ambient music
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Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter posed this short demo of a black Gristleism.
The Gristleism is described as a “Throbbing Gristle palm-sized loop playback machine.”
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Filed under: Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Synthesizers & Samplers, iPods & Portable Media Players
Audio Damage’s Chris Randall joined the iPhone Cock Fest today, introducing Plinkton (App Store link), a generative ambient music app, released under the Naughty Panther moniker.
Naughty Panther describes Plinkton as an application that lets you “create a rhythmic groove over a bed of smooth ambiance.”
Plinkton is less Kenny G, though, and more ambient Pong.
The app lets you select from three background tracks and 4 “plinkton sounds”. The “plinkton” moves around the screen, triggering sounds as it bounces off the edges of the screen.
Plinkton can also act as an OSC sender, letting you use it to trigger other apps.
Plinkton sells for $.99.
This year’s KVR Challenge resulted in a lot of interesting new free music software – including this Windows ambient sound synthesizer, Antorpya.
Here’s a demo of Antopya in action: Uranus:
If you like ambient and experimental music, you’ll want to check out Brian W. Green’s seeyouinsleep release, Cycles.
Green is constantly experimenting with sound, and documenting his work on YouTube, SoundCloud and at his blog.
Green explains:
I focus mainly on work dealing with field recording, sound art, generative synthesis, abandoned spaces/natural ambience, environmental/nature sounds, industrial spaces, machines, drones and more.
seeyouinsleep is a platform in which my work is let out, this site/platform is built of various mediums, primarily sound but also video, photography and art.
From a early age i have experimented with sound and have always had a fascination with the sound a natural space can produce and create and what you can do with that sound.
Cycles is a collection of 10 very short pieces – the longest is 50 seconds. All the audio on the album was created using a generative process.
Green suggests putting the album into iTunes or your portable music player and listening it on shuffled repeat, to “let it make a piece of music by itself.”
Solipsistic Nation, a free electronic podcast, has unleashed their Halloween mix for this year.
solipsistic NATION No. 165: Geas features dark ambient music, industrial sounds and abstronica.
Tip: Make this your house’s soundtrack for Halloween and it will scare the kids away and you can keep all the candy.
You can preview the mix below.
