Released: December 29, 2017
Two long winding tracks, which are mirror images of each other, each give a different perspective on the same pieces of music, both clocking in at 28:44.
Named after the French Legion of Honour, and the tracks named after the order’s motto: “Honneur et Patrie” (“Honour and Fatherland”).
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On March 1 of this year, I released “melatoninone“.
As promised, it was the first in a series of long-form dreamscapes. Here is the follow up.
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I am pleased to announce, that I am officially releasing my latest long form ambient album out to the world, Atchafalaya.
Atchafalaya
Released: May 14, 2017
I recently took a trip down to New Orleans with my fiancée, and got to experience the city in a whole new light than I have before. It was a wonderful trip, and we had an amazing time. While I was there, I brought along my travel recorder and gear, and captured sounds inside and outside of the city. On our trip we visited The Singing Oak in City Park, Jackson Square, the swamps at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, rode the streetcars down and back on St. Charles Avenue, to name a few things… but those sounds below are what make up this hour long slow and wandering journey through NOLA and surrounding environments, just as it was on “New Orleans Time”.
The name itself comes from not only one of the amazing restaurants we ate at while we were there, but also the Atchafalaya River. While we did not visit the River on the trip, it provides more of a Southern Louisiana feel to this track, because all of the sounds captured were from both inside and outside of the city.
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Atchafalaya will be available soon from all major digital media outlets such as iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play, and more.
On March 1 of this year, I released “melatoninone“.
As promised, it was the first in a series of long-form dreamscapes, here is a 10-ish minute sample of the next release in the series, “melatonintwo” which is up on SoundCloud under my “Works in Progress / Rough Drafts” playlist.
As per usual, let me know what you think!
I recently took a trip down to New Orleans with my Fiancé, and got to experience the city in a whole new light than I have before. It was a wonderful trip, and we had an amazing time.
We did a couple of things while we were there:
The Singing Oak easily became my new favorite place in New Orleans. Also, while I was there, I brought along my trusty travel recorded and gear, and captured sounds inside and outside of the city. Below is my take on the rendering and mixing of these sounds of one of my favorite cities.
It is long, slow, and wandering… just as if it was on New Orleans time.
The name itself comes from not only one of the amazing restaurants we ate at while we were there, but also the Atchafalaya River. While we did not visit the River on the trip, it provides more of a Southern Louisiana feel to this track, because all of the sounds captured were from both inside and outside of the city.
This is the first rough cut, so please be honest, even brutal in your comments if you need to be. All feedback is welcome and will help render the final version of this piece.
Thanks in advance for listening (and hopefully commenting!)
Here’s a longer teaser of the work Keith Richie and I are doing on our collaboration project VR…
ICYMI – Both Keith Richie and I are collaborating on a new project called “VR”, which I made mention of in my inaugural post here at my new home on the interwebs. We have started working on some music, and Keith has posted it to his SoundCloud site, and can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/keithrichie/vr-teaser
“A musical collaboration project between fellow SharePoint Developer and Musician Friends Geoff Varaosky and Keith Richie.
Geoff currently produces and releases experimental ambient music, ranging from long slowing soundscapes to beat and heavily sampled ambient house via Musical Nature which is an ambient project in experimental sound.
Keith Richie produces Ambient / Chill-out / Symphonic and Soundtrack music.
Together, we are “VR”.
VR is obviously a combination of the initials of our last names (Varosky and Richie), but as most know, it is also the abbreviation for “Virtual Reality”.
Virtual Reality typically refers to computer technologies that use software to generate realistic images, and considering that we are both individuals who have been involved in software development and software architecture, it seemed a good fit for us as well.
VR (us) will bring you music that will immerse you in a virtual world of the mind, where our musical stories will be the backdrop for your imagination.For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/vrambient/”
Give us some feedback and let us know what you think!
I am pleased to announce my latest release – melatoninone. This will be the first in a series of long-form dreamscapes from musical nature – for when you need long, flowing, minimalist, distant, calming music.
Melatonin is a hormone, and is also a supplement sold at pretty much every pharmacy out there… it helps with sleep, but is a lot more “chill” than taking something like Ambien, which just knocks you out cold, or it does me at least.
The pineal gland in your brain secretes melatonin once it starts to get dark, telling the body that it is time to go to sleep. For someone like myself who at the end of a long day, it can sometimes take hours to eventually nod off and escape into the dreamworld. So from time to time, I will take a melatonin supplement.
The dreams you experience when you take melatonin, or at least, that I have experienced, are generally more vivid than a normal night’s sleep. I also like to listen to music when I fall asleep, specifically, long form minimal ambient music at a low volume, or playing from another room, just like this album. The two combined are where the inspiration for this album came from, as well as the upcoming releases in this series. I hope you enjoy it.
Please have a listen, and let me know what you think.
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The other day I finally got around to posting my latest release, Layers3: Abstractions to SoundCloud.
Layers1, Layers2, and Layers3: Abstractions are 3 minimal long form releases designed to be used either by themselves, or together, in any order. Think of it as an art installation.
Shortly after posting the release to SoundCloud, someone liked one of the tracks from Layers3, and posted the following comment:
What a brilliant idea! I recently started building some Android apps (Donation Estimator and MX Lookup), so I decided to take on this challenge as well! So, after a couple days, I have put together an Android App, which can be found in the Google Play App Store – Layers.
If you wouldn’t mind… please download it, and let me know what you think if you wouldn’t mind?
It may very well be buggy… but I am new to Android app development, so please take it easy on me.
I have some similar ideas that are kicking around along the same lines as well… so I will keep you posted here on my blog.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.varosky.layers
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