The Oak Creek Ensemble guest conducted live at Circle A in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 10, 2015.
One of three album preview pieces.
(a previous, studio recording of Oak Creek Ensemble:
https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies/sets/first-gathering)

Download here: (pay as you wish)
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Thanks!
Wilhelm Matthies, creative director, darkpebble-bluewave
Matthias Boss
John Daly
Paulo Chagas


OCE - Live At Circle A (2)

I love listening to ambient music.
I only use a free VST synths and effects.
Big fan of good free software.


*Thank you all for your kind support*

Happy 2025

I share music that I have made here solo or in groups. I am bundling my work with some online friends as a project oriented, micro-collective. We are happy to share with you!

https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Wilhelm Mattthies, John Daly (aka Tuneind52), Paulo Chagas and Matthias Boss

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

My music is written without the use of AI, though some of my older albums used jankier, older (pre-chatGPT) AI for album art.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

All music by David Mackenzie, except as indicated. Debut album, D.M.T., is the six tracks with the iTunes links. I'm open for collaborations, so message me if you wish to collaborate.

Zap-Pascal is a musician who play accordion, electronic, flute, and use other sounds from his imagination, in solo and in groups since the eighties of the last century... Previously, he played saxophone, slide trombone.

Different experiences between folk tunes, jazz, classical, contemporary, electronic & art - rock music give him large possibilities to explore sounds with himself & other musicians !

- His last live and studo side project is LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA



Tracks from some of the projects and ensembles led by visionary Scottish guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker, including Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti, Simon Thacker's Ritmata, Karmana and the Nava Rasa Ensemble. CD store: http://www.simonthacker.com/shop

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...