I’ve been working more on some of the electronic drones that Andrey Sadovnikov of Faria Recs sent through a while back. It’s developing into an interesting process of periodically working on these sounds and then finally being able to recognise what is actually there, as opposed what I think I’d like to be there. Anyway, the resulting pieces are coming out quite heavy and, somehow desolate to my ears.

On this latest piece, I’ve used some sections of the electricity pylon recordings that I made over the Winter, combined with use of sharp edits, kind of sonic depth of field changes.

After a couple of recent conversations and references to binaural beats (as distinct from binaural audio, of course) and their potential influence on ones mental state, I’m researching more into this phenomenon for future audio work. Back in the 90’s, TUU were pretty heavy meditators, so much of our output of that time was pretty suffused with Theta brainwaves, but the intrigue of binaural beats is more connected with their use as triggers for out of body experiences. This might be a good time to break out my old mono-synths from their place in the dark corners of my studio, but I’ve also come across a dedicated piece of binaural software, called Gnaural which looks like it might be good for some tuning experiments.

Anyway, here’s an extract of the latest drone-work.

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