r/ambient

One of the biggest influences in my musical career. Anyone who's heard my music will probably hear it.

So difficult to find words right now. Such an important person to me.

I had the honour of speaking to him a handful of times and he was always a really nice guy.

I don't know how you are all feeling about this. Was he a big influence on you too?

Put some long sessions in to fine tune and craft this dense and dark atmospheric microtonal ambient excuse to disassociate and escape everything. There are no beats, just soundscapes and ghostly asmr effects.

Did a silly thing and released it worldwide using Distrokid too 👁️

A small blip about each track's tuning system, techniques, and approach below:

Count Pogson’s Court
Tuning temperament is derived from Pogson’s Ratio, a logarithmic Magnitude scale used to classify the brightness of celestial bodies. Its numerical value is the fifth root of 100, approximately 2.512. Using this value to define the octave ratio results in a non-octave tuning of 9.0309-EDO.

Hermetica Lodge
Audio collage in non-octave 12ed(16/9), which results in 14.457-EDO. 16/9 was chosen because of the screen dimension 16:9.

Bronze Chloridian
Generative composition with oscillators clashing in randomized microintervals  

Gravitational Slingshot
Slow-motion rhythms dictated by Morse code with note selection randomized in 88-EDO (because there are 88 keys for a standard piano).

Mercurial Microtonality
Performed live in 80-EDO (Mercury [Hg] is atomic number 80).

Sawyers and Preppers
Intentionally dissonant randomized polymicrotonal dyads (36-EDO * 24-EDO * 12-EDO FM)

Fundamental Pi Freq
Binaural sine waves with Fundamental Frequency π(Pi), 3.14159 Hz. All available notes for this tuning system are composed from stacked intervals of 3.14159 Hz. Music was produced by randomizing note selection from the π Hz arithmetic equal-interval harmonic segment. 

Planetary Hours Kaleidocycle
The Planetary Hours cycle algorithmically composed in 7-EDO. 7-EDO because there are seven planets and seven days of the week.

SQRT 1200
Taking the square root of 1200 reveals an equally divided octave in which the EDO and cents-per-step share the same numerical value of 34.641. This composition features triads in 34.641-EDO. 

Catenary Cosh
Irregular non-octave tuning system following a Catenary Curve instead of the standard Logarithmic curve. The range was intentionally reduced to exactly four octaves over 49 notes, all with a varied interval ratio following the cosh function.

13 Hurts
An intentionally harsh generative chord collage featuring a harmonic segment tuning system with fundamental frequency 13 Hz.

On the Midnight Barque
A polymicrotonal tuning system experiment with the curve function x^3 and its inverse x^(1/3). Both tuning temperaments are triggered simultaneously by pressing a single note on the keyboard.

Galilean Orbitals
A complex polyrhythm experiment dictated by the orbital periods of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. Each moon was assigned its own octave range to ring a randomized note as the polyrhythm cycles.  

Atonal Underground
An anxious, noisy sketch with randomized Hz intervals constrained to be no more than the Gamma frequency range.

Trig Bender
Experimenting with a three-way polymicrotonal tuning temperament based upon the Sine and Cosine function and their Arithmetic Mean.

Shrunken Whalers
A single chord progression looping through 16 different tuning temperaments.  It begins and ends with 12-EDO. The middle follows a coprime sequence to cycle through 12-EDO (x/16), with x being integers 16 through 32.

(( also, thanks for scrolling this far. I'm crafting a playlist called Ambient Esoterica Familiars if you got anything in this similar vein to add. . . drop it in the replies ))

Anyone remember this album? From '95 this is my favorite track off the album. Check it out