I have very busy work day ahead and may not be able to do any ambienteering until the late hours, so for now here is a little intro piece I did for a friend last year. I had access to his rig, which was more set-up to do IDM & Trance. I still haven’t managed to get my own copy of Albino… maybe I ought to? Try as I might, I can’t remember how I got that pad sounding so luscious. More new sound later.

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We are in the realms of experimentation. Two looped passages of a bell-like nature taken from a Reaktor User Library ensemble have been stretched, one reversed, then layered to run forward/backwards concurrently and then effected heavily with all of the little effects tools Ableton Live has in its box. The low volume is deliberate. The original transients were too much, so by filtering and limiting, we’ve a more gentle result.

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Schlieren.mp3
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This has also been created with my little one’s animation in mind. It is a bit heavy in the low end, but it does fill your room/headspace. It is a little dark and repetitive, but that’s what I had in mind for his idea. It was made using Reaktor 5. Live was used just as a linear recording/looping device.

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Hurrm.mp3
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The next few posts are likely to be odd. I say this because out of the blue this weekend my little boy showed me what he’d been up to with his camera and has stunned me.

He is on the Autistic spectrum, a joy, but he does have some struggles. Yesterday, he asked me to look at photos of ‘his world’ (his world, btw, is a model village/town, with cardboard buildings, hornby people and cars (trains are being added v.soon). He’d only been making a stop frame animation! It has floored me. It’s very rough, all hand-held, but it’s has an errie beauty. I may post a link soon.

So, as it is a little unusual, I am aiming to use this week to find something appropriate to fit his lovely (yet slightly dark) first work! Please indulge me? The open-minded amongst you will find some element you can utilise.

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Vorgestern.mp3
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This is the second zip file containing the latest tracks. There are two zip files, one for lower bitrate MP3s and the other for the rather better 320kbps files.

011 to 020 – 96kbps – zip file (29Mb)

011 to 020 – 320kbps – zip file (99Mb)

A bad night sleep wise. I woke at 4am and decided to watch ‘Los Cronocrímenes’ (Time Crimes) on DVD. It was an unnerving experience, a really good film. When it was over I played with Reaktor and a free VST plug-in for an hour and this was the result. I had to get the dissonance out of my head before I could grab another couple of hours sleep. This may not be a comfortable listening experience.

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Eintracht.mp3
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Something ambient (ish) spun from Reaktor 5 and Ableton Live just a few hours ago. I apologise for the obvious ‘Jarre’ synth bit, but I couldn’t resist. This was very much straight out of my head and done in minutes. As my intention is to let you all use this stuff in any way for free (credited though…), please don’t be too hard on me for rattling out tons of odds and ends.

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Thelemic.mp3
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