Tuonela

Made for Naviar Records' 589th Haiku Challenge.

Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole. ― Frank Zappa Track list and start times: 00:00 zenbytes – curve of time [Naviarhaiku577] 02:50 Western Skies Motel – Myriads 08:47 A Million Burning Suns – The Human Brains 14:46 halF unusual – halF unrunG [disquiet0682] 16:55 restjbo – Koyaanisqatsi 20:42 Steven Ray – Contemplating My Resolve 26:36...

The noosphere lives upstairs by Tuonela

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ― Lao Tzu Track list and start times: 00:00 Ivan Black – A Need To Understand 09:28 LLIAN – Torpeur 23:24 Marc-Andre Labelle – orb hovering above flower 28:27 Senglar – Cdenza 30:12 David Lee Myers – xenomorph 36:32 Gallery Six – Sousyun 42:06 Hüma Utku – Ayaz'a 46:56...

A black angel passing by by Tuonela

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ― H.G. Wells Track list and start times: 00:00 Henry Mancini & His Orchestra – Banzai Pipeline 02:30 Martin Pavey & Ben Wheatley – Metallic Fields 1 (Full Version) · 12:27 Gonçalo F Cardoso – Medusa Lake 16:44 Natasha Barrett-- The Swifts of Pesaro 22:40 Ausgesuchtestenohren – Purgatory 30:29 LunGao – Mathematical Real...

Over an over-reverbed version of the track was laid another which was progressively degraded using Audacity effects such as tempo shift, Paulstretch, delay and sliding stretch/pitch shift. A few degraded extracts were overlaid to add to the feeling of decay. ---------------------------------------------- The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart. Create a new piece of music b...

The path taken by Tuonela

“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Track list and start times: 00:00 Alex Roth – Amoeba (from ‘Viscera’) 03:47 Wonder City Orchestra – Islander 08:27 Suso Sáiz – Floating Into The Avalanche 13:52 Then She Reaches For The Gun – Diaphanousness 24:30 Ajna – Violet River (Two Suns) 31:41 Barton & Priscilla McLean – Voices Of The Invisible 37:35 Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Ex...

The alchemist's last dream by Tuonela

Nonexistence [naviarhaiku584] by Tuonela

Marraghul by Tuonela

Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want. – David H. Levy Track list and start times: 00:00 Night Of The Comet – Intro 01:20 Nicholas Britell – The Comet Appears 04:01 Pier WILL – Simplicity 07:39 Jonathan Beckenstein & Wodwo – The Go-Between 12:31 33per – Wordless (naviarhaiku532) 15:28 Theo Nugraha – Museum Tua 18:25 Compound Bunker – All Devouring Frozen Caver...

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“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” ― Jack Kerouac Track list and start times: 00:00 Jim Tetlow – Core & Smeltery (2023 Mix) 07:26 Night Note – Mount Asama (Naviarhaiku 579) 11:37 Michael D. Tidwell & Piscean Daydreams – Faint Whisper of a Wraith 15:57 Ambient Annie – Improvisation For Guitar And Assorted Ambience 20:10 insectarium – hagridden 25:56 Pacifi...

Doomsday The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans Atop the broken universal clock: The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens. Out painted stages fall apart by scenes While all the actors halt in mortal shock: The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans. Streets crack through in havoc-split ravines As the doomstruck city crumbles block by block: The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens. Fractured gla...

As I walked by the sea by Tuonela

Made for Naviar Record's 578th Haiku Challenge

The era of decline has commenced by Tuonela

Art work: 'Magicians of Dreams' by Leszek Kostuj aka FrodoK

This is composed solely of musical recordings of variable quality that I made during a tour of southern Spain in 2023; a National Day event in the square in Madrid, a religious parade through the streets of in Granada, a Flamenco show in Seville and the organ (and ambience) of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I made a rough assembly last year, disliked it and left it. I’ve warmed to it, a bit – i...

I used the same recording I made in 2013. Multiple edited copies were stretched, pitch-changed, put through different types of reverb, reversed, cut-up and re-edited, all using Audacity effects and plugins. The Vocoder and Phaser got a look in too. ---------------------------------------------- The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it. Welcome to a new year of...

Bhopal by Tuonela

A long way from where we thought we were by Tuonela