junklight

Our neighbour died of cancer a couple of weeks ago. As far as I could tell she was about my age and it happened pretty quickly. I didn't know her well but I liked talking to her and she brought apples and herbs round from her garden from time to time. This is music for quiet contemplation. Elegies and requiems often seem to be all drama and big emotions. I wanted to make something gentle for quiet...

Rhythm section is all modular and piano and sax over the top of that

Made on my laptop in my hotel here in New York before heading to the airport

The core of this track is a modular patch that I was using to generate a rhythmic ambient 'background' for track for the ambient album I'm now working on. However fiddling with the settings revealed this other sound - swirly background noises with a self perpetuating bass beat (Maths and the MMG modulating each other basically. The beat is Maths end of cycle on channel 4 hitting the accent input o...

Harsh percussive electronics - not my usual stuff at all. I've recorded a number of versions of this over the last week and a half - I like it too much to discard it but very wary of how jarring it is compared to most of the stuff I make.

Title appropriated from M John Harrison as they frequently are https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/page/4/

(image by Abby)

All hardware. Single take.

Stately ambient music featuring the MakeNoise Mysteron

Something quiet

Some gentle rhythmic ambient music for a rainy Saturday

bit of rural ambient hauntology given the day

Chromatic fun featuring text from the book of the future

Going for something warmer and comforting rather than cold and dark this week

messing about with beats, bass lines and synths a special shout out to Michael Hetrick on the Native Instruments user library for making a lot of the blocks used in this https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/all/all/all/283428/

I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the alchemy synth or not so I figured the best way to get to know it is to make a track with it. It does some nice stuff but I'm not sure it will ever be a 'goto' synth

Dubby modular. Based around a reaktor blocks patch I didn't quite have control over so it gets a little chaotic at times. But I quite like that

iPad only track made on my travels. Has an accompanying video too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PV-iEE3838

Atmospheric piano in a noisy ambient setting I'm now licensing my stuff on soundcloud with a creative commons license (I'll be updating all my earlier tracks in due course too) so if you want to use anything I've made in film or an app then feel free as long as you credit me and link to my soundcloud

I made a reaktor blocks patch which is the centre of the track. After I made the patch the rest of it just fell into shape - not quite what I expected and not my usual style

I seem to have made a companion piece to the one I uploaded earlier

Just found this rooting around on my disk looking for something else. Was investigating that Eno shimmer production technique he does

Dark modular textures. This is a reaktor blocks patch performed on the knobs of my lpd8 Ideally play on a decent sound system (with great bass) and play very loud

it all started with wandering around my garden hitting things with a bit of wood.......

More dark techno this week - back to the ambient stuff next week