Love stumbling on synth patches used in my favourite songs ✨

Wet Land (ウェット・ランド) by Hiroshi Yoshimura, on the Roland D-50/D-05. Patch is "Soundtrack"

And it is lovely

Midori Takada - You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana - a new album in which she adds musical accompaniment to Buddhist chants

Shomyo of Koya-san & Midori Takada YOU WHO ARE LEAVING TO NIRVANA WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) are ecstatic to announce a new full length album by celebrated Japanese percussionist Midori Takada (Through The Looking Glass), in collaboration with Buddhist monks belonging to the Samgha group of the Shingon school of Koya-san, led by Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa. You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana is available on half speed mastered vinyl LP, housed in a 350gsm sleeve, with OBI, and liner notes, as well as on digipack CD. Recorded at The Premises Studio (London) and in Tokyo in 2019,You Who are Leaving to Nirvana is a majestic work combining a suite of six Buddhist liturgical chants and a musical creation by Midori Takada. The Buddhist chants come from three types of repertoires: shomyo ("Teisan", "Unga-Bai", "Sange", "Taiyo"), but also goeika ("Kannon-Daiji") and mantra ("Hannya-Singyo"). After supervising the recording of the Buddhist chants, Midori Takada added her own compositions, with subtle layers of percussion and the melodies of her beloved marimba, giving full life to the sacred texts. Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa explains: "Shomyo is a form of declamation of sacred esoteric texts, inherited over many generations. The power of words goes far beyond their mere pronunciation. I think there is something that words alone cannot really convey. If I recite prayers in a musical way, the feeling transmitted will be even stronger than if I say it normally, in everyday language. I think that the musicality of a work carries a hidden power that cannot be expressed in words alone. The setting of the music has an additional power for you and for those around you who listen to it. The words of a song are not just words set to music. They carry an additional hidden power that cannot be expressed in any other way. Listening to Midori Takada's musical performance, the words truly seem to come alive." Original recordings of the Buddhist chants are held in the International Archives of Folk Music (IAFM) at the MEG Museum in Geneva. The album sleeve features an artwork by famed Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi selected by Midori Takada.

I made this piece for my friend Pierre-Luc Gagné, who wrote a book called “Le jardin de la morte” (The dead woman’s garden). It’s in french (sorry) and it tells the story of the autor and his grandma. The song was made using nature sounds, voices, white noise, piano and synthesisers. It is called “Her garden (as it appears to be)” 

Enjoy

A-T-4 055 Satsuki Shibano - Erik Satie (France 1866-1925)

I own one musician/band t-shirt and that's for Erik Satie. I'm gutted because in my middle age I'm getting a bit big to wear it, perhaps I should do what Satie did for a while (as did Homer Simpson) and dress up in priestly dress. I adore Erik Satie he was a true eccentric and a leading figure in the French avant-garde comparable to playwright Alfred Jarry and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The three all contributed to early 20th century artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism but Satie is also seen as the father of modern ambient music

Satie as ambient music pioneer is what we're interested in here and 環境音楽, or, environmental music, or, kankyō ongaku. I'm a little sceptical the phrase kankyō ongaku is a bit like hygge as in its invention is relatively recent and has been widely popularised by articles and publishers. The Danish tourism board is thoroughly invested in hygge but I wonder if you ask a Japanese person what kankyō ongaku is they'd give you a strange look (similar to the bemusement over city pop)

Anyway in 2019 Light In The Attic (LITA) asked Spencer Doran to compile Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990). Spencer Doran is from Portland, USA, in the early 2000s he released albums in Japan inspired by Japanese environmental music by the likes of Hiroshi Yoshimura or Midori Takada and many others. 2010 Doran produced a mix titled Fairlights, Mallets And Bamboo Fourth World Japan, Years 1980-1986 for Root Strata's Blog. The mix and its follow up are prototypes of the LITA compilation Kankyō Ongaku. I really wanted the Kankyō Ongaku compilation but I remember the vinyl version being so expensive when it came out (hipster prices for hipster vinyls) so I never picked it up which means I've not read Spencer Doran's sleeve notes, I have read some of the interviews Doran did to promote the comp tho. I associate the phrase Kankyō Ongaku with Doran and LITA, it's the only place I've heard it

Through Doran I read about the Satie Crazy in Japan and according to him Kankyō Ongaku and the Satie Crazy began with a series of Erik Satie concerts that took place in Japan in 1975. 13-years earlier in 1962 John Cage performed a series of concerts held in Japan, Japanese media came up with the buzzword Cage Shock to report the reception. An avant-garde existed in Japan before this moment but Cage Shock was a transformative moment. I think Doran misses the connection between John Cage and Erik Satie when looking for why Erik Satie resonates with the Japanese so much. Cage isn't coy when attributing Satie's influence on Minimalism (especially 1893's Vexations), I think he's even got so far as to call Satie the father of Minimalism. It was 1969 John Cage produced Cheap Imitation for piano. This piece is based on Socrate by Erik Satie and created using the I Ching (an early example Cage using East Asian philosophical thought to create his work). Cage would base other pieces on works by Erik Satie throughout his career (especially throughout the 1970s). At least some of Erik Satie's popularity in Japan comes through John Cage

Satsuki Shibano - Erik Satie (France 1866-1925) is the third and final instalment of the Wave Notation series released in Japan by Sound Process. Sorry I've not written about the pianist as she's brilliant, this was also her debut. In 2019 Satsuki Shibano did a European tour with Spencer Doran's Visible Cloaks

It's easy to find recordings of Erik Satie but popular culture tends to focus on 1888's Gymnopédie No. 1, and more increasingly 1890s Gnossienne No. 3 - neither are in this collection

Tracklist is here

"Ambient Buddhism 2" TAKEO SUZUKI | Japanese Ambient Music

This is the second album of the "Ambient Buddhism" concept, in which TAKEO SUZUKI, who is also a Buddhist, carefully selects more meditative and Buddhist tracks from his past ambient tracks. The album contains 12 tracks, all of which are longer tracks for meditation or mental concentration.

