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Themes From Forgotten Films

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

Themes From Copenhagen

Computer Echoes

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)

A track created with https://soundcloud.com/help-help-help (pangea3000).The track was mixed in AUM using a drone sample that pangea3000 sent me and using tha apps Borderlands and ID700 with some effects frpm Bleass. The track was mastered in Auria.

Ghosts In The Shell I (TOAC vs PANGEA3000)

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

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 a rework of my track Conjunctions VI with my new music friend Ferekans. You can find has excellent work at:
https://soundcloud.com/ferekans-music

Conjunctions VI Rework (TOAC vs Ferekans)

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)

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

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 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)

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 521.
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa
Basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut

Picture by Jonathan M. Hethey https://unsplash.com/photos/photography-of-grass-with-sun-light-ka9D9DiEVvw

::::>>>>::Journey To The Sun::::::Naviar Haiku 521

This is track was created on my Roland MC307, which I puchased off eBay last year. I finally worked out how to record from it properly. It was great fun!

Ghost Hackers IV - Zero Day

This track was composed in AUM using apps such as Hida (going through a Rymdigae effect) and Hillman (going through a Nembrini Delay effect). Notes/MIDI came from Chordjam with additional sounds coming from Fluss Recorder (going via a Speaker effect), All mastered in Grand Finale.

Sonic Installations VI-The Cove

Ghost Hackers V - Dark Worm

A few weeks ago my music friend Soundpainter (aka Andrew Janik) got in touch about using one of my tracks from my Sound Installations album as he thought that it would work well with the track that he was producing. This is the result. It has been great fun going back and forth with Andrew exchaning ideas.

music community   The Far Tower In Fluorescence EP

The Far Tower In Fluorescence (with Soundpainter)

This track is influenced by  a recent visit to the National Museum of Computng at Bletchley Park here in the UK. The track was created in AUM and used apps such as Stria and ID700 with MIDI notes from Harmony Bloom and effects from Bleass Motion EQ, Bleass Delay and Otherdesertcities. Here is where to find out more about The Bombe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

Computer Echoes:0001<> The Bombe

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Colossus was the world's first digital computer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

Computer Echoes:0010 => Dreams of Colossus

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. W.I.T.C.H was the one of the world's first digital computers.
https://www.tnmoc.org/witch

Computer Echoes:0011 # The W.I.T.C H

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. EDSAC was the one of the world's first digital computers.

https://www.tnmoc.org/edsac

Computer Echoes: 0100 & EDSAC

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. the IBM1130 was one the first IBMs developed for the office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130

Computer Echoes:0101!=IBM1130

This is an ambient piece, again from a  few years back composed in FL Studio

Shimmer - Early Track

Berlin III : Neukölln

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)

I was spending some time in the excellent DDR Museum and they had a section with old radio and TV clips. The one I really loved was a title clip of a TV show called Unser Sandmännchen. which is bascially. I just thought it was delightful and I did this "sort of" version of the track in Polychord in the x-terrain bar in the Oranienburger Strasse. Tuesday 03/07/12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEst3Hxguw&feature=related
Location: http://www.berlinatnight.de/locationdetail/2225/x-terrain.html

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Neue+Synagoge,+Oranienburger+Str.+29-31,+Berlin,+Germany&hl=en&ll=52.525499,13.390765&spn=54.705371,172.089844&sll=52.515429,13.38489&sspn=0.000821,0.002626&oq=ORA&t=w&hq=Neue+Synagoge,+Oranienburger+Str.+29-31,+Berlin,+Germany&z=3&layer=c&panoid=O-WD1A4F8BqE9CQGx6ZCSg&cbll=52.525499,13.390765&cbp=13,-2.5949042036237704,,0,-15.865230150340537

Sandmann, Lieber Sandmann (please read description)

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 reworking of "Eine kleine elektronische Meditation" by Marco Lucchi for his "Elektronische Meditationen" project. Marco is a music friend from Modena in Italy. Marco has many fellow Soundcloud and music friends and his music output is immense and  truly wonderful.

https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi
https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali

The Oxford Ambient Collective and Marco Lucchi - Eine Kleine Elektronische Meditation

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

Another collaboration with @peteswinton. Pete are working on album together where we are reworking/remixing each others tracks.

This piece was recorded in AUM using one of Pete's original tracks (called Dark Day In The City) and adapting it in the Borderlands app and adding extra texture with Droneo. A couple of Eventide Delay and Reverb effects were added to the mix as well.

Evolving Cities (with Pete Swinton)

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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