A Sense of Doubt blog post #1861 - Recent Spektrmodules: ambient from Warren Ellis

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1861 - Recent Spektrmodules: ambient from Warren Ellis

A collection of good sounds.

We need it.

Found on Twitter yesterday: Stonehenge under snow, 1947 by Bill Brandt.

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Mar 18, 2020

SPEKTRMODULE 54
Easy Does It
37 minutes and 19 seconds

This is an ambient / haunted music podcast curated by Warren Ellis, who is a writer from England.

I am at @warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com
and
http://warrenellis.ltd & http://orbitaloperations.com

We are #SPEKTRMODULE on social media.

It lives at spkmdl.libsyn.com

1) logotone by Dirty Knobs

2) "Overture No.5" - Marc Ertel (from [Overtures] - http://pitp.bandcamp.com )

3) "time keeps me in her shadow" - Visionary Hours (from Coalescence of Form - http://hiddenvibes.bandcamp.com )

4) "gnbell" - Kemper Norton (from oxland cylinder - http://kempernorton.bandcamp.com )

5) "Future Ghost" - Alphaxone, ProtoU, Onasander (from Shadows of Forgotten Legends - http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com )

6) "Virtual Goddess F.A.E." - Seffi Starshine (from Virtual Goddess - http://houdinimansions.bandcamp.com )

7) "Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Extended Hypersleep Program 4 - City At Night)" - 36 & zakè (from Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel - http://pitp.bandcamp.com )

8) logotone

SPEKTRMODULE - 2003.09

• Beams From a Spiritual Panorama - by AHRKH
• BE ONE - The Tallest Tower - by Laura Cannell
• Secret Essence/Sangwa Dupa - by Nam-Khar
• Sur Chöd - by Nam-Khar
• Perimeter - by Grove of Whispers

LTD

• Kurt Ankeny

• BY FORCE ALONE, Lavie Tidhar

• “Effektology” – Noveller

• A Gift From India

• Sun, 08 Mar 20 16:52:14

SPEKTRMODULE - 2003.15

• Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (complete edition) - by Steve Roach
• Virga I - by Eluvium
• Dispatch from COVID-19 Occupied Tokyo, pt 1 - by //delay(5000);
• Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel - by 36 & zakè
• Beams From a Spiritual Panorama - by AHRKH

SPEKTRMODULE is the header for ambient and other experimental or unusual musics I like.

Ganzeer's workspace.

Very Large Telescope observes exoplanet where it rains iron 

Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web

One of my favourite bits of CASTLEVANIA season 3 - when I decided to go full nuts and poor old Adam Deats got dragged down with me and had to make it work.  And made it work better than I ever imagined.

I haven't looked at most of them, but here's a list of CASTLEVANIA interviews for the curious:

Collider 'Saturday Mourning Cartoons Podcast' - ‘Castlevania’: Warren Ellis & Kevin Kolde on the Psychedelic Horror of Season 3

The Hollywood Reporter - How Warren Ellis and the 'Castlevania' Team Made Season 3 a "Philosophical Journey"

The Verge - Warren Ellis wrote Castlevania season 3 in a ‘rapture of mad power’

Inverse - WHO IS SAINT GERMAIN? CASTLEVANIA SEASON 3'S STRANGEST NEW CHARACTER, EXPLAINED

I09 Gizmodo - How Castlevania Nails the Balance So Many Video Game Adaptations Mess Up

Syfy Wire - CASTLEVANIA CREATORS EXPLAIN SEASON 3'S 'PSYCHEDELIC HORROR' AND BUILDING ON THE GAME

Io9 Gizmodo - Attractively Sad Vampires and Psychedelic Horror: Warren Ellis and Kevin Kolde Lift the Lid on Castlevania's Third Season

Hey look, it's something I said:

I don't really do quotes and forewords any more -- I think this is culled from something I said here? Who knows.  I'm senile -- because I need to preserve my time, but I'm not wrong.

SPEKTRMODULE - 2003.01

• The Tallest Tower  - new digital-only short piece by Laura Cannell
• oxland cylinder - new record by the mighty Kemper Norton, very much in his strong New Weird Britain ambient/experimental/field zone.
• Sur Chöd by Nam-Khar - just one track streaming right now, but it is big cosmic time ritual drone energy.

Some links about writing and writers:

• 'Enough heroin to kill the whole street': does Anna Kavan's life overshadow her fiction? 
• Judging a Book by Its Title: "For two of the three most-browsed books in the Codex test, participants said that the books’ titles, not their graphics, were the strongest factors in prompting them to click the read more buttons."
• 6 Filmmaking Tips from Adam McKay: "McKay described a technique he uses to help tell if a story idea is worth turning into a movie: condensing it into a fairytale (adapting plot points to castles and princesses as necessary) and telling it to his youngest daughter as a bedtime story."
• John Scalzi's tool and programs, 2020
• Julian Simpson on how to juggle projects  

SPEKTRMODULE - 2002.23

• Línia Pedra Paisatge Solc by Edu Comelles -  "Línia / Pedra / Paisatge / Solc (Line, stone, landscape and groove in Catalan) is a sound composition in two parts, based on the skyline that can be seen from the top of the ruins of the castle of Culla, a small village inland of the Castelló province (Eastern Spain). The first piece (Línia / Pedra) is composed based on the skyline between northeast and southwest. The second piece (Paisatge / Solc) has been composed using the skyline between southwest and northeast."
• Coalescence of Form by Visionary Hours - "Visionary Hours is a project of Hayden Berry, a musician from Hebden Bridge, UK that combines the sound of strings, guitar, voice, flute and clarinet, to create slowly-evolving modern classical pieces, full of space and gently revealed micro melodies."
• LGM-1 by HLER - ""When you are listening to the sound of pulsars, you are listening to actual star-size oscillators with the most minimal and longest lasting drones in the whole universe.""
• All around the World - Recorded in India, Gambia, Australia, France and Japan by Oz Fritz - "an audio document of sacred spaces with their acoustic and consciousness altering properties. It is also the creation of new ambient spaces, new realities, through audio collage, juxtaposition and cut-up techniques"
• Anthology of contemporary music from Middle East by Various Artists - "experimental and alternative music from the Middle East and includes artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Afghanistan, Cyprus. A kaleidoscope of sounds by artists rooted in their traditions, but at the same time projected towards the new frontiers of music. "

If you're just joining me and have forgotten why you subscribed: I'm Warren Ellis, author, comics writer, screenwriter, producer, Doctor of the University of Essex, Patron to Humanists UK and writer/creator/ Executive Producer of CASTLEVANIA on Netflix.

Please add 

warrenellis@orbitaloperations.com 

to your address book so I don't keep getting marked as sp7m just for sending you an email with four fucking links in it.

If you enjoy this newsletter, perhaps you'd like to infect your friends with it, by driving them to http://orbitaloperations.com and forcing them to give me their email address.  Forward them your copy of this newsletter to see if they like it.

I post during the week at LTD.

"Be good to yourself.  Might seem hard to do right now, but it's also the most important thing. Just sit for five minutes outside, or at the window, or by a picture, and take that time just for you and some peace. Hold on tight.  See you next week." - Warren Ellis

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