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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Skye waves / Midnight mariner

18 Dec 2025

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"Scotland has always had a strong pull on my imagination and I've always wanted to visit. This sound file was my first choice from the many offered by Cities & Memory for their Autumn Project. Coincidentally, this past summer, while vacationing with my family in Assateague, Virginia, I made a recording of the ocean shore while standing on the beach. When I began the Autumn Project, I decided to use both as a sort of bridge between my real life in the United States and my imagined life in Scotland.  "Most of the music here was from an ambient piece I came up with during a Sunday morning session a week or two ago. My working title for it was Midnight Mariner. Other sonic elements added for this new piece evoke the bell of a buoy rolling in the waves, the ethereal singing of the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and a muffled, indistinct drum pattern that sounds as if it is being played underwater.  "This submission was composed/assembled on my iPad inside the host software app AUM. I used a variety of iOS instruments and effects singly and in combination, including apps by Klevgrand, Bleass, Baby Audio, Audio Kit, Octachron, Fugue Machine, and Bram Bos. Some mixing was done automatically using MIDI controllers and LFOs, and some manually with a NanoKontrol2.  "Playing throughout the piece are two seashore sound recordings that complement each other nicely. The original sound file from the Isle of Skye is panned slightly left, and a similar sound file recorded while vacationing with my family at the beach in Assateague, Virginia, is panned slightly right." Waves in Elgol, Skye reimagined by daddy fall down.

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