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Themes From Forgotten Films

A set of tracks recorded in the beautiful city of Copenhagen.

Themes From Copenhagen

I imagine these tracks been played in a large room with lots of dim lighting and obcure art objects.

Sonic Installations

In memory of Private 74333 - Henry Archibald Smith

Requiem for Archie (Into The Light That Never More Will Fade)

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland). I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This particular track features a guitar sample/track that Roland sent me.

The track was put together in AUM.

Voyage To Ultima Thule III (collab with Encym)

A mix of old samples of mine and the Sounscaper app and using BLEASS Slow Machine - all mixed in AUM

Radioland  II (Teufelsberg 394 MHz)

The last of the Themes From Forgotten Films tracks..played in  the Model 15 app from from Moog.

Themes From Forgotten Films X: Finally We Are No One

Back in 2016 I released my Music For Schools album. I thought that I would start work on volume 2.

As with the first volume these tracks will try and get some of the feel of the soundtracks from the schools TV programmes that I grew up with in the 70s and 80s.

This track is all mixed in AUM and makes use of the apps Fundamental, auGENx, ID700, Fugue Machine and Rozeta LFO. Effects came from Eventide Shimmerverb.

Music For Schools Vol 2 (1 - Molecules)

Recorded in AUM using apps WebDSR (which lets you play online radio stations across various wavelengths), Stria (a synth), Beatcutter (creates lots of crazy glitch sounds). Effects came from Dubstation 2, Bleass Slow Machine and Barricade (a limiter/compressor).

Music For Schools Vol 2 (2 - Nuclear Reactors)

This is track is start of a new collaboration with my music friend Pete Swinton. I will be re-working some of his tracks from his excellent Project Drone Adzan Maghrib album.
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/project-drone-adzan-maghrib

This track is a re-work of the Project Adzan 1. It was mixed in the AUM app on my iPad and used the excellent apps Bleass Slow Machine, WebSDR, Magic Dice, auDSPr and Barricade.

Project Adzan (with Pete Swinton) - 1 - Shortwave

This is the third track of a new collaboration with my music friend Pete Swinton. I will be re-working some of his tracks from his excellent Project Drone Adzan Maghrib album.
peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/projec…dzan-maghrib

This track is a re-work of the Project Adzan 6. It was mixed in the AUM app on my iPad and used the excellent apps VHS Synth, Stria, Eventide Blackhole, Kosmonaut, Bleass Reverb, Bleass Chrous, Eucliden and Barricade.

Project Adzan (with Pete Swinton) -3- Ghost Nebula

This is one the first times that I have done a track with guitar (in this case a  Harley Benton SC-550 II ). The track was recorded in the Roxsyn app from Yonac and further embellishments were added in AUM.

Incantations I

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland). I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This track contains a number of wonderful samples that Roland sent me. These have been manipulated with an app called SpaceCraft and with effects added from a Nembrini delay. Radio sounds have come from an app called WebSDR. 

The track was put together in AUM.

Trajectorize EP

Signal To Noise (collab With Encym)

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 466.

Haiku by Louise Hastings
Open road…
the distant clouds
stepping stones

::::>>>>::::Celestial Paths::::Naviar Haiku 466

Sonic Installations I (sagedus)

This track is a collaboration with one of my favourite SC artists Katherine Chatham. Katherine is not only a fantastic singer but a talented flute player. Her Native American Flute is being used by Katherine on this track.
Be sure to check out Katherine's work at:

https://soundcloud.com/katherine-chatham


Requiem For Archie Movement 1:Prelude (with Katherine Chatham)

This is another puece in memory of my Great Uncle Archie. The elder man in the photo is Archie whilst the little chap is his brother Roland (my grandfateher).

Requiem for Archie Movement 2:Lullaby

This is first of the four tracks of a new collaboration with my music friend Pete Swinton. I will be re-working some of his tracks from his excellent Butterfly and Ship album.

https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-and-ship
This track is a re-work of his track - 01. OSC Sine 63Hz 0dbFS.

It was mixed in the AUM app on my iPad and used  iPad apps such as Hillman Synth, Euclidian, Nembrini Delay, Grand Finale, Fluss and Bleass Chorus.

Butterfly And Ship (with Pete Swinton)  1. Sinyphasia

Archie joined the Machine Gun Corps and fought at The Battle OF Loos in October 1915 and was severely wounded in the head and spent 16 weeks in hospital and returned to the theatre of war in February 1916.........

Requiem for Archie Movement 5: Battle of Loos

Not much is known of Archie's early life, expect that he worked as a foreman bottler at the Hopcraft and Norris Brewery in Brackley.

Requiem for Archie Movement 3 : The Hopcraft Bottler

Sonic Installations II (raadiolained)

Sonic Installations III (drone droids)

This track was played whilst flying from Heathrow to Copenhagen. It was recorded in AUM via AnimoogZ

Themes From Copenhagen I - Amkomst

This track was played in the Trinitatis Kirke in Copenhagen. At the time there was a wonderful organ recital in progress, so I felt compelled to create this track. It was played on the Moog Model 15 app. Effects from Eventide were added later on.

