@piraat_davis: Thanks so much, and for officially "liking" the piece as well.

Great track! Love these beasties, the coast is one of the few things we miss having moved away from California.

wonderful harbour-tune, the drum track is fantastic

the seals seem to have jazzfeeling, great mix

dancing in the harbor... 5/8 seals?... great jazzy soundscape!

Love this asymmetrical rhythmic pattern and the atmosphere through whole track.

Ambient soundscapes based on field recordings of the Mendocino County coast in northern California.

These tracks and another in process will be combined with those in "Coastscapes - first set" to make a physical and digital CD, which should be released sometime in 2019. You can listen to "Coastscapes - first set" here: soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/sets/coastscapes

Half of the proceeds from the complete album will be donated to the Noyo Center for Marine Science — www.noyocenter.org — just as proceeds are now being donated from downloads of the first set.

Coastscapes - second set

Humpback whales are mostly silent summer residents of the ocean off Fort Bragg, CA, with some venturing to Oregon and Washington. In late fall, when they migrate south to mate and calve, the males begin to sing, some continuing through their return in the spring.

Lone males perform the songs, more frequently at night, when a chorus with two or three separated vocalists can result. Bioacoustician Jeff Jacobsen describes this as, "a collaborative acoustic beacon to the females migrating to the island, girls the boys then fight over. An acoustic 'lek.'"

The songs change over time, so the current version differs from this performance. Jeff explains that, "Males gradually change the song during the winter singing season, so that after about five years the song, sung by all males across the entire North Pacific…all the way to Japan is completely different," though still generally the same across this vast expanse. Much remains to be learned about whale vocalizations and how they transform.

This recording made off Mexico is of humpbacks who hail from the Kodiak Islands in Alaska. Thanks to Jeff and the Noyo Center for Marine Science in Fort Bragg for sharing it. The Center has projects underway to reassemble skeletons of both an orca and a blue whale that suffered tragic accidents on the local coast. The Center envisions a large oceanside facility to ultimately house these and other marine exhibits, including sounds of the ocean and its inhabitants.

This track © 2017 John Gilmore, all rights reserved.

Recording of humpbacks in Pacific Ocean at Isla Socorro in 2002 by Jeff K. Jacobsen, used with permission.

Field recordings on land and sea, Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, CA, by John Gilmore.

Photograph in Monterey Bay Aquarium by John Gilmore.

The duet with whales beginning around 3:20 was performed with the amazing GeoShred app: http://www.wizdommusic.com/products/geoshred.html

Noyo Center for Marine Science: https://noyocenter.org
Jeff Jacobsen: http://biowaves.net/jeff-jacobsen

All of Us Sharing Dinosaur Water

John Gilmore - All Of Us Sharing Dinosaur Water

Homage to our magnificent, often fierce, spring winds that sometimes seem determined to sweep all before them — hats, signs, birds, petals, leaves, fences, roofs, trees, and especially electricity.

Field recordings made 2016 and 2017 at three locations on the Pacific Coast of Fort Bragg, CA.

This track © 2017 John Gilmore, all rights reserved.

 Photograph  by Sara Evinger of trees in fog at north end of oceanfront trestle bridge over Pudding Creek just north of Fort Bragg. Used with permission.

John Gilmore - Only The Wind Remained

You have to be quick and stealthy to catch  the harbor royalty at this. Though they do make lovable toys, people who swim and fish are often not enchanted with them.

©2018 John Gilmore. All rights reserved.

Drum track from Mauro Battisti's amazing Drumgenius app, used with his permission.

Photo and  recordings of California Sea Lions in Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, CA, by John Gilmore.

