Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSynthesist, Electronic & Experimental Musician, Multimedia Performance Artist | Founder of the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet and Synth Patrol
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S05:E03 - “Interdimensional Breach” by The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble
October 30, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.31 MBIn celebration of Halloween, I have a special release for you. It’s a live recording of a song called “Interdimensional Breach” from a set we did as the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet’s 2023 Halloween Synth Concert in Boulder. It was improvised and recorded in one take in front of a live audience and captured as a multi-channel recording. Members of the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Th...
S05-E03: “Interdimensional Breach” by The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble
October 30, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.31 MBIn celebration of Halloween, I have a special release for you. It’s a live recording of a song called “Interdimensional Breach” from a set we did as the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble at the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet’s 2023 Halloween Synth Concert in Boulder. It was improvised and recorded in one take in front of a live audience and captured as a multi-channel recording. Members of the Carbon Dioxide Ensemble include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Th...
S05-E02: Last Known Transmission
September 26, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MBThis 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...
S05-E01: Singularity
November 06, 2022 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.12 MBCredits: 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.
S04-E07: The Signal Within the Signal
July 26, 2021 00:44 - 7 minutes - 14 MBCredits: 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.
S04-E7: The Signal Within the Signal
July 26, 2021 00:44 - 7 minutes - 14 MBCredits: 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.
SO4-E05: Being Reprogrammed Through the Convenience of Your Screens
June 25, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.69 MBCredits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher.
S04-E6: Robot Dreams
May 28, 2021 15:52 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBCredits: 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.
S04-E06: Robot Dreams
May 28, 2021 15:52 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBCredits: 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.
SO4-E04: Beware the Siren Call of the Like Machine
March 18, 2021 21:06 - 3 minutes - 8.86 MBCredits: 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 the...
S04-E08: Droid 164 Searches for Survivors in the Forbidden Zone
February 04, 2021 00:00 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MBThis 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 A...
SO4-E03: Approaching the Artifact
February 02, 2021 23:00 - 1 minute - 4.53 MBAn 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
SO4-E02: Droid 164 Gets Distracted by a Wildflower
January 17, 2021 23:41 - 4 minutes - 9.36 MBCredits: 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
S04-E01: A Brave Attempt to Plod Along Unnoticed
September 18, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBAn experimental piece re-purposing improvised phrases and motifs with more classical instrumentation as "musical objects" which I further manipulate in a 2nd improvisational pass.
Announcements: Sonic Encounters Volume 03 Album Now Available and Season 04 is On the Way
September 04, 2020 14:37 - 1 minute - 3.84 MBSonic 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...
S03-E07: The Mysterious Shortwaves That Haunt Our Airwaves
August 20, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutes - 9.16 MBComposer'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-ar...
SO3-E06: Shimmering Light from the Time Mirror
August 06, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutes - 5.5 MBStory: 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 P...
S03-E05: Ghosts of Time and Space
July 31, 2020 00:00 - 5 minutes - 13 MBComposer'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...
03-04: Communing With Ancients Through My Gossamer Threads
July 28, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutes - 8.72 MBComposer'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/...
S03-E04: Communing With Ancients Through My Gossamer Threads
July 27, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutes - 8.72 MBComposer'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/...
S03-E03: Ancient Savanna (A Post Modern Ambient Bossa Nova Ice Cream Sandwich)
July 16, 2020 00:00 - 5 minutes - 11.8 MBA 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 ar...
S03-E02: Turning Back the Rainforest Clocks
September 21, 2019 00:00 - 5 minutes - 13.7 MBStory: 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-ap...
S03-E01: Please Press 3
August 09, 2019 00:00 - 7 minutes - 5.91 MBStory: 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
S02-E08: Of Snow and Light
February 16, 2019 00:00 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MB"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
S02-E07: Dancing at the Edge of Entropy
January 25, 2019 00:00 - 5 minutes - 13.2 MBMusic and cover art by Mark Mosher Copyright 2019
S02-E06: Tonalities from Orbit 03
December 04, 2018 00:00 - 10 minutes - 24.9 MBStory: 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
S02-E05: Operation Polynya
November 26, 2018 00:00 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBStory: A secret mission in the Arctic to recover the ancient artifact begins. Composer Notes: A real-time performance with single synthesizer. Improvised and recorded in a single take with no edits. Credits: Music, Story and Cover Art Painting by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher SonicEncounters.com NewEcho.com
S02-E04: Last Known Transmission of the Expedition to Explore The Undersea Cave of the Giant
November 25, 2018 18:02 - 4 minutes - 11.1 MBStory: This is last known transmission the expedition to explore the undersea cave of the giant. Composer Notes: I sketched the cover image and used it as a graphical score. Credits: Music, Story and Cover Art by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher SonicEncounters.com NewEcho.com
S02-E03: Primeval (Track 1 from the album No Ghosts. Just Fear.)
