Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher

Over morning coffee, I explored creating an ambient piece by routing radio waves through iPad AUM into the Delta-V Audio Spacecraft granular synthesizer and capturing live samples on the Octatrack using my Zoom L6 mixer as the central hub. The signal path involved sending radio audio through multiple mix buses, allowing me to process it simultaneously through Spacecraft's ethereal granular clouds...

This song was improvised using MPE multi-touch to control analog modeled synths through a Frippertronics looper. It was first performed at the Stellar Lounge astronomy concert which was a collaboration with the Colorado State Parks and Wildlife. More on this here https://markmoshermusic.com/2024/07/10/performing-space-music-colorado-parks-wildlife-stargazing-event-thursday-july-11/. In other words...

This song debuted as part of the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet Drone Day 2022 Celebration. It’s the soundtrack to sci-fi short film of the same name which you can see here https://youtu.be/8WNZEwu1mEI?si=iNQ5rbtLxhpTvIGV. This piece was produced entirely on an Apple iPad Pro 11 with Borderlands Granular and Luma Touch LumaFusion. The music was performed in one real-time pass on the amazing Borde...

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher. Cover by Mark Mosher. (C)(P) 2022Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/s...

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-sounds...

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-sounds...

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-sounds...

This Sonic Encounters soundscape was improvised live in one-take using my 4U 62HP Eurorack musique concrète Instrument. It's the follow-on track to the "Droid 164 Gets Distracted by a Wildflower" https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/so4-e02-droid-164-gets-distracted-by-a-wildflower. Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher. Cover by Mark Mosher. (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe t...

An ambient improv performed solely on the Deluge. Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Cover: Mark Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscap...

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast

An experimental piece re-purposing improvised phrases and motifs with more classical instrumentation as "musical objects" which I further manipulate in a 2nd improvisational pass.

Sonic Encounters Season 03 has come to an end which means the album containing the songs from this season is now available on Bandcamp here https://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-encounters-volume-03. Bandcamp is waiving artist fees on Friday September 4th so it's a great time to buy songs and albums on Bandcamp to support your favorite artists. Note background song in this announcement is tr...

Composer's Notes: Music Concrete improvisation performed on Push 2 using mysterious shortwave radio signals from the cold war era. Producer's Notes: Samples are manipulated and performed as musical objects using Ableton Simpler, and Granulator II. Credits: Music Copyright 2020 Mark Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podc...

Story: A dreamy cinematic ambient song to accompany your time mirror viewing sessions. Composer's Notes: This song was inspired by sci-fi movies, tv series, and books that explore peering into the multiverse and time-travel. The title was inspired by the Outer Limits episode "Demon with the Glass Hand". Producer's Notes: This song was produced in three sessions: Session 1: I composed 4 layers off-...

Composer's Notes: Things have changed and now we're all ghosts of the time and space that we once knew. Here is a song about it it as a new Sonic Encounters episode featuring the track "Ghosts of Time and Space" Producer's Notes: This was improvised on Ableton Live 10 with Push 2. While I mostly do my own sound design I've been enjoying using libraries from others to introduce pleasant surprises (...

Composer's Notes: Inspired by a photo of a gossamer web taken with a macro lens in my front yard, I wrote a song about a spider. Be the spider. Producer's Notes; I used FM, analog modeled, and granular synthesis. I incorporated a field recording from of a drunk crowd singing in an underground tunnel on the way to the next train out in the London Tube at 1 AM on New Years 2018. Credits: Music and C...

A chill psychedelic meandering trip to an ancient savanna sandwiched with a bossa nova. Some lush synths throughout. Subscribe: To get notified of upcoming tracks follow me on Soundcloud, subscribe in itunes here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672, or use this RSS feed in your fav podcatcher https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/s...

Story: Quite some time ago an alien child instantiated our reality using some silly game they found on their parent's hand-me-down computer. As time went on they noticed the rainforests were being destroyed for a variety of reasons which would soon end the simulation. The child was quite attached to some of the people in the simulation and of course didn't want to have restart the simulation all o...

Story: It appears the menu has changed. Please Press 3. Subscribe: Links to subscribe in Apple Podcasts or your fav podcatcher here http://SonicEncounters.com Composer Notes: I thought I'd kick off this season with something more experimental with lots of extreme tempo changes ranging from 80 BPM - 764 BPM. Enjoy. Music, voice, lyrics, cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 My artist...

"Of Snow and Light" is episode 8 of the Sonic Encounters podcast season 2. It's an original soundscape featuring some warm classic synth sounds and pads. Photo is from a very unique skiing experience I had at Copper Mountain Colorado where I got to ski at night in a snow storm with only a headlamp and ambient light. Music and cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 http://SonicEncounte...

Music and cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright 2019

Story: This is the Krell again. We are beaming a 3rd tonality to your station. Are you receiving? Video of performance: https://youtu.be/9XzcPMncBWo. Instruments & Instrumentalities: The piece is a live improvisation on the Nord Lead 4 using only expressive real-time synthesis around a single original program. It was recorded in one real-time pass without edits. Credits Music, Sounds, Story, Video...

Story: A secret mission in the Arctic to recover the ancient artifact begins. Composer Notes: A real-time performance with single synthesizer. Improvised and recorded in a single take with no edits. Credits: Music, Story and Cover Art Painting by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher SonicEncounters.com NewEcho.com

Story: This is last known transmission the expedition to explore the undersea cave of the giant. Composer Notes: I sketched the cover image and used it as a graphical score. Credits: Music, Story and Cover Art by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher SonicEncounters.com NewEcho.com

In celebration of Halloween, this episode of Sonic Encounters features the song “Primeval” from my horror soundscapes album NO GHOSTS. JUST FEAR. It’s a very short and creepy piece where I use hand crafted synthetic sounds (subtractive and additive synthesis) to create strange tones, textures. and rhythms to build tension. Fast note-runs, and radical tempo changes will creep you out. This piece wa...