Jazzaria – Regrowth
Jazzaria
“Regrowth”
That which ceases often returns. Withering and growth are a pair – but the form of regrowth is not bound by the original, and can contain surprises.
Featuring strings, drum kit, piano, acoustic guitar, upright bass, flute, oboe, birds, and effects.
Jazzaria – The Right Amount of Purpose
Jazzaria
“The Right Amount of Purpose”
There are many things to know about, many things to do –
Wrongs that must be righted, suff’ring to eschew.
Yet if one becomes overwhelmed, subscribes to everything,
Their efforts will be languished, and their misery will cling.
If you want to change the world, take it one step at a time:
The Right Amount of Purpose guides you while you make your climb.
Featuring percussion, acoustic guitar, upright bass, orchestral strings, brass, choir, organ, piano, violin, and effects.
Jazzaria – Spikes and Soul
Jazzaria
“Spikes and Soul”
Spikes and soul, they do not counteract – sometimes spikes are needed to transact. Sadly, because when one expects, they gird, to feel yet protect.
Featuring strings, drum kit, upright piano, double bass, acoustic guitar, birds, organ, and effects.
Spore Designers – Cultural Strains
Spore Designers
“Cultural Strains”
The Necrophile Hummingbird Netlabel presents Cultural Strains by Spore Designers.
“Dark Synthetic Music for Human Synthesizer”
Spore Designers are : HOMO | OresteS
When everything is possible, why do we make certain choices instead of others?
Experimenting with art—like music—is one of the most inspiring and transcendental things to do, at least for me. When you open new paths, traveling through unexplored lands, you are not here to plant a flag and colonize. Instead, you are drawing maps so that younger pioneers coming after you can reach these deeper places in the unknown and, in turn, open new paths themselves. Perhaps, just as Coil amongst many others did for us.
It’s more like opening your eyes, witnessing the light of a new day awakening. This expanded field of possibilities is a kind of call to all imprisoned musicians to break free from their cages.
Spore Designers is what happens when HOMO Met OresteS, but this music didn’t pop out of nowhere… In fact, it’s as if A Symbiotic Experience, rADio eNd, and Invisible Illusion form the basis of a triangle, and we are digging a channel through its center, leaving another dimension behind.
The music from Sequencing Life and Cultural Strains comes from the same source : the very first session I did with a sequencer—a Korg SQ-1. But each exists at different stages of evolution. While working on the tracks, refining and expanding them, I truly grasped the meaning of “spore”—how they can unfold, expand, mutate, and act like an endless spring, nearly infinite. Though, more often than not, infinity is simply the limit of our perception.
I wouldn’t say it’s exactly the same with other projects, but this one feels different—especially in the way rhythm is processed. It opened so many doors. It seems HOMO found the same approach I used in OresteS to emulate rhythm—thinking beyond fixed structures, outside any predefined framework. Not a mere pattern, but something closer to a pulse—like the play of raindrops, the wind drawing with tree branches, fire biting into matter, or the earth shaking through the bones.
We have a truly open horizon, free to go anywhere we like.
Now, let’s listen and see what happens in the next evolution.
Maybe you have a slight feeling of déjà vu ?
Imagine what it’s like to live in a world where most people imitate, instead of hybridizing, or even simply creating.
Poem on track 3 by Morne http://www.horsnorme.org/MONTREALEATOIRE/archaosesoterique.htm
Jazzaria – Random Clicking
Jazzaria
“Random Clicking”
Click. Click click. Click hold… click. Click, drag, release. Click click click. Click.
Featuring piano, synth, drums, organ, and choir.
Jazzaria – Multifaceted
Jazzaria
“Multifaceted”
In the time we have, there is much to appreciate. Fresh angles are precious, as it is easy to fall into a seeming sameness. Though ultimately we tend to opt for comfort, the journey to other perspectives is what gives contentment context. Music is multifaceted.
Featuring clarinet.
Jazzaria – 1.8125
Jazzaria
“1.8125”
Precise and detailed calculations can be unnerving – unerringly uncanny results we know are right, yet feel are somehow off. The universe is parsimonious, and so we expect pithy causes and succinct structures. But information has layers – apparent complexity underlies organization that our intuitions may miss.
This 29/16 track features synthesizers, acoustic guitars, bass guitars, piano, and effects.
Jazzaria – A Plan
Jazzaria
“A Plan”
An enumeration of steps and procedures. A notion of what ought to be done – or at least a way to do things. A form of preparation, a preparation of forms, and a gathering of prerequisites. A Plan.
Featuring synthesizers and effects.
Jazzaria – Neck and Nape
Jazzaria
“Neck and Nape”
Neck and nape, through cityscapes, the racers swiftly sped:
though racer one once held the lead, the second comes ahead.
To and fro, they strive astride, that one might claim the prize –
a Sisyphean struggle, with a cyclical surprise.
Featuring piano and two violins.
Jazzaria – Belatedly
Jazzaria
“Belatedly”
Time and time again:
A cycle, not late – a circle, not straight.
Time, and time again:
A moment, not passed – a question, not asked.
