I finally escaped the studio long enough to play some music over the holidays. A rather Snow and Ice flavored batch of improvisations no doubt helped by the temperature dropping to -29° F while I was working on them... After 5 months of engineering other folks projects it felt good to just play for a few days!

Captured live to 2 track

Snow & Ice (Ambient 2014)

I finally escaped the studio long enough to play some music over the holidays. A rather Snow and Ice flavored batch of improvisations no doubt helped by the temperature dropping to -29° F while I was working on them... After 5 months of engineering other folks projects it felt good to just play for a few days!

Captured live to 2 track

Iceland Über Alles

Tilting Through An Indonesian Sky

I finally escaped the studio long enough to play some music over the holidays. A rather Snow and Ice flavored batch of improvisations no doubt helped by the temperature dropping to -29° F while I was working on them... After 5 months of engineering other folks projects it felt good to just play for a few days!

This track reminds me of hanging out in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba in the fall howling with the wolves. This is excerpted from the full 14 minute improvisation which features some savagely ignorant guitar playing! LOL I think I'll share that version on request...

Captured live to 2 track

Distant Howls

Previously I'd only shared this one privately but here it is for all to enjoy and/or chuckle at... Some savagely ignorant guitar abuse (at 2:55, new Jaguar) contained within...

Played, mixed & captured live to 2 track

Distant Howls (full version)

It Only Yurts When I Laugh

This piece gives a good glimpse into my current live performance ambient methodology starting with a single note on a synth into a virtual PCM-42 doing square wave modulated long delays. This is followed by 3 more synths creeping in one at a time each being looped in an instance of Augustus Loop and followed by fx then hitting the mixer. My guitar creeps in over top of it all about a third of the way through.

I'm running the whole rig in Plogue Bidule which I find a friendly alternative to Max/MSP plus I can use all the groovy AU & VST plugins I already own!

Well Enough I Suppose...

I finally escaped the studio long enough to play some music over the holidays. A rather Snow and Ice flavored batch of improvisations no doubt helped by the temperature dropping to -29° F while I was working on them... After 5 months of engineering other folks projects it felt good to just play for a few days!

Recorded live to 2 track

Snowblind Slight Return

This seems to be a companion piece to 2013's Hypoxia & Tibetan Horns. From the Gyoto Monks to Huun-Huur-Tu I'm a huge sucker for throat singing. I'm also deeply enamored of Simon Stockhausen's programming for Iris and Alchemy which play a huge role in this new set of tunes along with my ambient guitar ramblings. These are all live to 2 track improvisations hosted in Plogue Bidule. Enjoy!

Rongbuk

Mekong Dream Sequence

Aaah sunsets, always a favorite theme and favorite time of day. Time to just stop long enough to savor the magic of the day fading away...

Tuvan Sunset

A dronescape for my friends previously shared privately for those who'll forgive my missteps... I think there's some fine moments here with a couple overreaches but wth, it was live...  LOL

Frozen Pipes

Squidwerks aka Greg Heimbecker is a Northern Colorado based recording engineer, sometimes saxophonist & longtime fan of music across many genres. I have a particular soft spot for ambient music in the tradition of the "great bald one" Brian Eno. As my SoundCloud develops there will be collections of my engineering efforts as well as a section of ambient music composed and performed by myself and a few of my close friends over the past 30 years or so...(be sure to check out https://soundcloud.com/nine-horse-johnson!) enjoy!

And if you're in the mood to check out one of the finest university jazz programs in North America point your ears over to https://soundcloud.com/uncjazz to check out more of my work for the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Studies Department!