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Swords to Ploughshares is a concept in which military weapons are converted for peaceful civilian applications.

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This is the story of an instrument wrought from the raw sounds of war and moments of everyday life under its shadow. Recorded in Kyiv and the Carpathian Mountains during the spring of 2022 by Ukrainian artist Histibe. Sound designed and crafted into a living virtual instrument.

This library offers the artist’s unique vantage point during a transformative place and time in their life and the world around them. His goal is to transmute an act of oppression into a tool for expression. It is not meant to be a definitive, unbiased, unvarnished or complete representation of the artist’s entire experience or those around him. It is intended as a work of constructive and reusable sonic art. It is a dim and hazy window into another human’s personal experience, crafted with the simple hope that it serves and inspires your own creative process.

It includes field recordings made in and around his hometown and during a temporary evacuation in the mountains during the heaviest period of shelling near his house. The subject matter includes the everyday sounds of his life and his city, quickly adapting to war time and often punctuated by blasts and the wail of air raid sirens. It explores the gentle sounds of nature in the mountains made all the more surreal by eerily distorted late-night shortwave radio broadcasts filling the airwaves.

Video & music by Histibe

Histibe - Swords To Ploughshares (Voiceover)

It is early morning in the port of Dylath - Leen. The morning mist is still present out in the bay. The great dreamland city is slowly awakening to a new day in the lands beyond the silver key.

Early Morning In Dylath - Leen (Dreamlands) [2210]

In deep space a top secret research spaces station has stopped communicating except for an emergency broadcast... A scavenger crew happens to be in a nearby system.

Cybernetic lifeform (Cybergod cycle) [2211]

Uptempo danceable oldschool techno that turns more into trance/rave towards the end.

Nihoteph - Intergalactic Lover [2212]

How will you choose to live your life in the future? In our reality or inside a machine?

Bright New Future (synthwave) [2301]

On a lonely moon base there is a pair in deep relationship troubles and there is an air leak. Six months remains until the next shuttle arrives.

230122: Remix 1.0
Vocals by VOE

Moon Breaking [2301]

144 BPM A#

Sometimes magic is the solution!

Bewitched (psytrance) [2304]

Love Magic [2309]

Through toxic and corrosive clouds of Venus the derelict travels. It is the crew's livelihood. The life they know, regardless of the dangers they encounter. Then, one strange day they detect a weak, alien radio signal originating from deep below the surface.

Haul To Venus [2402]

Oct 2020. Moving to: https://hearthis.at/jan-sandahl

Like travelling by train. 

Testing the granular engine and some presets in Arturia's beautifully sounding VST Pigments 2. 

The splashy picture belongs to Arturia.

Pigments Of Imagination

Father, Musician, Graphics guy (retouch/3D), Lucid Dreamer, Sound and Consciousness Explorer.

Pigments Of Imagination

Jan Sandahl

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