Amatus Provo Borderland of the Seraphic Hosts is an original electro-ambient music composition created entirely with the Synfactory 1.15 modular software synthesizer. Being modular, one can arrange any number of individual signal or control modules, and connect these in any number of permutations to create the equivalent of a complex modular synthesizer system. Unusual signal and feedback paths can be created because each module exists as an individual entity and not fixed within the signal chain. Several patches were created to possibly emulate the unique sounds of such modular synthesizers like the Arp 2500 or the incredible Synthi 100. Several modular patches were constructed with five main types being used for the sounds creation. One patch has two oscillators being frequency modulated by a noise source and another sinewave oscillator. The outputs were ring-modulated, and the output of this further ring-modulated by an extra sinewave oscillator. Delays added an extra dimension to the sound. A variation on this patch was a seven-oscilator construction whereby two sinewave oscillators were frequency modulated by a slow noise source and a sinewave oscillator. One of the outputs was added to another sinewave oscillator, and the combined output ring-modulated by a sinewave oscillator. This output in turn was further ring-modulated by the combined added output of two sinewave oscillators. The final output was processed through three delay untis for a stereo effect. Another variation was two sinewave oscillators frequency modulated by noise. The output was ring-modulated by a sinewave oscillator, and this in turn was further modulated by another sinewave oscillator with triple delay effect. The result was a surreal dreamy sound combination. The "Space Canaries" sound was created by the same seven-oscillator patch described earlier. By altering the frequency settings of the source oscillators, wildly different outputs can result. These modular patches created the individual seven tracks of the multi-track final arrangement. Various complex sounds were created by different frequency and delay settings of the patches created. Some sounds were slowed down in accordance with the combined effect of the other tracks. Different tracks were slowly faded in and out as the ambient development progresses. The result is a surreal, nightmarish and twilight soundscape built up upon multiple virtual analogue ring-modulated oscillator tone sources. The sound is abstract, atonal and not harmonically related. It is more like a "radiophonic" combination of sounds to evoke emotions of forboding or anticipation. The music describes the features of the boundary of our universe and those of the Seraphic realms. The visuals are dark, alien and have a dream-like quality to them. Questions are raised as to what exists beyond the boundaries of our familiar reality, when we extend our focus from the physical to the supra-physical.
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Darkwave Singularity of the Borderland Agenciesby JeffreyPlaide246 views
Wow, I was listening to this thinking it's the just the kind of thing you'd use to summon up Cthulu and then I scrolled down and saw 'Lovecraft' in the tags! It also made me think of the scary novel House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, which was highly rated by Lovecraft. Great stuff!
astrophonix 7 months ago
"Through the Gate of Deeper Slumber lies the Ultimate Gate to the Last Void beyond Space".
Lovecraft's visions in his writings are a great inspiration to me. At the Mountains of Madness in particular. The vast black geometric Cyclopean city of terrifying proportions built by the Great Old Ones, long before the dawn of humankinds history. Lovecraft wrote of dimensions outside this world, of doorways after doorway into the abyss of infinity.
JeffreyPlaide 7 months ago
@JeffreyPlaide I love Lovecraft's stories as well as Clark Ashton Smith's. It's that alien, strange other-worldliness in their work that is so spine-chillingly creepy yet so provocative and thrilling, and your music has the same resonances, touching on something bizarre and just beyond human understanding. It also reminds me of those great horror and scifi shows like Out of the Unknown I used to love watching as a kid, which Pam1927 is now putting up on youtube, like:
watch?v=1Az27I2UloA
astrophonix 7 months ago
Many thanks for this. I believe that people are drawn to things they themselves wish to comprehend. I am also thinking of The Outer Limits in particular, as well as aspects of Doctor Who. I will check your link. Many thanks Astrophonix!
JeffreyPlaide 7 months ago