This is my second piece created using some of the ambient sounds captured at the 2010 Solstice at Stonehenge.

The overall sound, aside from the piano, comes from a few distant crowd shouts/cheers and some acoustic guitar captures that have been heavily stretched, layered and effected.

This, for me, represents the atmosphere that only a few people seemed to take in, that the setting of the sun, that evening, was as important as its rise on the 21st.

I hope you like it?

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As the Sun sets.mp3
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I made this dark and brooding piece in the early hours. It’s made from just a few samples of me playing with a glass of red wine. Using my hands to make it sing, I then manipulated it in Ableton Live, using only its internal effects. To experience the intended result, this track needs headphones and a dark silent space in which you can relax undisturbed.

As I let my mind drift, I started to hear additional frequencies, fleeting voices, but I couldn’t be sure if they were real or imagined. I hope you get something from it? It won’t be for everyone.

I’ve also made a stretch version of this, but at 120 mins in length, I’ve yet to decide if I’ll post it.

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Crimson.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.

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.

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

A little Aeolian mode piece made in between dusk and dawn, in the dark light. Made with four instances of Gaugear in Reaktor with some FabFilter added for good measure. I miss making music in the middle of the night.

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Dark Light.mp3
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Whilst my house move continues, I find myself without my little sound studio set-up. So I am resorting to the Netbook, with Ableton Live (Launchpad edition). This has sent me back down the path of making ambient drone pieces. This is a small looped arpeggiated sample I made using Simpler, that has had grain delay and stretching treatment.

I watched the sun disappear this evening and the sky slowly became a deep rich lilac colour. This matched the sense of mood that dusk emitted.

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Lilac.mp3
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I’m fighting off a nasty chest infection, but I at least I managed to get Christmas Day out of the way before spending the next three days in bed. Frankly, I hate this feeling of decay in me. So here’s something sombre in tone that reflects how I am feeling right now.

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Decayed.mp3
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The dark afternoon is playing around with my senses, leaving me feeling heavy and lethargic. I have to work another late shift tonight, so I took an hour away from the day job to make something that I could run through my headphones to let me relax and drift for a while.

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Drift.mp3
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The clouds are hiding the sunshine despite what the weather man said.

This simple piece was made in the early hours, with thoughts of distant places, where its guiding light might just be breaking through.

I’ll be putting up the latest compilation sometime over the weekend, but I wanted to put this up first.

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Guiding Light.mp3
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An early morning start allowed Niall and I to catch the mist rising from the levels as we drove through them. It’s such a beautiful place at times. This piece aims to capture that stillness.

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Levels.mp3
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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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