Licensing piece with the oud at the forefront.
Turkish oud alongside subtle electronics.

Tension

From the album “Our Hope Is Lost At Sea” on El Muelle Records.
This piece explores, loss, hope and nostalgic contemplation by way of electro-acoustic sound sources - multiple iterations of stringed instruments processed with live electronics - into solemn patterns and melancholic phrases. Equal measures of textural guitar, sourced tape, environmental sampling and ambient distress unfold and reveal themselves as shadowed echoes of reverberation throughout.

The Hidden Melancholy In You

Music licensing piece
Guitar and two basses

Her Silent Despair

Meanderings "II" from the album I-VI.
A composition in 6/8 time of textural guitar.
Bass, feedback, ebow, and electronics complete the audio spectrum; tracing a subtle drift into loss and nostalgic longing.

I-VI

Meanderings "Sullen Tape Loop 2 - Alessandro I
Inspired by the quietude of Redlands Hillside Cemetery. 
Sullen Tape Loops pieces together archived 4 track tape compositions circa 1990-1992 of ambient and experimental guitar.  Source tape is treated to additional signal processing and effects and looped.
Subtle collage from vinyl and field recorded sources fill out the remainder of the audio spectrum.

Sullen Tape Loop 2 - Alessandro I

Meanderings "A Reflective Intonation" from the album “Slow Sketch Vol 1” on El Muelle Records. 
Textural guitar, nostalgic tape loops, microtonal guitar and bass are complemented by subtle noise and ambient distress.  Gray scale tones...

A Reflective Intonation

Meanderings "The Last Days of Your Life"
The sorrowful Turkish Yayli Tanbur takes center stage on this document of loss and the contemplation of mortality.
Electro-Acoustic manipulations of stringed instruments with live electronics.
Destructed field recordings, tape and vinyl collage with hypnotic guitar underpinnings.

The Last Days Of Your Life

Thinking about loss and all that surrounds it...
"His Tears and Death"  is a textural guitar piece
8 string guitar and a modest selection of signal processing

His Tears And Death

soundsArchaic is a resource for musical projects and works by composer, sound artist and multi-instrumentalist, Dann Michael Torres.  Projects: Khidirpur, Meanderings, Knossos, Embered

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