Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher

This song debuted as part of the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet Drone Day 2022 Celebration. It’s the soundtrack to sci-fi short film of the same name which you can see here https://youtu.be/8WNZEwu1mEI?si=iNQ5rbtLxhpTvIGV. This piece was produced entirely on an Apple iPad Pro 11 with Borderlands Granular and Luma Touch LumaFusion. The music was performed in one real-time pass on the amazing Borderlands granular synthesizer which you’ll see superimposed on the screen. The source audio was based on field recordings of household objects, and on location in Iceland and Melbourne Australia.

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher. Cover by Mark Mosher. (C)(P) 2022Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast.

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast.

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast.

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast Composer's Notes: Beware the rocky shores of the Like Machine. There be danger there. Producer's Notes: The song was performed live on a Synthstrom Deluge. Deluge was fed with various sampled "musical objects" as follows: - Melody line was played live using a Sensel Morph in Live 11 using some very expressive MPE sounds created by the amazing sound designers Huston Singletary and Robert Bruce. - Drones and rhythmic elements were made on an iPad with the granular synth SpaceCraft. The song was lightly edited in Ableton Live 11. Most FX are from deluge with a few reverbs and delay in Live 11 to sweeten the mix a bit.

This Sonic Encounters soundscape was improvised live in one-take using my 4U 62HP Eurorack musique concrète Instrument. It's the follow-on track to the "Droid 164 Gets Distracted by a Wildflower" https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/so4-e02-droid-164-gets-distracted-by-a-wildflower. Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher. Cover by Mark Mosher. (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast.

An ambient improv performed solely on the Deluge. Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Cover: Mark Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast

An experimental piece re-purposing improvised phrases and motifs with more classical instrumentation as "musical objects" which I further manipulate in a 2nd improvisational pass.

Sonic Encounters Season 03 has come to an end which means the album containing the songs from this season is now available on Bandcamp here https://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-encounters-volume-03. Bandcamp is waiving artist fees on Friday September 4th so it's a great time to buy songs and albums on Bandcamp to support your favorite artists. Note background song in this announcement is track 6 on the new album "Shimmering Light from the Time Mirror ". Thanks again for listening and tell your friends.

Composer's Notes: Music Concrete improvisation performed on Push 2 using mysterious shortwave radio signals from the cold war era. Producer's Notes: Samples are manipulated and performed as musical objects using Ableton Simpler, and Granulator II. Credits: Music Copyright 2020 Mark Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast More Info: https://SonicEncounters.com/podcast

Story: A dreamy cinematic ambient song to accompany your time mirror viewing sessions. Composer's Notes: This song was inspired by sci-fi movies, tv series, and books that explore peering into the multiverse and time-travel. The title was inspired by the Outer Limits episode "Demon with the Glass Hand". Producer's Notes: This song was produced in three sessions: Session 1: I composed 4 layers off-grid varying  between even and odd bar lengths ranging from 4-9 bars performing on Ableton Push 2. The interplay of these even and odd lengths results in melodies and motifs that round-robin in interesting ways and often result in call and response. I improvised a lead melody line with all these layers in motion performing on keys. You hear this melody in the final piece starting around 1m9s. The notes in the bell sound throughout are triggered using varying levels of probabilities to add variety throughout the piece. Session 2: I did a real-time mix down and arrangement session using Ableton Push 2 to perform with these "musical objects" to turn them into this song. Session 3: I did a mastering session doing some lite editing of all the automation for synth parameters and volumes. I added and additional automation envelope to the bells layer at the end of the piece to introduce increasing pitch randomization to the granular synth engine to cause the bells to drift to become more dissonant. Credits: Music Copyright 2020 Mark Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast More Info: https://SonicEncounters.com/podcast

