eros (we imagined too close a connection between you and i)

ice cave 1 65 bpm 2725 take 1

ice cave 1 68 bpm 2725 take 2

ice cave 1 60 bpm keys take 1 12124

ice cave 1 70 bpm 2625 take 1

ice cave 1 45 bpm 2625 take 1

ice cave 1 60 bpm 2625 take 1

Halloween Spirit

Footsteps. Something approaching. A relentless rhythm. ‘Hurry Up and Wait’ constructs a journey through abstracted sound - familiar textures that hover just beyond recognition. Experimental sound collage that tells a story without word.

Hurry Up & Wait [Experimental Liminal  Ambient]

Esta pieza es un fragmento de E-ENFOQUE //// This piece is a fragment of E-ENFOQUE

https://youtu.be/IgNWEjTFcZc

rosas (drn_010)

Se requieren audífonos //// Headphones are required

Esta pieza es un fragmento de E-ENFOQUE //// This piece is a fragment of E-ENFOQUE

https://youtu.be/IgNWEjTFcZc

rosas (drn_010 - binaural)

An ambient re-imagining of https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/jonkin

Jonkin (ambient remix)

rosas (drn_10 - extendido)

A Field of Blades started in 2023 during one of the most difficult periods of my life. I was struggling with paranoid delusions and had become paralyzed by the fear of being followed, observed, and hunted by irrational forces. These feelings ate at me as my life began to erode away from them. I went to great lengths to validate these thoughts, and eventually I was living my life as if someone or something was watching me, tracking my actions, and reading my thoughts, feeding off my fear and taking pleasure in it.

The title encapsulates what I was experiencing during this time. Feeling trapped and in constant danger, where a move in any direction would result in violent injury. The feeling of paralysis was comparable to standing in the center of a field of blades, seeing the maze of slim pathways to attempt to navigate outwards but feeling incapable of taking the first step in a destructive cycle of inaction cloaked as self-preservation.

The process of making the project was just as difficult as navigating the experience. It went through three computers, and I lost the project files and a large portion of the work multiple times. What I could salvage is unmixed, incomplete, and far from what I had envisioned for the pieces. But they persisted, as did I. And the grit, imperfections, and soul these 5 tracks possess tell more about the experience than any level of polish or craftsmanship ever could. These 5 tracks are my thoughts, fears, and daily anguish condensed into a sonic landscape of disorienting structure. Following a path towards emergence from the living nightmare created by my own mind.


Expoded - Foul Vigil

Expoded - Overhead

Expoded - Desolate

Expoded - A Field of Blades

Expoded - Inexorable

Eclectic * Ambient * Trip Hop * Hip Hop * Experimental  * Worldbeat

Musical Collage: Unexpected grooves emerging from the labyrinthine liminal spaces between inner complexity and outer pandemonium, stillness and motion, longings and reality.
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So who is How Granny Got Her Groove Back?

Just one “little old lady” playfully experimenting with a DAW.

A few months before my 60th birthday, I discovered that creativity has no expiration date when—with no prior experience creating music or using DAWs—I embarked on an exploratory digital music journey using GarageBand.

Little did I know that this entertaining quest would translate into a new roadmap for my life!

What began as simple curiosity quickly evolved into deep exploration of sonic landscapes through loops, samples, and layered sound design. 

My long-dormant creative fires were reignited…

How Granny Got Her Groove Back emerged as my artist name the moment i began sharing music with friends and family—a playful nod to reinvention and resilience, inspired by the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Granny Grooves is the sound of that journey — lush, loop-based tracks that blend classical roots with modern digital expression.

Music has been my lifelong companion—a source of both inspiration and refuge—from school band and choir, to my decade as a dancer and years of playing piano, rhythm and melody have been essential to how I breathe and move in the world.

Now, blending my classical musical foundation with the tools of modern digital production, I embrace experimentation across diverse styles.

Each track is a new adventure, a balance of nostalgia and innovation grounded in life experience, yet always open to playful surprise—a testament to how artistry can deepen, evolve, and bloom at any stage of life.

Sonic realms emerge from decay


soundcloud.com/expoded_archive
https://soundcloud.com/expodedlive
https://linktr.ee/expoded

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

New tracks tagged #drone