Music
Pehr Torsten
SOL
A live performance close to the Winter Solstice, a celebration of the return of the Sun. Uses samples of replica historic instruments created as part of the European Music Archaeology Project as well as the reverb heard at the original layout of Stonehenge created from a digital model.
Recorded at Down Tor Stone Circle and Row, Hingston Hill, Dartmoor, Devon - 50.506087, -3.994052
European Music Archaeology Project samples:
Bone Aulos from Paestum and Roman sistrum played by Roberto Stanco.
Clay Horn from Civita Castellana and Calcophone played by Alberto Morelli.
Tintignac Carnyx played by John Kenny.
Lituus with mouthpiece played by Alberto Morelli.
Trichterrandbecher Drums sample by Dr. Simon Wyatt.
Stonehenge reverberation impulse response generated from a digital model of the original construction by Dr Rupert Till.
La Cité Des Sables
In 1930, the explorer Bertram Thomas approached the southern edge of the Rub' al Khali (The Empty Quarter). It was Thomas' ambition to be the first European to cross the great sands. However, as he began his camel journey, his Bedouin escorts told him of a lost city whose people had attracted the wrath of God and were destroyed. Finding no trace of a lost city in the sands, he marked the track that was said to lead to the legendary city on a map, intending to come back and follow it - but was never to return that way again.
Rendlesham Forest
In late December 1980, there were a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, which have become linked with claims of UFO landings. The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the U.S. Air Force. USAF personnel including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Halt claimed to have seen things that they described as a UFO sighting. Nobody can be really sure of what happened that night...
Ozymandias
This track was created with Endlesss, as a loop. The rules for the mix are 'production only, no new recording'. With apologies to Shelley, who didn't have the limit of an Endlesss loop to contend with. Synths are the Roland Gaia SH-01.
You can hear the original Endlesss loop here...
endlesss.fm/pehr-torsten?rifffI…1ee9bd01d6cc8d0e0cc
And there is a video here:
youtu.be/VW8Sc8BbSj8?si=brl_sTk0ojnCLTJF
Sharp Tor
Microperformance 01.2 - Sharp Tor - 50.537180, -4.456376
The first published result from Microperformances session 1, at Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Microperformances are improvised pieces of music that are performed as a one off within an environment. In essence, like an audio postcard of a time and place. A kind of mini-concert captured in a Polaroid of digital waveforms. It doesn't really matter how it is created - it could just be a performer on a beach with a flute.
The performance is also captured with a field recorder and some video equipment. And, part of the point, the sound track is from the field recorder, so not only is the inspiration drawn from the place and time, but the audio is also directly affected by that environment.
There is a video here:
https://youtu.be/PVy_zA032z8?si=sN51PcvV4XRp_298
Refractions - SOL Granular Synth Demo
This track is produced only using presents included in my SOL Decent Sampler instrument, with no additional effects. The instrument uses 40 days of solar radar data measuring changes in the sun's surface. This was sped up 42,000 times to bring it into the audible range. I loaded two of these data sets into Steinberg's Padshop, tuned them to a musical note and used granular synthesis to create deeply textural endless morphing waveforms.
The Michelson Doppler Imager satellite data prepared by A. Kosovichev, Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.
This synth was originally created for the SOL Microperformance here: youtu.be/JbJ4uieyiMo?si=5--hkvAlLorYEK14
You can download the synth here: www.decentsamples.com/product/sol-so…-pehr-torsten/
When the winds blow from the South West, bringing rain from the rolling sea with the tang of Atlantic salt spray across the Cornish coast, come the Storm Machines.
Sometimes thunderous, often with an echo of the Bristol sound revealing the shared acoustic heritage of a pair of Drum and Bass DJ/Producers allied with a modulating guitarist.
Swirling, looping phasing soundscapes of beat driven off beat poetry brought to you via Tanzania, Manchester, Windmill Hill and the Cheesewring.
Against this varied sonic palette the highly tempered word smithing forges a message for our time, their time and the timeless.
