ambient drone

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A teaser for an upcoming episode, recorded in the Atrium of the Technische Universität Berlin. You can hear a piano playing in the center of the atrium below, you're located at the top level of it.

Aureality - Episode 5 - Teaser - Piano In The Atrium

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You go beneath the railway bridge at Bahnhof Zoo, where a wind player is practising on his instrument. Busses are passing by.

Aureality - Interlude - Practising Musician at Bahnhof Zoo

Text & tracklist: http://www.seeksicksound.com/sss-podcast-057-stray-theories/

SSS Podcast #057 : Stray Theories

8. wandering aimlessly
16. evidence that our minds/souls are connected
24. roadtrips
32. instruments and noise makers
40. getting lost in drones and reverb

meditations on the meaning of eight

An idea that I have had for a while which I have only had the inclination, (and production skills and knowledge), to bring to life. My first full length production. A surreal and darkly perturbing journey into the unknown: the depths and limits of your mind. 
Featuring BluffMunkey (guitar and some vocals), and our 3 year old son.  

A Solitary Journey on the Road to Nowhere

Full version of http://soundcloud.com/a-drone-a-day/051111-nova-persei-1901  for my http://soundcloud.com/a-drone-a-day  project

not finished yet, as apparently, my replacement laptop can't quite handle it's magnificence ;p  so I just rendered it as is...  enjoy

Nova Persei 1901 - deepspace echo mix

My first offering of 2012, and it was a great deal of fun. My soprano vocals, whispers and chickens, all part of a surreal dream. Many thanks to my Bluffmunkey for his help with the orchestration of my piano melody.

Artwork by Chiara Fersini http://www.thedphoto.com/inspiration-fix/surreal-female-art-photography-from-chiara-fersini/

Rose-Tinted Glasses of a Lucid Dream

Bittersweet I love yous. 

Contains samples from the following: True Romance, As Good As It Gets, An Affair to Remember, and Breakfast At Tiffany's. 
Also, contains field-recordings from: Gluid: http://soundcloud.com/gluid-1/coffee, Letryp Fieldrecordings: http://soundcloud.com/letryp-fieldrecordings/bottles, and http://www.freesound.org/people/studiorat/sounds/22349/

Lyrics:

There are no little sparks left in your eyes,
There is no element of a small surprise,
Even still, my arms were open wide.

Thinking of you and I as I lay awake,
Wondering what to do, what I have to say,
Here I am, again I'm contemplating. 

Stood in disbelief, 
I just can't conceive,
What you've taken away from me.

Confused and alone,
A head full of scorn, 
It's tonight that I am reborn.

Cover art from: http://hancukas.deviantart.com/art/fantasy-girl-12-188771334

Reborn

big knobs, little knobs, all sorts of fun knobs...  random analog noodling.. not mastered or anything... just as it is

solo for wavetek and monotron

Some nights are made for sitting back and just letting the world spin on its axis; nights to watch the snow fall and gaze over misty neon hazes in the distance. Dark skies and white snow always seem to cast a sleepy contrast but it’s also one shared by an almost motionless state.

It’s times like these Benjamin Dauer treasures; the still hours where life is yet to accelerate towards its grinding daily regimen; the wait before the first creaks of cold bones and commuter trains amplify the city. 

“By day, I am a problem-solver,” Benjamin starts, “and each project comes with a slew of new requirements and problems. Things can move pretty quickly and before you know it, months have passed and the next one is coming down the pipeline.

“It means I cherish the early morning hours before I go in. It's during these times that I feel a deep sense of peace and quiet and so my mind can wander, free of project goalposts and timelines.”

Free of these pressures, his “Twenty Three and Twenty Six EP” is testament to operating in a haze of AM detachment. Four drifting scores of ambient invention, tape echo and swimming delay, they’re musical explorations that are beautifully, subtly metrical. Awash with hypnotic rhythms and an unpolished human touch, each track feels like it plays out to its untraced, natural end. 
  
“I love these happy accidents as I feel they are a natural part of the improvisation process” he explains. “I enjoy these opportunities to practice improvisation and I’ve discovered that these free-spirited explorations often end up feeling finely choreographed in the end. Perhaps this is some sort of primal response or urge to seek rhythm in my life?” he ponders.

Whatever the thought process, the still hours just got more beautiful.

More info and HQ EP download: http://asip.me/ASIP023

http://asip.me/PlacesSeries


ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Eight and Forty

ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Four and Fifty Eight

ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Four and Sixteen

ASIP023 Benjamin Dauer - Six and Twelve

Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

Contains my own field recordings of a day out at Windsor Riverside feeding the ducks with Bluffmunkey and our son, as well as my whispers used in Bluffmunkey's https://soundcloud.com/bluffmunkey/whispered-echo. A big thank you to Bluffmunkey for his input on the strings.  

