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You can hear the mastered version on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/track/4hiV9BscMij2rE2Nwk1cmd?si=d659480555ee4638

Luftrum "Hey! That’s What We Call Pads, vol. 1" Demo.
www.luftrum.com/heypads/
My favorite chess opponent released another soundset masterpiece, this time for SERUM.

All sounds are from this soundset except the solo violin that appears near the end.
Patches used:
Altered Carbon [LUF]
Basic Lush Pad [H]
Dragonborn [LUF]
Flare in Motion [SU]
Smooth Operator [ES]
Minds of 88 [LUF]

Photo by Julia Joppie released as public domain on Unsplash (CC-0 License. unsplash.com/photos/G51K-d_klTE

HQ master on Spotify

Pedro Macedo Camacho - Deep Ocean ONE

Arkos for the Dark Zebra available at https://www.luftrum.com on November 3rd, 2022. This is a demo track by Joe Dachtler using only sounds from Arkos, so it's 100% naked. See a list of presets used below.

Arkos: https://www.luftrum.com
Joe Dachtler: http://joedachtler.com

Arkos is a dark and gritty cinematic sound set for Zebra HZ created by Sonic Underworld and curated by Luftrum. It features an arresting tapestry of sounds that will form the backbone of your underscore for your next crime thriller, dark drama, or near-future nightmare.

Presets used:

ARP Formanta
ARP Vedic
ARP Ventris
BL Ace Deuce
BS Feral
BS Vantra
BS Ozark
KY Lustmord
PD A Final Now
PD A Farewell Memory
PD Across The Ice
PD Against The Flow
PD Goetia
PD Kalliria
PD Sorrow
PL Centrifugalis
PL Neocenic
PL A Higher Power
PL Irrlicht
PL Swash
PL Polynominal
PL Zenigata
PL Pound The Void 
SC Insanorata
SC Quastra
SC Obliterate
SC The Hollow Woods
SC Zorkan
SQ Fascinoma
SQ Things That Were
SY A Long Way Down
SY A Slippery Slope
SY Turning Point

Joe Dachtler - Escape From Arkadios

CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/upstream-ensemble

@forms-of-minutiae and TBA21–Academy present "upstream ensemble", a communal happening and aqueous sound piece initiated and composed by field recordist, artist, and f–o–m co-founder Pablo Diserens (@pablodiserens)

During the 2022/23 digital residency hosted by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean-Archive.org, Pablo Diserens launched an open call inviting members of its online platform ocean comm/uni/ty (and external enthusiasts) to venture into the world and record aqueous sonic encounters. The aim of this collective liquid attuning was to gather sound recordings from various wet ecologies while stimulating listening and field recording gestures regardless of any previous experience.

Recordings from 35 contributors were woven into the long-form sound composition "upstream ensemble" which navigates between the multiplicity of the water cycle as a sounding body. The work moves upstream through oceans, rivers, pipe networks, ponds, and glaciers while investigating the continuous flow of water and the environments that surround it. Listeners encounter drifting habitats trickling with the songs of sea lions, dolphins, blue whales, humpback whales, Arctic terns, and algae photosynthesis – as well as with the invasive hums of submarines’ sonars, boats, and naval industries. With "upstream ensemble" some of the world’s aqueous fauna, flora, geologies, and technologies mingle into a synchronized motion that documents the sonic articulations of these wet zones.

In resonance with Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice and inspired by Rachel Carson’s exploration of the intertidal zone in her book "The Edge of the Sea", this project contributes to an ever-expanding list of works that propose a focus on listening as a way of engaging and existing with the planet’s waters. By stimulating shared listening and attuning practices, Pablo Diserens aims to develop a sense of interconnectedness by blurring the boundaries between species as well as environments. Experiencing aqueous biomes both individually and collectively acts as a way of rethinking our relationships with the world. Despite these being mostly solitary experiences, Pablo believes that field recording and listening are communal and environmental practices that form gateways for earthly synchronicity and world mapping in time and space. Thus listening in turn can become a political act that sparks emotional bonds with the world and its biotic communities.

