The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

Weekend jamming and syncing, featuring some ringmodulation on the CS-30

16.05.2025 re-recorded due to clippings and digital artifacts on the prior recording. Thanks for pointing that out @Kraftraum.

10.05.2025
Image: Nele V.

Space

Sonic Aurora

A Garden

This is the first track I made using my newly built Big Dumb Sequencer by @isaac-beers. The first three rows of the sequencer control the pitch of the kick/bass and three NLC FM OP sine oscillators (triads/lead). The fourth row triggers the hi-hat, the fifth the snare, and the sixth modulates the NLC MORE cowbell's delay rate (XAOC Sarajewo). The gate row triggers the cowbell and the reset after 10 steps. I controlled the Weston B2 kick and sidechain envelope with another trigger sequencer and my master clock (PNW).

Like Water

Trickle

zone.

muzakorder _ 2025
LPx02
Mastering : Nil Hartman

à la rouille (avec öthann)

The Glade Between Hours

underground lake 00:00
mythril t-shirt 06:07

underground lake/mythril t-shirt

Not gone. Just elsewhere. A sonic migration from shadow to glow.

Her light folds gently into absence 歩きながら、光は沈黙へ変わる ("While walking, the light turns into silence")
The beat is a bridge between forgotten warmth And the shade that hums with memory
In the dust of transition — 残響だけが残る ("Only the reverberation remains")
Glide through airless places Where dawn once rehearsed A shimmer that now belongs elsewhere.

🎛️ This track emerged from a live session — raw, evolving, and captured in the moment. Catch the full performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCCXdI7aXc

A Garden

RDT