I decided to undertake a sound experiment, to very closely replicate my tinnitus with modular synthesizer. Turn it down so that you can barely hear the various elements. The tones should settle in just about where they are in my head when the room is very quiet. The dominant drone is a cluster of sine waves modulating about a whole-tone between a flat G and A (around ±A430 or so.) There is a chattering noise that slightly resembles AM radio voices, a very high cloud of pitches (about 10 kHz) and a few sine waves just slightly out of tune at octaves in the upper midrange (1.1 and 2.3 kHz.) I did this as an exercise, but also as an example for people who wonder what it would sound like if you could actually record someone's inner perceptions.

Tinnitus

A track from the 2021 CD 'Magneto Mori: Vienna' on Canti Magnetici.

Magneto Mori: Vienna

The Periphery Defines The Centre

It’s nesting season for our new crow friends, whom I call Bruce and Spruce. Spruce is sitting on the nest I think, and Bruce comes to visit me to ask for treats rather often. Occasionally she joins him. I am puzzled by a strange sound she is making, sometimes for hours repeatedly. It’s an odd plaintive sort of honking sound, like a goose. I made a recording that I will try to link here. At first I thought she was mourning a loss, perhaps nest predation from the red shoulder hawk that hangs out here. Now I am not sure. I believe I can hear her accept food from Bruce toward the end of this recording. Has anyone else heard crows make a sound like this, or have any guesses to the meaning? (Please note, the little birds are louder than the crow call in this, as the nest is in the distance. She stops making the sound when I get too close.)

Crow Nest Call

Once again, we’re excited to unveil another Polaroid Notes release, the fourth album by this Germany based artist in our discography. Alongside his side-project as Kraut Sounds, editions have also appeared on labels such as Büro Für Erdrotation, Weber & Alcantu and his own label Drone Works International.

In this latest edition ‘Cloud Anthems’, the music takes influence from the packaging photography, which was taken by the artist one sunny January at the Riegsee, a small lake in front of the Bavarian Alps. The entire lake had frozen over due to low temperatures in the weeks before. Later that afternoon fog rolled in and together with the sun, the frozen lake and leafless trees made a wonderful contrast. The whole scenario lasted only a few minutes before everything disappeared into the clouds of dense fog. As beautiful as the whole day was, those few moments were something very special to behold.

Polaroid Notes enjoys these contrasts, both in nature and in music too. ‘Cloud Anthems’ is a series of unique contrasts that harmonise perfectly, remaining in mind for a while after they have passed. Piano sounds and loops interact with flashes of harsh energy and strange experimental sounds from old analog synthesizers. A particular focus for this record is the VCS3 synthesiser, a portable synth from the late 60s; whilst a digital replica was used here, the artist found this to be the perfect way to express the themes for this record. Sounds and melodies flow into each other spontaneously like colours of an abstract painting, layer by layer.

Credits:
Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Polaroid Notes
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Cloud Anthems

wlr123 Polaroid Notes - Cloud Anthems

Sebby Kowal - There Is Light [AR010]

Limited Edition 💿:
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-light

Stream:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1tliVIYTuhNY3tO1CkqI3O...

Artist // @sebbykowalmusic
Mastering // Andrea Porcu
Cover artwork // Anthony Asher- Yates

There Is Light

Sebby Kowal - There Is Light [AR010] preview

Glåsbird’s travelogue of sound advances further, with this seventh edition in the series heading to warmer, more exotic climes. The A Sonic Expedition series is this anonymous artist’s armchair exploration of the world around us and it has to date put down roots in Greenland, Svalbard, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia and the Himalayas. With this latest excursion, the snowy, treacherous peaks of Everest are traded for the tropically vast Pacific Ocean.

As fans of the artist will already be aware, Glåsbird researches each geographic location with great intrigue and fascination, scouring Google Earth satellite imagery, watching documentaries, reviewing vintage maps and reading articles about its history and culture. Whilst the enormity of this ocean was obvious from looking at the globe, what became apparent was the scale of diversity across the thousands of islands in the region, whether it be the landscapes, culture or even the rare species of bird. Studying history revealed some dark tales, of challenging sea voyages, crocodiles and even cannibalism. As always, it also gave the artist opportunity to make new discoveries, such as how atolls are formed from ancient volcanoes and theories on how the Moai of Easter Island were moved across the landscape.

Glåsbird felt that their now signature modern classical style needed to change for this record, as these ambient portraits of the Pacific offer surely the most adventurous sound to date from this artist. Percussive rhythms were carved out of cheap percussion instruments, exotic polyrhythms glisten alongside sounds of rolling ocean waves and the thriving nature scenes. Sun bleached tape decays atop warm, ebbing bass and synth tones.

