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Here’s a bit of ambient goodness to start of Free Music Friday – Herzog’s First Summer And The Running Dream:
first summer and the running dream” contains 5 tracks with a complete duration of 30 minutes. Compared to his earlier works “first summer…“ has a more droning, a bit distorted character. The sounds are layered very softly and sublime to a very harmonic composition. The overall mood is quite laid-back with noisy, distorted splinters. The noisy elements are getting stronger to the end of the EP but it leaves still a very harmonic picture.
You can preview the album with the music video above and download the tracks at the Resting Bell label site.
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Could you score a piece of music with 140 characters or less?
Supercollider 140 is a free album of Twitter music – audio pieces composed of Twitter-sized snippets of SuperCollider code.
It started as a curious project, when live coding enthusiast and Toplap member Dan Stowell started tweeting tiny snippets of musical code using SuperCollider. Pleasantly surprised by the reaction, and “not wanting this stuff to vanish into the ether” he has recently collated the best pieces into a special download for The Wire’s online readership here.
Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.
The compositions are self-referentially named, with titles like:
{LocalOut.ar(a=CombN.ar(BPF.ar(LocalIn.ar(2)
*7.5+Saw.ar([32,33],0.2),2**LFNoise0.kr(4/3,4)*
300,0.1).distort,2,2,40));a}.play//#supercollider
Tweet that and put it in your SuperCollider!
You can preview the album below, or download it at the Internet Archive:
Detailed artist biographies for the composers are available at The Wire.
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It’s Free Music Friday at Synthtopia – so I ask you this:
How much free music do you want to download today?
- 10 tracks?
- 50 tracks?
- 500 tracks?
It’s time to make sure you’ve got some empty hard drive space, because Synthtopia readers have uploaded over 500 electronic music tracks that you can listen to online and, in most cases, download for free.
We’re talking ambient, techno, symphonic electronica, IDM, not-so IDM, abstronica, DJ mixes, remixes, downtempo electronica and more from some the most talented electronic musicians in the world.
Click the “Listen to Music” link at the top of the page to open the Synthtopia player in a new window, or check out the most recent tracks below. If a track has a “Download” button, you can download it for free.
And don’t forget to make sure you’ve got some free space on your hard drive when you’re done! Read more…
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.
