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Youtube user Saboruchan takes us on a journey through a “virtually untouched” abandoned bowling alley in Haikyo, Japan, that opened in 1973 and closed in 2018. Through the modern miracle of a cc-by-sa-nc Creative Commons license, the scene is soundtracked with “Chasing Flight” off my 2016 record Almost X.
Saboruchan’s affection for the abandoned-in-state space and its lost localised grandeur resonates through the video.…
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music: “Chasing Flight” off my 2016 record Almost X.
Sandro Intervju from Oliver der Nederlanden on Vimeo.
Chasing Flight soundtracks an introspective interview with Swedish actor Sandro Khafor, shot by Oliver der Nederlanden and Magnus Lindkvist. Wish I knew Swedish, but the word for actor, skådespelare, is a sharp looking one.
source track:
Ten more dice rolls. Records don’t so much freeze as liquify time. I’ve lost years to music. Time is the price you pay, however, to alleviate dreams.
Almost X where X = whom, where, what or even why you want to be. Let’s fly this town, through the looking glass, riding our 99th dream into the stars, towards X.…
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PROCESS
I do not own a clock (or any time keeping device) that makes operational noise, so I used a CC-Attribution sample at freesound.org of 4 one-second clock ticks that looped perfectly without any cutting at 120 BPM. This juggled me a bit, since the 60 BPM clock ticks were playing in double-time to be in real-time at half-time to the track time.…
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ambient.drone.guitar
CHAIN
Pigtronix Infinity Looper –Small Sound / Big Sound Sparkle Motion –SS/BS Mini F*ck –Electro-Faustus EF107 Regurgitator (send/receive: tc electronic flashback –Earthquaker Grand Orbiter) –electro-harmonix SuperEgo (send/receive: EQD Arpanoid –Diamond Tremolo) –EQD Afterneath –Strymon blueSky –Line6 Fender Blackface emulator…
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