Ouroboros Sounds

Samples and examples (2006):

• set one
• set two
• set three
• set five
• set six

Samples of a More Recent Vintage:

• Doo Wow Saunter
• Sample - 13 seconds.
• Tuba Distort - the mixer gain was set quite high, overdriving the most of the set into clippage.
• Indignant Whales - 9min17sec.
• Elegy - 17min28sec. Starts out a bit jarring, but then morphs into quiet reflective ambience.
• Martian Ice Floes - 18min49sec.
• The Face of the Waters - 16min34sec
• Walking With Belgrand - 19min19sec
• Circus of the Rat Catchers - 10min55sec
• didjwalk - 19min43sec
• Whales At the Event Horizon - 15min01sec

2 August 2007:

• Dawn Chorus - 13min7sec
• Chaos - 9min58sec
• Walking with Belgrand, Part Two: The Phantom of the Sewers - 10min2sec
• Meander - 10min2sec

23 September 2007:

• Roaming the Outer Dark - 13min18sec - Ominous drone suitable for discovering aliens in derelict spaceships.
• Rattles and Echoes - 13min13sec - Blips and random noises with telemetry.

14 October 2007:

• The Return of Hastur - 15min47sec - the faintly trembling step of some gigantic creature vibrating all through the house.... (from "The Return of Hastur", by August W. Derleth)
• Dreamlands at Dusk - 23min20sec - Long, placid, slow, whimsical.
• Azathoth Approach - 16min21sec - Chaos building to overpowering.

• Komm Susser Tod - 25min23sec - Bach, droned and harshly processed.
• Frenetic Lullaby - 17min10sec - Jangly, yet soothing.

• Return to the Martian Ice Floes - 20min13sec - Shifting sonority.
• Down In the Engine Room - 22min32sec - Mechanical clanking and ratcheting with accretions of rapidly layering whirs and burbles.

• Dawn Chorus - 15min46sec - Minimal effects, almost exclusively looping and layering.
• Fractured Caravan - 12min16sec - There's this Clive Barker short story about a procession of monsters that this piece reminded me of when listening in playback.
• VLF Array in the Bat Colony - 19min00sec - Glitches and glops and clear tones echoing in the dark.

• Lullaby for the Swamp By An Array of Foghorns - 14min35sec - Moog bass MuRF as an impromptu highpass filter.

• Threshing With Blake - 13min23sec - Grinding grain in dark mills.
• Storm Buoy - 15min05sec - Staying afloat.
• Wandering - 25min37sec - A long soundscape with significant amounts of silence.

• uneven rails and barbed wire - 13min28sec
• Let Sleeping Giants Lie - 16min38sec

• Book Two - 16min25sec
• Orbital Recycling Station - 19min40sec
• Djembe of Poseidon - 15min48sec

• Exploration 1 - 16min01sec
• Exploration 2a - 6min33sec
• Exploration 2b - 10min50sec

• scaleprecessing - 21min06sec
• visiscalar - 15min19sec

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Thanks,
Steve

Last update: 12 May 2009