Lyrics: 

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, 
All my thoughts remain the same, 
Waiting for the day to come,
The day that I get my way. 

Ev'ry move so underhand, 
Hoping soon you'll understand,
It's all in my mind engraved,
You'll never get what you crave. 

Cover art: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/art/Hilltop-Sunset-196925917 by: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/

Crave (Let It Be)

Guest mix for Secret Thirteen Music Journal, featuring some of my recent favourites and a few exclusive upcoming releases on ASIP. Below are direct links (where possible) to each of the tracks and labels.

Read the full introduction here: http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-055-ryan-griffin-a-stangely-isolated-place/

01. https://soundcloud.com/ametsub – Sun of Madrid [https://soundcloud.com/nothings66, 2012]
02. https://soundcloud.com/billow-observatory/billow-observatory-pankalia [Felte, 2012]
03. https://soundcloud.com/mm_irezumi/diluria-irezumi-remix [Self-released, 2012]
04. https://soundcloud.com/purl/purl-deflektion-towards [https://soundcloud.com/dewtone-recordings, 2012]
05. https://soundcloud.com/samkdc/rq-hounds-sam-kdcs-strung-out [https://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel, 2012]
06. https://soundcloud.com/3six/eus-mes-36-remix [Self-released, 2012]
07. Ian Hawgood – A Film By Geskial [https://soundcloud.com/homenormal, 2010]
08. https://soundcloud.com/kiyokomusik – Shinagawa [https://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel, 2012]
09. Herrmann & Kleine – Leaving You Behind [https://soundcloud.com/morrmusic, 2002]
10. https://soundcloud.com/modulenz – The Frequent Sea [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
11. https://soundcloud.com/echaskech/echaskech-tundra [https://soundcloud.com/futuresequence, 2011]
12. Roger Martinez pres. https://soundcloud.com/horizontalexcursions – Symphonica Helvetica (excerpt) [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
13. https://soundcloud.com/kitambience – Girl On The Beach Wearing A Skirt (Markus Guentner Remix) [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
14. https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace/aphex-twin-rhubarb-james-devane-acoustic-version [unreleased]
15. Aphex Twin – Rhubarb [Warp, 1994]

ASIP - Secret Thirteen Mix 55

1. "Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word that means “noble or awakened heart.” It is said to be present in all beings. Just as butter is inherent in milk and oil is inherent in a sesame seed, this soft spot is inherent in you and me. It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals. When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself. This is the time to touch the genuine heart of bodhichitta. In the midst of loneliness, in the midst of fear, in the middle of feeling misunderstood and rejected is the heartbeat of all things, the genuine heart of sadness. Just as a jewel that has been buried in the earth for a million years is not discolored or harmed, in the same way this noble heart is not affected by all of our kicking and screaming. The jewel can be brought out into the light at any time, and it will glow as brilliantly as if nothing had ever happened. No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhichitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole."
Pema Chödrön

the noble heart

Guest mix for SpacesFM: http://spacesfm.com/2013/03/a-strangely-isolated-place-spacesfm-guest-mix/

01. Floex - Zorya Polunochnaya (ASIP looping edit) [Minority Records, 2011] 
02. Biosphere - As The Sun Kissed The Horizon [Touch, 1997] 
03. Alva Noto - Is Otto Roessler Right [Unseen Records, 2011] 
04. Alva Noto - Xerox Monophaser II [Raster Norton, 2009] 
05. Loess - Retinue [Toytronic, 2003] 
06. Heathered Pearls - Ringing Temple (Decreased Version) [Ghostly, 2012] 
07. Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window [Unseen Records, 2011] 
08. Nils Frahm - More [Erased Tapes, 2011] 
09. Autechre - Autriche [Warp Records, 1993] 
10. AFX - Analogue Bubblebath [Mighty Force, 1991] 
11. Segue - Parchment [Silent Season, 2013]
12. bvdub - I Would Have Waited [Distant Noise, 2011] 
13. Leandro Fresco - El Cruce Imposible [Kompakt 2013]
14. 36 - Heather Spa [astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
15. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a1 [Erased Tapes, 2012]

ASIP - SpacesFM Guest Mix

https://soundcloud.com/kazenoyouna

Here's another remix I've made of Motohiko Hirami's music :
www.soundcloud.com/julsy/motohiko-hirami-astra-julsy


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