AMBIENCE: Sleep : "Falling, Running, Flying" by Nowhere Near
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"Falling, Running, Flying"
by
Nowhere Near
Streaming ambient dream electro-acoustic music
Uploaded to Dsound specifically for AMBIENCE: The Steemit Music Experience - A DSound Community Initiative dream ambient electro-acoustic ... mostly in the 3. Sleep category ...
Recorded August 19, 2018, "Falling, Running, Flying" is a dream ambient electro-acoustic tone poem depicting the most common hypnagogic sensations and rapid eye movement states ... Though one typically does not experience all three very often and it would be extraordinarily rare to have all three in one night of rest, the composer decided to take the 'most popular' subconscious themes as a unified musical whole in this work.
Violin is played very much mimicking the analog synthesizer that preceded it when building tracks, especially the manual portamento of fretless technique in reference to knob-turning, but also the violin pizzicato in relation to probing the PAiA Gnome ribbon controller towards the end of this recording.
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Thank you, much appreciated, my friend!
The beginning of this track creates the feeling of having a nap in a hammock nearby the sea on a tropical paradise like island....but wait yes, I‘m falling ....something ...a memory mixes with the idyll...no nightmare but it‘s pointing somewhere else just to get the whole picture and elevating the mind. Like those acoustic spaces a lot! :)
Thanks, Jeff. I sadly discovered sometime between making this tune last night and early this afternoon, my 'SIDnth' (chiptune custom hardware) had a serious crash ... I'm thinking/hoping it might be just the power supply burned in the heat of the summer, non-fatal, but it will at least set me back some time in debugging, lost time in the studio with it. I think the ROM is OK, but if not, well at least this piece was a great way for it to go out, after thirty years, perhaps its grand finale! Glad you liked it!
Oh sorry to hear that ....I hope you can resurrect the SIDnth!
I tried replacing the obvious chips, the 6502 CPU, the keypad/display controller (nonsense on the display and unresponsive to hitting the keypad) and even the memory ROM ... I only have a few spares of each left ... But the behavior was consistently wrong despite all the chip swapping ... Fortunately a voltage regulator would be the most common, and still readily available chip(s) to replace ... A dead ROM chip would be the end of this hardware, as I'd need to get a programmer and I don't think they make the 2732's anymore or very hard to get ... but that would be the motivation to start a new multi-year project of porting the whole thing into mostly software to run on a Raspberry Pi ...
Well here in Germany there is still a big DIY C64 community I think....perhaps some people still have those programmers...but for shure a Raspberry Pi Sidnth would offer more possibilities e.g. polyphony....but will this still have the 6581 sound magic? :)
Now that you mention it, probably not, because, at first, doing the sound generation in software would imply moving to 16 bit or even 32 bit wavetables ... Further, I think a big component of the SIDnth sound and the Commodore 64 sound for that matter, is 'aliasing', that is, a with a CPU running at 1MHz, the frequency at which one updates registers becomes a 'harmonic' in the spectrum of the final sound output ... So updating 'SID registers' much further above the audible sound spectrum would naturally remove most of the artifacts that one may subconsciously associate with the SID 8 bit sound.
The end result may be something like a 'Hi-Fi' SID ... I suspect it may sound more like an ARP Odyssey or ARP 2600, A Prophet 5 ... and the virtual SIDnth's Ring Modulator could likely sound more like the Yamaha DX7 classic FM generators ...
Well, I do still have eight SID chips laying around, could make a SID piggyback board for the Raspberry Pi ... but I think I'll want to try the complete SW synth first ... I'm thinking I could also make a virtual PAiA Gnome on the Raspberry Pi, also... such compact HW would be ideal for traveling
The dreamy Ambiance with enough trip just to keep you sonic high. I hear new sounds and a certain clearance I missed in your past tracks. Love the violin towards the end, it sums up the whole vibe very nicely.
Hey ye know what? Talking about something missed in the past ... It must be the Ambient thing here, but I find it easy in that genre to be very conscientious about the tactic you mentioned, that is, giving about -12dB headroom to the stems as one lays them down, then bring whatever up as needed in the final 'mix up', that is ... Does make a difference, indeed. Thanks!
You are more then welcome B.