Name: The Noise Inside My Head by Outerlab
Duration: 4 min 5 s
Description: One of my favorites. No drums just delay bass and textures created the effect. Art by Outerlab.

Chronochromatic Variations III – 1.

Going heavy in Osaka, Japan, summer 2025.

Croma [Live]

From the new album Moments of Vertical
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Moments of Vertical

Tales from the Garden

Agena

Hård II

Electric piano, effect pedals, non synchronized loops, two tube amps. Field recording: Electromagnetic waves made audible with Soma Ether. Spoken words: "Ariel" (Sylvia Plath, 1962), last verses, read by the author. All sounds (except Plath's reading) mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.
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"And I
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning."
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Part of https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/ariel

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Cauldron

Púca

Gothic Souls

Disquiet Junto 0722 asked us to create a spooky pairing of a spy and horror movie soundtrack. I had a lot of fun going back and listening to some classic spy movie music, taking notes on some of the tropes that I wanted to incorporate in my response. 

The brass was a huge stretch for me. I generally try to stay away from synthetic versions of a lot of acoustic instruments because of how impossible it is to accurately simulate their performance, so I don't have any experience with writing for horns. I found some helpful advice on various music composition threads, and I'm happy enough with the arrangement for a fun Halloween piece. 

But you know what's really scary about this piece? I spelled "exsanguination" correctly on the first try.

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

The Exsanguination of Agent 99 (disquiet0722)

The brief for this week’s Disquiet Junto challenge noted how the singing of ‘Happy Birthday’ often falls apart around the name stage … This idea of musical collapse immediately made me think of Anglican church services, when the organ - along with those who are confident of the hymn being sung - sometimes falls into desperately trying to pull everyone along, never far from falling apart. In this piece, a recording I made of a service I attended a while back (which has its own backstory) becomes the material for electronic mangling and rhythmic snipping for my take on the idea of repeated collapse. It’s VERY far from being in the same league, but parts of the result remind me a little of Jonathan Harvey’s extraordinary Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980) - one of my all-time favourite electroacoustic masterpieces ... 


More on the 723rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Do the Collapse — The Assignment: Make music that falls apart repeatedly — at https://disquiet.com/0723/.

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halF collapsE [disquiet0723]

One of my favorites. No drums just delay bass and textures created the effect. Art by Outerlab.

The Noise inside my head

The Noise Inside My Head

Welcome! I mainly produce ambient and dark ambient music. My music can sound lighter one day, or a bit darker the next, so be ready for anything. I like adjusting my synthesizers to sound like they have a life of their own. 

My music is focused on creating simple but impactful melodies, moods, and atmosphere rather than on complexity. While this is my current direction, I believe my sound is evolving and may change as I progress musically. Thanks for listening  and enjoy!

As I upload and spot issues, I often update my tracks. If something sounds a little different, that's why.



The Noise Inside My Head

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