medititative...indeed.... enjoyed the listen... thanks!

You mentioned some of my favorite artists in your description David: Hermann Hesse and Peter Gabriel, and Don't Give Up is one of my favorite songs by Gabriel. and, by the way, your track is very good!

Well what a wonderful description here and another fine piece on the Sunrizer here my friend...

Very well done David and a pleasure to hear this fine piece. Great stuff my good friend and very well done. You certainly have been busy and I am having a good day listening to these fine pieces today.

Brilliant. Evokes avery old skool feel. Nice work Dave =]

like the panning, cant pin point that sound but it fits in v well and makes the mood perfectly

A very strange day in Berlin - a long day walking through lots of streets, near the end I took a lovely river trip.  I then wandered around the bars and restaurants near Friedrichstraße S-Bahn looking for a nice place to eat - I finally stumbled on a place called Ständige Vertretung and I enjoyed a nice beer and of dish of pork knuckle. To while away the time I was finishing off Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and when I left they gave me a little leaflet with Willy Brandt on the cover. By the time I was on my way back to my hotel it was raining heavily with thunder - after a quick shower I went to the hotel bar and finished off my book - this is I think one of my favourite books and I was weeping at the end of it - I then recoded this song in Sunrizer when I finished one of my favourite tracks came on the radio in the bar - Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up.

Siddhartha (Listen To The River) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEIKa-WMHM

The Oxford Ambient Collective (OAC) is the solo musical alter-ego of David Smith, an artist who began his compositional journey in his early thirties using software such as Buzz, FL Studio and Reason. He has a  focus on a aesthetic of crafting immersive "ambient drones and ethereal soundscapes." Intentionally grounding his work in the history of the genre, Smith’s creative output reveals a clear artistic lineage, with albums like Berlin Vol. III acknowledging the "subtle German EM influences" and paying thematic homage to the pioneering Berlin School of electronic music. While deeply reverent to this historical lineage, Smith's methodology is aggressively contemporary, positioning him at the vanguard of mobile sound design by relying on a sophisticated suite of iOS applications to perform complex sonic morphing and generate his signature textures; his advanced workflow employs Soundscaper as an "experimental sound mini lab" for textural manipulation, with all audio professionally routed through the AUM mixer and hosting application. This innovative approach powered his self-proclaimed "proudest achievement"—a 90-minute live performance at Oxford's prestigious Ashmolean Museum, an opportunity secured through his affiliation with Oxford Brookes University as part of its 150th Anniversary celebrations. To solve the inherent challenge of engaging an audience with long-form ambient music, Smith transformed the event into an immersive audio-visual installation, pairing his soundscapes with curated visuals from sources like The Internet Archive to command "active listening." The project's visibility expanded significantly beyond this institutional context through a pivotal relationship with the independent Focussed Silence label, which was instrumental in securing national airplay on BBC 6 Music. This success highlights a versatile appeal, with OAC's work finding a home on highly experimental programs like A Duck in a Tree on Resonance FM—hosted by the influential group :zoviet * france:—as well as on sophisticated global platforms where his work was programmed alongside compositions by genre progenitors like Brian Eno and Vangelis. While OAC remains a solo endeavor at its core, Smith actively engages in digital collaboration with a network of sound artists like Encym via platforms such as SoundCloud, effectively transforming the solo project into a decentralized creative hub, thereby giving true meaning to the "Collective" in his moniker.

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