Bright Low is a new experiment in ambient music.
The idea came from the interest in the rythmicity of natural sound events and the interest in organic models (forms, methods and patterns found in living systems such as the organization of cells, to populations, communities, and ecosystems).
I started by recording a few minutes in April, on a sunny spring day in the Bogda Forest. The recording consists of different sounds of birds and insects. All high volume sounds (the ones that emerged from the background sound) were eliminated, except for the sounds of the insects that landed on one of the microphones - event that offers the listener a feeling of physical intimacy with the sound source. The resulting sound was processed with various reverberation and tape delay units thus obtaining several tracks that consist of the same sound events but placed in spaces with totally different acoustics than the original (halls, rooms, vast spaces). Bright Low is a song created by mixing all the above tracks.
You can listen to this as a pleasant wash of background music while you work; as beautiful and as meaningless as sunlight on a painted wall. Or you can focus on it and realise that actually there's a lot going on in the texture and detail of the sound. Steve Roach has made a lot of longform ambient, all of them well worth listening to, but this is one of the very best. A gem from a gem. Wylfryd Smythe
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Excellent!! I'm so glad that more Robert Rich is now available on Bandcamp - I have most of it already but I can fill in gaps like this one now.
I love that Robert Rich gives quite an explanation of where and how the music came about. I find the insight into the creative and technical processes invaluable. David Kellett