In Pacifica, Glåsbird traces a set route from one island to the next, marked by each track on the album. It begins with a view of La Perouse Pinnacle from inside the French Frigate Shoals. This pillar of rock has been known to cause shipwrecks and general confusion amongst seafarers who’d mistaken it for a ship when seen from distance. The journey continues many miles of sea south, to the triangular shaped Kingman Reef before heading off to explore the lake in the middle of Washington Island, also known as Teraina. The journey heads a long way across the ocean in an easterly direction, to the Galápagos Islands and then onto the remote Easter Island, home of the Moai stones. The next leg of the journey returns in a westerly direction, arriving at Mangareva which is the main part of the Gambier Islands. The French Polynesian paradise island of Bora Bora follows, before a stop at the small wooded island of Tafahi in Tonga. Inyeug, the most northerly island of Vanuatu is the next destination, famed for Queen Elizabeth II’s visit back in 1974. The tempo of the percussive loops notches up a little, as the next track represents the Solomon Islands and then this tour ends on the island of Yap, with echoes of Yapese rituals and lapping ocean waves closing the final piece which is called Rumung.

Credits:
Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Cover photography by Garth Rogers in 1969, licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
license.

pacifica

wlr131 Glåsbird - Pacifica

Seramind - Audioscenarion 033 [May 2023, Ambient, Chillout, Drone, Electronic]

Please feel free to support all related artists and labels by purchasing or sharing their music.

Tracklist / Playlist:

00:00:00 Paperbark - The Forest Fell Still [Seil Records]
https://paperbark.bandcamp.com/album/breathable-changes

00:05:12 Ambix - Momentary Recurrence [Ambient Online]
https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-15

00:09:28 Hilyard - Woodland Hush [Stereoscenic Records]
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-shadows

00:13:44 In Vitro - El Lugar Junto A Las Aguas [Deep Electronics]
https://deepelectronicspodcast.bandcamp.com/album/de80-in-vitro-deriva-adentro

00:21:20 Willebrant - The Valiant At Arms [Sounds For The Soul]
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-for-the-soul-dark-ambient-comp-1

00:30:15 theAdelaidean - Patient Precipitation [Ambient Online]
https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-13

00:38:46 Kodama 木 - Epiphany
https://kodama3.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

00:46:55 Hilyard - Spirals [Stereoscenic Records]
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-shadows

00:54:59 Bing Satellites - Alive In Leeds (Ambient World Version)
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/the-ambient-world-of-bing-satellites-volume-eight-2019

01:00:46 Young Stellar Objects - Opus Magnetar Prelude
https://youngstellarobjects.bandcamp.com/track/opus-magnetar-prelude

01:07:19 Howard Givens & Madhavi Devi - The Celestial Expanse [Spotted Peccary]
https://ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com/album/the-celestial-expanse

01:17:39 Solipsism & Nacht Plank - True Hewn Wren [Neotantra]
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/opiate-odyssey

01:25:08 David Michael Matuch - Lost At Shore [Carpe Sonum Records]
https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/memento-musiciere

01:33:44 Bing Satellites - Birds On Water
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/a-line-connecting-two-circles

01:46:16 Moss Garden - The Tender Genes [Neotantra]
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-silence-of-the-subconscious
https://mossgarden1.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-silence-of-the-subconscious-3

Photography by: https://pixabay.com/de/users/ruslansikunov-11647343/

Visit my other pages:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/22xH66OU00shKM5kcwbAeK
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/seramind
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/4709745-Seramind
Bandcamp: https://seramind.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seramind
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@seramind

Audioscenarion 033 [May 2023]

Pepo Galán is a composer, multi-Instrumentalist and producer born in Málaga. His compositions create a characteristic sound with micro-textures, noisy atmospheres and melancholic melodies loaded with beauty and elegance like dense sound mists. He began his career in the early 90's, forming part of several bands where, in addition to playing bass, guitar or drums, he connected with eclectic styles such as punk, metal, experimentation or electronics.

https://pepogalan.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

David Cordero - 8º 25 de Agosto, 3 AM (dot.tape.dot Remix)(Archives)
Federico Durand - El Jardín De Rosas Antiguas (IIKKI)
Mikael Lind - Contingencies - Ending With The Beginning (Archives)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Coastal Trapped Disturbance (Room40)
Max Würden - Exothermic Reaction (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Rafael Anton Irisarri & Julianna Barwick - Thesis Collected (Thesis)
Pepo Galán - Barco Amor (Archives)
Shuta Yasukochi - Shoreline (ROHS! / Lontano Series)
Warmth - Receiver (Archives)
Eduardo Briganty - Un Drama Có-s-mico (El Muelle Records)
Taylor Deupree - 001/005 (Thesis Recurring)
Hotel Neon - Burning Mist (Archives)
r beny - Ektar (Dauw)
Purl - Violante (Dhyana Edit by Sinius) (Archives)
structweird - Gliesse 667 Ce (Sevendipia Records)
Miguel Otero - Drama 4 (Feat. David Cordero)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 007 - Pepo Galán

From The Age Of Solitude

LUA 003
_______________
Martin Allin - What's My Action EP
inc. Shaded Explorer & Geert remixes

Mastered at EvolvMastering. (France)
Artwork by Jon Monteiro.
https://lucidityanimi.bandcamp.com/album/martin-allin-whats-my-action-ep-inc-shaded-explorer-geert-remixes-lua-003
www.lucidityanimi.bandcamp.com
lucidityanimi@gmail.com

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