An exercise in sound design, responding to the 563rd Naviar Haiku challenge (https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku563-autumn-wind/), a sound response to the weekly haiku, this time by Mukai Kyorai:

autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

Picture by Ehud Neuhaus: https://unsplash.com/photos/low-angle-sepia-photography-of-trees-under-clouds-v9afA-or1IM

Autumn Wind (naviarhaiku563)

"She Loves February" embodies the intense balance between openness and the unsaid.

The soundtrack is part of a bigger project titled "Johann", a Compilation released under NOOX and dedicated to Piano Day 2025. Whilst this collective effort pays homage to a musical instrument that is more or less our society's paradigm of human expression through sound since the 19th Century, we mustn't forget who basically set the rules for keyboard musical writing, changing the whole game forever. So, happy Piano Day, but also happy "Johann".

▶️ Buy High-Quality Digital Track: https://edoardogastaldi-music.bandcamp.com/track/she-loves-february
▶️ Listen on other Platforms: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/edoardogastaldi1/she-loves-february
▶️ Listen to the Johann Compilation on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AsGdZIAdx9XOlYshkhiHK
▶️ Download FREE Sheet Music: https://www.modernclassicalmusic.com/free-sheet-music/

🔗 Connect with Edoardo Gastaldi: https://solo.to/edoardo-gastaldi

Credits below.

Artist: Edoardo Gastaldi
Genre: Ambient, Piano, Instrumental
Cover Art: Doug Thomas
Mastering: Davide Fasiello
Record Label: NOOX
Release Date: 28/03/2025

© 2025 NOOX
℗ 2025 NOOX

She Loves February [Johann Compilation, Piano Day 2025]

Dust is a piece about hope, anticipation, and the slow process of self-discovery—created especially for Drone Day 2025.

Built from looped and layered piano tones, black noise, and found textures, it balances stillness with subtle motion. The track explores the tension between clarity and murk, drawing inspiration from the textured minimalism of Taylor Deupree’s "Flashfires" and other ambient works.

Crafted using the Organelle, Onward dynamic sampler pedal, dictaphone, and field recordings.

Photo by Kier in Sight Archives: https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-abstract-painting-eIfyn3JRA8M

Dust (Drone Day 2025)

An album inspired by evocative locations in the UK. Using a variety of digital instruments and techniques, the music is a semi improvisational response to landscape, encapsulating the feeling of place and time in an abstract, open and non-directed way.

Calshot

Scourie

25-09-20 Buchla Easel

Winter is not even here yet but I'm already thinking about it. Hope we get some snow this year.

White Winter Dream

Slow Render

🔗 Listen & support:
Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Resonant Matter

Preorder and the next single Eupnea (ft. @hyperbox ) from the upcoming Dreone album Hanuš now live from @stereoscenic :
https://dreone.bandcamp.com/album/hanu

https://open.spotify.com/album/4kT5pNtEoedBdqYe37pgJ6

https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08QYPYMMQ

Digipack with a hard-book style cover, 7mm spine. Glass-mastered CD with paper inner-sleeve is held in a printed sleeve (3mm spine) glued to the inside of the book. Edition of 100.

Hanuš is a holistic collection of remembrance and reflection of my late friends John and Jacob, both of which are the names of the main characters in the film Spaceman which coincidentally became a deep inspiration while writing, recording and forming its concept. The overall theme of the Dreone project (as some may already know from Driftdown Procedure) is that the souls and spirit of my fallen companions live within the systems of a sentient spacecraft and its humanoid manifestation/android, the notion of which allows me the mental freedom to explore the cosmos through music and be a bit more experimental with my sound. This album in particular is about them traveling together through the echoes of memories and the loneliness of space to witness the beginning and end of everything, leading the listener to acceptance through catharsis. 

Gear used on this album includes, Arturia Mini and Microfreak, Arturia Pigments, Tascam 414 MKII tape loops, ESP LTD MH-400 B Baritone guitar, Collision Devices Blackhole Symmetry, and Bitwig.

music & artwork by Bryan Hilyard 
with special guests AJK and Brian Stegmann 
mastering by @andrewklimek

Bandcamp

Eupnea (feat. hyperbox)

Innumerable stars
Looks like floated algae
In my mind
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Returning to the Naviar Haiku challenge after a long while, as well as testing new gear: this track is entirely made with the Organelle, with added effects to process and loop the sounds, then mixed on a cassette 4-track recorder for extra warmth. 

Hope you like it!
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Naviar Haiku challenge #307: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2019/11/20/naviarhaiku307-innumerable-stars/
Poem: Iida Dakotsu
Picture: Cristian Palmer (https://unsplash.com/@cristianpalmer)

Innumerable (naviarhaiku307)

Ambient textures, granular atmospheres, and evolving soundscapes.

100% human-made music - no AI involved.

I release new tracks almost daily - fragments of tone shaped by silence, noise, and time.

Follow to drift with me.

Resonant Matter

ambiMatter