Soothing Images 31-47
New live generative ambient album out now
Released by BFW recordings 29 February 2012
The third in the series of live, improvised ambient albums based around two interacting and slowly decaying loops.
Another 17 quiet ambient songs - mainly piano and baritone guitar - with 17 accompanying photographs.
How the music is created:
A 16 bar phrase is played.
That phrase is fed into a slowly decaying 16 bar loop, similar to the one used in Twilight Sessions.
That loop is fed into a slowly decaying 6 bar loop which repeats the first loop every 6 bars, so that soon, there are several layers of the original phrase that interact and create new themes and melodies.
They seem to appear from nowhere, but these new melodies are destined to happen as soon as each note is played in the original 16 bar phrase.
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ambient archives
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ambient live / mostly ambient radio sessions
live concert albums
live radio concert albums
collaborations, remixes and production
with Daniel Land
other collaborations
releases under different names
kowalski room
theta wave orchestra
ethereal ephemera
ghost harmonics
the ambient visitor
the lovely moon
blocker
infinity wave
the ambient drones of bill baxter
christmas albums
album in a day
I heard something in the distance - a BFW recordings sampler