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321 – A Song From 7.30 MHz

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:46:41 +0000

Another experiment scanning the shortwave bands. Seeking out some odd melodic interlude and once captured, adding reverb and a few other effects and tricks to transform it into a sleepy, filtered soundscape, reminiscent of the imperfect signal, bandwidth and output of my little 1970′s transistor radio.

I love this type of sound and I hope you like this as much as I do?

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313 – Light Up The Sky

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:12:32 +0000

Yet another piece born from a period of awakening well before the dawn arrived.

It’s a soundtrack to rhythmically nurse you back to your dreams whilst you watch the moon and stars light up the sky outside your bedroom window.

Worked for me.

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Ambient Compilation 31

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:44:22 +0000

Here is the thirty-first 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.

Thanks for your support.

There are two zip files, one for lower bitrate MP3s and the other for the rather better 320kbps files.

All of the tracks here are free for you to download and distribute.

301 to 310 – 96kbps – zip file (37Mb)
301 to 310 – 320kbps – zip file (122MB)

306 – Nocturne

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:22 +0000

A night of restless sleep and bewildering dreams led me to be fully awake at 6am. Rather than try in vain to return to sleep, I decided to revisit some Conet samples and took one from Disc 2 and made it into something resembling a ghostly brass & woodwind section playing a strange and haunting nocturnal soundscape. Not unlike the effect that these original broadcasts had on me, under the bed covers, late in the evening, as a young boy.

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Latest EPs released on Bandcamp

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:16:15 +0000

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

Ambient Compilation 30

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:33:52 +0000

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

Thanks for your support.

There are two zip files, one for lower bitrate MP3s and the other for the rather better 320kbps files.

All of the tracks here are free for you to download and distribute.

291 to 300 – 96kbps – zip file (36Mb)
291 to 300 – 320kbps – zip file (115MB)

299 – Fracture

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:19:44 +0000

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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296 – Lips Stained Blue

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:06:04 +0000

In an effort to create something in a minimal amount of free time (work is busy), I set upon the idea of playing with ice cream van chimes. In the early hours of this morning, I made this using a very warbled and noisy sample.

It has an eerie and very melancholic sound, evoking a lost time, a faded snapshot of summers passed.

What do you think? Should I do more?

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288 – Airwaves

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:26:51 +0000

The sonic distortion that Tinnitus brings, whilst sometimes annoying, can also make certain moments quite interesting.

As I woke this morning, I could hear the roar of the A3 in the distance fading in and out along with the movement of the wind outside my window. The birdsong triggering little sweeps of noise in my head. This combination of the airwaves and my brain’s electrical murmurings is captured in this little ditty. More of a mini soundscape than a piece of music.

Please may I remind you of my charity offering of one donation for the 24 releases I have made so far? The target has been reached, but I’d for us to raise as much as possible together. If you can’t donate, please spread the word to as many people as possible?

http://www.justgiving.com/ambienteerforautism

Thank you to all of you who’ve helped, or intend to help soon.

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287 – Frequencies

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:49:38 +0000

Have woken with bad Tinnitus this morning and there are a whole bunch of frequencies reaching my brain that the normal bedroom birdsong is barely audible to me.

So before I started work, I decided to finish off a simple little piece that I started last night before bed. However, it now has some added multi-band dynamic effects, to really accentuate the sense of what the space around me sounds like right now.

Lots of buzzing, momentary imagined electronic noises and words… oh and my relentless refrigerator that seems more vocal than usual today. I’ve learned to embrace these odd days of noise. I hope there is something in it that you can enjoy also.

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