shea mcgilvary

Some "sludge ambient" from Shea McGilvray. All exclusive, unreleased tracks that hopefully will see the light of the day in the near future. This mix is about aging data, or the character time and duplication inflicts upon sound files. Shea's thinking of how digital music will sound after the internet collapses. He's thinking of digital as rarity. He's thinking of high rises reclaimed by plant life and water. He's thinking of a flickering screen in a flooded atrium with sun shining through the broken skylights……..

A lot of this is loop based, with some longer improvisational pieces included. Shea's made many of the bits in his office at work, looking at the concrete against the sky. Most of it is made simply: low quality recordings or tracker projects or even apps on his phone, exported and cycled many times. There are field recordings incorporated, but not obvious, because he's turned them into instruments. Overall, Shea's going for a dirty minimalism……interesting, food for thought……enjoy!

Artistname: Shea McGilvray

https://soundcloud.com/shea-mcgilvray

Shea's getting his MFA in Fiction, a year from finishing. He wrote a short prose that is strongly connected to the music he's making. He has an instagram (instagram.com/frotus) which makes up the visual aspect of his creative narratives. He's also beginning to dabble more in the arts, with a recent video/sound installation in downtown San Antonio, TX, where he lives and work. Basically, he's been working/experimenting in multiple mediums for a long time, and he doesn't see any of it as separate from anything else. He's conceiving new ways to exist online, though he has not made up his mind whether that is necessary.

SHM PODCAST #24: Degradient Gloams by Shea McGilvray

green

Delta Royal

Prompted by:

paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

Naviar haiku challenge 587, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Quite minimal, just two small virtual modular patches and a couple of effect plugins. Opens with some ambience from Voltage Modular plus a small addition of Valhalla Supermassive. Then the paperweights, made in VCV Rack and distorted by Wasted Space from Softube and Richter from Klevgrand. As usual recorded in a single live take, a few physical controls were mapped and used but the patches for this more or less played themselves.


Paperweights - (naviarhaiku - 587)

Some of my experimental stuff. 
A phrygian scale

Illuminata

Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather is a cross-border collaboration between Norwegian composer and pianist Julia Gjertsen and Swedish trombonist and sound artist Gustav Davidsson. Both artists have a classically trained background, and are known for their improvised sound and Ambient compositions. Between them they’ve released on labels such as Moderna Records, Constellation Tatsu, Bigo & Twigetti and Blue Spiral Records. While Julia is known for her emotive piano-led pieces and evolving electronic textures, Gustav brings his unique approach to the trombone, treating it as both a melodic and atmospheric instrument. They reside in separate but neighbouring countries with Julia in Oslo, Norway and Gustav in the village of Ljungskile near Gothenburg in Sweden.

This album was created as a slow and intuitive exchange of sketches, sent back and forth between these two artists over the course of several months. The result is an immersive suite of compositions which place the piano and trombone front of stage, enhanced by subtle restrained pads, Wurlitzer tones and gentle electronics. Each piece represents a different time of day and evokes a mood akin to weather in motion such as shifting light, drifting clouds or a sudden breeze. The title Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather reflects the intuitive progression of these works, where ideas and improvisations gradually shaped a harmonious collection. Thematically, it paints nature as both a setting and a metaphor; the way a setting can be transformed by meteorological elements, and how thoughts, just like weather, pass with their own emotional charge.

Rather than follow a rigid structure, the music here exists in a space between composition and spontaneity, often capturing a moment rather than refining it. Julia’s minimal and expressive piano sketches form the structural foundation, while Gustav explores the trombone’s many voices not just as a lead instrument, but as a background hum, gentle harmony, or a shadowy atmosphere

Written and produced by Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson
Mastered by Gustav Davidsson
Photography by Julia Gjertsen
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather

wlr187 Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson - Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather

Æther #009 by Tim Six
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

We recently released a beautiful two-track EP by Paris-based ambient/drone artist Tim Six - https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/alpine-valley - and asked him to share some recordings that he's been enjoying lately, so he came up with this mix.

You can also read about Tim's preferences in music, synthesizers, and hairstyle in a short interview we did with him: https://dronarivm.com/2025/06/28/interview-with-tim-six/

Tracklist:

00:00. Ariel Kalma ~ Water Echoes [Self-released]
03:23. Shine Grooves ~ Ambience 113 [Not Not Fun]
06:27. Lamina ~ Eclipse [Mappa]
09:57. Amkarahoi ~ Arrhythmic Wave [Biardo Records]
14:27. v a n i t a s 命死 ~ 緑のHorizon [Self-released]
17:47. TEGU ~ 2x3 [Not Not Fun]
22:20. Light Blending In ~ Entities [The Tidal Charm]
25:52. Bålsam ~ Dream Particles Forming [Global Pattern]
31:33. Evelyn Greene ~ TOUCH [Dream Journal Institute]
38:38. Mychael Danna & Tim Clément ~ Under August Sun [Chacra Alternative Music]
43:32. Jean-Paul L'Heureux ~ Rilassamento Subliminale [Demetra]
48:09. Tim Six ~ Park in the evening [Aural Canyon]

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Æther #009 by Tim Six

Tracklist

01. Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - Spiral Branches
02. James Osland - The Last Breath Of Summer
03. Ghost and Tape - Pardinyas
04. The Deccan Traps - Kinder Ascent 
05. Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson - Into The Night
06. Pye Corner Audio - Memoria Del Agua
07.  Hadley Roe - When I Look Back...
08. Ian Hawgood - Live Texture I
09. Glacis -  To Begin Again
10. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
11. Darren McClure -Fernlike

427. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

A meditative journey through death and the afterlife. “Ashes” drifts between silence and sound, existence and disappearance — ambient reflections on mortality, memory, and what lingers beyond.

Tobias Lorsbach, professionally known as Logic Moon, is an artist based in Mainz, Germany. His musical trajectory encompasses a broad spectrum, beginning with his role as a guitarist in a death metal band, followed by endeavors as a DJ, and ultimately establishing himself within the ambient music sphere. This diverse background informs the conceptual depth of his recent works, which seamlessly incorporate experimental and neoclassical elements.

Produced and mixed by Tobias Lorsbach (Logic Moon)
Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Cover picture by Tobias Lorsbach
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Ashes

The Dust

sureaglur

Moon Grass

Verig Stream

Tape

syndryang - детское радио (интерлюдия) [premiere]

Salvation EP
Jor-G & Spyro X. 
Remixers Javier Ho, .JIMi. and John Ov3rblast.


Vinyl and digital release

Salvation ( John Ov3rblast Reprise Remix )

Ghoul

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SHM PODCAST #24: Degradient Gloams by Shea McGilvray

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