October 26, 2018 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.58 MBIn celebration of Halloween, this episode of Sonic Encounters features the song “Primeval” from my horror soundscapes album NO GHOSTS. JUST FEAR. It’s a very short and creepy piece where I use hand crafted synthetic sounds (subtractive and additive synthesis) to create strange tones, textures. and rhythms to build tension. Fast note-runs, and radical tempo changes will creep you out. This piece was performed using Percussa AudioCubes infrared controllers. You can buy the song and album on Ba...
S02-E02: Slipping Into Stasis Entering Jump Gate 42
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S02-E01: The Department of Entropy
October 03, 2018 00:00 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MBhttps://SonicEncounters.com Podcast S01:EP01. In a deep dark corner of universe, ancient bureaucrats monitor and nudge the machinery that controls the decay of the all things. Sometimes they dance. Welcome to the Department of Entropy. Credits: Music, Story and Cover Art by Mark Mosher © 2018 Mark J. Mosher SonicEncounters.com NewEcho.com
S01-E13: Replicant's Lament
May 30, 2016 00:00 - 5 minutes - 13 MBStory: Composed and performed in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Artist Notes: Inspired by the movies "Blade Runner" and "Soldier". In one session, I improvised and composed a set of musical motifs. I then mixed and arranged these motifs into the finished piece. Instrumentation & Instrumentalities: I used the gorgeous sounding U-HE virtual synthesizers for this piece. Hive (3 instances) Zebra 2.5 (1 instance) DIVA (1 instance) Bazille (2 instances) All the tracks use custom presets from...
S01-E12: Tonalities from Orbit #2
May 07, 2016 00:00 - 4 minutes - 10.3 MBStory: This is the Krell again. We are beaming a 2nd tonality to your station. Are you receiving? Artist Notes: This is another piece inspired by the ground-breaking work of Louis and Bebe Barron on the film Forbidden Planet. I use oscillators as the primary source for the piece. Instruments & Instrumentalities: Blofeld + Launchpad Pro + Octatrack The soundtrack is live improvisation using the Waldorf Blofled synthesizer with custom programs from INIT. The Novation Launchpad Pro grid perfo...
SO1-E11: Tonalities from Orbit #1
March 30, 2016 00:00 - 7 minutes - 17 MBStory: This is the Krell. We are beaming a tonality from orbit to your station. Are you receiving? Artist Notes: This is another piece inspired by the ground-breaking work of Louis and Bebe Barron on the film Forbidden Planet. I use oscillators as the primary source for the piece. Instruments & Instrumentalities: The piece is a live improvisation on the Nord Lead 4 using only expressive real-time synthesis around a single original program from INIT. I recorded a video of me performing this ...
SO1-E10: Swarm of the Nanobots
February 20, 2016 00:00 - 6 minutes - 15.2 MBStory: The swarm of the Nanobots is approaching. Artist Notes: This microtonal mayhem is an exploration of swarming notes and joyous distortion that was inspired by the Dewanatron Swarmatron instrument. Instrumentation & Instrumentalities: I performed and recorded this in one real-time pass with no edits on an Elektron Octatrack. From a sound design perspective - I was working to emulate an instrument called the Swarmatron http://www.dewanatron.com/instruments.php?page=swarmatron. "The Sw...
SO1-E09: I'm Completely Operational, and All My Circuits Are Functioning Perfectly
January 22, 2016 00:00 - 5 minutes - 12.6 MBStory: The sound of what is going on inside the HAL 9000’s mind as he’s speaking “I’m Completely Operational, and All My Circuits Are Functioning Perfectly” to the crew. Artist Notes: This piece was improvised and performed on the Nord Lead 4 and the Elektron Octatrack. It was recorded in one real-time pass with no edits. Instruments and Instrumentalities: All the synthesized source sounds are from my original Lead 4 presets. I live sampled and looped the Nord Lead 4 into the Octatrack and...
S01-E08 Take A Trip On The Train From Devil's Gate Depot
December 28, 2015 00:00 - 9 minutes - 17.2 MBStory: Ready to take a “trip” on The Georgetown Loop Railroad? Your journey starts at Devil’s Gate Depot as you stand between the cars and hear the sounds of this historic narrow gauge train as it rounds a tight bend. Things morph from there… enjoy the psychedelic ride. Artist Notes: The piece begins with the raw field recording of the train as it goes around a tight turn. It’s just such an amazing set of sounds I wanted to offer the listener context and a taste of the harmonic content of th...
