So, I've been really busy with music over the last few months demoing and compiling new tracks to go on what was originally going to be a short 5 or 6 track EP... but then I got a bit carried away, and it looks like this collection of tracks is going to end up being another album :) I actually really like the format of an album, perhaps this is because I grew up listening to LPs and Cassette tapes, where tracks always were in the same order... though I have to admit, sometimes the shuffle function on my iPod spits out some pretty amazing musical synchronicity!

Anyway... the fourth as yet un-named Winterpark album is currently taking shape, and I'm really happy with how it's sounding so far... I'm looking towards a mid year release if all goes according to plan.

In creating this new album, I've been experimenting with live looping and the creation of atmospheric textures from electric guitar. The Ableton Instrument I've giving away with this newsletter has been created from one of these Loops. The original guitar loop has a pitch-shifting reverb drenched sound, that classic Eno-esque ‘Bloom’ sound. When I transformed this into a sampler based instrument rack, I noticed that wherever you play it on the keyboard you can get some really interesting and diverse textures. I hope you enjoy it!

Download the Live Pack here: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9609324/WP%20Music%20%26%20Sounds%20Vol4.alp

Winterpark Music & Sounds Vol.4 - 1010 guitar pad

Compilation of improvised jam sessions in 2021 on OP-1, OP-Z, DigDugDIY, Chase Bliss FX. Some extra production in 2022 within Ableton Live.

Cathedral

Glide

Bliss

Blend

*Winterpark's Rock and Metal*

This is the fifth instalment of my Music and Sounds project, and contains two Ableton Drum Racks that use samples of Rocks and Metals that I found when on holidays in The Grampians Mountain Ranges.

The *Metal* rack was created from a pile of rusty old tools I found by a shed, I hit, scraped and dropped various metals against other metals.

The *Rocks* were scraped, dropped and thrown to create thumps, clunks and clicks.

The samples themselves are pretty straight forward, but I hope that you’ll dig a little deeper inside the racks to see how it is all constructed so that when you start playing with the Macros, a whole different world of sounds can be created by some creative FX routings.

I’ve also played around a bit with samples within Max For Live’s Convolution reverb, to create some very strange, but evocative *convolution FX racks*

I hope you enjoy playing with it!

for more info or to keep in contact find me at:
www.winterparkmusic.com


Winterpark Rock & Metal

From Winterpark's debut release 'One night alone' (2007)

Appeared in Australian TV shows Dance Academy (ABC) and Offspring (Ch10) in 2010-2011

https://winterpark.bandcamp.com/album/one-night-alone

Never Alone

From Winterpark's debut album One night alone.

Appeared in Australian TV shows 'Underbelly' (ch9) 'Dance academy' (abc), and 'Tomorrow when the war began' (abc)

https://winterpark.bandcamp.com/album/one-night-alone 



One Night Alone

Winterpark's debut album "One night alone"

In the Sunlight

Winterpark is a collaborative studio project born out of the ashes of Matt Ridgway’s indie-punk-rock dreams. Matt took the do it yourself ethos away from slinging guitars around on sticky carpet stages to tweaking delay pedals in his studio, creating melodic and atmospheric music that is experimental enough to not be pop, acoustic enough not to be electronic, and eclectic enough not to be dull.

The often dark and brooding sound-scapes of Winterpark’s 2006 debut album One night alone found a home on many a TV soundtrack ranging from Underbelly to Offspring.

Throughout 2007, Matt took the band to the international stage, filming video clips in the backstreets of Brooklyn, playing parties at Iceland Airwaves festival for free drinks, carrying equipment to shows via the Paris underground and writing much of what was to become Winterpark’s 2008 album Falling men and flying dreams in a makeshift apartment in Berlin. 

Settling back into Melbourne, Matt has been playing guitar and bass in Ross McLennans’ Sympathy Orchestra, helping to facilitate Audio Visual jam sessions, teaching sound production and writing music for TV and Film.

Needless to say, Matt has taken his time writing and recording Winterpark’s third offering Sunday Morning. An album that effortlessly echoes the ebb and flow of Matt Ridgway’s multifaceted musical career to date, it is a record written on the bottom of a broken dream, but radiates hope and warmth with every chord.


Gotta sleep now

Download via Bandcamp

Spring

Winter

Autumn

Summer

Teenage Engineering OP-XY Live set recorded at Buttons March gig

OP-XY Live set from Buttons - March 2025

This is my (nearly) 3 year old daughter singing into an FX racks I made with Ableton Live and Tim Exile's the Mouth.

If you’ve downloaded my "Vocoder for Push" racks, then you should understand the concept behind these racks… basically they’re performance orientated racked instruments that hack the external instrument and external effect devices to be able to pre-map the audio routings.

In this Live set there are two instrument racks, one for Errorsmith’s “Razor”, and the other for Tim Exile’s “The Mouth”. Both devices require a license and the Reaktor 5 Player available via nativeinstruments.com 

By default audio input 1 is used as the mic source, but you can change this if you want.

download the FX racks for Ableton live via www.winterparkmusic.com

The Mouth & Razor Instrument Racks Preview

“Hey love” is the bittersweet 2nd single from Winterpark’s new album Sunday Morning.

Winterpark is the studio project of Melbourne indie-electronic producer Matt Ridgway. Vocalist Susannah Legge lends her sultry vocals in Hey Love’s cinematic downbeats, to create a track that aches yet uplifts.

Susannah has worked with Matt before, contributing in the debut Winterpark album One Night Alone, after Matt had a short stint playing guitar in Susannah’s old band.

Taking the Winter-vibe into summer, UK remixer Ray Mang has given Hey Love a spring in its step and a skip in its heart. 


Hey Love - Winterpark - (Ray Mang extended remix)

Opening track of Winterpark's 2nd Album "Falling Men and Flying Dreams"

Planes

Off Winterpark's debut album 'One night alone'.

Nunns rd.

A short Generative music demo of Winterpark's free Toy Harmonium instrument for Live 9 Suite. Download via www.winterparkmusic.com.

Sign up for more free sounds from Winterpark:
http://eepurl.com/AFLIn

Live performance video of the generative patch being used on Youtube... http://youtu.be/V0tROBIFEj4

Toy Harmonium Demo

Falling Men And Flying Dreams

When The Waves Fall

Hey Love

Friday Nights Forever (333 Remix)

Hey Love (Ray Mang Edit Remix)

Hey Love (Ray Mang Extended Remix)

Motivated Girl

Underneath My Eyelids

Nunns Rd.

Washed out waves of bliss and uncertainty, glistening explosions and chiming astro-pop.

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