Unwelcome Apparitions 1

Al Vacío (Collab)

Unwelcome Apparitions 2

More dreams! Will I ever wake up? I mean, before that time I open my eyes and hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant," or (God forbid) the reverse. Actually, this is a workout for my new AmpliTube tonex pedal.

Dreams of the Avalon

Don't Buy Anything Today

23 3 3

I Call Her Lexi

Damage Control

Astro Nots (210bpm)

Abyss

ETHEREAL AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY GAME OF THRONES AND THE  LORD OF THE RINGS AND MANY OTHERS. RELAX, ENJOY AND DRIFT AWAY.

DARK AMBIENT - A SHADOW IN TIME

The haiku that guided this;

Winter waterfall
a rock untouched
by sunrise or sunset
(Naviar haiku challenge 607, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge ),

has an obvious staring point, "Winter Waterfall" the track has finished up quite experimental.


Waterfall = white noise.
So I started with a noise source in Voltage Modular and created an evolving sequence that processed the noise output through a spectral filter bank using two instances of the WC-96 Spectral Processor from DMT Audio. I then created a rhythmic element by feeding that output through an LFO controlled envelope, passing the output on to Quadelay from Waverley Instruments. 

With the noise elements in place I added some pulses using basic VM modules then moved on. Having used a couple of tweaked Dreamsynth presets last week I decided it was time to take the deep dive and learn how to patch Dreamsynth from scratch. Dreamsynth (https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth) is deep, almost modular. I made a patch for the chord sequence; yes I know it's a bit weird but I liked it in isolation while developing the DS patch so kept it all be it sequenced, converted to MIDI and passed out from VM. While experimenting I found that if I played in a low register I got a rumbly semi random texture so I split that off and tweaked it a bit to represent the rock, triggered by a separate sequence in VM. The final element is a drone layer made from DMT Audio's "West Coast" modules (Uncertainty and Harmonic Oscillator), left over from an early experiment and passed through a band pass filter modulated by reused control, voltages from the noise sequencing. 

With all the elements in place I made two changes before recording, I added a small amount of ShimmerVerb from Eventide to the chord sequence and replaced the pure white noise that I'd planned to use at the beginning with a sample of a real waterfall from freesound (Staying close to waterfall by trader_one -- https://freesound.org/s/670515/ -- License: Creative Commons 0), because I wanted a touch of gurgling water.

With everything in place; opening waterfall, mapped physical controls, multitrack recording and no real plan. I hit record and improvised, one take, longer than I'd expected.
I'll own up to doing a lot of mastering to make the dispirit elements gel but didn't add anything significant.

Winter Waterfall - (naviarhaiku - 607)

Welcome to my dark ambient/electronic/experimental fears and desires.

Dummy Run EP
https://soundcloud.com/backwardstransmission/sets/dummy-run

Invaded By Darkness EP
https://soundcloud.com/backwardstransmission/sets/invaded-by-darkness

Taken EP
https://soundcloud.com/backwardstransmission/sets/taken-ep

Unwelcome Apparitions 2

Backwards Transmission