SO1-E07: Descent Into Ancient Ice Cave
September 27, 2015 00:00 - 9 minutes - 20.8 MBStory: This is the soundtrack of an expedition to an ancient ice cave. As you descend deep into the cavern hear surreal sound of the wind blended with your own scanning equipment reverberating through massive cave system. At around the 7:00 minute mark, your systems start picking up some movement in the cave. You've got a bad feeling about this - so you initiate emergency ascent at 8:20. Artist Notes: This is not a sample. This is all synthesis. Instrumentation and Instrumentalities: The en...
S01-E05: Irreversible Transcription Errors During Consciousness Transfer
September 20, 2015 00:00 - 9 minutes - 17 MBStory: “Welcome to transfer station 11203. Your consciousness transfer is about to begin and soon you will enjoy immortality in your new custom body. The process is 100% foolproof thanks to your personal technician who will be actively monitoring the process for transcription errors. In the unlikely event of a transcription error, your technician will be manually executing corrective rewrites well before the 6 minute margin where these anomalies would become part of your permanent consciousn...
S01-E06: When the Whales Take Back the Ocean
August 28, 2015 00:00 - 13 minutes - 31.9 MBStory: As humans and their technology have evolved, they have encroached more and more on the domain of the whale and other sea life. Of course the whales have been evolving as well - and - unbeknownst to us, they have been patiently plotting and waiting for the right time put things back in balance. Listen as a group of humpback whales execute phase 1 of their plan to take back the ocean. Science: From "Seismic Surveys Negatively Affect Humpback Whale Singing Activity off Northern Angola" ...
SO1-E04 A Day In The Life Of A Krell Technician
June 14, 2015 00:00 - 20 minutes - 47.1 MBStory: Over 2,000 centuries ago – the Krell technicians went about their day in the 8,000-cubic-miles of the fabric of the great machine on Altair IV. This is the day in the life of one technician. Artist Notes: Inspired by the ground-breaking work of Louis and Bebe Barron on the film Forbidden Planet I use oscillators rather than samples as sound sources for this piece. Instrumentation & Instrumentalities: The sources are from original sounds I created on the Waldorf Blofeld manipulate...
SO1-E03: Children of the Gods Find the Weather Machine
July 27, 2013 00:00 - 6 minutes - 14.5 MBStory: What happens when the children of the gods get a hold of the weather machine? Listen to find out. Artist Notes: I recorded the piece in one real-time pass with no edits. The song is primarily based on the field recording of a thunderstorm. Most of the low bass sounds is a manipulated thunder clap. Instrumentation & Instrumentalities: I recorded this in a park in Louisville, CO on my Octatrack running on battery. I performed the piece by playing the OT in chromatic mode and by man...
SO1-E02: Metamorphosis Under The Chatham Light
August 21, 2012 00:00 - 5 minutes - 11.9 MBStory: This soundscape is the soundtrack to an imaginary experience where, using a special morphing environment suit, the wearer can instantly transition from a land to sea simply by walking into the surf. The piece begins with you observing a figure walking down the steps on to Chatham Lighthouse Beach late at night. The figure is silhouetted by the beam of the Chatham Light. As the figure walks past you and on to the beach you switch to the figure’s point of view. You then walk towards t...
S01-E01: And What Do the Trees Hear When the Wind Blows?
April 20, 2012 00:00 - 8 minutes - 19.5 MBStory: This song is an ambient sonic journey starting with natural sounds which morph into the hidden inner world of trees and back again. Artist Notes: The piece starts off with a 120 degree stereo field recording of wind blowing through aspen trees and surrounding trees in Louisville, Colorado just outside of Boulder. Credits: Music, Sounds, Story, Notes and Cover art by Mark Mosher ©2012 Mark J. Mosher http://SonicEncounters.com http://ModulateThis.com
008 - Halloween Special - Rebroadcast of Live Halloween 2011 Radio.Electro-Music.com Concert
October 31, 2011 03:41 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MBGet those headphones out - it's time for some creepy original experimental music to celebrate Halloween! This is a live hi-def stereo recording from my set for the Halloween 2011 Online Streaming Concert for Radio.Electro-Music.com broadcast at 19:00 GMT on October 30th. Note that the intro was re-recorded later that day as I forgot to turn on the stream recorder till I was 45 seconds in. The rest of the audio is from the actual stream with one edit to remove 30 seconds of dead air when I exp...