Voice samples are from LibriVox's recording of "Alice in Wonderland."

Deep Well

Original "Uncle Em's Theme" by Emily Hopkins

Uncle Em's Theme

Uncle Em got you covered with one last raw deal before fading into the dark.
Original "Uncle Em's Theme" by Emily Hopkins

One Last Raw Deal - Uncle Em Reprise

Done as a single patch on the Empress ZOIA multi-effects pedal.  Mastering done in Ableton.

Five synth voices are sequenced and have out-of-phase volume changes on the right and left stereo field, all brought into long delays to create ever-changing layers and motives that seem to soar over a modernist landscape.

Unformed State

Ambient music to relax to.  Please enjoy this space to pause, decompress, sleep, reflect, or just to step away from the busyness of your day.

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these moments upon us
of stillness
challenge the presumption of the busy
rippling and fading
like rain falling after midnight

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This piece is composed of improvised kalimba through Chase Bliss Habit and a self-made patch for the Empress ZOIA.

Additional voices are three synths patched and sequenced in VCV Rack.  Ambient sounds are taken from recordings of London street sounds in January 2023.

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these moments upon us

Ambient music to relax to.  Please enjoy this space to pause, decompress, sleep, reflect, or just step away from the busyness of your day.

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The land of folktales can be easily forgotten, with a forest of trees as buildings in a city lost to the imagination of our childhood.  It is a place to walk with calmness, letting the wind rush across moments we've forgotten about.  They are kept here, heirlooms shut in a cupboard that we only hazily remember.

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This piece is composed of  sampled instrument "Redwood Flute" by Spencer Oliphant on Pianobook being processed by Chase Bliss Habit effects pedal.  The Spitfire LABS "Soft Piano" instrument is ran through a custom patch on my Empress ZOIA effects pedal.  Two other synth voices were patched on VCV Rack.  All these voices were sequenced and  processed through effects on VCV Rack and were recorded in a single take.

Additional samples from a hike I did on April 2nd, 2023, on a wooded hill near Madison, Wisconsin, were added in Ableton.  It was a very windy day!

EQ, final mixing and mastering were done in Ableton.

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The City of Forgotten Things

The City Of Forgotten Things

This short piece is inspired by the peaceful settings of Studio Ghibli films, such as "Spirited Away" and "Princess Mononoke."  While not a direct quote of any of those works, it is meant to invoke the same sense of peace alongside a gentle sense of the supernatural.

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This was my submission to a recent community event for Emily Hopkins:   

 / @emilyharpist  

We were able to use the stem of her harp performance in any way we chose.

After playing around with some ideas, I found I could change the sound of her harp drastically with Ableton's Warp Time feature by lowering the length of the transients - effectively making the ringing tones of her harp more short and staccato.  This is the sound you hear when the harp first enters the track.

The chords and structure of this are entirely based on Emily's harp performance.  I used Ableton's Audio to MIDI features to create the groundwork for the strings and synth patches.

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More about the Instrumentation:

For the String sustained chords: I used the "Soft Strings Spurs" Harmonic strings samples for the string pads, created by Dan Keen shared through Pianobook: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/sof...

For the String pizzicato: I used the free BBC Orchestra sample pack from Spitfire Audio.

The "Kodama" sounds are my kalimba run through Chase Bliss Habit effects pedal and a self-made patch on the Empress ZOIA effects pedal.

Synth patches were played on the Arturia Microfreak.

Keyboard is the Arturia Keystep - with DIY paint job.

Art was composited from ai generated pieces from DALL-E 2.

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A Time For Foxes