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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In the very early hours, I woke and could not get back to sleep. I popped open the laptop and in the dim light with just the qwerty keys as an input device I played a simple piano riff that had some noisy elements attached to the samples. I then attempted to augment by layering warped versions of the original passage together with some added effects. It’s very different to my usual pieces.

It needs headphones, a quiet space and your ears.

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Here is the twenty sixth compilation from me, to you.

Sorry that it’s taken so long to create, but life has been busy and I just haven’t had the free time to create as much.

I still intend to document and share ideas as I create my next main project, which is likely now to start sometime in November.

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.

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251 to 260 – 320kbps – zip file (103Mb)

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

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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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A year has passed and here’s the twentieth zip file containing the latest ten tracks posted.

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All of the tracks here are free for you to download and distribute. That said, please don’t forget Haiti, if you enjoy any of these pieces, please make a donation to the agency of your choice, however small it may need to be.

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It’s cold, dark and very grey outside. Is that the sound of sleet falling?

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In setting up my new workspace, I had to deal with ridding my set-up of ground noise/hum. I could hear a couple of buzzing frequencies in everything I was playing. Oddly, to me, it’s not always an unpleasant distraction.

I got to thinking how I could make a small noisy yet harmonic piece that could represent the sound fizzing through the wires under my desk.

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Struggled the past couple of days to make anything of note. The hacking of the site and the subsequent server changes, home tutoring Niall and the day job have all taken their toll. Whilst teaching Niall about Black Holes, he asked how one might sound. So, I took a big bunch of Number Station recordings, treated them to tons of effects in Live and then stretched them massively. I played this to him last night and said, I think it could be something like this, if there wasn’t a vacuum in the way. He said, ‘like a hoover’, Dad?

This is worth a late night listen at 50% on headphones. The 20 mins will fly by… if you love a nice bit of drone, that is!? ;)

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