Rambles and Waves is an album of fragments and thoughts, scattered like tides and drifting into rambling sounds. An imperfect lo-fi, ambient-electronic landscape that hums with introspection and emotional glitch. Each song moves through fleeting, dreamlike feelings—scattered and fragile, yet still deeply human.

My Own Box

Learning to Say Goodbye

“No Answers” is a collaborative project by artists from different parts of the world. Coming from backgrounds in ambient, electronica, rock and glitch, this song represents a new creative direction.

No Answers

Exploration with granulation, tape loops, two notes on a piano, and time sitting quietly in England's oldest Cathedral. 

Title inspired by those kind words we all get to hear in our inboxes.

// demo version (no piano)

Each melody feels like a gentle promise, wrapping emotions in comfort and light // Demo version

This track pairs with Warmth and Meaning. Two tracks made over two days using similar processes and serendipitously similar sample sources (same notes, different instruments, and two samples separated by about 30 years). 

I've been inspired lately by the folks from the Studio Obscura discord group* using tape loops (or similar kinds of processing techniques) to create these beautiful saturated walls of sound. 

I went down a massive rabbit hole exploring these ideas and while I was trying to understand how the Instruo Lubadh tape looper module works, and so I set the DAW recording and made a really long jam just playing with these tiny piano grains on the Intellijel Multigrain into the Lubadh, with a field recorder and a reverb - and oh my god - it's just a magical world-creating machine.

Honestly I feel like I could sell everything else and keep these three boxes and make music until I die. 

The source recording had a lot of very high-end noise from a rogue connection that I didn't notice until I played it back, so I had to go full Bleeptwig on it after that with EQ and layering in textures that ended up shaping it in a really beautiful way. 

(The piano was added in this version, originally I'd planned a single note just to connect couple of sections and the background ambience to the foreground, but then it turned into this little kind of lament, so I plan to go back and rework the original to be even more ambient at some point.)

Anyway.

* Ping me if you're interested in joining the group, just some really great folks making mostly ambient music, most of the time.

Comfort and Light

The all consuming space.

This track started as a wickedly fun live jam with a harp sample fed from Multigrain into the Instruo Lubadh, with bass from the incredible Serge Medusa and the Vhikk X. 

Just a few ornaments added in post to clean it up. Ok, a whole lot of cleaning up. It had to be done.

Image credit:  https://pixabay.com/photos/fireworks-particles-powder-abstract-6963152/

Expander

Mlumìn - Spinner (Remix by ProfeSSor) Instrumental Version

This track started a week ago with some messing about with e-piano sounds and very quickly became this!

Feel the sound inside my head,
'Till I'm gone, nothing left.
Hear the beating in my heart,
Fade me out into dark.

Feel the pulsing in my breath,
Count it down - shallow depth.
Hear the beating in my heart,
Lost... where my thoughts depart.

Lost

An energized remix of the wonderful Learning to Say Goodbye, by Our Forgotten Future.

Say something.

I love how Our Forgotten Future's work builds up slowly into these emotionally saturated scenes - and I find this form lends itself perfectly to these kind of driving, layered pieces that add rhythmic energy to take these textures into new directions.

I processed the whole tonal layer (minus the field recorded parts) through a resonator, distortion, saturator, and through multiple reverb layers to get this slightly gnarly polyrhythmic element with some scattered snares - initially random then meticulously edited and placed ... and the bass drum was kind of inevitable. 

(The whole track is not quantized at all, I'm sure it will annoy any drummers out there and if anyone did ever try to mix this they would have a challenge :D)

I am hopeful for more collabs like in 26, it's so satisfying and rewarding to work with other artists whose music resonates. Here's to the producer community.

Say something (a remix)

A "jamuary" jam with the Vhikk X, Lubadh, Rossum Panharmonium and some reverb, with a few subtle post-prod edits to clean it up.

Mangled samples: 
Ethereal - Koshun Nakao
I only have eyes for you - The Flamingos
Another Country - The Crystals
De Nature Sonorum - Bernard Parmegiani (intro gong)

Elevation 463m

This piece was created from two very long jams. The first involved a granulated piano sample from Eric Satie annihilated into mush, processed and resonated, and played over a period of about 3 hours. The second is an aggressive bass from the wonderfully evil Serge Medusa with some added noise. Assembly and post production in Ableton, including adding some field recorded materials.

Yes it sounds a bit like something else.

The artwork is a piece by Tezumie - See more of their wonderful coded artworks at https://codevre.com

Kindly used with permission and thanks.

Welcome.

Beats, loops, tracks, tunes, sounds... Music.

I come from a background of classical music (I played the French Horn in different orchestras, and also learnt the piano,) I spent a LOT of time in dark techno clubs growing up and have always loved jazz...  I suppose this all shoves together to make the kind of music I come up with...!

A few people have told me that they like my music, and so here is my page with some of the tracks I've created.

Peace.

Stu (SoundWarper)