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a twinkling light in the void (the pulsar suite one)

By neon liminal on November 24, 2024 5:52 am

Six weeks to go, came far too quickly - at the same time, I'm pretty burnt out!

I recently acquired a new pink friend, a SOMALabs Pulsar-23, and it's both amazing and overwhelming, but mostly amazing. I can't believe how good this thing sounds. And the learning curve is deep, but it takes very little to get inspiring sounds out of this thing, so I plan to learn it, deal with being burnt out, and make some fairly relaxed music for the next five weeks.

And thus begins The Pulsar Suite - a five part suite of ambient space music, with a little narrative along the way. This week began with a twinkling light in the black of the Coal Sack nebula, the tides of a stellar wind, and a voice in the dark. I'm working from my modular setup, with the Subharmonicon on main droney chords, some piano from Wavestate running through Morphagene and Mimeophon, and the Pulsar-23 creating some heartbeats in the dark (with effects from the modular). I didn't actually sequence anything this time - setup the signal paths, improvised the performance. Voices and some extra sparkled added after some heavy edits in Ableton.

The remaining parts will probably all centre around the modular but we're gonna bring in some other friends, like my Lyra8, who hasn't had a chance to play with his new pink friend yet, and maybe even dust off the Hydrasynth.

And then the last week of WB I'll hopefully make something special.

Anyway, it's been a hell of a ride this year - I hope you enjoy this one.

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excited to join you on your pulsar journey! I just looked it up, definitely looks intimidating. The voice sample at the end is such a cool touch. Very cinematic and moving.

absolutely levitating over here

I am looking forward to listen to the other pulsar suites to come. This track sounds really fantastic. The voice speaking to me was a great surprise at the end.

i can hear you

If we rewind a few decades, I used to spend some time listening to music in a walk in closet with friends because we were uh… let’s say weird.

This is some eyes closed, brain melted, sitting in the closet music all day. Absolutely beautiful and just teleports me away.

I can also hear you. Although that part scared the hell out of me hahhahaha

jwh wrote:

absolutely levitating over here


100% this (it also helps that I'm currently on a plane, so also literally levitating in a sense, too, hahahaha)

Super pretty, I'm. Very excited to hear the rest of this suite. WB has shown me that, contrary to my prior belief, I actually really enjoy ambient stuff! Getting exposed to great pieces like these really helped introduce me to the whole feel of it.

I'm SOOOO down for this ride... oh man... this is just lovely... feels like it could be score for Scavengers Reign... so expansive and tense and introspective... I could listen to this all day... totally lost in it.   

... oh ohh... or the score for To Be Taught, If Fortunate (should it ever be made into a movie)... this track is so exactly how that book made me feel. 

God damn...that is a wonderful track.  There is so much movement behind the stillness of the piano, it feels like a beginning.  There is a sound at around 2.05 and again around 2.45 that made me think alarms in a cargo bay hold, momentarily grounding the music before it takes off again.  I can't wait to hear how this all plays out.

So excited when I saw you were planning a suite. So much iof your music has had an epic sweep like that, and I’m looking forward to seeing where you take it in a grand scale.

This track is such a beautiful launch. Those first piano notes against the drone…not sure what it was about it, but there was a tension to that start that was palpable. Loved how this track grew from that simple beginning into such a lush soundscape. Absolutely masterful.

Oh…that voice at the end. Oh wow. Emotional impact of that left a crater. The perfect touch.

I cannot wait to hear where you take this next.  Beautiful.

Great soundscape, I'm drifting in it, just right. Pulsar sounds great, looking forward to hearing you next creations with the friends.

That is some envious hardware, glad we get to hear the friends meet up in the coming weeks.  This is a stellar track, love the sounds you have crafted here, will definitely give repeated listening.

oooooooooooooh yikes the pulsar sounds great! The gritty pad with the piano is pure ear candy for me ooof! Such a soothing melody to drift away with.  Ooof the voice with the piano at the end heart  Beautiful track that totally hit in the chest.  Felt like I was watching a space adventure like the Last Starfighter but with the weight of Carl Sagan's Cosmos smile  Faved and saved.  Excited for da space music!

SQF wrote:

excited to join you on your pulsar journey! I just looked it up, definitely looks intimidating. The voice sample at the end is such a cool touch. Very cinematic and moving.

