A restless night with lucid dreams led to my being wide awake at 6am. This piece was an attempt to make something that would help me drift back off into some kind of slumber.

The birds were beginning their dawn chorus, but I didn’t really want to have to go outside and record them, so I searched online for something I could use. The background birdsong sample used is from http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/117113/. It’s a lovely dawn recording of a Dutch village, yet it closely resembled the sounds eminating from the garden into the bedroom. This helped me stay warm, for which I am grateful, but alas sleep never returned.

Maybe it will prove useful to you as an aid, easing into these tail-end of winter mornings?

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Spurred on by yesterday’s little piece, I turned my attention to using a couple of single second samples of Judie Tzuke’s vocal, from the magical Stay With Me Till Dawn, to create a gentle lullaby soundscape. Made in the early hours, just before the sun came up.

All done in Ableton Live using multiple instances of Simpler and internal effects.

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Alba.mp3
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Here is my thirty-second compilation for you all to (hopefully) enjoy.

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A long, slowly moving piece reflecting the heavy fog that hung in the air in the South-East of the UK earlier this week and thus, I fear, the imminent arrival of winter.

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Brume.mp3
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My latest EPs ‘diunmenge’ and ‘frequencies’ are up at http://ambienteer.bandcamp.com

Please take a look and grab a copy or anything else you fancy.

There really is no obligation to buy anything, but if you feel you can, please do so. It will help me cover the costs of running this blog and making more for you all in the future.

Thanks… x

Here is the thirtieth compilation that I have made for you all.

Consider checking out all my releases on Bandcamp? You can grab pristine versions of most of my work so far and have a variety of formats to choose from. They are free to download, but if you can contribute a just couple of pounds/euro/dollars, it would help and delight me v.much.

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Woke again to a head filled with high-pitched interference and sounds that appear to be fractured. It could have been triggered by playing a little too much with some bell samples yesterday. This piece is the result of that play.

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Made as the sun was setting last night and finished as it rose this morning.

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The final piece from the Palma Cathedral captures. This drone work also includes some externally grabbed street sounds from around the building.

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Diumenge III.mp3
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Here is the twenty ninth compilation that I have made for you all.

Throughout April 2011 I’m giving away 320k MP3 versions of all 24 ambient music releases that I have made in return for donations to the National Autistic Society. Please donate and help the cause?

Please go to http://www.justgiving.com/ambienteerforautism for more information.

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281 to 290 – 320kbps – zip file (129MB)