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Soft echoes, surreal textures, and a hypnotic rhythm that drifts between midnight thoughts and lucid dreams.

INSOMNIA

“far from what i once was” is an ambient track by Chad Nathan

far from what i once was

remembering your voice

Electronic composition with sounds created in Pure Data.

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Into Smog (disquiet0476)

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Before Jumping From A Balcony (disquiet0476)

The first thing that stuck out to me from this image was the traffic, so I got some traffic samples. The balconies made me think of replicating the moment of hearing other people in the distance/through walls/in an obfuscated way so I downloaded samples of people talking. All the samples are from freesound.

The image has a haunting, distant quality to it, something I wanted to capture with a synth. I played around with the Applied Acoustics Systems Ultra Analog Session plugin in Ableton and I quite liked the synthy sound of it. The bit at the end is the same synth but pitched down. 

All the samples have a low-pass filter applied, the vocal samples have multiple echos, delays and instances of Multiband Dynamics to create a distant, removed feeling to it. I chopped up some bits from the traffic samples and spread them through the song. 

And that's it. Enjoy!
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Ghost Town (disquiet 0476)

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Houstone 3-disquiet0476

An introspective rumination.

The longer you stare at the tireless highway, the more the cars become a blur. Memories descend over your mind like morning fog rolls into the city. Conversations and laughter drift up from other balconies, but soon fade. Spacing out has become an accidental deep focus session. The cars from yesterday are back today. And will be back tomorrow.

But you've slipped out an exit. One nobody noticed. The cars shrink smaller. Rushing by in slow motion. Like toys controlled by your mind. You want to relinquish control but you can't. There's something controlling you. Something you can't see. Even from this raised vantage. "The fog will lift when I'm ready to see beyond," you suppose.


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This song exists because of an inspiring prompt courtesy of the Disquiet Junto music community project.

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Beyond The Fog (disquiet 0476)

Low Hanging Doom   (Disquiet 0476)

As i was awakening on Sunday morning this challenge came to mind. Before getting out of bed I planned the bass drum sound and the long sax notes. Whilst working on getting the bass drum right my 6 year old daughter came in and sat on my lap, after a while she said 'this needs bells'  so we chose a bell sound.  Later after breakfast I recorded the 3 layers of Tenor Sax each layer with a different sound through a digitech guitar pedal. Then the bells came in. The next day some mixing tweaks and the rim shot happened.

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Low Hanging Doom (Disquiet 0476)

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