Thank you! The Pulsar-23 has been something I wanted for years, finally managed to snag one as an early bday present lol. It's less intimidating than it looks! And sounds amazing.

jwh wrote:

absolutely levitating over here


jwh wrote:

i can hear you

A number of people apparently replied audibly, as if someone was in the room interrupting, and I'm amused and also a little worried I've scared a lot of people lol heart

Q-Rosh wrote:

I am looking forward to listen to the other pulsar suites to come. This track sounds really fantastic. The voice speaking to me was a great surprise at the end.

Thank you!

jbarket wrote:

If we rewind a few decades, I used to spend some time listening to music in a walk in closet with friends because we were uh… let’s say weird.

This is some eyes closed, brain melted, sitting in the closet music all day. Absolutely beautiful and just teleports me away.

I can also hear you. Although that part scared the hell out of me hahhahaha

This is my kind of weird. Hilariously, in high school I took a few years of photography classes, and we spent a lot of time in the blackroom processing film and listening to Pink Floyd. So yeah, right weird with you lol. And see above re: scaring people lol.

jegasus wrote:
jwh wrote:

absolutely levitating over here


100% this (it also helps that I'm currently on a plane, so also literally levitating in a sense, too, hahahaha)

Super pretty, I'm. Very excited to hear the rest of this suite. WB has shown me that, contrary to my prior belief, I actually really enjoy ambient stuff! Getting exposed to great pieces like these really helped introduce me to the whole feel of it.

I have had the same experience! I've heard so much music I would have never listened to otherwise and fallen in love. WB has been an amazing world-opening experience.

Napear wrote:

I'm SOOOO down for this ride... oh man... this is just lovely... feels like it could be score for Scavengers Reign... so expansive and tense and introspective... I could listen to this all day... totally lost in it.

Napear wrote:

... oh ohh... or the score for To Be Taught, If Fortunate (should it ever be made into a movie)... this track is so exactly how that book made me feel.

Thank you! I'm flattered. I need to weasel my way into more soundtrack work lol. And looked up those titles for reference too, thank you lol

lament.config wrote:

God damn...that is a wonderful track.  There is so much movement behind the stillness of the piano, it feels like a beginning.  There is a sound at around 2.05 and again around 2.45 that made me think alarms in a cargo bay hold, momentarily grounding the music before it takes off again.  I can't wait to hear how this all plays out.

Thank you! There's all these great incidental sounds that came through in there that really became something I wasn't anticipating - it's like wrangling a strange organic being made of sound, and sometimes it makes monsters.

Paisleyfrog wrote:

So excited when I saw you were planning a suite. So much iof your music has had an epic sweep like that, and I’m looking forward to seeing where you take it in a grand scale.

This track is such a beautiful launch. Those first piano notes against the drone…not sure what it was about it, but there was a tension to that start that was palpable. Loved how this track grew from that simple beginning into such a lush soundscape. Absolutely masterful.

Oh…that voice at the end. Oh wow. Emotional impact of that left a crater. The perfect touch.

I cannot wait to hear where you take this next.  Beautiful.

Thank you heart heart heart I hope you were able to crawl out of the emotional impact crater. I kinda love that image lol.

miraclemiles wrote:

Great soundscape, I'm drifting in it, just right. Pulsar sounds great, looking forward to hearing you next creations with the friends.

Thank you!

Jason Nijjer wrote:

That is some envious hardware, glad we get to hear the friends meet up in the coming weeks.  This is a stellar track, love the sounds you have crafted here, will definitely give repeated listening.

Thank you! Yeah I am a feeling a little spoiled right now but every piece of gear I've ever acquired has usually come after a couple years of torturing myself with indecision and self-doubt lol, so I'm feeling good that they're helping me make something awesome, if I do say so myself.

Tone Matrix wrote:

oooooooooooooh yikes the pulsar sounds great! The gritty pad with the piano is pure ear candy for me ooof! Such a soothing melody to drift away with.  Ooof the voice with the piano at the end heart  Beautiful track that totally hit in the chest.  Felt like I was watching a space adventure like the Last Starfighter but with the weight of Carl Sagan's Cosmos smile  Faved and saved.  Excited for da space music!

Thank you! And thank you for some wonderful 80s references you are speaking right to my withered childhood heart lol. I'm excited too heart

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