Ambienteer » sleepless http://www.ambienteer.com Electronic Ambient Sound Stuff Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:28:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Several Times II http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/07/19/several-times-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=several-times-ii http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/07/19/several-times-ii/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:26:18 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=2160 I was recently introduced via @greenwoods to ‘Sleeps with the Fishes‘ a 1987 collaboration between Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook. I’m immensly grateful to her for enlightening me. If you love ambient, this is a must have album.

One track in particular I love is Several Times II, but at just over two minutes, its beauty is all too short for me. To help me sleep last night, I stretched and layered it with a little bit of additional reverb into an 11 minute aid to allow you to drift gently off. Here is the result of that.

Only available as a stream for copyright reasons. That said, there is every chance I might be asked to remove it. I sincerely hope not.

I implore you to track the album down and buy it.

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]]> http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/07/19/several-times-ii/feed/ 5 249 – Aethereal http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/07/12/249-aethereal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=249-aethereal http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/07/12/249-aethereal/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:32:10 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=2148 Sleep came and went. The night sky was a blanket, heavy and warm.

This is how it sounded to me.

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I may develop this piece somewhat. It has a sound to it that I really love.

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]]> http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/06/05/232-atmosphere/feed/ 1 221 – Reverberar http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/05/13/221-reverberar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=221-reverberar http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/05/13/221-reverberar/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 06:28:25 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=1919 Still sleepless, I decided to continue playing about in the early hours with a few big soft Reaktor/Fab Filter synths with silly amounts of reverberation and delay.

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]]> http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/05/13/221-reverberar/feed/ 3 Ambient Compilation 21 http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/03/29/ambient-compilation-21/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ambient-compilation-21 http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/03/29/ambient-compilation-21/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:26:29 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=1860 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)
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]]> http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/03/29/ambient-compilation-21/feed/ 2 196 – Il Pleut http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/01/29/196-il-pleut/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=196-il-pleut http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/01/29/196-il-pleut/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:05:07 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=1743 Ok, so maybe I did find a little time last night to noodle. I have had trouble getting to sleep the past few nights, so I made this very simple, repetitive piece to help solve this. It matched the sound and the rhythm of the rain falling on the slate tiles outside my bedroom window. It sent me off pretty well. Reaktor 5, in Live 8.1 with some FabFilter effects.

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]]> http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/01/29/196-il-pleut/feed/ 2 192 – Lucubrare http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/01/20/192-lucubrare/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=192-lucubrare http://www.ambienteer.com/2010/01/20/192-lucubrare/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:39:33 +0000 admin http://www.ambienteer.com/?p=1720 Sleep has been hard to come by the past few nights. So I’ve found myself trying to create at 2 or 3am. Often the results of this tend to be something simple but relaxing, something that will finally send me off to dream.

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