Empty Spaces (Extract)

This is a track from Surfacing, the debut album by A Marble Calm, a loose semi-ambient improvising collective I formed with vibraphone / marimba player Jon Hart.

This track, built out of a very sparse piano loop with added texture, is the final track on the album. I think it's the composition I've written that I'm most happy with.

A Marble Calm - Submerging

I hadn't been aware of Disquiet Junto until yesterday morning, when I saw the attached image and the words "This is the cover of your next image". Challenge accepted.

This was recorded in Logic pretty quickly... I started with a grungy texture bed, to fit that murky fog, and I wasn't really intending to do much more. But then I experimented with a booming kick drum, which naturally required some tinkling hi hats. That, along with the image of traffic, encouraged a bit more motion from a bouncing arpeggiator.

Next up a big brass swell, very slowly dialling up the treble, and a quite nasty synth through a guitar amp with tremolo.

To top it all off and be a little literal, I added some found sound. In this case, I found it among Logic's included library of atmospheric sounds. It's cold out, and I don't feel like hanging around on a busy street holding a microphone.

Everything drenched in varying amounts of reverb, and a lot of the treble has been rolled back. (see 'fog' above.)

https://disquiet.com/2021/02/11/disquiet-junto-project-0476-iah-forecast/

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Peter Chilvers is a musician and software designer. Best known for creating the iPhone applications Bloom and Trope with Brian Eno, he has also toured with Karl Hyde (Underworld) and recorded a number of albums Tim Bowness.

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