Time, and time, again.
Featuring improvised piano.
Jazzaria – Forgotten Creation
Jazzaria
“Forgotten Creation”
An idea – original, inspired, unexpected. Surely something that would be remembered and celebrated, if it were executed on. But instead it stays in the land of thoughts, pure and untested, and soon forgotten.
Featuring synthesizers, drum machines, electric bass, and guitar.
Jazzaria – 3 AM
Jazzaria
“3 AM”
While awake at 3 AM, many thoughts occur. Silence belies quiet, as worries faintly stir. Processing unevenly, subconsciously subsumed – at an unknowable moment, placid dreams will bloom.
Featuring Rhodes electric piano.
Jazzaria – Convivial Eve
Jazzaria
“Convivial Eve”
Liminal in time and space,
In between a social place –
This is where the eve of Eves occurs.
Civilly inept? Not quite –
But inclined to times of night
When all is quiet save that which reverbs.
Yet when it has a gentle frame,
When those involved can feel the same,
Convivial events can be enjoyed.
Consider those who feel as one,
Separate for many suns –
Reuniting fills a certain void.
Featuring improvised clarinet.
Jazzaria – Korobeiniki
Jazzaria
“Korobeiniki”
In a world where everything inexorably descends, futility pervades. Despite going down, detritus piles up, leaving two possible outcomes – it messily agglomerates beyond the point of practicality and causes the end, or it fits together just so. But instead of forming a precise and solid structure, at the moment where it is needed most, it simply disappears.
Featuring electric keys, ethnic percussion, synthesizers, strings, balalaika, and effects.
Jazzaria – Quadratic Waldo
Jazzaria
“Quadratic Waldo”
Not all those who are lost wander – the Waldos of the world are indelibly located, yet uncertain nonetheless. Considering their predicament, confusion ensues, growing at a self-speeding rate. Beyond a certain point, quadratic challenges prove insurmountable, and we are forced to accept the incomplete.
Featuring synthesizers, drum machines, strings, arpeggiators, and effects.
Zenapolæ – Compilation 24
Zenapolæ
“Compilation 24”
(also aired on Netlabel Radio on July 14, 2024, 16:00 CEST)
Jazzaria – Empty Orchestra
Jazzaria
“Empty Orchestra”
What if an oboe offered a pitch to an empty orchestra? Unmoored from expectation, the stalwart A440 becomes trenchant and reverberant. Within each single note, there is a boundless realm to explore.
Featuring oboe, reverb, and LFO.
Jazzaria – 23 32
Jazzaria
“23 32”
One can count one by one, or two and three, or three and two. One can count the ways to count – and how one counts counts.
Featuring jazz quartet of brushed drums, upright bass, piano, and muted trumpet.
Jazzaria – Celestial Chase
Jazzaria
“Celestial Chase”
Seemingly suspended yet forever falling, celestial bodies proceed with stoic inevitability. Orbits subtly shift – a never-ending precession.
Featuring world drums, orchestra, synthesizer, choir, and guzheng.
Jazzaria – Making Up Your Mind
Jazzaria
“Making Up Your Mind”
What are we if not the accumulation of our decisions? Illusory though it may be, our will is our being, and our choices become our identity. Take care when making up your mind, as making things up is sometimes all too easy.
Featuring dreamy electric guitar, 808 drum machine, synthesizers, sequencer, pads, voice samples, and effects.
Jazzaria – Learning to Fly
Jazzaria
“Learning to Fly”
If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance. If you can jump, you can fly? Flight has inarguable allure – but is quite a challenge.
Featuring orchestra, piano, and drum kit. A rescoring of “Wing It!”, the Blender Open Movie.
Jazzaria – Glassy Weasel
Jazzaria
“Glassy Weasel”
All around the orchestra pit
The maestro chased the people;
The maestro thought it was all in fun…
Pop! Goes the weasel.
In the style of Philip Glass, honor of P. D. Q. Bach, and memory of Peter Schickele.
Featuring piano, orchestral strings, brass, low woodwinds, and bagpipes.
Jazzaria – Pentalydian
Jazzaria
“Pentalydian”
⬟ ⭔ ⭓ ⭔ ⬟
Featuring piano, soprano saxophone, drum kit, upright bass, solo cello, and string ensemble.
Crepuscular – Sicknology
Crepuscular
“Sicknology”
Crepuscular sent us an early Christmas gift, happy to share it with you to wish you a happy end of the year. Forget stuffed animals for your Christmas’s gifts and offer taxidermy animals : MORE ECOLOGICAL
all sounds and visuals by CREPUSCULAR
produced, mixed sept – oct 2023 ~ mastering nov 2023
crepuscular.neocities.org
[thanks to earsheltering for support]
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= support art, not trends =
Jazzaria – Aural Remnants
Jazzaria
“Aural Remnants”
After light – shadow. After sound – echo.
And as shadow is not simply darkness, echoes are not simply reflections. Cyclical feedback leads to further reverberations, resonating in ways that go beyond a reflection of their origin.
Featuring timpani, orchestra, organ, piano, reverb, and effects.
