Roland TR-06 processed through modular for drums (Random Source Wave Multiplier/Intellijel Morgasmatron/Make Noise Maths for filtering of main TR-06 output, Intellijel Atlantis triggered for bass drum). 

Moog Grandmother for all pitched notes. 

ValhallaDelay used for looping, reverb, echo, pitch shifted reverbs, lofi tape grain.

Inspired by some recent fever dreams. I had a BAD cold.

Delirium Loop

Rundgång

Maskin I

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/DmxWV4wS9bI

A track from "Oblio", album released by ROHS! Lontano series.
https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/oblio

"Oblio" (italian for "oblivion") is a collection of 7 tracks, of which one doesn’t exist. The album is a short study on abandonment, sweetness and melancholy associated with the progressive disintegration of memory, the loss and irreversible modification of the mind: an album about the sense of the end of things, up to the fulfillment of oblivion. Symbolically therefore the last track (the titletrack) is an empty space, it's missing as if it never existed, or as if it was composed in the past who knows by whom ... but forgotten. "Oblio" is based on classical piano music loops (Ravel, Debussy, Bartok), taken, internalized, reimagined and made "other", in an attempt to forget them: an almost Zen testbed for the abandonment of the self.

The opening piece "Nostalgia" explores and expands the space between two notes in a particular passage of "Adagio Religioso" from Béla Bartók's concerto n.3 for piano and orchestra, an almost scientific attempt to vivisect that melodic cell and observe it at microscope, to try to understand "what is there", why it is precisely in that micropassage that all the melancholy of the world seems to be enclosed. Also "Remembrance of things past" has the same intent, inspired by the Proustian novel (in particular by Vinteuil's "petite phrase"), and composed using only one sample elaborated from "La Fille aux cheveux de lin" by Claude Debussy. In "La même vieille chanson" the last fragment of an old melody is repeated stuck in the mind, mixing with the resonances of many day lived. It's based on a loop from Maurice Ravel's "Le Jardin féerique". Also the track three, whose title is a quote from a poem by Montale "Forse un mattino andando in un aria di vetro" ("Maybe one morning walking into an air of glass"), where to the sound of a window creaking in a particularly windy day, an apathetic day between many, a chant joins: in search of an epiphany that illuminates and rip the veil of reality. Finally "The worlds behind you..." is a dark lullaby under a dusty blanket of noise, and is based on a loop from the "Passacaille" of Ravel's Trio in A minor op.67; while "... are fading" still uses a fragment from "Le Jardin féerique" in decay. 

Tracklist:

1) Nostalgia [6.47]
2) La même vieille chanson [4.00]
3) Ricordi quel mattino, quell'aria di vetro? [8.56]
4) Remembrance of things past [6.32]
5) The worlds behind you... [7.12]
6) ...are fading [5.04]
7) oblio [∞]

Credits:
Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (April 2020 - February 2022)
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

La Même Vieille Chanson

"Dagens agenda: att bekämpa den gnagande känslan av bedragarsyndrom. Det är en kamp, men vi gör det här tillsammans. Det är nödvändigt för vår utveckling och framgång. Den här låten tillägnas till alla mina medkämpar där ute." (LR Friberg)

My Hidden Agenda - Äkta Varan

Sunrise at an Irish raised bog and bog woodland mosaic in Co. Offaly. 

Raised bogs in Ireland, and other countries alike, have been drained and terribly over-exploited for fuel and horticultural products, particularly in the previous and current centuries. As a result, this extremely slow-forming habitat is now *much* rarer than what it once was, at least in an ecologically healthy state. 

Commercial mining of peat is coming to an end, but these precious spaces now face a new threat in the form of large-scale wind farms with accompanied draining and development. Of course we cannot continue to rely on fossil fuels, and renewable energy development is a must. But this needs to be approached with care, and turbines need to be placed in areas with the least impact to both humans and other creatures with which we share the planet. 

Some sites have undergone the first steps towards rehabilitation and rewetting - let's hope that this happens on a much needed larger scale across the country. We can't keep taking from nature - it will eventually break as is very much evident in Ireland. It's long since time stopped taking and gave back!

Bog Woodland at Dawn

B2 - WC Olo Garb - Lesson I Learn

for Piano and electronics through transducers 
Mariangela Vacatello, piano
Mike Solomon, sound design
12.06.2017 Festival MANIFESTE-Ircam - Paris - Centre G.Pompidou        live recording

Entr'ouvert

... coins 
... foil 
... metal pan 
... cellophane 
... bubblewrap 
... noise

A collection of found sound objects originally explored in an hands-on creative workshop exploring sound, object and mark making. This workshop was a collaboration between sound artist Emma Margetson, The Barber Collective and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Learning and Engagement Team. The recorded found sound objects from this workshop were repurposed for this eight-channel composition, Abstracted Objects.

Abstracted Objects [Binaural Version] [Excerpt]

A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland Reinke).   I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This particular track features some guitar sounds from Roland which I have done my ususal trick of weaving my own sounds around his. The track was mixed in AUM but also used the obligatory delays and reverbs and the Soundscaper app. It also fetaures some samples taken from old computer equipment (used from the site below).https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2019/11/tnmoc-samples.html
 Roland's awesome tunes can be found at:
https://soundcloud.com/encym
https://soundcloud.com/encym-soundtracks and 
https://soundcloud.com/encymlll

Estuary Fog (collab with Encym)

download the full album at:
https://droneopt.bandcamp.com/album/space-kastles

Delirium Loop

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