A new release on the Spirit of Gravity label landed on 1 March – a wonderful generative ambient piece entitled Remember Glaciers, a project of collective member Jim Purbrick.
It’s a single 90 minute piece, inspired by shared memories of a trip to New Zealand’s Franz Josef Glacier and shared anticipation of a trip to Iceland – and encouraged by positive reactions to Jim’s ‘super chilled’ modular moogings on the Spirit of Gravity Owncast stream.
Memories from the last generations to visit the glaciers are recovered from the past like bubbles of air trapped in ice cores and echo and fade into glacially slow generative ambient soundscapes. The piece was made with Ableton Live, a VCV and Eurorack hybrid software and a hardware modular synth, granular processing and Valhalla reverb.
Stream or download here: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/2023-12-11-ice-core-franz-josef-glacier-2008