just had a spam message.. he 'heard some hq skills' 

i'm sold! nope.. *block*

psst

Spotlight

wanted to see how muchh of my music is on here.. 35 hours! awesome 

sevenism.bandcamp

big bag of music

a lot of the tracks from soon to be defunct group 

migrated here https://hearthis.at/group/45158/new-weird-ambient/

group now hear

new weird ambient

Chill Out Music

Autumn Afternoon

Instruments. Composition. Production. Art - Jeremiah Petersen

Apophis

http://microcosmosrecords.com/heliopatis-religion-construction/

Heliopatis makes it's own fusion of deep hypnotic ambient and ethic into atmospheric chill-out music. Thus band tells us multilayered stories of making experiments and gaining experiences. Trippy journey through the landscapes of our subconsciousness to love and light.

Project was founded by Ivan Panfilov in 2012 with Nastya Galashina on vocals and Vladimir Kap on harp and overtone singing. They make live performances at psychedelic festivals and record music in studio.


Heliopatis - Recognition Of Emptiness (EP Version)

Lost In Time

Mania

My heart dropped when I saw this image. I find the conduct of the States in international affairs disgraceful. But then looking at the layered flags I reflected on more positive aspects: on the beautiful people I've known and the inspiring culture.

I used my mountain dulcimer which is a genuine North American instrument (although with fitting irony my instrument is made in Pakistan which I found gently subversive). I played based on american primitivism and eastern influences (listen to https://soundcloud.com/deanmcphee/glass-hills for a better example of this approach) and then layered the sound with lots of ambient echo.

Underneath it all is the first note of Hendrix's star spangled banner which I stretched 10,000% and pitched down to fit into the track. 
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Created for the EXTROSPECTION Group, June 2015.

More on "EXTROSPECTION" group at: soundcloud.com/groups/extrospection

Complete playlists: @extrospection-playlists

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Layers {mountain dulcimer echo} [Extrospection June 2015]

My track for ambient online one sample dare 30. the original sample here: https://soundcloud.com/lighthugger/pipes-ao-osd-30

i wanted this to sound like a summer storm brooding, a muggy humid feel, and it being a long ago memory.

In audacity i took the whole sample paulstretched it to ~8 minutes and really smoothed out (cos there's loads of elements in the sample that i wanted to create gradual shifts and depth) then increased the volume of the low end rumble. then time stretched it down by half so the tonal shifts are more pronounced (and cos i'm running out of time on my sc account!)

then i recorded it to cassette on my teac tape deck and then recorded this back onto pc with a sony ex505 walkman to give a bit of hiss and warmth (and for that long ago memory feel).

Summer Storm (memory)

remix of this https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/track/transmitting-from-space

opened up a bunch of bandcamp pages had them playing simultaneously using the unexpected delay as echo.. smoothed out a bit and then sharpened at the end..

MyklH - Transmitting From Space (Slo Echo Flare)

so, weird synchronicity again; this track https://soundcloud.com/sevenism/summer-storm-memory i did the other day fits the bill perfectly it was about a childhood memory of a summer storm. rather than just add that though i used the same method so it's kind of like a part 2

i remembered when i was a kid a bunch of at a birthday party in our garden were jumping on my poor dad.. at the time it was so much fun but i'm guessing it wasnt for him!

i associate the harmonica with dad, its the first instrument i think i fell in love with and dad was gonna give me his harmonica a few yrs back but it's lost somewhere, but he got me a new one which can hear on here.. so that represents dad.. then i slowed it down and blurred it righht out for the passage of time feel

then the other sounds are a guitar with loads of reverse delay; that's us bothering him, again blurred a bit.

then like summer storm i recorded to tape and then back onto pc via walkman, i like the warp at the start and the wow n flutter but not enough hiss!

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Disquiet Junto Project 0185: Memory Music
Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound.

This week’s Junto is project proposed by Robert Thomas, a longtime participant. Having proposed the project, he’ll also listen to and comment on various posted tracks as the project unfolds.

A bit about him: Robert Thomas creates procedural music and sound systems. In 2010 he worked on Inception the App (5 million downloads), while at RjDj. He has worked with Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Junkie XL, Air, Carl Craig, Jimmy Edgar, and Bookashade. His current projects are systems for VR, AR, health, meditation, and AI/robotics.

These are the steps for this week’s project:

Step 1: Remember a key moment in your life. It could be anything at any age.

Step 2: Conjure the sound of that moment in your mind, how you remember it, how you have come to remember it.

Step 3: Recreate that sound and feeling through sound design and music.