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concept: Pablo Diserens and Fiona Middleton (TBA21–Academy)

composition and mixing: Pablo Diserens

with sound contributions by: Alëna Korolëva, Alexandros Maragkoudakis, Bence Kovács-Vajda, Christopher Dean, Cyane Findji, Damian Pace, Elise Rigot, Eliza Collin, Fiona Middleton, Francesco Previtali, Ilù Seydoux, Irene Mansoldo, Isabel Val, Jakob Köchert, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Joana Moher, Katy Lewis Hood, Kosmas Phan Dinh, Kseniya Lushnikova, Leo Maassen, Ludwig Berger, Mat Eric Hart, Mathias Arrignon, Matty Yeomans, Mélia Roger, Moritz Zeisner, Nikos Sotirelis, Nina Blume, Ocean Networks Canada, Pablo Diserens, Sem Zeeman, Slavek Kwi, Surrealich, Thibault Noirot, Varoujan Cheterian.

all profit of the release will be donated to the Blue Marine Foundation.

listening with good speakers or headphones is recommended as the piece features a large range of frequencies (notably blue whales' subsonic calls).

cassette mastering by Mathieu Bonnafous

graphic design by Cecilia Murgia

cassettes pictures by Camille Blake

duration: 30’29’’ — C60
piece repeats on both sides — limited edition of 100
published by forms of minutiae & TBA21–Academy — fom09 — 2023

special thanks to all the contributors, Fiona Middleton, Markus Reymann, Michal Kucerak, Petra Linhartova, TBA21, Madelyn Byrd, Diane Barbé, Lou Croff Blake, Thom Lucero, and Mélia Roger.

cassette & digital

pablo diserens & the ocean comm/uni/ty — upstream ensemble [fom09]

This is the sound of a window pane made of safety glass that has broken but not yet fallen apart. The glass is a splintered spiderweb of a thing. At some point soon it will likely collapse to the floor, but right now the glass is settling, this sound evidence of the uneasy peace inherent in its fraught physics. (It's a double-paned window, and only the inside pane has broken.)

Broken Glass Creaking

Enregistrement d'une roselière, secteur Madine vers 2h30 du matin le 12 mai 2024. 
Butor étoilé, Rainette verte , Rousserolle turdoïde, Blongios nain, Locustelle luscinioide, Rossignol philomèle, Coucou gris, Chouette hulotte, Phragmite des joncs etc... Mais aussi hélas sanglier dans la roselière ! 
Enregistrement en MS avec MKH 8060 + MKH 8030.

Etangs meusiens,  Butor étoilé, Rouserolle turdoïde etc..

Free field recording. Go ahead and download. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0).

The Free Field Recordings are a collection of 16Bit and 24Bit wav files from the Luftrum sound lab containing a broad range of various recordings from ocean waves to forest sounds, birds, gardenscapes, airport atmospheres, binaural recordings (listen with headphones for full effect!) and experiments with hydrophones, coil pickups and contact mics perfect as atmospheric background, sound effect, layered texture or otherwise.

Recorded using Sound Devices 702, DPA-4060, JrF contacts mics, hydrophones and coil pickups. Zoom H2 and Sony CS-10EM Binaural Microphones.

All sounds in Free Field Recordings playlist are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0) meaning you are free to share, copy, remix or otherwise transform the sounds for commercial or non-commercial use on the condition that you give appropriate credit where the sound is used.

You can also buy a user license of the complete library as pay-what-you-want, then you don’t need to credit me anywhere and all sales go to Save the Children.

Read more on www.luftrum.com


Forest Before The Rain (Sound Devices 702 + DPA 4060)

Whispers of Dawn Light

28 instances of Zebralette 2 by U-He. All the sounds were made from scratch, except the snare which is a Taron snare and the sitar which was made by Howard Scarr.

