Tuonela

I was going to cover this with soundbites about ICE and their activities, but who needs that in their lives? I'd rather just listen to the noise. (I made this Followers Only, and nothing happened for 24 hours, no plays or feedback, (probably because I don't know how to use the system), so now it's public Thanks for being there, followers, some of you for many years now.)

Sometimes shit happens in a very satisfying way... The algorithm doesn't like it, says it's not ready or suitable to be pushed to interested listeners. I think that's some sort of compliment, I am really over algorithms.

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.” ― D.H. Lawrence Track list and start times: 00:00 Jellybeam – B Flat 06:58 Loo(p)cy – λogos sound noise 10:03 Méryll Ampe – Presagio 18:00 Stephen O'Malley – Smoking Mother 26:06 Antonio Murga – Le Temps n'existe pas 29:15 Helen Svoboda | Mike Roelofs | Andrew Saragossi – Ant Farm (Par...

It took a few adjustments so that the SoundCloud player could handle some of this track...

Image: Lexica.art

“There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.” ― André Breton Track list and start times: 00:00 The Rêve Orchestra – I Am Observer (excerpt) 06:37 The Islanders – Kon-Tiki 08:55 Stan Magendanz – no footpaths 15:56 El Wud – The anomalous geometries of darkness (naviarhaiku638) 19:42 KapTep & Brannan Lane – Music for Migraines (Part 10) 24:18 Dukes of Ch...

This went in a most unexpected direction...

Something that just happened

Recently Jo Richter (sonic structures and silent stretches) invited collaborations with the track https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/draengelgitter-instrumental This isn't what I initially intended, but it's what happened when I improvised on the track using Audiobulb's ambient v1 software. Realised in one take with some minor post-production to lessen distortion and add some subtle (for me) re...

“We pass through this world like two gnats in a husk of millet on a boundless ocean! I grieve that life is but a moment in time, and envy the endless current of the Great River.” ― Su Dongpo Track list and start times: 00:00 Andrew Weathers – There's Gold in These Hills (excerpt) 06:39 Ben Glas – Untitled VII 14:50 Loop(c)y – Love Stone 18:10 Porya Hatami &· Arovane – Feer 22:38 Saba Alizadeh – Fi...

Where to start? I assemble all my tracks in Audacity on my 15 year old PC and use every effect I touch way too much. For this one I picked reverb (specifically a plugin called Ambient Chamber on its “Space” setting), delay (always used irresponsibly and to excess), Paulstretch and Tempo Change. I stacked several of my recent tracks together and used all the above effects on them to varying degrees...

A bit time-lean on this one. I messed around with the sample, extending, adding reverb, converting with Harmonic Adder and ambient v.1, then spliced the results together. Tastier than expected. ---------------------------------------------- Step 1: Download the recording at the following link. It is the sound of cocoa powder being mixed in a ceramic cup of oat milk using a metal spoon: https://fre...

Made for Naviar Records' 639th Haiku Challenge

Been sitting around for a while. Originally made for an anti-form compilation, volume 12. The Soundcloud player couldn't cope with the original track so this is my 2nd attempt at a gentler mix. Turned out more, er, melodic than I expected.

An unreleased track from 2015, remixed, enhanced and mercifully shortened.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton Track list and start times: 00:00 Loop(c)y – The Distance Becoming Light 03:55 Laurel Halo – Reading the Air 09:25 auntsoot – Schwarzwelt (excerpt) 17:45 fectoper – Aus des weltalls ferne (naviarhaiku635) 25:17 loscil – First Narrows 35:17 Okkyung Lee – Sky 41:54 Van Der Graaf Generator – A Plag...

Doubtful ancestry 02 by Tuonela

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” ― Cormac McCarthy Track list and start times: 00:00 ray_cobley – In the Temple Hall (naviarhaiku634) 03:42 Offland – Harrier 08:42 Voidborn Horde – Season Memories (naviarhaiku633) 13:02 Negative Influence – The Inferno Waltz 18:30 Andreas Voelk & Scott Monteith – And All The Clocks Ran Dry Part II (excerpt) 23:23 Deaf...

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury

Somaesthetic sentience by Tuonela

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” ― William Gibson .......

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius

My God, it's full of stars!" is a famous line from Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (Chapter 39), uttered by astronaut David Bowman as he enters the alien monolith. While iconic, this exact phrase is notably absent from Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation, becoming a lasting point of discussion. Made for Naviar Records' 635th Haiku Challenge from some sonic bits and pieces.

Terra incognita by Tuonela

“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.” ― William Gibson Track list and start times: 00:00 El Wud – The cloud and the snail (naviarhaiku632) 08:42 Austin Williamson + Blanket Swimming – Temporary Utopias 16:10 John Duncan – Tempered 23:07 ambiMatter – Liminal Spaces - Plane 29:53 numbers in the dream – Shine The Lamp From The Cliff Edge 40:20 KMRU – They Are Here 4...