Cuba Illinois is the last track on Precambrian Resonance. I produced this experimental ambient piece last September and have made very few changes from the first version that can be heard in the original Audio Cookbook post titled Cuba, Illinois. A consistent thread through piece is made up of sampled vowels sounds running through a vocoder. Here’s the full-length mastered preview on Last.fm.
Listen to Cuba Illinois on Last.fm.
Blitzen Machine is one of the first tracks that I finished for Precambrian Resonance, and one of the few that includes a keyboard solo, although I’d describe the solo as melodic passages with improvised variations.
Regular ACB listeners might hear sounds that were originally One Sound Every Day entries, like AM Radio Static. I also included techniques that I described in Robot Music and in Robot Conspiracy as a basis for the track. For this album I essentially have an online diary that describes how each of the pieces were produced, the concepts involved, and sounds used right here on Audio Cookbook.
Listen to Blitzen Machine on Last.fm.
Unearthed Music has made all of Precambrian Resonance available as full-length 128kbps MP3 previews on Unearthed Music. The entire album is also streaming on last.fm. Here’s track eight, Hamamatsu No. G210. You might remember a rough mix of it from an earlier entry, which revealed how the title came about, and mentioned a release date of March 24, 2009. So, technically I’m four months late on this project. Although negotiating postponement was not an issue, since I’m a label partner. In any case, it’s done and I’m happy with the results.
Hamamatsu No. G210
Although it looks as though I just mashed the keyboard with the capslock on, the title of this entry is an acronym for “Yet Another Pre[C]ambrian Resonance Track Preview”. In just twelve days Precambrian Resonance will be released and I will have posted 365 daily sounds on AudioCookbook.org. This piece, titled Forgetten Complex, is a bit of a departure from the earlier examples posted for preview. It was originally exhibited on ACB, and rather than a percussion driven piece Forgotten Complex relies on ambient Rhodes and other processed sound effects to create the lonely atmosphere of an abandoned warehouse.
Forgotten Complex
As promised, Unearthed Music has made a few more tracks from my upcoming album, Precambrian Resonance, available as full-length 128kbps MP3 previews on the UEM website. The tracks with previews available include Illuminator Console, Three Phase Oscillator, Travel Glide, Filtered Synth Drums, Chlorobenzine Mistfall, Blitzen Machine, and Cuba Illinois. Please visit the Precambrian Resonance page on Unearthed Music to listen. Also, it looks like advance downloads are available and getting emailed immediately. Here’s Travel Glide.
Travel Glide