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.

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.

281 to 290 – 96kbps – zip file (40Mb)
281 to 290 – 320kbps – zip file (129MB)

Another ethereal and almost dream-like piece made using the looped, layered and effected captured organ sounds from last Sunday in Palma Cathedral.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Diumenge II.mp3
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I was in Palma de Mallorca for a few days to try and boost my Vitamin D levels and managed to persuade @nixnoo that it would be a good idea to bring along my Zoom H1 (as it is a little more discreet than my Zoom H4n) to capture a few sounds here and there.

In order to ensure its use didn’t encroach to much on our time away, I restricted to recording just a few really interesting sources.

This piece is the first of a few that uses the sound of the órgano mayor of Palma Cathedral. The recordings can’t reveal the depth and colour that filled the space last Sunday evening, but hopefully you’ll enjoy them enough to seek out the real thing next time you’re in Mallorca.

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Diumenge I.mp3
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You may be aware that I have been cataloging my work into their originally intended album formats and releasing them in a myriad of formats via Bandcamp.

My latest work ‘more’ is up at http://ambienteer.bandcamp.com/album/more

Please take a look and grab a copy or whatever else you fancy. There really is no obligation to buy anything, but if you feel you can, please do so. It really will help me cover the costs of running this blog and making more for you all.

Thanks… x

Another piece born out of experimenting in the small hours.

This is a reworking of track number 275 | Amiss, although hopefully it should be near impossible to tell. It was made using the piano piece as a sonic backdrop that was then ripped apart by a Max for Live plug-in called ck.stretch88. The result was thrown through one of my odd fx chains and then finally smoothed out and elongated using PaulStretch.

Despite its 17 minute length, slow movement and lack of transients, if you like drone or shoegaze, you should enjoy it. I hope so. Try it with the lights out as you drift off to sleep…

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Elongation.mp3
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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.

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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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