Track number 9 from the upcoming album 'Seafields' available from Dronarivm 260321

'She & Him' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

Paradox: Something that seems absurd, contradictory, or unreal, but is actually true. 

I believe in miracles, light in the darkness, the Savior, life after death...

I hope you enjoy this simple one <3

Paradox

Upset Hexadecimal

Collaboration with Mosaik
Original version released on Suunta (2007, Kahvi Collective)
Rework released on Approach (2022)

Approach

Planet Boelex & Mosaik - Sisumies Rework

"Galaxy Merger" is a one hour Ambient track, which was part of my "Ambient Night" live session.

https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-nights-vol-1

Ambient Nights Vol. 1

Galaxy Merger

Sometime in 2016, I came upon the California-based electronic musician, releasing his organic, evolving and highly textural synthesized compositions as r beny. I followed and watched many of his YouTube videos, where he showcased his modular skiff and various digital synthesizers (I particularly enjoyed watching the Novation Peak ambient showcase, which inspired me to purchase that synth). Throughout the years, I've been enchanted (as I'm sure some of you also have) with his particular aesthetic in creating warm, lush, and melancholic pads that stretch out their fingers and brush the worry away. When, in 2018, he got noticed by Dauw imprint, I reached out to premiere a track from his Saudade album. Since then, Austin Cairns' creations have continued to sell out - you can still buy digital copies of eistla (2018), echo's verse (2019), and natural fiction (2020) via his Bandcamp. By now, he has established a solid following, so it isn't easy to be useful with my words on HC. I can also say the same about the UK-based quiet details imprint, which has amassed a gathering of my all-time favourite ambient artists and relentlessly releases an amazing album every single month. This is almost a community now of all like-minded musicians sharing the label's aesthetic in creating pieces as an interpretation of the platform's name. I cannot keep up and cover every single album on there, so you might as well follow along on your own, and I promise that you won't be disappointed [for example, I failed to give my buddy James Murray proper coverage of his latest album, Weeds, thinking that, yeah, okay, you must already know that it's amazing]. Today, I'm dipping my toe back into the myriad of sonic seas and atmospheres with a track premiere from Cairns' upcoming album, discerned in the fugue of streams, because I think that it is very special.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/16/r-beny-fir-sweet-and-mossed/

discerned in the fugue of streams

fir-sweet and mossed

TRACK PREMIERE : r-beny - fir-sweet and mossed

modular, effects, and field recordings from a winter vacation in the southwest. a brief respite from the cold. snows melt and fall, icicles drip, sparkling rivulets flow down to the sun-warmed earth.

for this disquiet junto project, the first of 2017, i returned to the process of my last track from 2016: https://soundcloud.com/ioflow/meltwater-sunrays-warming

i still had unused raw material from vacation less than two weeks ago, so i decided to use some of those rhodes sessions and nature sounds as the basis for this track, along with a new recording just for this piece: miniature ice cubes periodically rattling in a glass. i chose my instruments and effects for the frozen, chilly appeal of their names.

i recorded two tracks with the modular, one at a time. first, the rhodes improvisation was run through mutable instruments clouds, which has nearly all of its parameters modulated by envelopes from mannequins just friends and cold mac, themselves attenuated by shades and isms. that audio then goes through a strymon bluesky reverb pedal, set to "shimmer" mode, which provides crystalline higher-octave harmonics.

for the second modular track, i used mannequins cold mac, which is normally a summing/logic utility, as an audio source. by patching "crease out" to "survey in" and carefully sweeping the survey knob, several points of scratchy whitenoise can be obtained from "mac out." i gated this noise in software to allow only the occasional click, and with heavy EQ it sounded much like additional shattering icicles or rattling cubes.

the modular tracks were combined with field recordings of snowmelt when temperatures briefly reached the low 50s, a most welcome thaw before winter returned.

recorded for disquiet junto 0262, "ice code." http://disquiet.com/2017/01/05/junto-0262/

a welcome thaw, midwinter dazzling

from a new album. out soon on cassette and digital.

mamiya

Bay Area, CA tape and modular artist r beny is today releasing his new track ‘northern breath’ ahead of the release of ‘Seafoam & Dust’ this Friday. ‘northern breath’ appears exclusively on ‘Seafoam & Dust’ as a bonus track, closing ‘Eistla’.

LISTEN/BUY: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/seafoam-dust

r beny - northern breath

State Azure - Edge of Forever

Nick Angeloni is a composer, audio engineer, pianist and synthesist who releases work under the name n-So.

One of the hallmarks of Nick's fantastic 2018 album 'A Stroke of Blue' is its careful balance of felted piano and electronics — it's an album that's full of accessible moments that twist in just the right way. Depending on the listener, the album's x-factor could be the unexpected textures, or it could be a chord that perfectly roots an ambient soundscape.

Speaking with Nick, I was reminded how tense the balance is between will + self-care. Nick is an incredibly talented and driven artist, and it was staggering to hear him talk openly about the challenges he faced while trying to finish this work. And to confirm that coming out of the valley isn't a momentous break of clarity — it's small moments of grace, of the universe wanting to heal what's hurting. I am grateful for Nick's honesty, artistry, and perseverance.

Episode 20 was lovingly assembled and edited by Matt Lowery (@mattlowerymusic). I'm so grateful for his willingness to give his energy and expertise toward this project and toward the lines community. sound and process is an exploration of lines, so, come join the conversation at https://llllllll.co

Out of the Valley: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-valley
A Stroke of Blue: http://n-so.bandcamp.com/album/a-stroke-of-blue
Nick's website: http://n-so.online

support Nick's work

Nick Angeloni (n-So): sound + process # 20

experiments. moments. images. play. beautiful things to reflect the joy and peace of the Creator.

a welcome thaw, midwinter dazzling

ioflow

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