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heat wave ambient support me making clouds here: https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or

BONUS MICROPOD - ambient piano and cloud study

mixtape of original tracks, beats, exercises and experiments, mid-may to early june, 2020: track 1 - "box of rain reversion" - i found stems for classic dead tune on american beauty and slowed it down, pitch-corrected the lead vocals, added lots of wet fx,    track 2 - "already a distraction" - shiny high def resonator and filter staccato chord blasts like the cool kids are into mixed with strange breakbeat chops,     track 3 - "wandering bodyguard" - samples of that viral "south east asian man who sings numbers in a soulful r&b style" from tiktok/youtube inna drifted cloud of organ drummachine beat and bellow style,    track 4 - "bordering on blah" angular guitar, strange DMX drum machine beat in odd time cycle, big ambient swell, obtuse fuzz solo. overly complicated and therefore short,    track 5 - "won wet wednesday" - a drifty samba dream on a murky cloud, strange wisps,    ---- tracks 6 thru 10 recent rap instrumentals (failed):    track 6 - "dark truth" - darker brooding break beat that was intended to be like golden age PE/ jungle brothers study, but probably ended up sounding like DJ shadow, lol,    track 7 - "red sauce" -  neptunes/timbaland/missy inspired beat,       track 8 - "why ballin" - early 2000s Juelz Santana / diplomats new york new jersey fitted hat and puffy winter coat type beat,    track 9 - "bamboo sheets" - early 2000s cam'ron, early kanye pitched r&b sample type beat,    track 10 - "pompous kings" - early 2000s NYC style swizz beats / Jadakiss pompous new york mc telling you why he's the best type beat,  ----- track 11 - "warm water feeling" - nice laconic emotionally vague flower,   track 12 - "organbeat may20th" - wandering lounge foliage with early eno/fripp backwards snake guitar noodles. SUPPORT! https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner       or...

seven new wordless songs support my various endeavors and this podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or

there is a piano in my neighborhood left out first time i stopped to record it streets quiet but the birds very loud the next time i came, it was after heavy rain the wood mechanics inside swollen and stuck together there was a rain piano and a bird piano they were the same piano here are some rain pianos and bird pianos with an appetizer of clouds: 00:00 - CITY RHYTHM 04:05 - Wushy 10:45 - rain piano 1 26:12 - shallow pool of bird piano 27:50 - sleep dark bird piano if you like what i make, please consider dropping a couple dollars a month to keep me going https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or:

A small capsule collection created in one day.  Everything in the world has been weird lately. Last week, I turned 44 years old. Today I made several micro songs. I hope your weird world is well, that you continue to create, that you enjoy these short ideas, and that you consider sponsoring via https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or https://anchor.fm/adamforkner 

I watched the Miles Davis doc made by PBS. reminding me why I chose the trumpet as a kid. Although it was In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew that forever changed the way I think about music when I was a teen, here in my 40s its his final burst of creativity in the 1980s that fascinates me. After years of reclusion, he became somehow more humble and open about himself while draped in loud, garish, funky avant garde garments of the 80s haute couture. His paintings... reflecting a sort of wry sophisticated afro-funk post-modern primitivism, seem willfully and playfully naïve. Underneath, above, around and beyond all of it is the music - a sly lithe and airy approach to the modern synthesized sounds of the times. It might be so much projection onto the past, but he seemed unafraid to embrace the tepid, mauve-hued MIDI tonalities of the day to render musical flurries that are at turns tough, elusive and sublime.  Under the pressure to live up to the caricature of himself as an "intense, dangerous and adventurous auteur", humbled by health problems, bursting out of a depression that lasted years....he becomes playfully funky, bemused and inspired by his new context. All in all, an inspiring display of renewal and a return to the joy of growth into the unknown. Anyway, here's some of my stupid music.

27 minute meditative plume of foggy electric piano and guitar swells put thru many layers of a special proprietary blend of refraction, loop mangling, re-sampling, echo and pitch fading and cross dissolve processes to create a blissful yet quietly churning and evolving cloud of sound. Perhaps useful for background, focused meditation or as a dream aid.

Season 2 of Clear Acrylic Thought Pattern podcast continues with another wordless, ambient guitar improvisation called "Even Lighter Sleeper", which comes as I continue my personal fascination with - and lively debate with some of my peers - of the Paul Schrader's 1992 film Light Sleeper, starring Willem DaFoe, Susan Sarandon and Dana Delaney. A subtle, quietly disturbing and debatably failed movie about the mid-life crisis of small-time drug dealers who've stayed in the game too long. It's got a classically Schrader-ian obsession with a sympathetically broken man, mixed with opaque dialog and an Ozu-inspired lack of momentum. Add to that a stubborn 80s/90s obsession with horrible blocking, claustrophobically tight framing and awkward, stillted editing and -aesthetically speaking- it's like chewing rocks. But somehow I am completely fascinated by it's almost un-nameable umami qualities. There's no easy nostalgia for its nasty early 90s style, costuming or set design. Its palette is completely gauche compared to, say, the flat-yet-chic neo-noirs of the 80s, or the hard boiled Schrader/Scorsese movies of the 70s. Anyway...maybe the guitar ambience I made after thinking about the film today is completely unrelated. Regardless, I hope the vaguely directionless, slightly melancholic and ultimately soothing music I made sits well within your newly weird personal/ societal situation.  Roger Ebert said of Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper: "It is filled with great weariness and sadness; the party has been over for a long time, and these old druggies, now approaching middle age, have been left behind. Because they were survivors, because they were more intelligent and honest than most, this is the thanks they get: They continue to work in the scene long after they should have been replaced by a new generation of losers. I've talked to some people who had this or that complaint about the plot of "Light Sleeper," often that they didn't like the way the ending seemed like an ironic echo of "Taxi Driver." This movie isn't about plot, it's about a style of life, and the difficulty of preserving self-respect and playing fair when your income depends on selling people stuff that will make them hate you. In film after film, for year after year, Paul Schrader has been telling this story in one way or another, but never with more humanity than this time."

I remember vague malls various colored doors  by coat tail or nape you too can be a parachute

Clear Acrylic Thought Pattern returns for Season 2 with a new foggy cloud of ambience and fuzzed out guitar meanderings for the unexpectedly gloomy weather and even more extreme isolation of LA in total shutdown mode. Please enjoy! Much more to come soon.

ambient music with birds! Recorded and released August 12th 2019. If you enjoy my ambient music, check out my other musical works as Airboy Express on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp & etc. Here's a Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UhWzPT7RtGFwNUNgjvtlV?si=5BHnZiYuQhK_QfnmlHXM9w  Apple Music click here: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/airboy-express/1191850037.  buy my music here: https://airboyexpress.bandcamp.com/