Reverse Drums

This one was composed back in 1987 or 1988 and was one of my first 'successful' ambient pieces. It originally had a numbered title but for now that title is lost. The piece was played almost entirely on my Ensoniq Mirage w/the backwards drum sounds being samples I took from my Roland TR-707 and looped, detuned & reversed. The breathy vox sounds are also Mirage samples. The computer driving the sequencer was most likely my C= meaning the sequencer was Dr. T's KCS. The delay sounds too clean to be the mk. III Echoplex but I don't remember if I had a digital delay at the time. Tracking & mastering are problematic but were most likely to cassette.

My ambient pieces like this one were designed to be heard at low to very low volume in a room w/no bright or direct lightning. They were intended as unobtrusive 'audio wallpaper', something to form an overall space ambiance w/o demanding the listener focus on the material. Good frequency response descending to sub-octaves is essential, however, as I make use of the entire audible spectra. As always, I do have higher resolution files available...

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