The heaviest storm I can remember in the UK following a heat wave. Magnificent lightning too - what a show! 3.30am 22nd July 2013

Storm-in-Somerset-22-july-2

If you like it, there's a lossless version for download here: https://garethwhittock.bandcamp.com/

The Long Road (August 2022 mix)

Live recording using Double Om guitar, Zoom G1xon pedal and Boss RC-30 looper

Himalaya

I took my Aum Guitar up to Glastonbury Tor in the depths of winter when it was blowing like buggery - this is the result. Recorded by plugging the guitar into a Zoom H4n field recorder.

Aeolian Aum Guitar Recording

Some polyrhythmic raindrops recorded outside my music den.

Polydrops

Inspired by a BBC Horizon programme entitles "How big is the Universe" during which they explained how they painstakingly mapped thousands of galaxies, plotted their red shift and made a 3D map of the universe. Finally, they measured it and concluded that the universe has no curve and is therefore infinite, just like all the other infinite universes.. The sounds are made using an electric guitar processed though a Zoom G2.1nu pedal and Audiomulch software.

Corridor of Stars

Solo guitar work. Zoom G2.1nu guitar pedal, Audiomulch, (featuring the wonderful Augustus Loop plugin) and Ebow. No overdubs, (unless you count live looping).

CumulusN

The eponymous Gnut is an extra-terrestrial robot featured in Harry Bates' "Farewell to the Master" Written in 1940. It's this Robot that Gort in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is based upon.
You can read the short sci-fi story here: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/bates-farewell-to-the-master.html  
Hopefully the track will make more sense in this context. It's rather dark and ambient possibly a little cinematic - in the broken projector sense.. 
Instruments used were electric guitar and Korg Wavedrum.
It's been included on the Robots! album on Aural films recordings in the US.

Gnut

Field recording at dawn. Midsummer's Day, (5am 21st June 2013). Butcombe, Somerset, UK.

Midsomerset

Coming from a background of composing music for films, TV, radio, animation, dance and theatre, Gareth Whittock is an inventor, designer and builder of musical instruments, composer and musician.  He enjoys finding new sounds to incorporate into this work. An exploration that never ends.

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