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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Fracture.mp3
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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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Lips Stained Blue.mp3
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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.

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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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Frequencies.mp3
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Here is the twenty seventh compilation that I have made for you all.

My plans to take a couple of weeks holiday, to allow me to put 100% of my time into making something a little less ordinary, have had to take a bit of a backseat until the new year. There is just too much going on workwise at the moment.

Still, the upside is my simple noodle sessions should continue to produce the odd interesting piece that will connect with you.

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.

261 to 270 – 96kbps – zip file (31Mb)
261 to 270 – 320kbps – zip file (91Mb)

An hour or so of lunchtime noodling brought about this little piece. Made using a sample of a train pulling into Pisa, with the faint sound of distant bells peeling adding a little extra depth to it. The tannoy chime was sampled and made into a little arpeggiated toybox bell to accompany the spread out texture of the railway line.

Hope you enjoy it?

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Binari.mp3
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Something a little different that stems from an experience (that I can’t go into here) earlier this week.

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Cyclical Thought.mp3
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I took a cheap shortwave radio under my bed covers and scanned whilst recording its output. I captured this heavily interfered melody. I looped, layered and gently effected it.

I love this piece.

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A Song From 5.95 MHz.mp3
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Played around in the early hours with some of the ambient sounds recorded at Leogland in Windsor. This is a montage of a few loops, heavily treated with effects in Ableton Live, with a simple sub harmonic synth lifting up the natural tones of the layered recording. Again, this won’t be for everyone, but I hope it pleases some ears.

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Leg Godt.mp3
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Sorry that this batch of ten tracks has taken so long to create, but the move and work have had a major impact on my creative time.

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

201 to 210 – 96kbps – zip file (27Mb)
201 to 210 – 320kbps – zip file (77Mb)