DAW: Reaper 7.30
Reverbs: SuperMassive, MConvolutionEZ, PSP Chamber
Delay: Sixth Sample Deelay
EQ and Compressor: Analog Obsession Frank CS, Airwindows Consolidated, Audiothing Blindfold EQ, Viator Graphic EQ

Mastering plugins by Tukan Studios: Multiband Processor, Tape Recorder S2 and Limiter 3      I also added Poortec EQ by Analog Obsession Just before Limiter 3 to clean up the spectre a little and re-uploaded the track (2025-01-16)

TSOM - Zebralette Dancing (OSC#191)

I am on bandcamp.com now
Two Thrush Nightingales in song.  Recorded at night beginning at 2.05am on the 20th of May 2013, in Soomaa National Park, Estonia.  This is the third of three recordings.  Some months ago I uploaded this same recording but a shorter version in 44khz/16bit, this recording is the full-length 48Khz/24Bit version.  Equipment; A matched pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.
Recording 2502.
To help you find my other albums, here is a list of the names of the albums as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.  
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.  	Forest Home.	  Out of the blue.
Jungle report.	Wild enough.	  Na Luum Ca - revisited.

South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau   (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.	   Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru   (4 disc production).
Otorongo.     	  Tahuayo. 
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.	  At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.	
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1 and 2.	  The joy of birdsong.	  Birds of the great Saltee.   Saltee Revisited.		Songs of silence.		Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.		 Suburban Birds (This one was never uploaded to sound cloud).

2 Thrush Nightingales - The 48khz/24Bit version

Sakura Giants / Vantablack 164

A demo track to showoff some of the presets I have made for Repro5 which are included in its release. I really love the dusty dirty organic nature of this synth, U-He did an incredible job.

(No other plugins of any kind including eq/compressors etc used at all aside from a limiter on the master bus)

Remember The Night

A collection of demo tracks for Omnisphere GaiKaiju.

Timeslip - Stephan Baer

Sakura Giants / Delicate Diodes

Chant synchro de deux mâles de Manakin fastueux. Two males of Long tailed Manakin. Rincon de la Vieja, Costa Rica. 
Enregistrement avec Mixpre 3 et 2 EM184 en position ORTF.
Crédit Photo cc by sa Steve Garvie

Manakin Fastueux Synchro Las Pailas Rincon De La Vieja Costa Rica Long tailed Manakin

You can hear the mastered version on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/15BeuMInoWxhi7KftJ3S8e?si=38d41d0873db4f81

Luftrum BioScape Demo.
https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/
I decided to create this demo to thank Luftrum for years of fabulous sound creations and for being a great chess opponent.

Bioscape allowed me to create organic sounds that really inspired me into this dreamy track, I hope you like it.

Patches used (all from Luftrum BioScape):
Keys: Atom Electro Watts LUF 
Pulse: A Soft Cluster Wind LUF
Rain: Rain sound from Bioscape, no effects except a bit of reverb.
BioCello: Custom made patch out of the "Bowed Diddley Bow" Recording
Final Distortion sound: Hardangervidda TSA

non Bioscape sounds:
Cinesamples Tina Guo Cello
Final seconds of the song has a very soft Sine Wave near the end to increase perceived fundamental sound.

Photo by Matthew Smith released as public domain on Unsplash (CC-0 License. https://unsplash.com/photos/11JyCQnIkZA

Landing in New Tokyo

Pedro Macedo Camacho - New Tokyo Streets

Sakura Giants / Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

Luftrum is a Danish sound designer, crafting auditory magic since 2008. 

From chasing elusive harmonies on synths to creating innovative Kontakt libraries, his work is used and endorsed by a diverse range of artists, from aspiring bedroom producers to Grammy and Oscar winners. 

Luftrum has collaborated with industry giants like Apple, Steinberg and Native Instruments.

Working towards ensuring safe housing, clean water, healthy food, quality education, and full health care, while planning future development to be in harmony with the Earth and with each other.

Forest Before The Rain (Sound Devices 702 + DPA 4060)

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