John Gilmore - When The Human's Away, The Harbormasters Will Play

Inspired by Interstellar 2014 La Jetée 1962
Support: Ad Serpentae, Arnaud Barbe, 
Devin Underwood, Benjamin Dauer
and Ivan Black [@Ivan-Black]

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12 Years Later / Part 06 / Another Planet (A New Home) (Live Set)

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland)  Roland is one of the very few music friends I have had the pleasure of meeting face to face  (at a Tuesday Post gig hosted by the wonderful Georgina Brett). He is leaving London to return to his home city of Munich and the track is developed from some excellent samples that he sent me. These have been  radically developed/played in the app SpaceCraft and using an app version of a  reverb unit - RX950 (I used the physical version of this  on one my first ever tunes about 30 years ago). Encym's awesome tunes can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/encym
https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks and 
https://soundcloud.com/encymlll

Music For Meditation

London Departures (collab with Encym)

Marco Lucchi : analog synth, mellotron, tape and treatments

reworking 'The Spirit of Rothes' by Steven Chrichton
https://soundcloud.com/user-716561721/light-dances-p12-120

23 novembre 2018

Steven Chrichton & Marco Lucchi - Herz aus Glas

A collection of field recordings taken in a city centre park during the day. The accompanying music attempt to capture the textures of the light and motion of the environmental sounds at the three separate locations that the sound recordings were captured.

Castle Park

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
267 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2019-02-14

spring breeze the orchestration of wildflowers (Naviarhaiku 267 )

Zahn | Hatami | McClure - Prysma

"Wooded" is taken from "Paths", the new album by Darren Harper.

Limited edition cassettes and CD's in hand made packages available here:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paths

“A micro-world of textured electronics and voltage; a simple wind chime singing in a breeze” 
Created with a modular synthesizer and effect pedals, Paths is an account of missteps and error, a process of understanding; an unfolding. A discovery of oneʼs voice...a reflection of nature.

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darren harper's latest work is a joyous collage for all seasons; a delicate record that soothes and refreshes the spirit.

kaleidoscopic chimes and playful bells tumble against each other. twinkling notes drift down in little flurries, then melt away as sunlit chords push aside the clouds.

low, thrumming bokeh echoes bring distant mountaintops intimately close, then curve down into hushed forest floors, winds whispering through leaves overhead. tiny layers of loops and quiet delays, jumbled melodies, sparse crackling branches, and somber swells invite contemplation of these fragile spaces.

each moment is cherished, each song reveals new life: ephemeral, yet enduring. the ice breaks, slowly gliding away as the river shakes off its long slumber.

never obscuring, always revealing; these intertwining paths abound with the hopeful promise that spring is coming.

-- joshua saddler

Releases August 23, 2019

W/P by Darren Harper 2018/19 
Mastered by Porya Hatami 
poryahatami.com

Darren Harper - Wooded

In the storm

Western Adventure

禅は日本の心です。 
私は週末の朝早くお寺に出かけます。 
そこで、約三時間の座禅を組みます。 
心は次第に、波立っていない水面のように穏やかになっていきます。 
あらゆる環境音、無音は自分の中で意味を持ち始めます。

やがて音は光始めるのです。

Zen 禅　is a Japanese Spirit. 
I go to a temple in the early morning of the weekend. 
Then, I practice the meditation in Zen Buddhism for about 3 hours. 
The heart becomes quiet, gradually like the water surface which is not choppy, but still. 
All environmental sound and non-sound, begin to have a meaning to me . 
Soon the sound begins to shine.

Hongkong

John passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2020. He was always effusive about his love for this community and all of you who supported him. I will be maintaining his account and any proceeds from his music will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America. If anyone is interested in learning more about his life, his obituary is posted here: https://legcy.co/3ekapEJ   Thank you all!  — Loren Gilmore

From Chicago, lifetime striving to play jazz piano, involved in electronic music since getting ARP 2600 in 70's. More recently also drawn to ambient music. Lucky to be on the northern California coast playing steady piano gigs and now making soundscapes of this time and place.

Member of the Rumourtone Ambient Collective: @rumourtone

John Gilmore - When The Human's Away, The Harbormasters Will Play

John Gilmore—jazz&ambient

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