Earlier this week i finally received the Touch Me midi controller from Playtronica. It has already become one of my favorite music gadgets to be honest! I really resonate a lot with the whole "nature meets electronics" that this device kind of represents. 
So in this experiment i am using water to trigger a pad i made in Pigments. Layering with some looped field recordings with effects, as well. 

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SUNDAY SOUND EXPERIMENTS NO. 8 - Touch Me from Playtronica

emotions and experiences of the last year. 

During the period between autumn and spring I was blessed to experience four times a solitary retreat near the mountains to move a step forward in my own journey as human being and musician. 

I embraced the silence and found feelings that demanded to be welcomed and contemplated. 

Out of silence I found an interconnected universe that I express in the form of music. 

Thanks to the people who have shared moments with me over the past year, you are an essential part of all of this!

Visible feelings

Redwood

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Vinyl: https://numagama.bandcamp.com/album/a-spectral-turn
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Catalog no: BI32

In an unusual collaboration between a Brazilian artist and a Chinese label, Numa Gama returns with a left-field take on her music-making, A Spectral Turn. Inspired by Derrida’s Hauntology, and the post-capitalist instigations of Anna Tsing, she weaves an eerie and cold subtropical soundscape that explores themes of freedom and imagination amidst the ghosts that inhabit today’s world.

Each track here unfolds like a vignette, as translucent synth lines float independently, accompanied by abstract sounds and glitches. This amalgamation creates a rational yet cozy stream of consciousness, guiding the listener through the haunted corridors of the memories of the past, ideas of the present, and miscarriages of the future. To summon these ideas, Numa Gama draws a parallel between negotiating political change and making kin with her own creative desires.

Rather than providing nostalgic sensations or futuristic insights, A Spectral Turn acknowledges that history ends at every moment, and gives way to new beginnings, swarming with ghosts.
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released January 31, 2024

All tracks were composed, produced, and mixed by [numa] Gama and mastered by Brandenburg Mastering

Matter + Time (Snippet)

An introspective fusion of nature-inspired ambient and minimal psytrance, blending atmospheric soundscapes with deep, hypnotic rhythms.

EQUINOX

Having fun with 909, 303 and jazzy chords. Again

Purpur

Harmonica

Megabot

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https://eleamusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-remixes

Chaman Imana (Profondita Remix)

ELEA 'Chaman Imana' (Profondita Remix)

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

Derived from the Latin “Ultimae Terrae,” meaning “the furthest places,” the name Ultimae reflects a profound theme of exploration. This concept is at the heart of Ultimae Records, an ambient music record label and publisher dedicated to transporting listeners to the outer edges of experience through sound and offering a space for introspection and discovery within the vastness of the mind and beyond.

In 1999, Vincent Villuis and Sandrine Gryson, also known as AES Dana and Mahiane, united over a shared passion for the immersive world of electronic music. This collaboration led to the birth of the label. Initially envisioned as a musical portal, Ultimae’s mission was to explore and disseminate the diverse expressions of Ambient music far and wide through the production of records and the establishment of an online shop.

Over the years, Ultimae has expanded beyond its original scope, evolving into a multifaceted company with sound design, post-production, and mastering studios based in Lyon, France, along with professional services in publishing, music licensing, and synchronization.

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