Made by shining torch light through the glass envelope of a 1960s electron tube focused onto the halo getter wire at the top inside and then placing the Optical Mic on the edge of its shadow on the wall a couple of feet away. Whilst repeatedly tapping the tube I was eventually able to capture the tiny vibration of the halo wire resonating like a tuning fork by picking up the audio modulated light cast on the wall using the optical microphone. The resulting recording was noise reduced in iZotopeRX and then looped and transposed.  Like a lot of the experimental optical recordings I've made, the alignment is critical and I doubt a normal microphone would have picked up much of this through the glass envelope. Similarly, if a conventional contact microphone had been employed, the tiny vibrations from the halo wire would have been completely swamped by me thwacking the glass envelope of the tube with the rubber mallet.

A tube getter commonly consists of a metal wire structure (in this case, shaped like a halo but some have a rectangular profile) flashed with a deposit of reactive material (commonly barium) that is placed inside the tube to complete and help maintain the vacuum over time. When gas molecules strike the getter material, they combine with it chemically or by absorption to remove small amounts of gas from the evacuated glass envelope. The shiny metallic deposit often seen at the top of the inside of the glass outer is where the getter material condenses at high temperature onto the glass during manufacture.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2024.

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Following the release of new long player ‘Only Good Dreams For Me’, Polish producer Zaumne shares an hour of inspirations with NTS – covering contemporary alt-pop, weirdo rap, ambient drift and beyond.

 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/zaumne-21st-december-2024

Zaumne 211224

À Moi Le Sarin

spiry stuff

Rough re-edit adding various effects and things, its rough  so some parts work better than others, completely improvised.  I actually think it sounds quite good like this , but you know..

Aphex Twin-Tha (Qeta Remix Q)

jumanjy, 25/8/17, did a little afternoon thang - it's really simple, and probs should have given myself more time, ah well
(this was just a rehearsal, so there's mistakes, too !)

I did an afternoon thing (some background music?)

Wicker Man (2014)

Lost in a field (premaster) (2014)

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/music-off-the-telly 

Dave Monolith - Music off the Telly - Good Friday

Snippets : soundcloud.com/grid-records/doline-threnody-of-moaning-sparks-grid018

Doline is back with his sophomore album !
A one-of-a kind experimental and bassy release where stars meet hearts in the deepness of the universe. Thirteen tracks exploring emotions, from sorrow to happiness, from fear to serenity. A rich path into the unique and colourful world of the French producer, always evolving over his music researches.
This LP is another milestone for Grid, the fourth release from Doline and maybe his best piece of work so far.

The album opens on Earth, Under Starry Dawn, linked to the last track of the previous LP, to take off straight to the hyperspace. Then Flutina continues the story, with suspens and discovery in weightlessness, floating towards a new world. Janus Complex is a post-trance track with Y2K vibes, like humans explaining their origins to someone new. Sensunreal and its deep synths shows Doline's groove before Through The Stellar Foam lost us into a thick fog trying to find a way out : Chœur, our wormhole to distant stars, where then Etherrestrial Xo suggest the joy and relief to find them, an emotional mood as Doline has the secret. Cockcrow will softly awake us with its AFX-like lo-fi tickling loop and his synth melodies, before Oniromance makes our heads shaking with its thin and unpredictable bass groove. For the last part of the album Carolus Ex-Lament, probably an unknown space conqueror, brings back trancy synths and melodies, while Before What's Beyond choose to show Doline oddness and his speaky synths again, reminding his 'Dompte Regard' era. Star Funeral, a tribute to his loved ones, shows once again Doline's talent for emo-pop melodies. Phœnix too, a brilliant closing track telling us there are always other new worlds to discover : it's already time to fly away!

https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/threnody-of-moaning-sparks

https://soundcloud.com/grid-records
https://soundcloud.com/doline

PREMIERE: Doline - Etherrestrial Xo [Grid]

a series of short pieces distantly inspired by the work of Mustapha Skandrani, and written for (ideally retuned) piano and/or physical models of piano  
this is a first, rough & unedited output from SuperCollider — maybe inconsequential, maybe not, distorted without a doubt
https://lucienezri.com/work/for-semaison

for semaison ( preview )

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

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