This is another track for my "Clutha Project" series - music and/or lyrics evoked by my childhood and family links to the River Clyde. 

In this case I was  playing with my new musical acquisitions - "String Murmurations" and "Small String Gestures" by the Crow Hill Company (they are fab!) - and I fell into thinking of the rhythm of the tides and how they connect (and affect) folk all around the world. At some point in every river's journey, it meets the tidal power of the moon and sun and becomes a party to that twice-a-day rising and ebbing that affects all estuary and coastal life.

On the Clyde (as with all rivers of the world) , sandbanks appear and disappear, water channels change their courses, vessels come and go, birds feed and depart, children play in rockpools, all to the rhythm of the slow swelling and departing of these tides every day. This track tries to capture that slow rhythm that most of us take for granted and the beauty that it contains.

Image Clyde sunset courtesy of Colin Milne (@argyyll66)

I have made a video to accompany this, which is at https://youtu.be/WQCp0cQJBU4 if you fancy a look as well as a listen. :)

The Murmuring Tides (Clutha Project)

RECORDED AND TRACKED IN TRAVERSE CITY AND FLINT MICHIGAN WITH FL STUDIO AND AN OS-2 DISTORTION PEDAL


TRACK 1

i want it
i see it
im begging
i need it
life is
completed
when ive been
defeated
burried
and bleeding
ill never
believe it
(you waste away your days)
so conceited
im cold
to touch
your old
and fucked
its never
too much
its never
enough
sickly and strained
nothing to gain
nothing to say
its all been explained

no abnormality
you have never been special
and niether have i
its goddamn sad
that we’ve given up
and we never even tried to try
you sick fuck

waste away for all your days
all the times youve seen been good
save or take your life
thats sad
but maybe you fucking should

ALL OUT OF LOVE
NEVER TOOK A CHANCE
TRY TO PLAY IT SAFE
AND YOU NEVER WILL ADVANCE
SO ABSORBED IN YOURSELF
FOR THE DEVIL WITH YOU DANCE
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A MAN
YOURE JUST A SAD
CIRCUMSTANCE


TRACK 2

WASTE OF
MY ANONIMOTY
THOUGHTS
OF CLARITY
OF WHAT MY LIFES BECOME
TASTE OF
HEALTH 
THATS CRITICALLY
LIVING MISERABLY
WHYS IT ALL UNDONE
RESPECT
EARNED
AT WHAT COST
HEADS OF
SERPENTS
ALL BEEN
CUT OFF
ALL REASONS
MANIFESTED
IM SIEZED FROM
NO INVESTMENT


TRACK 3

THE DAYS GO
ON AND ON
CEASELESS
TIL MY HEARTS COLD
they never GET IT
AND THEY NEVER WILL
SUFFOCATING THE THOUGHT
(OF) WHAT I ONCE WAS
KEEP ON BREEDING THE SEED
SHOW ME WHAT I CAN BE

ITCHING
AND SCRATCHING
RIPPING
THE FABRIC
BLOOD NEVER BONDED
CREATING A MONSTER
STEALING EVERYTHING FROM ME
STEALING EVERYTHING FROM ME

WE DONT NEED TO BEAT AROUND
PUSSYFOOT I NEVER WILL
POURING OUT MY HEART
IN A GLASS I HOPE YOU GET YOUR FILL


TRACK 4

raised in fear
too scared to die
if the truth is revealed
it will be shared in light
of all that ive seen
and everything that i know
out of so called love
they do it all for show
they do it all for control
god fearing and pious
all i believe
is the result of violence
how could i see the path
with no guidence
if it seems sad now
while youre sitting in silence

DEMO 2024

The Crow Hill Company is not simply an online music tech store, it's a network of composers trying to bring the best out of one another. As a part of their community efforts, composing challenges are hosted regularly. Prizes go to the most engaging pieces and winners are offered money, virtual instruments and much more.

As a part of their Composing Challenge series, they tasked their network with rescoring the trailer for Snakes of Russia's Venom library ( https://thecrowhillcompany.com/explor... ). I am very pleased to share that I won third place with this very submission. 

Prizes aside, it was a real joy to reach outside of my comfort zone as the criteria involved sampling via mobile phone recordings, and I had never sampled anything prior. I have multitudes to share about my experience building this piece, but I think I'll save that for my next blog post.

Read more via my blog: https://jeremiahackermann.com/tchc-x-sor-venom-trailer-rescore-composing-challenge/

An Unintentional Homage to the Opening Scene of Blade 1 (TCHC Venom Composing Challenge)

It’s August 4, 2025 and I’ve just spent a day or so hammering into the latest Composing Challenge for The Crow Hill Company. This time around the challenge involved using their latest addition to the Vaults series, “Bridge Guitar“, and any old pizzicato strings to build a day-time reality queue.

Read more via my blog: https://jeremiahackermann.com/tchc-bridge-guitar-composing-challenge.

A Sketch of Reality (TCHC Bridge Strings Composing Challenge)

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