This is the sequel to the Sci-Fi theme album "Fantasies on a Journey Through Time And Space", released in March 2020. Here we dive further into the sonic mysteries of deep space... The first album was made entirely within the Sonic Pi-environment. But here - the experiments with pure coding act as a basis for explorations through other types of software as well. Enjoy the ride!

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Contemplations on Planetary Perils

The interstellar journey has come to an end. Meditations on Time and Distance - the third part of the album trilogy, combines, re-visits and morphs material from the two previous albums (Fantasies on a Journey… and Contemplations…), creating an uncanny and dreamlike world, full of broken dreams and twisted memories.

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Meditations on Time and Distance

This is electronic headphone music suitable for the Time Of Social Distancing. A Sci-Fi story in sound about people on a journey towards the unknown. Melodic, melancholic, weird and humorous (I hope). All the music was coded with Sonic Pi (sonic-pi.net/), a new favourite tool of mine. Enjoy!

Fantasies on a Journey through Time and Space

Track from the forthcoming Upper Rooms album "Dream Glitch" (to be released March 26th 2021).

Dream Glitch

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Upper Rooms - Golden

Upper Rooms - Dream Glitch

Upper Rooms - Melancholic Street Shuffle

Upper Rooms - Strange Procession

Upper Rooms - Gone In The Air

Upper Rooms - Occorom

Fourteen Billion Years of Solitude

The Grid

Entexaz

Around twenty years ago I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - an instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now. Some of the tracks I will publish here are based on old sketches that have been with me for quite some time. Some tracks have been used in other previous versions for plays etc., and some tracks are of a recent date. Maybe it will end up as an album one day? Enjoy!

Bleak Guitar - Swirly, Swirly

Memories of Dreams

Signs and Signals

Debris

Continuum Ripples

Around twenty years ago I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - an instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now. Some of the tracks I will publish here on SC are based on old sketches that have been with me for quite some time. Some tracks have been used in other previous versions for plays etc., and some tracks are of a recent date. Maybe it will end up as an album one day? Enjoy!

Bleak Guitar - Ave Atque Vale

Processed chopped up samples from random FM-radio scanning in the car close to the Russian border, November the 1st 2018.
This track is part of the evolving album "There Are Places I Remember":
https://soundcloud.com/isakanderssen/sets/there-are-places-i-remember

Kirkenes

Music from part three of the dance performance "The Borders Within" choreograped by Zeze Kolstad as a part of the production "Integr_it?" from 2008.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5JHirZdz6I

The Borders Within Pt 3 - Edit (2008)

Yet another new track where I have experimented with Sonic Pi.

The Young Boy Thinks Of Eternity

Quracyzz

The Boiling Surface

Imagine The Distance

Fvotaucza

Pixels Of A Lost Love

Approaching (System Overload)

Timbrean Dream Fog

Around 2000 I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - an instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now.

Bleak Guitar - Throughout Spring

Song Of The Stellar Sirens

Around 2000 I came up with this idea that I should start a project called Bleak Guitar - a mostly instrumental "band" that would bring together all my preferences for shimmering guitars, dream pop, goth, darkwave, postrock, folk etc. It never happened - until now. 
This track, Nightlight, is an exception: It was recorded in 2002 -  having in mind it should fit the Bleak Guitar project

Bleak Guitar - Nightlight (feat. Liz)

Night Sky

Gravity Dance

Anti-Gravity

Amboerax

Invocation

Another rare track from the Upper Rooms discography: The track Ice Pickle from the split 7-inch with Silverscale and Anodyne/Sophitia from 1998. Only 100 copies were made. The master tape is also hard to find, so I bring you a ripped version from my own vinyl copy (scratchy and noisy, but you get the idea).

Upper Rooms - Ice Pickle (1998)

Lament

A slow paced krell-patch on the 0-coast, interacting with the Landscape Stereo Field and spiced up with some live sampling by the morphagene. A little reverb from the Little Plate added in the end.

Isak Anderssen

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