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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

quiet midnight reflection. improvisation for keys, modular synthesizer, effects, and field recording.

this week's disquiet junto prompt suggested a certain hazy quality; flickering light filtered through a paper lantern. i improvised a gentle rhodes melody, run through just a touch of tape delay and reverb pedals. i then added a few more instrumental layers: lap harp swells via an ebow, through a modular synthesizer (mutable instruments clouds), and then through the same delay+reverb chain, with differing settings for each pass, to bring out the slight chorus effect on each monophonic line. also present are sparse single notes from mutable instruments rings, which, when run through the same effects, sounds remarkably like the rhodes melody. i had a hard time telling them apart; they blended nicely. this was probably the first time i obtained a usable "pleasant" sound from rings. next, i sent the recorded rings track back through the modular, this time through clouds and the delay+reverb pedals, and placed that sound very faintly in the background, to extend and thicken the "plucked" rings notes.

i constructed a paper lantern, a luminaria, and took it outside at midnight. i filmed it from several angles, as well as the modular playing its tracks. i pointed my zoom h5 at the luminaria to capture any sounds the flickering candle might make, as well as crickets chirping, leaves scraping, and the neighborhood in the small hours. once that field recording was added, the whole song was placed in this video, which was rendered with davinci resolve 14b6.

modular patch notes:

both the lap harp and processed Rings audio run through mutable clouds. its parameters (POS, SIZE, TEXT) are modulated by unsynced LFOs from monome arc and ansible (Cycles mode). that audio runs into strymon el capistan and reverb pedals. mutable instruments rings runs through the same fx chain, with different parameters each time. rings notes are played by monome grid and earthsea.

recorded for disquiet junto #0291, lantern effect:
https://disquiet.com/2017/07/27/disquiet-junto-project-0291-lantern-effect/

watch the video:
https://vimeo.com/ioflow/luminaria

luminaria

my song for the ambient compilation "Friends," released december 6 2018, on @seilrecords.

modular synthesizer + piano + field recordings + effects. gentle melodies and birds; slow sunshine and cool shadows.

https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/an-ambient-compilation

Friends

tanagers in paradise

ambient live performance for modular synthesizer. midnight. explorations and preparations. new material; looking ahead.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Pxva56dFs

modular patch notes are on the YT video page. recorded june 1, 2019.

nightglow

live performance for eurorack modular synthesizer. ambient atmospheres. once more around the midnight sun. explorations and experiments with make noise morphagene.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiyozPdUxVs

modular patch notes are on the YT page. recorded september 28, 2019.

aphelion // beyond the horizon

an experimental ambient/drone live performance for modular synthesizer, originally as a four-part video for instagram. seven voices, gently drifting.

video: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3r7h7rhBoT/

modular patch notes are on the IG post. recorded october 16, 2019.

static currents

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

slow scenes from a few days ago. coast live oak and california scrub oak. tranquil groves and dappled sunshine. layered ambient improvisations: piano, modular synthesizer, rhodes, field recordings. birds, rings, clouds, keys.

video: https://www.youtube.com/c/ioflow

the sound of light shining down

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

luminaria

ioflow

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