Header Image: Tears in the Rain still, Directed by Christopher Grant Harvey. Blade Runner 2049 has arrived, allowing us to once again delve into the mind of Philip K. Dick and the echoes that he left behind in popular culture. During these troubled and duplicitous times, the inherent understanding in his work that reality is… Continue Reading
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Sophia Guide Us Home (A Tribute to Philip K Dick)
This new track has been created in tribute to Philip K Dick to commemorate the month of his passing on the 2 March 1982. I have spoken at length on this blog over the years about the influence that PKD’s writings have had on my work. There isn’t more to be added here, other than… Continue Reading
Information Overlay (When Winter Calls ONS – Track V)
‘Information Overlay’ is an ambient track that tries to capture the information layer that surrounds human interaction and experience, a return to the world of soundscapes and evolving textures.… Continue Reading
Geometry (When Winter Calls ONS – Track IV)
Today brings the release of another track from the Original Novel Soundtrack project that I embarked on a few months ago for When Winter Calls. This fourth instalment is a more up-beat trance track covering the turning point of the book, where it becomes clear that something is simmering beneath the surface life of the worker-residents of Caldera.… Continue Reading
Relay Station (When Winter Calls ONS – Track III)
This track – Relay Station – is a slowly building, pulsating track that combines a sense of utopian euphoria with the growing tension of Caldera as the situation there begins to unfold.… Continue Reading
Welcome to Caldera (When Winter Calls ONS – Track II)
Entitled ‘Welcome to Caldera’ this track explores the uplifting arrival at the corporate utopia, with a rolling soundscape that brings the listener into contact with some of the awe that an ocean citycorp like Caldera would inspire in its residents. Yet the enveloping melody also brings with it some undertones of the darker reality that is to come…… Continue Reading