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This piece gives a good glimpse into my current live performance ambient methodology starting with a single note on a synth into a virtual PCM-42 doing square wave modulated long delays. This is followed by 3 more synths creeping in one at a time each being looped in an instance of Augustus Loop and followed by fx then hitting the mixer. My guitar creeps in over top of it all about a third of the way through.

I'm running the whole rig in Plogue Bidule which I find a friendly alternative to Max/MSP plus I can use all the groovy AU & VST plugins I already own!

Well Enough I Suppose...

I finally escaped the studio long enough to play some music over the holidays. A rather Snow and Ice flavored batch of improvisations no doubt helped by the temperature dropping to -29° F while I was working on them... After 5 months of engineering other folks projects it felt good to just play for a few days!

Recorded live to 2 track

Snowblind Slight Return

This seems to be a companion piece to 2013's Hypoxia & Tibetan Horns. From the Gyoto Monks to Huun-Huur-Tu I'm a huge sucker for throat singing. I'm also deeply enamored of Simon Stockhausen's programming for Iris and Alchemy which play a huge role in this new set of tunes along with my ambient guitar ramblings. These are all live to 2 track improvisations hosted in Plogue Bidule. Enjoy!

Rongbuk

My first collaboration with my 12 yr old son Jonas. I had just given him a "Jon Hassell" style lesson playing his trumpet through my pedalboard (including a Eventide H9 Max and a Montreal Assembly Count to Five) the day before and his loops were still active in my pedals so I played ambient guitar along with him, very fun! https://soundcloud.com/jonas-heimbecker

new squid

Michael Twarogowski