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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 track played in AUM and made with the SampleTron and Hillman apps.

Themes From Forgotten Films VII: Memories of Yesterday

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)

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 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)

My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 466.

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

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

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

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)

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 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

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

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The Transistorised Automatic Computer was designed in 1958 as compute
rised early-warning system.
https://www.tnmoc.org/marconi-tac#:~:text=The%20Marconi%20TAC%20(Transistorised%20Automatic,rattling%E2%80%9D%20during%20the%20Cold%20War.

Computer Echoes:0110 == Transistorised Automatic Computer

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. 
The DEC PDP 8 was the first commercially successful minicomputer, with over 50,000 units sold during the model's lifetime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

Computer Echoes:0111(^) DEC PDP 8

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. 

The Altair 8800 had no built-in screen or video output, so it would have to be connected to a serial terminal (such as a VT100-compatible terminal) to have any output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

Computer Echoes:1000!Altair 8800b

Another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was one of the first personal computers, released in 1977 by Commodore International. It was an all-in-one machine with a built-in monochrome monitor, a keyboard, and a cassette drive for data storage. It ran on the MOS 6502 processor and was one of the first widely available computers designed for businesses, schools, and hobbyists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
https://www.tnmoc.org/adopt-artefacts/adopt-a-commodore-pet

Computer Echoes:1001&orCommodore Pet

The last of the Computer Echoes track and another track inspired by a visit to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

The ZX80 was an early home computer released by Sinclair Research in 1980. It was one of the first affordable personal computers, designed to be accessible to hobbyists and individuals interested in computing at home

Computer Echoes:1010<->ZX80

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

Shimmer - Early Track

This is a collaboration between myself and TTAATTOO. TTAATTOO has added some wonderful atmospherics and has added an extra dimension to the original track. be sure to check out his work at:

http://soundcloud.com/ttaattoo

The original is at:
http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient/at-he-gates-of-ctesiphon


At The Gates of Ctesiphon, the cave of hope (collab with TTAATTOO)

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)

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

The second of the Fast Fourier Transforms.  This features the iMini synth app from Arturia played through some Eventide effects.

Fast Fourier Transforms II

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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