"The low sun glowed yellow-green over the frosted plains. At the mouth of the caves, priests struck ancient rock gongs, their worn and scarred appearance seemingly at odds with their purity of tone. Drones beamed pulses at sacred points of resonance so that coded harmonics might echo and resound. Occasionally, a player would strike a discordant note to signal their ambivalence to the passing of the season, to the passing of time."

Quasi-autonomous percussive dub-dronalism for the stranded descendants on long-abandoned terraformed worlds. All performed by my eurorack modular synth in one take, with no human intervention, external sequencing or processing, bar some light dynamics in Ableton and Audacity. 

The creation and replay of these long and repetitive, yet endlessly subtley varying, generative works bring me peace and calm. Hence making this track available to stream here and as a free or pay what-you-want download at Bandcamp: https://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/track/solstice-on-eisplann-iv 

All proceeds from Bandcamp sales will go to the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), a charity uniting the UK against suicide: https://www.thecalmzone.net/

Solstice on Eisplann IV

I threw my computer out of the window and bought a modular synth because I wanted to do something real...

"Emergent Properties" EP https://soundcloud.com/drberndthoffmann/sets/emergent-ep
"Onkalo" EP: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/onkalo-ep
"Kingdom Sands" EP: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/kingdom-sands-ep-2
"The Dark Light" album: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-light
"Taikonics" mini-album: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/taikonics

Solstice on Eisplann IV

Dr Berndt Hoffmann