Monolake - Silence

This morning I found a note on the fridge door: 'Selling longboard and a cabin near the beach! LOL!'; someone added: 'Idiot' to it.

Currently there is a lot of tension here, rumors spreading about a severe safety issue. If you'd ask me, it is definitely not a good idea to roll back now since we are so close.

I just wish it would stop raining.

Sometimes I wonder if they were creating all this a long long time ago with us in mind or if it is just one of these strange coincidences. Unlike Miller I tend to be a more down to earth person, besides occasional moments of doubt that everyone must experience here at some point, especially in those long dark winter nights. We are all getting a bit irrational from time to time.

The storm is finally over, the sky wild and exhausted. We went up to the observatory and the gods were with us. They gave us the most beautiful rainbow i've ever seen.

I closed my eyes and cried.

Sound sources include recordings of airport announcements, hammering on metal plates at the former Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin, sounds captured inside the large radio antenna dome at Teufelsberg, Berlin, dripping water at the Botanical Garden Florence, air condition systems and turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo, walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, wind from the Grand Canyon, a friend's answering machine, a printer, conversations via mobile phones, typing on an old Macintosh keyboard and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland.

Synthetic sounds created with the software instruments Operator, Tension, Analog and the built-in effects inside Ableton Live. Additional sound design and sequencing using Max/MSP and MaxForLive. Additional reverb: various impulse responses via Altiverb. Composed, edited and mixed in Live with a pair of Genelec 8040s. Field recordings captured with a Sony PCM D-50.