Buddhism is a philosophy of liberating one's mind rather than a mystical one. We hope this album will make you interested in Buddha's philosophy even a little.

Track List

01 - Ambient Buddhism Section 13

02 - Ambient Buddhism Section 14

03 - Ambient Buddhism Section 15

04 - Ambient Buddhism Section 16

05 - Ambient Buddhism Section 17

06 - Ambient Buddhism Section 18

07 - Ambient Buddhism Section 19

08 - Ambient Buddhism Section 20

09 - Ambient Buddhism Section 21

10 - Ambient Buddhism Section 22

11 - Ambient Buddhism Section 23

12 - Ambient Buddhism Section 24

Produce & Mixed,Artwork by TAKEO SUZUKI.

The album is available for download on bandcamp. I would be very happy if you could comment to me what you think of it.

bandcamp

I made this song today.

Umi no uta

自閉症スペクトラム感覚過敏の聴覚過敏で小さな音も気になり音楽で騒音をマスキング。学生時代はネットの他,大人の発達障害アスペルガーとか自閉スペクトラム症概念も無かったが環境音楽アンビエントミュージックもこだわりASDあるあるかな？図書館とか静か過ぎは些細な音で息詰まり苦手。糠糸撫子撮影

Even in this lovecraft country of ours, we still dance (and decolonize) 🔥🍂🌾✨️

Cowboy Bebop, 1998

Created by Hajime Yatate

Directed by Shinichirō Watanabe

Studio Sunrise, Tokyo, Japan

cant wait for taylor swift to drop a couple of grand on some environmentalist organization or some shit in a couple of days so her fans can say “see??? she is a true eco queen <3 she cares sooooo much" and absolutely bully you and call you a misogynist if you point out shes still rich af, STILL has a private jet she uses irresponsibly and without a doubt used the cottagecore image to make herself trendy popular and sell shit when in fact she dgaf about nature and sure as hell never seen a farm without workers doing shit for her like the true american wealthy white woman she is. 

Cripplepunk Modern Au Hiccup

RAGGGHHEHDHJWHFJWJFJWHFJJEJ

Introducing... My personal design of Ubercorn! And a bit of Grandmaster Glitch!!!!!!

These two are some of my favorite characters, every episode that focuses on either one of them or even both of them at the same time makes me so happy <333

I'll probably dump even more of my go jetter sketches I've created over the past few weeks soon!!!!!! Trust me. I've got wayyyy more.

Have a good day yall

Click for better quality!!!!!

Hey! I have to write a big piece of music for my disseration, and I've known for a while it was going to address climate change. Your page (along with the active solarpunk community here on Tumblr) has convinced me to write a solarpunk piece instead. You're awesome and I'm glad you do what you do.

Any ideas for a title? I'm terrible at those.

Hello, first off so sorry this is late, I really hope I haven’t missed the deadline for your dissertation. I’m so honoured and pleased you’ve picked solarpunk for the topic, and I’d love to hear the piece when it’s finished if you’d be ok with that!

In terms of titles, it’s hard to suggest any without hearing your music or knowing more about the type of song - is it instrumental? Are there lyrics? What style/genre is it? Also being asked has made every good idea leave my brain aha. But will try! Here are some suggestions off the top of my head:

Sunup

Sunrise

(E)utopia

Into The Future

Turnsole [this is an old medieval word for turning towards the sun]

Rewilding

To Better Things

Ecophilia [I love this bc in the original Greek it translates to ‘love of home’]

After The Fire

As you can see this is not my forte either, but I hope either my ideas or your own much more creative brain come up with something fitting, and congrats on making solarpunk music! That’s super exciting. If you’re wanting to get it out there I know that the Environmental Music Prize, Outrage + Optimism and Solarpunk Futures are all interested in this kind of stuff and could help you spread your work to more people. Best of luck, and I hope you keep writing songs for the planet!

there are like 6 posts about this game time to start the market

^PLAY THIS GAME^

"Ambient Buddhism" TAKEO SUZUKI | Japanese Ambient Music

TAKEO SUZUKI, who is also a Buddhist, has created this album under the concept of "Ambient Buddhism", carefully selecting more meditative and Buddhist tracks from among his past ambient tracks. The album contains 12 tracks, all of which are long tracks for meditation and mental concentration.

Buddhism is a philosophy of liberating one's mind rather than a mystical one. We hope this album will make you interested in Buddha's philosophy even a little.

Track List

01-Ambient Buddhism Section 1

02-Ambient Buddhism Section 2

03 -Ambient Buddhism Section 3

04-Ambient Buddhism Section 4

05-Ambient Buddhism Section 5

06-Ambient Buddhism Section 6

07-Ambient Buddhism Section 7

08-Ambient Buddhism Section 8

09-Ambient Buddhism Section 9

10-Ambient Buddhism Section 10

11-Ambient Buddhism Section 11

12-Ambient Buddhism Section 12

Produce & Mixed,Artwork by TAKEO SUZUKI.

The album is available for download on bandcamp. I would be very happy if you could comment to me what you think of it.

bandcamp

Help Me Give My Dad A Great Father’s Day By Listening To His Environmental Protest Song

So I’ve never tried blaze before, but it’s Father’s Day tomorrow and I know my Dad would be thrilled if more people got to hear his song. He wrote it a couple of years ago, and I figure people would like it if they gave it a chance. So let’s see if this works.