Swollen River - Desolation Road

Field Recordings of the Mysterious Ringing Rocks/Montana, music made with rocks. Near Butte Montana, and part of the edge of the Boulder Batholith, is a large jumbled pile of boulders, the rocks in this unique geologic formation chime melodically when tapped lightly with a crescent wrench or mallet.

It is believed that the ringing is a combination of the composition of the rock and the way the joining patterns have developed as the rocks have eroded away, though ultimately a concrete scientific explanation has yet to be arrived at. Curiously, if a boulder is removed from the pile, it no longer rings.

Slightly different pitches and timbres emanate from thousands of rocks in the formation, and in theory Butte's Ringing Rocks could form the basic ostinato for the "Music of the Spheres."(Musica Universalis)

All sounds captured with the Sony PCM-D100 24bit-96khz

Download the Kontakt kit here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owre3t7wzslqcr3/RingingRock-Samples-RD.zip?dl=0


Field Recordings of the Mysterious Ringing Rocks/Montana, music made with rocks.

This is my track for the release "RUN THE LENGTH OF YOUR WILDNESS V.1" released September 12 2016: runthelengthofyourwildness.bandcamp.com

This is the first comp put out by @rochesolos and @cherushii in honor of their weekly Monday night party of the same name, featuring SF Bay Area producers @nacktmusic, @loren11, @earthzone, @caltrop, @ilyag, @lavender, @tape_hisss, @docsleep,  Signal Flex, as well the two partymeisters themselves. Soak in the sonic splendor.

Area Mann - Vine Life

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Still on Glacial Movements out now.
http://www.glacialmovements.com/music-news/rostami-blomquist-still

Distant Companion available on Dark Entries
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/aria-rostami-daniel-blomquist-distant-companion-lp/#tab-description

Signal Artifact now Available on Jacktone Records
https://jacktonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/signal-artifact

Collaboration with Aria Rostami to be released on Glacial Movements June 20th
https://glacialmovements.bandcamp.com/album/wandering-eye
Nascent/Egress has been released by Audiotalaia.
http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at079-daniel-blomquist/

Floooded/Overflow available on my bandcamp now. 

My work is process based, beginning with samples gathered and manipulated digitally, then dubbed down to analog tape; eroding away music, field recordings and other found media. Effectively reconstituting the quality and predictability of the digital recording. The combinations used in this approach examine the nature of the chosen media, how it is stored, distributed and ultimately how it evolves over time. One sound's initial intention begets an all together new purpose by setting points of faliure and degradation. My final compositions are warm, textured, emotive environments for these recycled sounds to live and tell new stories

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