Themes From Copenhagen II - Trinitatis Kirke

This track was played in Free Christiania. It is based on a track that I never got round to completing. It was recorded in AUM and used the ID700 synth and Axon02. Effects used were Lo-Fi-Af and Rymdigare.

Themes From Copenhagen III - Radio Cristiania

This track was recorded in AUM ans used apps such as AOX02,auDSPr and Noises - all going through the effect Rymdigare.

Themes from Copenhagen IV - Øresund

This track was recorded in AUM and used apps such as Sunrizer and Hilman, The melodies came from Fugue Machine. Effects used were Nembrini Analog Rack Delay and Nembrini Delay3000.

Themes From Copenhagen V- Zealand

This track was recorded and played in AnimoogZ.

Sonic Installations IV (the far tower)

This is the penultimate piece (well in order of composition) in the Archie series. For such a short track it went through several changed as I was never happy with it.....I guess a true labour of love!

Requiem for Archie Movement 4: The Volunteer

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 508.

Haiku by John Hinks
Deep, dark summer night
A Sudden shatt of moonlight 
Blesses the temple
stepping stones

::::>>>>::Moonlight Discord::::::Naviar Haiku 508

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 511.

Haiku by  Shubham Dasgupta
In dark autumn nights
dew and the new bamboo shoots
reaching out to moon

Photo by naraa

::::>>>>::Dark Fall::::::Naviar Haiku 511

This is second of the four tracks of a new collaboration with my music friend Pete Swinton. I will be re-working some of his tracks from his excellent Butterfly and Ship album.

peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-and-ship
This track is a re-work of his track - 05. Two Ships

It was mixed in the AUM app on my iPad and used iPad effects apps such as OtherDesertCities, MoogeFooger MF104s Delay,Speakers and Grnad Finale.

Butterfly And Ship (with Pete Swinton)  2.Dysphasia

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland). I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This track contains a number of wonderful samples that Roland sent me earlier in the year. These have been manipulated with an apps such as Fluss and SpaceCraft and with effects added from a Nembrini delay, Other Desert Cities and Speaker.

The track was put together in AUM.

Barbican Drones (with Encym)

This is the first of series of soundtracks that are themes to made up titles for radio plays. The melody for this track was made in Fugue Machine. There are two instances of the Hillman synth app panned left and right. Each of these are going through an effect called Speaker. Grand Finale is being used for mastering. 
The title was inspired by a recent visit to London as I walked through a small City of London burial ground and suddenly found that the one of many people who were buried there was William Blake (and indeed John Bunyan).

Radiophonia 1 - The Death of William Blake

My contribution to Marco Lucchi’s project, “The concept of work was forgotten”

https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/sets/the-concept-of-work-was
 A 50th anniversary tribute to Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow In Curved Air”

A Rainbow in Curved Air I

A collaboration between Absorption (Dave Pugh), Sleepingenius (Helen Suzanne) and me, from my original piece "A Study of Rain".  

It is a reflective piece, in which I hope you will find something to take you far away from the distractions of life for just a few minutes ...

TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv : Piano
absorption : Synths, textures & production - http://soundcloud.com/absorption
Helen  : Poem/Voice - http://soundcloud.com/sleepingenius

'September Rain' - TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv with Absorption & Sleepingenius

The last of three loosely related tunes. My nerves are a bit wracked at the moment as I am due to apper on stage tonight in my drama group in a production of The Goverment Inspector  - playing this has calmed me down al little.

Govinda - The River Knows

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland Reinke).   I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This particular track features some guitar sounds from Roland which I have done my ususal trick of weaving my own sounds around his. The track was mixed in AUM but also used the obligatory delays and reverbs and the Soundscaper app. It also fetaures some samples taken from old computer equipment (used from the site below).https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2019/11/tnmoc-samples.html
 Roland's awesome tunes can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/encym
https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks and 
https://soundcloud.com/encymlll

Estuary Fog (collab with Encym)

A piece played in an app called Moonbeam (has lots of lovely LoFi sounds).

Themes From Forgotten Films I: Lost Signals

A meditative drone piece played in Sunrizer and Audiokit SynthOne

Themes From Forgotten Films II:The Subterranean

A piece recorded in Audacity by using the Android phone app Common FM synth.

Themes From Forgotten Films III: Electric Sea

A drone  track recorded in AUM using the apps Bebot, Hillman and Droneo.

Themes From Forgotten Films IV: The Quantum Principle

A piece recorded on the piano in Wolvercote Village Hall.

Themes From Forgotten Films V: The Tall Shadows

I started creating music on my old PC back in 2002 using DAWs such as Buzz, Fl Studio and Reason. As my artist name suggest I mostly compose tunes that have an ambient edge. My main passion is creating soundscapes, be they soft drifting drones/piano pieces/heavily synth driven, weirdly abstract and classical and orchestral pieces. I mainly compose using apps on my IPad but also make use of whatever instruments I have lying around such as my Pocket Operators, Modal Craftsynth, my favourite is an Early Learning Centre keyboard.

In the past my tracks have been played in BBC Radio Oxford and BBC 6 Music. Over the years I have collaborated with people from all over the world. Please message me if you would like to collaborate 😀

TheOxfordAmbientCollective

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