Prague

Summer Indie

Craftsman

Reich

The Bakery

Bittersweet Dreams is a collection that seeks to capture the beautiful, peculiar, and emotionally complex nostalgia of our dreams.

In dreams, our lived experience is rearranged into something unreal yet totally absorbing and affecting. Bittersweet Dreams follows the same pattern: each piece is built around an organic, human performance of an acoustic instrument which is then augmented and transformed by synthetic electronics and sound design. Control of the acoustic space is paramount, with the pieces moving gently between intimacy and vast dreamscapes. The music makes use of reversed audio, shimmering reverberations and ghostly feedback to create a sense of the uncanny.

Reunion

Fever Dream

Electronic Embers

Dark Forest Dream

Hourglass Sounds is a musical partnership between composers Sam Johnson and Sam Rankin, specialising in composition and sound design for moving image projects. With years’ experience in the music industry, Sam and Sam have composed and arranged music for prime time television, theatre and various media. 

 

The purpose of Hourglass Sounds is simple: to create inspiring, beautifully crafted music in service of the client. This means taking care to fully understand the client’s needs, and collaborating according to the highest standards of creativity, skill and professionalism.

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