BBC Radio Scotland Single of the Week !!! Check out the video here https://youtu.be/gn7yxx1_Uf8?si=ZylgbgiL2YmenCK4

Is it easy to stay small? Or does it require a generation of work?

Aurora Engine’s single, ‘Miniature Self’, from her upcoming debut album, ‘Secret Knock’, sets captivating storytelling against a sonic backdrop of harp, ethereal vocals, synths and beats. 

Written, produced and performed by Aurora Engine (Deborah Shaw), ‘Miniature Self’ explores the self imposed ‘smallness’ women often adopt in order to navigate a patriarchal society.  

Hailing from working class County Durham, Shaw reflects on her own cultivation of smallness growing up, learning to blend in, shape-shift, people-please and mould to the shape of others’ needs. The song explores her own journey, emerging from a small working class town where phrases such as ‘reel your neck in’ and ‘don’t get too big for your boots’ were common (and directed most to women and girls) into a career as a composer and songwriter frequently embedding feminist themes in her work.

Miniature Self

Choir Tutti Sketch

Sinny: synth, organ, mallet, and wood block programming, ocean drum, kalimba

Clinging Seaweed

mindfield

Orb experiences can last a long time, sometimes even days.

Commander Sisko, First Orb Experience

Seasons In Exile

Things Could Be So Good For You

Day 1 of the Jamuary Challenge 2024!

Inspired by Jonas Bendiksen's photo of white butterflies surrounding a crashed spacecraft in Russia.

Jamuary 1st 2024 White Butterflies and Satellites

After experimenting quite a lot with sampled sounds as a starting point over the last few days I wanted to switch things up today. I decided to focus on trying a new scale. I don’t have much music theory so I’m not too familiar with anything past the basics so I picked Lydian Augmented in C. I’ve never even heard of this scale before but playing around with chords produced some quite nice results. I started with a piano sound as I find it the easiest way to work out a progression and baseline before diving into synths. From there it was a case of layering things up, doing a quick arrangement and finally adding some light automation on EQ and filters.

Jamuary 2024

Lydian Augmented (Jamuary Day 10)

“Oniria”
En memoria de Axel Zatarain.
a Rodrigo Mata.
para contrabajo

Oniria

Living "Solitario"

￼ The single is a melodic, 3 minute pop rock composition with an upbeat melody ￼and soft harmonious vocals, this song is the perfect one to dance to ￼and has uber radio friendliness.￼

Dancing On A Landline

This is a platform for showcasing the wider work of myself , composer / songwriter and artist Deborah Shaw / Aurora Engine. Mainly to be used as a postfolio representing work, more of course can be found at www.youtube,com/auroraenginemusic and www.soundcloud.com/auroraengine. Commecial songs can be heard at www.soundcloud.com/debbieshaw  Thanks for listening.

Miniature Self

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