Harold Budd

You can’t have a sexy day without some music that gives you space to let your mind wander a bit.

Behind This Soft Eclipse is the latest track from Matthew Davidson’s ambient piano collection Brood XIV. If you’re familiar with the work of Budd & Eno, you’ll find that Davidson is exploring similar territory.

Davidson is releasing his music as free downloads and blogging about the process of creating them at his site.

You can preview Behind This Soft Eclipse below. Davidson has several complete albums of great ambient music available at his site as free downloads.

Image: desiretofire : music is the shape of silence

 

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I’ve been enjoying raphdub’s videos for Harold Budd & Brian Eno’s tracks from The Plateaux Of Mirror.

The others, like this one for Not Yet Remembered, are simple but hypnotic, too.

Music video for Brian Eno & Harold Budd’s An Arc Of Doves, from The Plateaux of Mirror.

By raphdub, made with Bryce.

Interesting ambient psychedellic fan video for Harold Budd and Brian Eno’s Among Fields of Crystal, from Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror.

I’m a massive Budd & Eno fan. The Pearl & Ambient 2: The Plateax of MIrrors are two of the most gorgeous and important works of ambient music.

So I was excited to see music blogger Matthew G Davidson (Stretta) offer his take on the classic work of Budd & Eno. Here’s a little background on the piece, Where Abundance Lies:

This is the first time I’ve worked with tehn’s mlr. I’ve seen fantastic uses of mlr in a wide range of styles. It is the signature monome application.

A while back, a programmer friend at work opened up the source code for a freely-available application, modified and recompiled it to serve his needs better. This stirred some feelings of envy in me as a non-programmer. How great would it be to take a mature application and make a few tweaks to make it perfect for your needs? Well, if you’re familiar with mlr, you may be able to tell I made a few tweaks. Huge thanks to Brian Crabtree for making such a great application and keeping it open.

If you’re not following Stretta yet, make sure you check it out!

 

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