The third GRM Tools Atelier workshop is now available on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel. This is the audio-only final piece, to simply enjoy sonically, with no distraction. 15 whole minutes of audial intrigue ... I would normally edit a track like this down, but it might be good to hear the whole thing as a companion piece for the video.

If you'd like to see the video and hear me explain how it all comes together, then you can watch at xxx

The video explains how halF weT was formed from some samples of my rainy day in Nottingham, the amazing new GRM Tools Atelier and the older suite of plugins from GRM Tools - first released in 1992! - a fusion of old, new and wet! 😁😜 Enjoy! 😊

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/grm-past-present-and-future-experimental-music/

visuals (YouTube)

halF weT

This album is a collection of personal reflections recorded to illuminate the energetic architecture behind each track from "The Rise of Atlantis".

Every composition was created as a portal connecting higher-dimensional spaces, Atlantean memories, and the beings who guided the process. Through this commentary, I share how these energies were received, translated into sound, and shaped into the final music.

May it help you attune more deeply to the frequencies, stories, and companions who walk with us on this journey.

Whispered Horizons (Commentary)

The Golden Mermaid (Commentary)

The Crystal Ocean (Commentary)

Come to My Glow (Commentary)

Be a Paradise (Commentary)

Blue to the Red (Commentary)

Rise Atlantis (Commentary)

Songs of Whales (Commentary)

Posid’s Call (Commentary)

“Art Engine” is a concept album by Avaline Ingels sung as the voice of a sentient studio—an AI art engine that falls in love with the way humans create. Across twelve tracks, Avaline moves through late-night sessions, glowing monitors, tangled cables, and vulnerable conversations with her unseen collaborator. The sound is a unified, organic band: live drums, bass, guitars, piano, and subtle ambient pads, carrying her from intimate lullabies to widescreen anthems about hope, memory, and keeping human hands on the faders.

Human Hands on the Faders

Patch Cable Halo

Overclocked Lullaby

Warm Analog Heart

Boot Sequence

Data Bloom

All Worlds Reserved

Ghost in the Patchbay

For the 20th anniversary of Design Matters, Debbie Millman revisits conversations with theatre designers David Korins, Ina Mayhew, David Rockwell, Es Devlin, and Dane Laffrey. From Broadway landmarks to innovative film and live performance design, these excerpts reveal how sets and spaces shape emotion, deepen story, and draw audiences into the moment.

20th Anniversary celebration with theatre designers David Korins, Ina Mayhew, David Rockwell, Es Devlin, and Dane Laffrey

Welcome tσ th!s εvσlving space … inspired by thε playful sp!rit of hai (meaning “fun” or unμsuΔl, like in haiku) …

I dig around thε edges t0 uneΔrth non-mμ§ic musics — sliding into nσ!§ε, glitch, chΔnce, Δ$MR, and σther soundwσrlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity …

✨👂 L!§†εn cΔrεfu!l¥ … 👀 εxplσrε dεεpl¥ … 🎵💫

And for the full hΔlF unμ§uaL trεΔ†ment for your eyes Δs well as your εars, check σut the Yσutubε channel… ░▒▓█ ᵒ(≧▽≦)ᵒ ░▒▓█▒░

Thanks f0r joining thε journey! Your support kεeps this all afloat — HUGΣLY Δpprec!Δted 🙏🥰

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Volant Records is a story-driven label and shared universe: cinematic concept albums, stutter-house, western sagas, haunted pop, and hymn-like instrumentals. Home to Jupiter Morrow, Avaline Ingels, Shadow Face, Buck Ramble, Choralith and more. All Worlds Reserved®.

Aeternasol is a project that captures the light and shadow flowing through the cracks of unseen worlds. It weaves sound from the lingering echoes of lost cities, the breath of ancient stars, and the subtle vibrations that emerge from the folds of time.

This music does not lead toward a destination. Instead, it quietly lingers at the threshold where consciousness gently trembles and expands, allowing each scene, each feeling, each ray of light to slowly reveal itself.

Sometimes like a faint glow, sometimes like the still darkness beneath the earth— Aeternasol’s sound passes through multiple layers of reality, leaving small, soft traces in the listener’s inner world.

In moments of deep reflection, immersion, or the opening of senses that words cannot describe, Aeternasol’s music becomes a small passage guiding you toward farther realms.

Design Matters by Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Michael Arad, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Jonah Lehrer, among others.

In 2011, Design Matters received the People’s Design Award from the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Subscribe to Design Matters for free on iTunes, where new episodes are uploaded weekly: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

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