shining sound of sedna
posted by brock | April 5, 2010
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IcerocketThese are my tunes!
while this may fall under the category of shameful self-promotion, it is also a gesture of shameless other-devotion, since it is free, creative-commons material, which means you may enjoy it, use it, remix, and/or repurpose it as you see fit.
I just want to share.
A bit about this music: back in the winter of 2003, a new planet was discovered far outside the orbit of Pluto, which was eventually named Sedna. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
I’m fascinated by astronomy, and at the time I was also going through a time of profound depression and personal isolation. One way I dealt with it was developing an elaborate fantasy of moving to Sedna, and what life would be like as the sole inhabitant (yes, I am pretty strange).
This music project is a direct outgrowth of that… Emotionally, I kind of see it as my will to live coming out in music… joyous and intense. at least after I wrote it, that’s just what it seemed like to me.
Comments
Sedna!
— Apr 07, 2010
I confess I haven't listened to the tracks yet as my mobile broadband is strangled between 4pm and midnight due to overuse (roll on proper broadband any day now!) but I smiled when I read your post.
I remember being enamoured of Sedna when it was first announced, and I imagined it as Barbelith, from Grant Morrison's Invisibles, coming around in time for 2012 :)
Just googled barbelith...
— Apr 07, 2010
...very cool! hope you like the tunes... that's what's fun about this, is finding all these unlikely things from everyone here :)
Righteous!
— Apr 08, 2010
Kinda reminds me of Aphex Twin a little for some reason...How long have you been doing this?
My tracks reside on soundcloud... I think I'll bloggem! This is a great idea! Are you on soundcloud? Such a great website...
I like your stuff a lot...
— Apr 08, 2010
...especially the dub, very dense, but serene. I started trying to write electronica about 10 years ago, but it wasn't until depression forced me to sit in my apartment all by myself that I really worked at it much... I went over and over some of these tracks... your mixes are really good, I kind of struggle with that. My approach is to assign each voice a discrete frequency range (mostly) and use a lot of auto-panning and stereo widening.
I love how on soundcloud they let people comment on specific points on the track... I will definitely see about uploading there. have you ever checked out www.stillstream.com ? They are a nonprofit radio that focuses on the most drone-y spaced-out, and experimental forms of ambient, which I love. They introduced me to this genre called 'longform ambient' where tracks are incredibly stretched out to 40-90 minutes of slow development. love that stuff.
this is great...
— Apr 11, 2010
i look forward to listening to your music...and i think sharing and promoting are key in human growth...music is a profound medium for connecting beings :)
