Name: Ghost Hackers I - False Flag by TheOxfordAmbientCollective
Duration: 5 min 48 s
Description: A track recorded in AUM using Patterning 2 (using samples from a Pulsar23)going through Varispeed app and Reelbus tape effect. Synth sounds from DRC app with effects from OtherDessertCities with notes from Euclidian (midi notes generator).

hmmmm. who is perpetrating this act??!!-:)

hmmmm. who is perpetrating this act??!!-:)this is a frame-up....a set-up! i LOVE this. WELL DONE!!

At some point, a long time ago, I gave up on creating a "new" musical language. It was still possible, in the late nineteen eighties and early nineties when I came of age, for me to see music as a linear progression. In my early twenties I would compose pieces that I thought of as new jazz. Of course they weren't. Just very individual songs in older styles with some ideas for other styles. A dash of Duke Ellington arraignment, a snippet of Monk perhaps a teaspoon of Syd Barrett mixed with some rock and roll harmony. Eventually, after a long pause in playing at all, I came to make music, I see as, more in line with the pop artists like Warhol and, especially Lichtenstein. My own musical ideas are still there but slyly inserted into pieces that are consciously, imprecisely, modeled on other works or styles. Anyway I went to see the new version of West Side Story with my wife the other day. The original show made right before that "pop" era. It was so sincere. No irony with an honest attempt to bring musical theater "forward". I so enjoyed it even if it's a bit middle brow Americana. I'm writing this description in hopes of being equally sincere. The melody borrows a bit of "Somewhere" as a tip of the hat. I hope. My big musical ideas, besides that, are as follows. The key may sound a bit vague at times but floats between B major, E major and A major so that classic one four five, if somewhat buried. the time signature changes a few times, briefly, and syncopates when it doesn't. There's the Syd Barrett influence for those keeping score. There's also some willful changes from major to minor in the harmony that are classic rock ideas. Even if, in this context, they eventually become key changes. Well that's enough sincerity. Oh except for the photo. It's Miss Place. My wife maiden name and me back when I would have written something like this. ;)

Miss Place

Many thanks to Ingvar Tautra for the evocative oceanic original.
https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/the-ocean-remembers-my-name?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The additional flute tracks hopefully take us to the beautiful Bass Rock in The Firth of Forth, Scotland (pictured)where the colony of Northern Gannets are battling against the ravages of avian influenza. We can but pray for their survival.

Photo c/o Pinterest.

The Ocean Remembers My Name [Auk mix] - Ingvar Tautra | WBE

A wonderful gift from DComposeuR 
https://soundcloud.com/dcomposeur
Thank you very much!!

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Dedicated to the brave people of Ukraine who fight for all our futures.

(Photo courtesy of Olga Subach on Unsplash.)

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A track recorded in AUM using Patterning 2 (using samples from a Pulsar23)going through Varispeed app and Reelbus tape effect. Synth sounds from DRC app with effects from OtherDessertCities with notes from Euclidian (midi notes generator).

Ghost Hackers I - False Flag

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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 😀

Ghost Hackers I - False Flag

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