An old #guitar in a new tuning. (I should do some fret leveling and dressing, and clamp down that rattling pick guard,) F#m7 tuning is an interesting experiment; not sure how long it'll last on this guitar, though. https://weeklybeats.com/onezero/music/prominent-spider
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Prominent Spider
A week or so ago, I found a tuning I'd written down, though I don't remember where I'd encountered it or when. This one's E F# C# E F# A. It's sonorous, though the string intervals are fairly close, so there are a lot of unisons that pop up under one's hand. On impulse, I retuned my old Kalamazoo KG-2 to use this tuning, and we have a little exploration of it here.
The Kalamazoo needs some fret attention: you'll hear buzzing notes, and buzz from the not-entirely-stabilized fretboard. (That results in a kind of quack in a couple places.) It's just an honest statement of this instrument at this time.
Signal chain: Kalamazoo KG-2 through JHS Colourbox 10, into Ableton Live. There's some convolution reverb send, and multiband compression/EQ on the stereo mix.
The title comes from The Spider, a summit in Colorado with a prominence of 638 ft.
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"Through the Quiet Forest" is a calm and peaceful melodic instrumental piece that blends pop and elements of ambient music to create a calm and peaceful atmosphere.
"Through The Quiet Forest" in HD on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/pX9pzIGInZ8
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https://youtu.be/pX9pzIGInZ8 Monday's 299th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream is now out, with the guitar sounding like flutes, brass, and reeds. Let your ears move slowly. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-299
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music at a distance 299, by snwv
7 track album
This week's composition, all #guitar, slow, gentle, and...maybe a bit too I-IV-V in the main melodic theme? There are some lush sections, and perhaps some sweetness as well.
https://weeklybeats.com/onezero/music/lost-river
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Lost River
Three tracks of PureSalem Mendiola in standard tuning, no pedals. (The both-pickups channel probably could have used some JHS Colourbox, but I didn't patch it in.) There's a touch of send to a convolution reverb and the usual multiband compression/eq effect rack on the stereo mix.
I started this one with the first melody you hear, around the 12th fret, thinking I could shake things up a bit, and then realized it's in E, and had a strong pull to being I-IV-V. Oh well. I'm pretty sure I've used that one three-note motif before. Too trite? It's what I had this week, so in it goes: probably better to go with a more insistent melody rather than something that avoids it.
The title comes from the 637ft. elevation of Lost River, IN.
Monday's #ambient #MoogGuitar #improv is now up, featuring long, slow pieces, sounding a bit like a Morton Feldman piece with singing bowls. (But it's #guitar.) If you need something that moves slowly, it's $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-298
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music at a distance 298, by snwv
6 track album
This week’s composition keeps with the guitar-only approach, indulging in a few harmonized melody lines (as I tend to do). There’s a bit of emotional content in places. https://weeklybeats.com/onezero/music/little-bend
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Little Bend
Friday night's tracking session brought up a couple parts that remain (0:41-1:25, 1:46-2:08), but there wasn't a hook until a second tracking session Saturday night resulted in harmonized melody lines over a chord progression. I'm kind of a sucker for that.
PureSalem Mendiola through JHS Colourbox into the UA Volt. A bit of convolution reverb, and multiband compression/eq. Unlike last week, this one's actually stereo.
The title comes from the meaning of Lúbán, a 636m peak in Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobawn
Monday's #ambient #pedalSteel session is now out, exploring calmness as a radical act, and two pieces in particular (3 & 7) bringing it in inverse ways. I really got where I wanted to get on this one. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-297
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music at a distance 297, by snwv
7 track album
This week’s composition moves between dissonance and consonance, assertive 4/4 and more reflective 3/4 against 5/4. A few different moods from the open-tuned Univox.
https://weeklybeats.com/onezero/music/great-blue-hill
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Great Blue Hill
For this one, I'd thought to use the $60 Univox in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning, and recorded some quiet, sparse things on Friday evening. By Saturday morning, though, world events had me thinking that quiet and sparse wasn't the way to respond to the moment, so we have a more aggressive intro with a discordant tritone in there. By Sunday, the music seemed to want to do something different, so we have some 3/4 sections (one of which has a line that's in 5/4), and which is more consonant.
For this one, the Univox Coily is going straight into the UA Volt. There's convolution reverb send from each channel, and the usual compression/eq on the stereo mix.
The title comes from Great Blue Hill outside Boston, which has an elevation of 635 ft.
Does it matter how I respond to world events with these little pieces? No. But I'm a person, and I have responses to the things around me. For more meaningful responses, well, let's look for ways in which we can make things better.
Just out, here's my #ambient #guitar set from this past weekend's #prf Thundersnow. A long piece moving from intervals and notes to sustain and modulated tones...with a bonus half-speed version. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/thundersnow-2026
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Thundersnow 2026, by snwv
2 track album
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Rudolf Steiners Project