This playlist is an ongoing work in progress: more recordings are being added.

Elements: Rain

Ambient

Recorded during the dark, quiet hours after midnight from the shelter of a now-abandoned nineteenth-century open-fronted coach-house surrounded by a conservation park. The coach-house is built from stone; it probably used to have a slate roof, but at some later time that was replaced with iron. The persistent drumming sound is water dripping onto a sheet of metal. I've abridged the recording: the actual time between the initial sound of roots cracking and the falling of the tree was around an hour. Recorded with a pair of Rode NT55 omnis in baffled AB array with 20 cm spacing into a Sound Devices MixPre-3. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2018.08.05 Night Rain and Tree Falling in Winter (Excerpt)

An experimental meditative mix. Soft rain recorded with NT55 omnis in baffled AB array with 20 cm spacing, from 4am to 5am. Evening trains passing over a railway viaduct (above a river) recorded with NT55 cardioids in NOS array, between 5pm and 6pm. Both recordings made with a MixPre-3. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2018.07.16 Soft Rain With Railway Viaduct (Excerpt)

A watercolour study for a future soundscape painting (in a more remote and pristine natural location). Recorded around 5 am on a Sunday morning with a pair of MKH 8040s in a NOS array into a MixPre-6. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)(Τῇ Θαλείᾳ Δημητρί.)

2019.07.07 Soft Rain on a River's Surface and on Long, Lush Grass

(For Jan Eerala, whose aesthetic sense and sound recording work I very much enjoy, respect and admire. This is just a kind of echo response, which, as it happens, was recorded nine days before his lovely piece, https://soundcloud.com/holotna/after-rain-comes-the-wind-1882019-port-of-pori.) (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2019.08.09  Ἐν-τυπώσεις (Im-pressions): Rain and Wind on the Outside, from the Inside

Quick track, audacity, loops, solo and butter fingers

Ocean Solo

Recorded between between 8 pm and 9 pm on a Tuesday night with a pair of NT55 omni microphones in a baffled AB array with 20 cm spacing into a MixPre-3. In the quieter moments, before and after the storm's passage, there is some background sound of machinery humming and workers moving things around at a nearby quarry. And of one low-flying propellered passenger plane passing over, heading to land at a small local airport; they don't usually fly this way, but were probably avoiding the oncoming storm. And of one possum.

The location is the same as in '2018.08.05 Night Rain and Tree Falling in Winter (Excerpt)' (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20180805-night-rain-and-tree-falling-in-winter-excerpt), which was recorded two months earlier, after midnight, on a Sunday morning, in late winter.

(Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2018.10.02 A Passing Thunderstorm in Spring

Campfire Stories 70 (The Solace of Water) by Chryslsm

~ About The Story ~

With those lonely bare branches,
Goodbye kisses of the dropping leaves,
And lonely leaves gathered into heaps,
Street scenes with yellowish tint,
Like it was washed with calmness.
Somehow this season gives solace.

~ Chapters ~

Chrysalism - Winter Rainfall (Field Recording, Location: Newlands)
Submersion – Circular I
Purl – Willow (Graft II)
Hotel Neon – The Eye’s Mind 
Araceae – Elemental Peninsula
Chrysalism - Spring River Stream (Field Recording, Location: Newlands Forest)
Purl – Terra Lumina (SVLBRD Remix)
Araceae – The Great Mystery
Submersion – Circular II (N. tibicen)
Warmth – Home 
Chrysalism - Waves in a Tidal Pool (Field Recording, Location: Hermanus)
Gallery Six - Harukaze
Porya Hatami - White Forest (Purl Remix)
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Summer Forest
The Green Kingdom - Aetherium Dub
Chrysalism - Harbour Life (Field Recording, Location: Kalk Bay Harbour)
Warmth - Isolation (SineRider Remix)
Olexa - Ancient Forest
Purl - Under Mjuka Vatten (Version)
SVLBRD - Bellsund 
Warmth - Isolation
Frank Sebastian - The Empty Quarter
Steve Pacheco - Monte Sol y Monte Luna
Gallery Six - Balloonfish
Powlos - 2140
Warmth - Anchorage (Leandro Fresco Remix)
Chrysalism - Sea and Segulls (Field Recording, Location: Cape Point)

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Campfire Stories 70 (The Solace of Water) by Chryslsm

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Manu Zain - I Am

I was inspired by a particularly cool evening in the midst of the summer months. I wrote this song to reflect that as well as the feelings I felt at the time. 

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

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The Awakened Soul

Evening Song

a taste of the orient. 

mood over melody, 30 minutes of meditative relaxation through the eastern lands of mountains streams and solitude

𝔈𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱, 𝔞 𝔐𝔬𝔡𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤.

2018.10.02 A Passing Thunderstorm in Spring

𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