In an Ambient Mood

I've been using the word "ambient" in a lot of my stock music titles recently. This week's featured track at my main website is "Ambient Contemplation." I've also recently uploaded "Ambient Efficiency," "Ambient Cosmos," and "Ambient Space." The latter two are specifically designed to have a more space music type of electronic feel for things like science and technology presentations. So I guess I need to lay off the ambient thing for a while.

In the meantime, my next two tracks in the pipeline at AudioJungle are more conventional. "Decision Point" is another in a long line of slowly-building pieces. The idea is to evoke the sense of the mounting tension leading up to a big decision, followed by a quiet coda that symbolizes getting it right. "Action Adventure" is pretty much self-explanatory. We'll see if and where they get approved.

Also, I signed up for an account on Bandcamp. I don't have anything uploaded there yet, because I haven't decided on my next project as yet. I have some new ambient tracks in various stages of completion (there's that "a" word again). But I'm also considering releasing some things I've worked on over the years but haven't put out. I'm thinking about putting them out under the general heading of "lost decades." I have some smooth jazz/new agey stuff from the 80s, as well as some electronica from the 00s. Still mulling that. Stay tuned for updates when and if I figure it all out myself.

July 11, 2016 Updates

I have a new stock music track available to license at AudioJungle. "Ambient Efficiency" sounds like a minimalist electronic track at first, but builds up layers of synths and syncopated rhythms. It includes subtle world rhythm touches, such as a psuedo-gamelan sound in the melody and finger cymbals. You can check it out below and license it here.

Thanks to listeners in Mexico and Italy who have been streaming my track "Astral Tribe" at Spotify. I hope you're enjoying it and will check out other tracks from Circadia, as well as my latest instrumental pop single Dream Catcher.

Trying Some Different Things With the Blog

I'm going to make some changes in the blog over the next day or so. As far as the look and feel go, everything will be almost the same as before. There will be no big changes in logo, styling, or other cosmetics.

One change I have in mind is to more closely align this blog with my music page on Google+. As part of that, following this post I'll be changing this blog to send posts to my stream there instead of my personal G+ stream. Those of you reading this on my personal stream can either just come to the blog or follow my G+ music page. I hope you'll do both. Doing this will allow me to organize my interests a bit better, with music-related things here and the G+ music stream and everything else on my personal stream. That also means I'll be doing some following and unfollowing over the next few days to get my interests lined better, too.

The other change is that I'm going to stop using jump breaks. If you come here to read whatever I'm writing, there should be no need to click on another link to get a full version of a post. Frankly, I don't get enough traffic here to justify that level of pretentiousness anyway, and much of what I do get is referral spam. If you actually come here to read my posts, thank you; I hope this makes things a little more convenient for you. I'm also going to reduce the number of posts that appear on each page.

With that, I'll go on my merry way for now. I have some non-music projects in the works and plan to focus on those over the coming days and weeks, but will continue to promote my new and old music. In the meantime, I hope everyone in the USA who reads this has enjoyed the long Independence Day weekend.