Our neighbour died of cancer a couple of weeks ago. As far as I could tell she was about my age and it happened pretty quickly. I didn't know her well but I liked talking to her and she brought apples and herbs round from her garden from time to time.

This is music for quiet contemplation. Elegies and requiems often seem to be all drama and big emotions. I wanted to make something gentle for quiet thinking about those who have gone now.

Rhythm section is all modular and piano and sax over the top of that

Made on my laptop in my hotel here in New York before heading to the airport

The core of this track is a modular patch that I was using to generate a rhythmic ambient 'background' for track for the ambient album I'm now working on. However fiddling with the settings revealed this other sound - swirly background noises with a self perpetuating bass beat (Maths and the MMG modulating each other basically. The beat is Maths end of cycle on channel 4 hitting the accent input on the MMG. The Maths channel is triggered by the output of the MMG.). I used the Moog mother 32 to add a bass line and the strings and piano sound seemed to compliment it .

One of those unexpected tracks that just emerge while doing something else!

Harsh percussive electronics - not my usual stuff at all. I've recorded a number of versions of this over the last week and a half - I like it too much to discard it but very wary of how jarring it is compared to most of the stuff I make.

Title appropriated from M John Harrison as they frequently are https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/page/4/

(image by Abby)

All hardware. Single take.

Stately ambient music featuring the MakeNoise Mysteron

Something quiet