More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

summer : impermanence (disquiet0185-memorymusic)

for me complexity is a conceptual endeavour, it's more about the process than the outcome. at the moment, i see complexity as an integration of disparate elements: subjective-objective, creative-analytical, individual-communal, present-past etc. i'm aware that every piece of music i do follows on from another, they are related to each other in some (small?) way. working intuitively allows this to come out i think, but in addition i always combine conscious conceptual elements from previous efforts - my hope is that my soundcloud timeline provides a natural progression track to track. 

i've been working a lot with samples on my last few tracks, so i didn't add anything else. i just went through and isolated small sounds i liked then stretched them and blended in over the course of track (like in sleeping church) but here i was more interested in getting a balance between texture and frequency. i've been working with dronefx on my mixcloud pieces so i used that to generate some note progressions and changed the pitch of the low end sounds. i wanted to make an ambient piece that gradually develops with more texture (again like in all my recent pieces) and i used the concepts of the last two disquiet projects to complement this: i recorded the piece to tape as in summer:impermanence (& fortuitously coz it was the same decrepit old tape a little snippet of that track comes through right at the start!) then i faded between the tape version into the 'clean' version as the track progresses (like in last weeks project).

i wanted the finished piece to sound completely different to the source but still retain something of the spirit of it. i tested this by fading in and out my favourite section of the original  right at the end and i think it works pretty well.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0188: Complex Complex
Take a provided track and make it more complex.

This project was proposed by Guy Birkin and Jay Bodley (aka Sun Hammer). It extends the thinking that went into their album Complexification, released by the record label Entr’acte. (http://entracte.co.uk/projects/guy-birkin–sun-hammer-e187/)

These are the steps for this project:

Step 1: Pick one of the two tracks at the following URL: https://goo.gl/tN4Oit.

Step 2: Modify that one track in any way, using as much or little of it as you like, to make a new piece that sounds “more complex” than the original. You may add other sounds. (Note: You are free to use any definition or measure of “complexity.” You should be sure to describe your process and how it “increases” the complexity of the original track.)

Background: The album Complexification by Guy Birkin and Sun Hammer “explores musical complexity through a collaborative process based on a set of rules.” Those rules involved the two musicians swapping successive copies of a track in order to make it progressively more “complex.” For their purposes, they defined “complexity” as follows: “In this project, complexity is understood in terms of the quantity and variety of musical elements or patterns. The result is two parallel threads of music, each representing a progression of increasing complexity.”

More on this 188th Disquiet Junto project (“Take a provided track and make it more complex”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/08/06/disquiet0188-complexcomplex/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/


hidden complex (summer mix) (disquiet0188)

loved this track https://soundcloud.com/adamintilia/burning-into-time-2010 wanted to hear it blurred at first and gradually getting more intricate and detailed

Adam Intilia - Burning Into Time (sevenism blurring into time mix)

Recorded in March 2015, mixed in October 2015

Waves 1986

when i was 12 or 13 my music teacher at school was horrible: mean and impatient - she'd grab kids fingers and press them hard into the 'right' keys when we made mistakes. there was no relationship between my burgeoning love of music and what i had to contend with at school. i never learnt to read music, and looking at this image reminds me of sitting in front of a keyboard thinking 'what the fuck?'

so i sat in front of my electric piano and just played what i felt. then i've hidden this playing in a number of ways - i've cloned the track and blurred it with paulstretch, reverb, echo a few times.

and i used amazing midi to convert the recording to midi to add some random variance and then created 3 separate soundscapes with different fx in live 8

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Disquiet Junto Project 0205: Superposition
Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score.

This week’s project falls broadly into the category of “graphic notation.” It uses a found assemblage as its starting point.

Step 1: Look at this image associated with this project, and imagine it as a score in the tradition of graphic notation:

http://disquiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20151203-560×560.jpg

Step 2: Record a piece of music based on that score in Step 1.

More on this 205th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Interpret boxed-up music-education materials as a graphic-notation score”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/12/03/disquiet0205-superposition/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

                   

occluded; hidden (disquiet0205)

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvOJkqXplU
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all made from this sample soundcloud.com/ao_onesampledare/one-sample-dare-37-sample-file for ambient online one sample dare 37 www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?4119-One-Sample-Dare-37 

the inspiration for this is the vast under-surface ocean of enceladus

i wanted to do something between a track and a mixtape with four distinct-connected parts. processing in live 8, recorded in audacity

also expanded into an album here if you fancy a listen https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/enceladus

part one: enceladus
track 1:  sample played though fx chain- crystal bass > crystal reverb >  6 string ambience > guitar space > space echo
track 2: ambient part of track 1 paulstretched x10
track 3: another ambient part of track 1 paulstretched x10

part two:  underwater turbulence
track 4: sample played through same fx chain as track one + electronica 2 
track 5: sample played through chorus fuzz > hi frequency ambience > ping pong > rhythmic doubling > echo speak > pong texture

part three: plumes
track 6: sample played through electronica 2 > crystal bass > electronica 1 > 6 string ambience > hard ambience > space echo
track 7:  sample played though 6 string ambience > hard ambience > space echo > wide ambience > formant sweep  then paulstretched

part four: cassini
track 8: same chain as track 1 + robo voice beat repeat (gives that guitary sound)
track 5 repeated
track 9: track 1 paulstretched with a longer time resolution

enceladus

s u r f a c e mixtape

thanks for all the listens! please follow me @sevenism.. reposts and comments are always welcomed

