Another piece made from capturing a small snapshot of a random radio transmission, this time on the FM band.

This was a 45 second sample of an Italian concerto recorded straight into Live 8 with the output passed through around 20 racked effects.

This was then rendered, transposed down a few semitones, filtered and stretched slightly to create this dreamy echo of something from another time.

I hope you like it?

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I’m stuck in a dronespace right now and although it’s not the most popular sound I make, it’s a rewarding one to work on. These often fill me an inner peace. I can’t say why, but they seem to be in harmony with my innermost feelings.

I wonder if anyone can spot the excerpt of music that this piece is born from?

Lights out, headphones on, volume at 50% and gently slumber…

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This is to be the last stretch piece for a little while as I feel it’s time to get back to creating original work for you to be able to download and enjoy. This is one of my favourite pieces of music, when played forwards, at normal speed. Once stretched and effected however, it sounded better when played backwards, feeling slightly less predictable.

Turn out the lights/hide the light from your eyes, lie back and give youself 20 mins to listen to this. Slow your breathing, bring down your heart-rate and drift off.

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Continuing on from yesterday’s discovery of 9beetstretch, I have decided to risk putting up my own reworking of the Ralph Vaughan Williams classic, The Lark Ascending. Not quite a 24 hour piece as my laptop won’t manage that. This piece weighs in at around 66 mins. I did manage to make a 200 minute version, but I figured it to be too large for my site’s bandwidth. Some may be annoyed, saying that I’ve ruined Britain’s favourite classical tune, but my strange head loves this version. It is just an experiment and for now will end here.

It is not available to download and won’t appear on my compilations. Despite my manipulations, it is essentially the complete work and I have no copyright clearance. It is available only as a 320k stream.

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