Clouds

Melancholic ethereal electric guitar instrumental with haunting melody

Pedro's Lament

Dark times call for dark music. This is not an easy listening experience, nor is it meant to be. But in its five minute runtime, "Astomatous" creates a searing narrative about the fragility of hope against modern chaos, all while avoiding the usual tropes of both noise music and ambient.

ASTOMATOUS

Hence  2 drone loops ebow all trax mfring lead - 2025-02-07, 11.34 PM

Grot

open g blues post everything photo sound symposium st john's 2024 harbor symphony

post blues reverse,multi,pitch.ebow,slide - 2025-02-10, 10.53 PM

3 tracks - fretless bass - free form - improvisation - ebow - modern - jazz

Galaxy

Atmospheric down tempo piece with heavy world instrument influence and a heavier rock inspired conclusion.

Irusu

A post rock song that's an improvisation experimental ebow guitar song.

EBow Improv

A funny post rock, alternative rock, orchestral, violin, ebow, guitar, happy, thick song.

EBow Happy

A creepy, beautiful, alternative rock post rock, orchestral, ebow, guitar, violin song.

D Major Feed On Me

A song about the existential crises we currently face as a civilisation (climate change, among other sometimes seemingly insurmountable problems)

Dark to Darkness

Performed by Open Union on the 27th of September 2024 at Centrala, Space

Performed by Open Union
Modular Synth: Peter Bell
Electric Guitar: Patrick Ellis

Live sound by Joseph Ockford
Audio taken from 'Open Union: Live at Centrala, Birmingham' filmed by Alexander Henshaw 

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Bio:

Wilson Leywantono is a composer currently based in Indonesia. His music has been performed in the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia by many professional ensembles and performers such as Orkest de Ereprijs, New European Ensemble, Rosetta Contemporary Ensemble, Open Union, the Azalais Quartet, Hordienal Quartet, Decibel, Le Page Ensemble, the Schubert Ensemble, Thallein Plus Ensemble, Fumiko Miyachi, Mary Wiegold, Rowland Sutherland, Miriam Kitchener, etc.

More info on Wilson here: wilsonleywantono.wordpress.com

Wilson Leywantono - open con (2024)

a rock, alternative rock, ebow, rap song.

EBow Fun with Strat

This is the first song on which I have used a recording of myself playing the guitar. It turned out pretty good in my opinion. I have used an EBow ‘look-alike’ called the Joyo JGE-01 Infinite Sustainer. Since the release of the Blackwater Park album by Opeth (and on several songs on the Deadwing album of Porcupine Tree) I was captivated by a particular sound that I could not quite identify. After a few years I ‘discovered’ that it was an EBow that was used on the guitar. Since then I always wanted to own such a device to play along an recreate that sound. Now I have finally used a guitar on a song with a similar device like an EBow. I used a VST by Hainbach (Landfill Totems) that I have used on more of my songs. I made some samples using the Landfill Totems VST and used these. I also used one of my go to VST’s by Spitfire Audio called Labs. On this song I have used the recordings of a Ondes Musicales. I cool instrument with a very distinctive sound. The percussive sounds also come from the Labs VST by Spitfire Audio. The song sounds more experimental than my previous work. According to some feedback it sounds a bit like The Gathering (one of my favorite bands) although that wasn’t my intention. You cannot escape influences by other artists so if it is (unintentionally and subconsciously) inspired by them; so be it. I like how this one turned out. I am curious what others think about this one. The title is an anagram by the way. It is an anagram of the most simple things imaginable and I will leave it to you to figure it out. Seeing and experiencing the world as it is today and still hoping for a better world I liked the ring of it so I chose this as the title.

A Daring Utopian

3 tracks ebow drone left right lead ebow center

eclipsed blood worm moon - 2025-04-06, 10.23 PM

The 24th and penultimate track in the Decent Sampler album…
All of the sounds used on this album are free.
Sounds used on this track are…
Flute & Ebows (Flutes & Ebows, Ebow Less Fundamental Fast Att, NFlute Choir * 2)
Tunnel Bodhran
Bombo De Guancho

Decent Sampler | Yed Posterior

8 direct in mono guitars, an e-bow and a slide. Everything by Timothy What the Fuck is This Hnatow

You Probably Won’t Like This

Ebow improviz

Geordie Haley is a composer, improviser, educator and guitarist. Contributing to the creative music scenes of Fredericton NB, Toronto ONT, and now Halifax NS, Geordie has been presenting songs, rhythm based compositions and improvised music for over 25 years. 
Since returning to the Maritimes Geordie has been a featured artist in concert and festival programs by creative music presenters Upstream Music, Suddenly Listen, Canadian Music Center, The Motion Ensemble, Jazz East, Scotia Festival, Shattering the Silence Festival, and the Harvest Jazz Festival.

THRENODIES, a work for 4 musicians and 3 dancers based on Haley’s original compositions in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Susanne Chui was featured a during the 2012 Halifax Jazz Festival.

As an educator Geordie continues his practice at the NSCC Waterfront Campus Music Arts Department, teaching private lessons and instructing ensembles.
As a bandleader Geordie’s music can be heard at cd baby and on CBC RADIO 3.


idyll Mind is the artist/producer named persona created by Joshua Gough in 2012 and since 2013 now includes Don Reece as a permanent second member, introducing lyrics and vocal performances into the mix.

Discography:-

Music Albums
idyll (2012) - Trip hop/Electronica (concept album)
(AM/PM) (2012) - Dance/Electronica
Pulling Strings (2012) - Rock/Electonica
Anesthesia Rising (WIP)
Untitled Acoustic Album (WIP)

Film Score/Soundtrack Albums
Fist Full of Roses (2013)
The Busker and the Boy (WIP)


Open Union is an experimental music duo made up of composer-performers Peter Bell (modular synthesiser) and Patrick Ellis (electric guitar) based between Birmingham and London.

Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being, ‘sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense’, the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new verbal and text based works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi and Paolo Griffin, with a new piece by Seán Clancy currently in the works.

The duo have performed across the UK at events such as Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

In July 2025, they will be co-hosting a portrait concert of the works by Paolo Griffin with saxophonist David Zucchi at the Hundred Years Gallery.

Vibes

Business email: shumylomusic@gmail.com

bassplayer/producer/musicologist 

located in :
-Oslo, Norway
-Bornholm, Denmark

Ämpers@nd almost feels like music therapy to me. As Ämpers@nd I am producing (largely but not always intentionally) melancholic and dark-sounding soundscapes, ambient and occasionally some (experimental) electronic music. I would rather describe most of my music (if you can even call it that) as experiences or scenes than songs.

All astrophotography pictures (galaxies, nebula's and stars) I have used are made (and owned) by Bob Reijnders. For more awesome pictures check his website: https://astro.bobreijnders.nl/. 
All other photo's are taken and edited by me.

Music for listening and being

Empty Cross - electronic-guitar ambient music project (duet of two musicians, Maria and Albert) based in Lviv, Ukraine.

The sound of the project is a delicate ambient sound fabric, woven from shimmering reverberated guitars, soft analog synthesizers and harmonies, interspersed with minimalistic melodic piano phrases. In this sound space we place abstract vocal parts or vocalises, which become another instrument, creating a flow of intuitive states.

Everything here is created, recorded and mixed on an IPad Pro using AUM.

I use GeoShred to play everything that is not generated or sequenced.

I also have some tracks on my YouTube channel

New tracks tagged #eBow