Bing Satellites on the web:

All my music is available to download for free.
Albums on bandcamp are pay-what-you-like downloads (free if you wish).

Bing Satellites is a prolific ambient shoegaze musician and producer from Manchester, UK.

He also hosts a radio show on rebelradio.fm and makes music under the guises of
the lovely moon,
the ambient visitor
and Blocker.

All music released under a Creative Commons license.

Bing Satellites news and releases

riverrun - live

I will be performing as part of riverrun, Sunday, 18th March 2012. Tickets on sale now.

Tickets and more info: facebook.com/events/332686616762449

Great news! I will be performing as part of Daniel Land's ambient project riverrun on Sunday, 18th March 2012 at St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

There will be music from Wil Bolton, Pimmon and riverrun, as well as a film by Antonymes.

Tickets are £5 in advance from store.hibernate-recs.co.uk and include a free exclusive tour CD from Pimmon plus a tea or coffee and biscuits on arrival.

There is a map showing the beautiful church, HERE.

You can find more info on facebook at facebook.com/events/332686616762449

Expect to hear something along the lines of this - danielland.bandcamp.com/album/pentimento

This should be a pretty spectacular ambient evening set in a beautiful venue.
I hope to see you there.

the ambient visitor - six

New deep and mysterious ambient album out now!

Released by the ambient visitor 12 January 2012

The latest release from my ambient side project, the ambient visitor.

A continuous, 50 minute piece split into six parts.

Though slowly evolving and spacious, this is probably the brightest sounding so far.

Play it quietly in the background or put on your headphones and emerse yourself in the music.

The music is generative:
each note is played in a long loop, the length of each loop if different for each note, so although the music may seem to vary only slightly, it never quite repeats itself.

Again, the songs titles are named after Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) - small planetoids and other objects in our solar system whose orbits are on average greater than that of Neptune. These objects are in turn named after characters from Greek and Pacific island mythology.

Happy New Year to you all!

Well, 2011 was a very busy year for me. I said I would release something new every month. I did and then some. (more details HERE)

2012 is also going to be a busy year. I'm not going to say that I will release something new every month, but I probably will!

Already waiting in the wings are three new albums from my ambient side project the ambient visitor, entitled six, seven and eight, due out in January, February and March.

I have two new experimental ambient EPs ready, namely High Fidelity (due to be released later this moth by Italian netlabel Laverna) and The Dream, as well as the third Soothing Images album and the tenth volume of Twilight Sessions.

I will also be broadcasting live improvised performances throughout the year. More details about that soon.

A big thank you to everyone who has supported my music.

I wish you all a happy and fruitful 2012.

Twilight Sessions volume 9

New live ambient album out now - free download!

Released by Free Floating 24 November 2011

The ninth album in the Twilight Sessions series
and the second to be released by the rather wonderful netlabel Free Floating.

The music on this album was recorded in June and July 2011.

Each piece starts as a blank canvas.

I have an evolving set of preselected sounds on the computer - maybe a dozen or so - altered pianos, lush strings and synths. I make this sounds flexible so I can change them as I play. As well as these, I can add notes from various real, usually heavily processed instruments, such as clarinet, fretless bass, guitar and voice.

The music is played into a long, slowly decaying loop.

These loops are quite long (often around 90 seconds or more) and with very little rhythm to speak of, it is difficult to know precisely where I am in the loop, so I can add notes and sounds where I see fit, but can never know exactly what I am adding these notes to. Therefore, it must be said that although I am the one making these sounds and creating this music, much of it is down to serendipity.

Recent news

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The Ambient Visitor - Five - peaceful, spacey ambient music from another project of mine

Bing Satellites - Mostly Ambient Radio Sessions - improvised ambient music performed on my short-lived radio show

The Lovely Moon - Mostly Ambient Radio Sessions - live versions of songs from my ambient side project

The Lovely Moon - Figures On The Beach - the very chilled new album from my ambient side project