“Mouse” – an ambient-noise improvisation by Grünemusik. 31Jan2010. A sound sketch, consisted of 8 samples from “Nearly useless sound effects vol. 10: Mouse” by Sound Bascket.
BTW, does anyone like to know more about “Nearly useless sound effects” series? In short, they provide sound effects for almost impossible situations, such as “Trying mouth-to-mouth respiration on a mouse”, “pouring tea form a mouse” etc. I’ve made some of them into a Xenakis-like sound collage.
Thank you for new reviews posted in these several months. Some has very illustrative and imaginative description, the other simple applause. I gratefully appreciate anything you made in response to my music.
Distribution of new “Time Machine” CD is delayed, mainly due to my personal business. I’m going to send items to CDBaby maybe within this month.
Here my recent work “WX single” published on Jamendo. Simple, short, rather immature, but I love the concept of these songs. Try a listen.
Album description:
WX single is a temporary work. The author wish to refine these songs but couldn’t do so in a while, so these are published as a work in progess.
LLBP is a kind of dub chamber song. On the deep bassline with cheap synth rhythm, Vocaloid Ruka’s voice sings complicated lines. The song title is only a meaningless code. The lyrics with translation and pronunciation is attached and availble.
Hima means “boring” in Japanese. The same bassline, only whose tempo elevated, as appeared in previous LLBP and Vocaloid Miku’s voice raps on. She’s so sick and tired of entertainment-things, dismissing all the efforts synthesizers made in front of her.
The title of the 3rd ambient tune, WX, also meaningless. Ruka’s long-tone voices on the synth drone and random percussions.
New CD "HVO presents TIME MACHINE"
Click Click Single's artwork inside
Back appearance of the CD
Last month so many reviews on my works on Jamendo were posted by many friends all over the world. I thank you for your interest in my music.
Curiously or strangely enough, no reviews on “Nyx” had been made since it was posted until the last month, now that it got seven, as many number of reviews as most of my works. Any promotion could have been performed out of my sight by some secret agents…
I couldn’t even imagine more people than I expected seem to prefer this material, because it’s so “downer” and lacked obvious attractiveness. It was constructed only spontaneously, for a live performance. However I’d be happy anyway if you enjoy them.
Fukataku, one of my comrades and the drummer of track 5 on “Nyx” and all the tracks on “Nyx Live” is a blind masseur. He’s not a professional musician, but bravely challenged a 30-minute’s live performance along with real-time improvised sequencing by my Ableton Live, finally issued as the latter material.
I also issued a simple animated promotional movie of “Aether”, as seen pasted above. Hope you enjoy it.
And I hope soon I could post on the information and promotional materials of my new projects. Thanks.
After several busy months, I’m back now, with some pleasant news to be introduced.
First, “Click Click”, one of my collabration with Mr. Tanakasomething, has been featured in a drawing movie by an illustrator in Austin.
Hope you enjoy it!
Another song, the title tune from new album “Subharmonic Girl Single” . Music and illustration by Nm Wadaaki, mix & arrange by Grünemusik. English translation of the song will be available later. If anyone eager to read it, notice me by posting a comment to this entry 
“Tsundere Syndrome – Ambient Piano Mix”
A song from new album “Subharmonic Girl Single” . Music and illustration by Nm Wadaaki, mix & arrange by Grünemusik. See wikipedia for the meaning of Tsundere. English translation of the song will be available later. If anyone eager to read it, notice me by posting a comment to this entry
"Subharmonic Girl Single" by Nm Wadaaki
Now I’m nearly finishing my latest work “Subharmonic Girl Single” (cat. no. NK20). This is a remix and pre-mastering work by me, on tunes created by my friend Kazuo Tanaka a.k.a. “Nm Wadaaki”, who is a versatile player as well as an illustrator, under strong influence of 1980’s New Wave and Techno-Pop movements.
The new work contains full of such Techno-Pop things, full of synth tones, sometimes flavored by Bill Laswell’s dub, and appealing melodies accompanying “non-human” female songs by Vocaloid Hatsune Miku.
"Nationalism" by Nm Wadaaki
“Subharmonic Girl Single” is a set of alternative versions of Nm Wdaaaki’s new album “Nationalism”, scheduled to be simultaneously released, in which I also have contributed some remix works.
Those “versions” in “Subharmonic Girl Single” are mainly instrumental, with EQ modified somewhat like more “rare-groovy” compared with originals in “Nationalism”, and are accompanied by “sparkling” remix works of several vocal tunes.
Cover illustration is by mapico (Wuper Room), also a unique pop cartoonist of our age. Hope you take a look around her on-line gallary.
Unfortunately release of this album on Jamendo is not scheduled by now, though I’d like to do so in near future. However sample MP3s are available in my website for listening to. If you wish to obtain those disks please contact me (prices are about $6 for “Subharmonic…” CD-R and $11 for “Nationalism” CD without shipping, almost as much as the cost of material only .
Recently uploaded live-recording “Nyx Live” is now introduced in UtopicMusic Blog. Thanks again to Carlo Trevisan, for some works from “Sousaku Can” has also been picked up in former entry of the Blog.
My latest work “Nyx” is now being moderated. This work was made in the course of preparing a live stage on Sep 9 2008. Here’s the description of the work:
The primordial goddess of the night. Dark ambient atmosphere with Miku-dub.
Notes on tracks:
1) Melisma singing of the vocaloid Miku in the eastern Asia fravor.
2) Electric ambient dub in three parts with vocaloid’s chant.
3) A dub version segued from the previous track.
4) Aether is the elemental god of the “Bright, Glowing, Upper Air.” Minimal sequence of electric piano diverges.
5) Nyx, the goddess of the night, appears from the bottom of dark ancient Chaos. Based on a session with Fukataku, the drummer.
6) A short sketch in five. The vocaloid Miku sings the last one verse to fade out.
Illustration: Nyx, Brygos Painter, after 490 BC, Berlin, Germany (Copyright expired)
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