Dancing With The Weather
This is a release of ambient techno music which took inspiration from Amy Liptrot's memoir "The Outrun". The idea that being out in the natural world and feeling the wind on your face and - dancing with the weather - moving your body in sympathy with wind and clouds and waves- can be such an incredibly revitalising and renewing experience. I obviously needed to push my music in a more organic direction to do that- dancing is a bit like life because it doesn’t have a quantise button. So quantised step time melodies and bass take even more of a back seat here.
That book (and its film adaptation) came to me at just the right time. What I identified with most was being at a crisis point which doesn't miraculously resolve but which you gradually push through over many weeks and months. I saw parallels between my own personal journey from 2024 onwards and that portrayed in "The Outrun".
The beats came from a drum machine I assembled from modules. The drum machine was much more of the chittering/chattering variety with some impressionistic simulation of cold windy environments. The nature of this drum machine was that it sounded and felt very different each time I switched it on- much like the weather, so the windswept beats felt like static recordings of different portable weather systems, moments never to be repeated. This is why during my live performances I tend to play looped samples of it.
One form of narrative which I was keen to explore was to switch between "present day" and past memories. So there are points in the music where there is a lurch towards a sort of style you might have heard on earlier releases - as interludes - at that point in the track I am remembering something.
But another thing that got me inspired from the book was inspiration from the everyday. In Amy Liptrot's case, it was building dry stone wall and counting corncrakes. In mine, it was learning to play the melodic parts live on the keyboard and (hopefully) really tight. It's important to emphasise that the journey wasn't some kind of Herzogian ordeal but all very simple and everyday, with space allowed for the miraculous to occur.
Anyway, I am already working on the follow up as I think that there is more of this story to tell...
Part four feels like it ends on a bit of a cliff hanger...Â
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$5.20Dancing With The Weather
This is a release of ambient techno music which took inspiration from Amy Liptrot's memoir "The Outrun". The idea that being out in the natural world and feeling the wind on your face and - dancing with the weather - moving your body in sympathy with wind and clouds and waves- can be such an incredibly revitalising and renewing experience. I obviously needed to push my music in a more organic direction to do that- dancing is a bit like life because it doesn’t have a quantise button. So quantised step time melodies and bass take even more of a back seat here.
That book (and its film adaptation) came to me at just the right time. What I identified with most was being at a crisis point which doesn't miraculously resolve but which you gradually push through over many weeks and months. I saw parallels between my own personal journey from 2024 onwards and that portrayed in "The Outrun".
The beats came from a drum machine I assembled from modules. The drum machine was much more of the chittering/chattering variety with some impressionistic simulation of cold windy environments. The nature of this drum machine was that it sounded and felt very different each time I switched it on- much like the weather, so the windswept beats felt like static recordings of different portable weather systems, moments never to be repeated. This is why during my live performances I tend to play looped samples of it.
One form of narrative which I was keen to explore was to switch between "present day" and past memories. So there are points in the music where there is a lurch towards a sort of style you might have heard on earlier releases - as interludes - at that point in the track I am remembering something.
But another thing that got me inspired from the book was inspiration from the everyday. In Amy Liptrot's case, it was building dry stone wall and counting corncrakes. In mine, it was learning to play the melodic parts live on the keyboard and (hopefully) really tight. It's important to emphasise that the journey wasn't some kind of Herzogian ordeal but all very simple and everyday, with space allowed for the miraculous to occur.
Anyway, I am already working on the follow up as I think that there is more of this story to tell...
Part four feels like it ends on a bit of a cliff hanger...Â
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This is a release of ambient techno music which took inspiration from Amy Liptrot's memoir "The Outrun". The idea that being out in the natural world and feeling the wind on your face and - dancing with the weather - moving your body in sympathy with wind and clouds and waves- can be such an incredibly revitalising and renewing experience. I obviously needed to push my music in a more organic direction to do that- dancing is a bit like life because it doesn’t have a quantise button. So quantised step time melodies and bass take even more of a back seat here.
That book (and its film adaptation) came to me at just the right time. What I identified with most was being at a crisis point which doesn't miraculously resolve but which you gradually push through over many weeks and months. I saw parallels between my own personal journey from 2024 onwards and that portrayed in "The Outrun".
The beats came from a drum machine I assembled from modules. The drum machine was much more of the chittering/chattering variety with some impressionistic simulation of cold windy environments. The nature of this drum machine was that it sounded and felt very different each time I switched it on- much like the weather, so the windswept beats felt like static recordings of different portable weather systems, moments never to be repeated. This is why during my live performances I tend to play looped samples of it.
One form of narrative which I was keen to explore was to switch between "present day" and past memories. So there are points in the music where there is a lurch towards a sort of style you might have heard on earlier releases - as interludes - at that point in the track I am remembering something.
But another thing that got me inspired from the book was inspiration from the everyday. In Amy Liptrot's case, it was building dry stone wall and counting corncrakes. In mine, it was learning to play the melodic parts live on the keyboard and (hopefully) really tight. It's important to emphasise that the journey wasn't some kind of Herzogian ordeal but all very simple and everyday, with space allowed for the miraculous to occur.
Anyway, I am already working on the follow up as I think that there is more of this story to tell...
Part four feels like it ends on a bit of a cliff hanger...Â