a load of remixes i've done, nominally mixed

1. boc/nevermen - mr mistake [ambientstrumental] @nevermenmusic
2. ? - ? obstructed mix
3. afx - avril 14th [rndm velocity] @user18081971
4. jedrzej borowski- 3 switches x3 @jborowski
5. technohead - accelerator 1 [deceleratedecholocated]
6. cdek - res 13 2 (sev/ered) @c-dek
7. MyklH - Transmitting from space (sev visual echoes) @MyklH
8. loess - f4 {gravity echoes}
9. adam intilia - burning into time (blurring into time) @adamintilia
10. hideyuki - teian (minor edit) @kuromiya-hideyuki
11. westy reflector / benn demole - c-swellowed @thereflectors @benn-demole

thanks to the original artists for the wonderful music

sevenism -- ambient re//mix/one

was at the spa yesterday. they had an aqua meditation room where the ripples of drips were projected/amplified on the ceiling. my partner thought the ripples matched the new age music but i thought it was just the brain forcing an arbitrary pattern. i was thinking about this project about sound waves bouncing off each other like ripples; and this is the sound i wanted to get across (couldnt record unfortunately, couldnt sneak phone in ..no pockets in the complementary robes)

i played the guitar thru podfarm with heaps of echo and delay all unsynced, not playing to a particular tempo.. following and ignoring the echoes variously / resolutely un-new age
then i put the recording thru izotope ddly to get more delays at different speeds

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Disquiet Junto Project 0218: Sound Passage
The Assignment: Following the path of artist Kate Carr, explore sounds from a distance.

The artist and musician Kate Carr generously agreed to provide a prompt this week for the Junto.

Step 1: Consider the ways that sound changes as it travels across space, moving through specific human-built architectures and/or natural geographies. I live near Belfast’s major football stadium, and the roar that travels from the stadium, across the train tracks, up my street, and into my ears is a very different sound to the roar heard when standing in the stadium itself.

Step 2: Record a distant sound, and reflect on what frequencies have made it to your ears from the source, and which ones have bounced or decayed away.

Step 3: Compose a piece based on this recording, and your meditation on the ways its very journey to you has changed the sounds inherent in it.

Background: Kate Carr composes soundscapes based on field recording and non-conventional instrumentation to explore the relationship between people and place. Weaving together real and imaginary journeys , intensive explorations of sonic enclaves and the re-broadcast of sound in public places, her work is centred on both human and natural geographies. More on Kate Carr at gleamingsilverribbon.com.

More on this 218th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Following the path of artist Kate Carr, explore sounds from a distance”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0218/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

candescent

liquid audio {{ripple fx}} (disquiet0218)

keep playing around with this https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/track/event-horizon

original track (https://soundcloud.com/sevenism/tachyon-storm) made from a single sample (soundcloud.com/davedorgan/after-the-rain-ao39-sourcewav) for osd39 .. this is improvised in the mangle .. fed back into live with more fx and another track pitched up in audacity

this track is a soundcloud exclusive! wowee!

d r i f t .  .  .

event horizon

squarepusher + sevenism - midi sans frontieres (unity fade)

done an album of mixes here https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/midi-sans-fronti-res

this is a modified version of one them. i've listened to loads of the remixes - some great stuff out there - but somehow i havent listened to the original yet! (i like to start playing with samples before i listen to them)

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MIDI Sans Frontières

Concentration for 5 Flutes

Ensemble: Egor Rogozin, Irina Peshkova, Olga Slednikova, Alexandra Prousova, Ivan Moutouzkine

Concentration for 5 Flutes (Live)

Video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpdc5gA9V6k

This track started with the contents remaining on a looper pedal after a jamming session with a friend a few days ago. I added several recordings of shortwave noise, morse code transmissions, number stations, interval signals, and created some distorted "morse code transmissions" myself on Ableton Live. 

Each recording was processed as needed, and then laid out in session view, from which they were recorded with the help of a Launch Control XL control surface. After recording this session, visuals were created using VIZZable, and the video was put together using iMovie.

On number stations and looper pedals

A dreamy lush soundscape that grounds you and lifts you all at once. 

This Organic Matter

http://llllllll.co/t/foreground-effect-disquiet-junto-project-0241/4134/4

full track https://hearthis.at/sevenism/tendentious/

i used acidrack and pressed the same key over and over again.
i had a heap of fx in ableton - ddly>podfarm2>feed me back>six string ambience>loop slippery
lots of echo, distortion .. 6 string ambience mulches things up a bit.. loop slippery added that beat

perfect project for me - i'm always adding way too much fx 

hear it all

Tendentious xrpt (disquiet0241)

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

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Clear lake ripple

https://www.twine.fm/sevenism/crei90/saline-echelon

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

full

Saline echelon

https://www.twine.fm/sevenism/creia0/tardy-finney

guitar lost in echo. glacial warmth. a soundtrack to the tenderness of wolves by stef penney

MyklH - Transmitting From Space (Slo Echo Flare)

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