Microscopics

New music from High Skies, The World Forgotten.
Music specially written for the Silk experience, which you can visit to hear the music in full.
Eight minutes of ballerina-like pure analogue synths, gentle soundwaves lapping over the tape echo. Equipment used: Roland Space Echo, Roland Jupiter 6, ARP Odyssey and the Akai S612 vintage sampler. No MIDI.
Available now [...]

Silk, a new High Skies project with programmer and creator Yuri Vishnevsky.
It’s based on our iPad app of the same name, but has been updated and is available for your browser. It’s still in beta and uses experimental HTML5 code so it won’t work on all browsers, but I can confirm it does work on [...]

A mini video of a super-massive coronal mass ejection, travelling at 900 miles per second. The Earth would be about the same size as the smallest feature you can see on the Sun’s surface, or about 1/100th the diameter of the Sun.

Images were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, August 2012.
Music by High Skies.
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Brand new High Skies remix of the classic Fury Phreaks track, Soothe (feat Terra Deva and Charles Webster)

Only ARP Odyssey, voice and Roland Space Echo.
The video is an animation of all the frequency dynamics in the music, the colours being the intensities of the frequencies. It’s available in 4k resolution if you view in full screen (set [...]

Osmos 2 has been released for iOS and is a free update.
Introducing multiplayer and iPad retina support.
And for this weekend you can play against the devs (until our batteries run out). I’ll add all the Game Center names here as things progress.
I am =  OsmosDev_Mat
Dave Burke = OsmosDev_Dave
Andy Nealen = OsmosDev_Andy
MULTIPLAYER:

Play against your friends (and [...]

Woob has a great new EP out and we have ten copies to give away;
simply add a comment to this post to win. There’s a brilliant timelapse video to accompany Paradigm Flux made with Photographer Samuel Cockedey. We also took the opportunity for a quick interview with them both.
 
inter // states, video by Samuel Cockedey, music [...]

These are the three people Paul Frankland (Woob) drew out of the random hat generator; all receive a digital copy (MP3/ Flac) of his great new Woob album, Repurpose…
Martin Culen
Varun
Victor
Many thanks to Paul F and everyone who entered, congratulations to the winners / better luck next month when we’ll have another free CD draw from Plague Recordings.
Now preview and [...]

My former Emit label-mate Paul Frankland has a new Woob album for you, and it’s a classic.
We have three copies (MP3 + Flac) to give away; just add a comment below to win. (No email addresses will be kept)
Six tracks of ambient clouds, lush strings and Commodore 64. Film length scores ranging from four to [...]

Part II of my interview with Paul Frankland (Woob) on his Season 9 blog, where we talk about future work, future synthesis, favourite gear and recording Gas 0095.
High Skies – Sounds of Earth by  microscopics
Part I of our previous interview is here…
Read the interview Part II…
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My former Emit label-mate Paul Frankland has a new Woob album for you, and it’s a classic.
Six tracks of ambient clouds, lush strings and Nintendo tones. Film length scores ranging from four to nineteen minutes, and seventy in total.

Repurpose
Nylon (free)
Giant Stroke (extended)
Stranger Air
Departure
85-bit

Buy it now, because it’s a great album and to help guarantee there will [...]