Late Night Tales

A few ambient tracks that I’ve loved in 2025. Will be expanded upon.

Selected ambient works 2025

What Dreams May Come

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (SLT-008)

Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)

Thought I'd start posting some of my nightly explorations to share with others ❤

Unpolished experiments as I familiarise myself with the Soma Cosmos drifting memory station and Kinotone Ribbons.

Gear:
- Sequential Take 5
- Moog Grandmother
- Elektron Syntakt
- Soma Cosmos
- Kinotone Ribbons

Late Night Tales — Cosmos

Late Night Tales — Ice floe

Made with:
- Sequential Take 5
- Soma Pulsar-23
- Soma Cosmos
- Arturia Minifreak
- Moog Grandmother
- Intellijel Cascadia
- Erica Synths Zen Delay
- Meris Mercury 7 Reverb
- Kinotone Ribbons

Late Night Tales — Cascadia

Made with:
• Squarp Hapax
• Sequential Take 5
• Moog Grandmother
• Arturia Minifreak
• Soma Pulsar-23
• Erica Synths Zen Delay
• Meris Mercury 7 Reverb
• Kinotone Ribbons

Late Night Tales — Mercurial

Tonight's noodle in the synth corner. Created in about an hour using:

• Squarp Hapax
• Sequential Take 5
• Moog Grandmother
• Intellijel Cascadia
• Chase Bliss Mood MkII
• Kinotone Ribbons
• Empress Reverb

Late Night Tales — Mood

If We Reach Rialto

Overlooking Vashon

The Third Broadcast (Empty Words Ambient Mix)

An ambient exploration using the Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station, and Slate & Ash Primaries / Strings

Deep into the Cosmos

Melbourne-based designer who's be stepping into the world of modular synthesis.

Deep into the Cosmos

Metric Imperial