This piece was originally recorded in the beginning of the pandemic, back in May 2020. I recently had a re-listen, and feel the current times are a good fit for a release.

This track features in my dear friend Cornelius Delaney's animation DOOM:
https://youtu.be/gxAkvR9UdgY

Performed, mixed, and recorded live in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

AT101S4i - Etat 1

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #536.

The intention is to illustrate the passing; peacefully, into darkness, into light.

Starting with a simple arpeggio on the Vintage Vibe, running through a Space Echo, followed by a slow and mellow bass on the Moog One and a bit of space glitter from the Waldorf Quantum. Finished off with an ambiguous melody on the Moog.

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

into light [naviarhaiku536]

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #537.

Main players:
Vintage Vibe through a Space Echo
Hammond (Crumar Mojo Classic)
Waldorf Quantum

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

autumn streams [naviarhaiku537]

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #538.

Contemplating impermanence. Contemplating our illusion of permanence. The river, the waves, the reflections of the moon - even the moon itself is impermanent.

Main players:
Vintage Vibe through a Space Echo
Moog One
Waldorf Quantum

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

impermanence [naviarhaiku538]


 method: mostly digital, btw her name is Hazel and I met her in a Balabolka engine  room where she hid from one of Bill Gates' younger clones
narration: the history of voice recreation and vocoding  is not only shrouded in the cold-war kind of truth but also a token of man's technological preoccupation with mirrors 
image: copyright jo richter, also using sections from my photo of a mural dating back to 1569 

poem / copyright jo richter:

time has slipped below the dial  
into an interstitial zone -
an abyss marking mass‘ modal 
iterations, as interference-prone 

as any mental skill held in a vial 
made of human flesh and bone -
meta-breathing arbitrary model 
citizens, grouped in groups and cloned alone

predictive voice encoder

heat in waves ̶
in the stones
angry reverberations

haiku by Katō Kyōtai
picture by Jonatan Pie
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Essentially Karplus-Strong + cross-fm.

Rime Cornalina - Naviarhaiku541

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #541.

The idea was to create an underground soundscape; moving rocks and lava streams, to use as a foundation for further musical expressions. When listening back to how the two channels interact with each other, and with the granular glow, I realised nothing more was needed.

Main players:
Buchla Music Easel

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

glowing beneath [naviarhaiku541]

Inspired by the following haiku
white petals
on the stormy sea -
floating memories
Thanks to Naviar Records for the opportunity
(https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku545-white-petals/)
Picture by Hans Isaacson

Wandering Memories

Wandering Memories (naviarhaiku545)

Recorded for the Naviar Haiku challenge #545.

I wanted to illustrate the deceptive calmness under the stormy surface; our elusive memories, the petals as both wild sea foam and gently floating flower petals.

Both piano and Buchla are heavily affected by the Space Echo. Most of what you hear is the wet signal from the tape echo. In fact, when playing the piano I had no direct signal at all, resulting in me hearing what I had played half a second go, not what I was playing at the time...

Main players:
Vintage Vibe
Buchla Music Easel
Roland Space Echo

Recorded in Logic Pro X with a Soundcraft MTK22.

floating [naviarhaiku545]

Here's another track from our new album .... https://kirby-ward.bandcamp.com/album/rat-palace-sessions
The Rat Palace was our studio from when we first started seriously working together in 2016 until the landlords decided it was time for the artists to go and the tourists to come. It had been Mat's base since 2009 and hosted dozens of artists and musicians since it first started in 2006.
As the name suggests the place was run down, lacked various things like hot water, proper access and heating but it had a vibe, and the people we shared the space with all felt and helped to create it....Art was everything, day after night after day for years.
These 7 improvisations are a tiny fraction of the jams we had there, just a few highlights from 100s of jams. They are raw, unpolished and unconcerned with anything outside the moment. We rarely 'rehearsed' as such at the Rat Palace - just played.
Things come and things go - Vale Rat Palace, you were amazing.

Swamp Fuzz

Boson Spin - Without

Almost all tracks are free to download and covered by a Creative Commons license. Collaborations / Remixes are welcome so feel free to experiment - no need to get my permission first. Just send me a link to your track when you're done :)

I love listening to & creating Ambient, Dark Ambient & Experimental electronica (and the occasional beatscape). I have no professional aspirations  - I just really like creating music / manipulating sounds. It's my way of relaxing after a hard day at the office. All my tracks are produced using monitoring headphones (Sennheiser HD 280 Pro) so I recommend that you listen to my music through headphones. My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I also use Reason every now & then. 


To the artists I follow; I do my best to try to listen to as many of your tracks as possible each night (I listen to each track all the way through - you went through the effort to create a track so you deserve to have it heard in full). If I miss a recent upload of yours, please forgive me...

Thank you for taking the time to visit my little corner of the soundcloud. 

Always remember; To create original output, consume unusual input.

Boson Spin - Without

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