Falling Drones

Ambient/drone. Storms, collapse, and the longing to live aligned with nature. Debut album Pressure Drop out Nov 6.

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I filmed this one summer night, mesmerized by the distant thunder.

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I'm super excited to announce that my debut album Pressure Drop is out now!

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Pressure Drop lands tomorrow

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This Friday!

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@pmullr I am working on my 2nd album and it features lots of imagery of radio communication. I didn't know FM Protocol but now I am hooked for more. Thank you for sharing.

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Only one more week to go until Pressure Drop is live!

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10 days until Pressure Drop

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My debut album Pressure Drop is out November 6th. Four tracks are already streaming on Bandcamp.

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On the album, this track is the moment right after the storm ends: the violence is still there, literally fused into the ground, but it's also the start of new growth. A fulgurite and a root system are the same shape.

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Have you ever seen a fulgurite? It's molten sand when lightning strikes sandy ground: the heat fuses the sand into glass, following the exact branching path the bolt took underground. They are long, root-shaped tubes of natural glass.

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The track "Falling Drones" picks up exactly where "Chikhai Bardo" leaves off in mid-fall. It's built from a real moment I had: I lied in the park at night with my eyes closed, I was not really present. Then suddenly surfacing, inhaling, eyes open, a bright night sky overhead.

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That jolt back into reality is the shape of the whole track: heavenly and falling at the same time. Underneath it lies a slow heartbeat, like something's trying to bring you back.

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The track "Falling Drones" picks up exactly where "Chikhai Bardo" leaves off in mid-fall. It's built from a real moment I had: I lied in the park at night with my eyes closed, I was not really present. Then suddenly surfacing, inhaling, eyes open, a bright night sky overhead.

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The chord underneath "Chikhai Bardo" is an F augmented. 3 notes (F, A, C#), each a major third apart, splitting the octave into 3 equal parts.
Because of that symmetry, it has no true root. You can call it F aug, A aug, or C# aug & be equally right.
It has no home.
#musicTheory

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I reached the point where I am just listening to noise on shortwave radio listening for disrupting patterns

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The chord underneath "Chikhai Bardo" is an F augmented. 3 notes (F, A, C#), each a major third apart, splitting the octave into 3 equal parts.
Because of that symmetry, it has no true root. You can call it F aug, A aug, or C# aug & be equally right.
It has no home.
#musicTheory

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"Chickhai Bardo" is named after the first of three intermediate states in Tibetan Buddhist belief: the bardo of the moment of death.

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Distant bells ring like a funeral rite and a wooden mechanism turns underneath everything (the wheel of samsara, slowly turning), and at the very end a wooden rollercoaster begins its fall. It's quiet at first, then falling straight into the next track.

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"Chickhai Bardo" is named after the first of three intermediate states in Tibetan Buddhist belief: the bardo of the moment of death.

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"Lignin Formation" is named for lignin which is rigid polymer that reinforces plant cell walls and is what makes wood, wood. Trees produce more of it under mechanical stress: wind, load, being pushed and pulled.

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The track tries to sound like that from the inside: a fast, monotone bass line under constant pressure, gradually thickening, until it settles into something steadier than it started.

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"Lignin Formation" is named for lignin which is rigid polymer that reinforces plant cell walls and is what makes wood, wood. Trees produce more of it under mechanical stress: wind, load, being pushed and pulled.

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"Cumulonimbus" is inspired from a moment in The Utility Room I, and many others, lived: a chapter called "The Run", where a Watcher, a floating Moai head, slowly approaches as you cross a valley, then ends up floating directly above your head.

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Structurally, that's what a tree is doing during a storm, it is reacting to strain by building a stronger version of itself.