little things coming and going, a real sense of wonder here. Great collaboration

As usual, Bleep did all the heavy lifting. I put together a few layers of airy drones and textures, and he did the rest.

I love how deep and wide this sounds.  What synth is this?

Dieser Track ist perfekt, er bring einen zur Ruhe, Sehr gute Arbeit

Come to the warmland.

An ambient exploration and collaboration with Our Forgotten Future, Outerlab, Ellipses, dreamwarper.

Warmland // Ambient Collab feat. Outerlab, Ellipses, Our Forgotten Future, dreamwarper, Bleeptwig

When all is not yet lost we find a way to push forward.  


Image taken  by Dreamwarper and edited by Outerlab.

When All Is Not Yet Lost

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

by: Masaoka Shiki

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki

Picture by Hassan Anayi

anthocyanin [ naviarhaiku619 ]

Cigarettes In The Shade

Here, somewhere. 

A collaboration with Our Forgotten Future, who also provided the cover art. 

He laid down these wonderful ambient textures as a canvas to build on, then it took me 2 months to figure out how to take this sense of movement and progression and elevate it. I've been experimenting a lot with low-pass gates as a way to make rhythmic elements from drones and textures and this was natural way to build up this piece, by processing the source materials in multiple ways - rhythmically, through resonation, harmonization, and a little distortion. 

The pulse track took so many takes to get the balance of punch and motion without overloading everything else.

Somewhere, moving



Inspired by Naviar Haiku 621:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku621-deutzia-in-full-white/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, 2017)


full white - Naviarhaiku621

This track pairs with Warmth and Meaning. Two tracks made over two days using similar processes and serendipitously similar sample sources (same notes, different instruments, and two samples separated by about 30 years). 

I've been inspired lately by the folks from the Studio Obscura discord group* using tape loops (or similar kinds of processing techniques) to create these beautiful saturated walls of sound. 

I went down a massive rabbit hole exploring these ideas and while I was trying to understand how the Instruo Lubadh tape looper module works, and so I set the DAW recording and made a really long jam just playing with these tiny piano grains on the Intellijel Multigrain into the Lubadh, with a field recorder and a reverb - and oh my god - it's just a magical world-creating machine.

Honestly I feel like I could sell everything else and keep these three boxes and make music until I die. 

The source recording had a lot of very high-end noise from a rogue connection that I didn't notice until I played it back, so I had to go full Bleeptwig on it after that with EQ and layering in textures that ended up shaping it in a really beautiful way. 

(The piano was added in this version, originally I'd planned a single note just to connect couple of sections and the background ambience to the foreground, but then it turned into this little kind of lament, so I plan to go back and rework the original to be even more ambient at some point.)

Anyway.

* Ping me if you're interested in joining the group, just some really great folks making mostly ambient music, most of the time.

Comfort and Light

An energized remix of the wonderful Learning to Say Goodbye, by Our Forgotten Future.

Say something.

I love how Our Forgotten Future's work builds up slowly into these emotionally saturated scenes - and I find this form lends itself perfectly to these kind of driving, layered pieces that add rhythmic energy to take these textures into new directions.

I processed the whole tonal layer (minus the field recorded parts) through a resonator, distortion, saturator, and through multiple reverb layers to get this slightly gnarly polyrhythmic element with some scattered snares - initially random then meticulously edited and placed ... and the bass drum was kind of inevitable. 

(The whole track is not quantized at all, I'm sure it will annoy any drummers out there and if anyone did ever try to mix this they would have a challenge :D)

I am hopeful for more collabs like in 26, it's so satisfying and rewarding to work with other artists whose music resonates. Here's to the producer community.

Say something (a remix)

The Shape of Calm

Passages

A DREAM BIGGER THAN GOING HOME

The compilation brings together artistic ideas rooted in and around psychedelic and club-oriented music. The A-side focuses on rhythmic, dance-driven tracks, spanning Progressive Psytrance and related styles such as Psytech and darker sonic territories of Psy.

The B-side shifts the focus. Calmer, atmospheric, and more experimental sounds take center stage. Ambient structures open up a more contemplative dimension that has recently become a stronger interest and focus for Trips.

The VA compilation’s fundraising goal is central to the project: at a time when far-right forces are gaining strength and social regression is becoming increasingly visible, we want to take a clear stance. That is why all proceeds from the project will be donated to "Netzwerk Polylux e.V." [https://polylux.network/], which supports antifascist and queer initiatives in eastern Germany.

A big, heartfelt thank you to all the artists for their tracks and everyone else for being part of this project.

Mastering: aitch [@aitch-hh]
Artwork: Corinna Hopmann [@tactileberlin]

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elisanyhm - does not

Intensive ambient explorations, and other stories, made by this human.

Recent features:
HUM, BUZZ, HISS: https://meltedform.substack.com/p/81-an-exquisite-corpse
STUDIO OBSCURA EP: https://studio-obscura.bandcamp.com/track/exquisite-corpse-ii
FLOW PROJECT:  https://artmusicscience.substack.com
BRIXTON RADIO: https://www.mixcloud.com/brixtonradiolive/b-sides-the-point-w-clean-diva-110126/
MOONPHASE RADIO: https://www.moonphaseradio.com

I love discovering new music and following talented folks, feel free to connect. I love a good collaboration too.

Somewhere, moving

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