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wh119 Akashic Crow’s Nest – Torment of the Metals

C.P. McDill — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:05:44 +0000

Akashic Crow’s Nest ventures into a new stage of transmutation with this soothing alchemy-themed album.

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The sound of Akashic Crow’s Nest begins with the use of an image synthesizer which turns very long photographic images into audio output, in the manner of a piano roll. The initial part of composing this music is thus designing the picture. For this latest project, the first audio output is converted to MIDI and run through a different software synthesizer, before being subjected to a battery of effects to get to the sounds you hear on this album.

Recorded & Produced by C.P. McDill
March, 2009
cover art by Aria Nadii (arianadii.com)

01 Dissolve (00:23:28)
02 Distill (00:07:20)
03 Resolidify (00:36:54)

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wh090 Akashic Crow’s Nest – Poste Restante

C.P. McDill — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:54:16 +0000

C.P. McDill kicks off 2008 with a new release from Akashic Crow’s Nest. Drones, sparkles, shimmers, vague rhythms & melodies carry the listeners on a weird introspective trip. This is good headphone music.

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The recordings of Akashic Crowâs Nest are created by first making a very long thin picture file that functions much like a piano roll, which is then fed into a software synthesizer which reads the picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, and translates the values into tones, adding variables such as loudness and panning based on information in the picture. The output is then treated to various digital effects such as delays and compression to give the final pieces a warmer, ambient quality.

Recorded & Produced
by C.P. McDill
January 2008
00:52:48

01 Humdinger … (09:04)
02 Pocketses … (07:08)
03 Slow Coach … (08:10)
04 Poste Restante … (12:15)
05 Rantipole … (08:01)
06 Subridiculum … (08:10)

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wh078 Akashic Crow’s Nest – Hawk of an Uncanny Nest

C.P. McDill — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:29:41 +0000

Akashic Crow’s Nest’s first regular album release of 2007 continues ACN’s adventures in ambient sound generated from images. The tracks in “Hawk of an Uncanny Nest” explore different mythic ideas of the otherworld. The sound spaces themselves are sculpted to create soothing and transporting experiences for the listener.

01 Antikythera pt 1
02 Limbus Fatuorum
03 Ophiuchus
04 Mournival
05 Telesterion
06 Onion Pennies
07 Manitou
08 Limbus Puerorum
09 Aladdin’s Window
10 The Serpent’s Thumb
11 Antikythera pt 2

The recordings of Akashic Crow’s Nest are created by first making a very long thin picture file that functions much like a piano roll, which is then fed into a software synthesizer which reads the picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, and translates the values into tones, adding variables such as loudness and panning based on information in the picture. The output is then treated to various digital effects such as delays and compression to give the final pieces a warmer, ambient quality.

All tracks recorded and produced by CP McDill
copyright 2007 under a Creative Commons license by-nc-nd 2.5

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wh076 Akashic Crow’s Nest – Rain 2

C.P. McDill — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:22:16 +0000

The second soothing dreamscape by Akashic Crow’s Nest employs ACN’s characteristic generative textures plus additional ambient samples to sculpt a smooth and restful atmosphere to lull the brainwaves into a relaxed state. The ACN sound is distinguished by the use of an image synthesizer (pictures are translated into sounds) to produce most of the auditory elements used in its compositions. Very peculiar but often remarkably musical and uncannily magical.

Rain is a series of conceptual tracks produced for Webbed Hand Records. Each “Rain” is a CD-length ambient recording ideal for quiet listening while meditating, writing, or going to sleep. Typically the recordings in this series are minimalistic soundscapes, with motifs played out cyclically rather than progressively, in order to induce relaxed states.

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Personnel:
C.P. McDill – sound wave manipulations