebcGtzF?lang=en

Eternal Beauty Wandering On Her Way - #3419 By Chair House 230425

a piano improvisation with uncertain loops

Head Bowed, Voice Quiet, In The Warm Wind

Sinnsuche

Sinnsuche - Search for meaning

2023-08-14

the Path To Knowledge

2023-11-18

Close Your Eyes To The Gorgon

5:4 with some 7-limit cubes

Stacy Fahrion is a composer-pianist and educator based in Colorado, and is currently creating music in just intonation that frequently features polyrhythms, polymeters, and isorhythm.

5:4 with some 7-limit cubes

Whimsically Macabre