Composer's Notes: Things have changed and now we're all ghosts of the time and space that we once knew. Here is a song about it it as a new Sonic Encounters episode featuring the track "Ghosts of Time and Space" Producer's Notes: This was improvised on Ableton Live 10 with Push 2. While I mostly do my own sound design I've been enjoying using libraries from others to introduce pleasant surprises ("chance operations") into some of my improvisational pieces. All the source samples are from the Ghosts sound pack which I bought from my friend and independent New Zealand based sound designer Greg Cole (aka Empty Vessel https://store.emptyvessel.co.nz/ ). This was originally released as a samples and presets for the TAL sampler, but I brought these into Ableton (notes on this below). Greg takes such great care in producing and mastering his source samples I'm happy to report he also just provided these samples as a stand-alone WAV editon here https://store.emptyvessel.co.nz/p/cl3h5w/. The cover art for this episode is based on a photo I took at the Cafe Campana at Musee d'Orsay Museum in Paris in 2018. Video: A video of this recording session is available on on YouTube https://youtu.be/gu8xJfs4J64. Credits: Music, Photo, and Cover Copyright 2020 Mark Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast More Info: SonicEncounters.com/podcast

Composer's Notes: Inspired by a photo of a gossamer web taken with a macro lens in my front yard, I wrote a song about a spider. Be the spider. Producer's Notes; I used FM, analog modeled, and granular synthesis. I incorporated a field recording from of a drunk crowd singing in an underground tunnel on the way to the next train out in the London Tube at 1 AM on New Years 2018. Credits: Music and Cover Copyright 2020 Mark Subscribe to Podcast: Any Podcatcher: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672 Follow and listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast More Info: https://SonicEncounters.com/podcast

A chill psychedelic meandering trip to an ancient savanna sandwiched with a bossa nova. Some lush synths throughout. Subscribe: To get notified of upcoming tracks follow me on Soundcloud, subscribe in itunes here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672, or use this RSS feed in your fav podcatcher https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rss Credits: Music by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 My artist site is here MarkMosherMusic.com

Story: Quite some time ago an alien child instantiated our reality using some silly game they found on their parent's hand-me-down computer. As time went on they noticed the rainforests were being destroyed for a variety of reasons which would soon end the simulation. The child was quite attached to some of the people in the simulation and of course didn't want to have restart the simulation all over again from beginning. So, without their parent's permission, the child opted to buy the in-app purchase to heal the rainforests by turning back the rainforest clocks. Play now continues. Subscribe: Links to subscribe in Apple Podcasts or your fav podcatcher here SonicEncounters.com Composer Notes: Improvised using original field recordings as sources from Australia including the city of Melbourne, and The Healesville Sanctuary (https://www.zoo.org.au/healesville/). Cover Art Notes: I manipulated a photo I took while walking to through the rainforest of Great Otway National Park on the way to Henderson Falls. Some of the trees are estimated to be over 200 years old. Credits: Story, Music, Cover Art by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 My artist site is here MarkMosherMusic.com

Story: It appears the menu has changed. Please Press 3. Subscribe: Links to subscribe in Apple Podcasts or your fav podcatcher here http://SonicEncounters.com Composer Notes: I thought I'd kick off this season with something more experimental with lots of extreme tempo changes ranging from 80 BPM - 764 BPM. Enjoy. Music, voice, lyrics, cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 My artist site is here http://MarkMosherMusic.com

"Of Snow and Light" is episode 8 of the Sonic Encounters podcast season 2. It's an original soundscape featuring some warm classic synth sounds and pads. Photo is from a very unique skiing experience I had at Copper Mountain Colorado where I got to ski at night in a snow storm with only a headlamp and ambient light. Music and cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright Mark Mosher 2019 http://SonicEncounters.com http://MarkMosherMusic.com

Music and cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright 2019

Story: This is the Krell again. We are beaming a 3rd tonality to your station. Are you receiving? Video of performance: https://youtu.be/9XzcPMncBWo. Instruments & Instrumentalities: The piece is a live improvisation on the Nord Lead 4 using only expressive real-time synthesis around a single original program. It was recorded in one real-time pass without edits. Credits Music, Sounds, Story, Video by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher