Matthew Davidson has published a great new album of ambient piano pieces, Brood XIV. It’s a lovely album, in the tradition of Harold Budd and Brian Eno’s classic ambient works The Pearl and The Plateaux of Mirror. It features spare piano improvisations, with various piano effects treatments and other ambient effects. The video above, Miraflores Locks,… Read More Download A Free Album Of Ambient Music
Brian Eno just made my day. He’s released an ambient music application for the iPhone – Bloom (App Store link). “Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself.” – Brian Eno Description: Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and… Read More Brian Eno Releases Ambient Music iPhone Application
This is the “teaser” video promo for an upcoming Stars of the Lid feature film. Stars of the Lid is an Austin ambient music group, made up of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie. According to McBride, the band’s name refers to “your own personal cinema, located between your eye and eyelid”, suggesting the colors and… Read More Teaser For Upcoming Stars of the Lid Movie
I’ve written several times before (tripping the universe, 3d acoustic rendering, interactive 3d holograms) about virtual music worlds – generative 3D ambient worlds, where your exploration and interaction changes the music you hear. Visual Space Music is an example of that futuristic music experience I’ve been talking about. It’s “a musical instrument, a unique space-based… Read More An Introduction To Visual Space Music
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… Read More Sexy Day: How About Some Sexy Free Music?
This is another gorgeous Glenn Marshall video – a short animated guide to Buddhist breath meditation, using the metaphor of an opening lotus. The narration was adapted from a talk given by Ajahn Brahm, a popular Buddhist teacher, author and abbot of Serpentine monastery, Perth.
Resequenced photographic memories, from Oxtex.
Sonic Immersion has an interesting interview with ambient electronic music pioneer Steve Roach. In the interview, Roach touches on his renewed interest in analog synthesizers: I have been using vintage analogue gear all along in some basic ways as I consider the Oberheims the core to my sound and I never let go of these. They… Read More Steve Roach On Analog Synthesizers
Matthew Davidson is a musician, sound designer, blogger and graphic designer. He’s released a series of free albums of electronic music, including the all Monome Grids and an album of ambient piano works, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty. The Hand That Paused to Gather, below, is an ambient piece recorded yesterday morning before Davidson… Read More Free Ambient Music From Matthew Davidson
This RFID lighting sequencer, by Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibash, uses RFID cards to control lighting and sounds. via Neural
