Maxwell Volume @mxv@social.tryptophonic.com

Hot off the mixing desk, today's #DroneDay recording from a sunny veranda on the edge of the Border Ranges National Park, NSW, Australia. Warts and all - live desk recording - no editing. Enjoy! #music #ambient #drone #psychedelic #fedimusic https://audio.tryptophonic.com/library/albums/30/

#introduction Hi, how are you? I'm a #musician, producer, sound-engineer & occasional #writer. A #Socialist, pro-#feminist, #anticapitalist & #freesoftware advocate. I make #ambient, #psychedelic, #electronic, #rock and #weird #music. I used to collaborate with musicians such as Daevid Allen & Gilli Smyth of Gong & writers such as Michael Moorcock. Interesting times. Nowadays I'm a semi-hermit living with my partner & two sons in an old farmhouse & studio next to a world-heritage rainforest.

Very much liking the look of the new #CLAP #plugin format - most notably the fact that it's being released under the MIT license. Kudos to #Bitwig & #u-he (& the other developers) for releasing it under an open license! A good interview with those involved - https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=BrLdgemE92Q

Very intrigued by the new #CLAP audio #plugin format, but I have to say that the name choice is quite unfortunate. Still, I guess its superior to "General Oscillator Normalisation Object Relational Rhythm Harmonic Enduser Application".

Hot off the mixing desk, today's #DroneDay recording from a sunny veranda on the edge of the Border Ranges National Park, NSW, Australia. Warts and all - live desk recording - no editing. Enjoy! #music #ambient #drone #psychedelic #fedimusic https://audio.tryptophonic.com/library/albums/30/

Next up on the #DroneDay post-late-breakfast playlist Sheila Chandra's ABoneCroneDrone. First sunny day in over a month - so we're setting up music gear on the verandah. #nowplaying #np

Something relevant to kick #DroneDay off with - Daevid Allen Seven Drones - while late breakfast & music gear setup is underway. #nowplaying #np

#Vangelis composed the soundtrack to not only many films but also more or less the soundtrack to my childhood. Heaven & Hell is probably the first I remember well. #NowPlaying #np

#Election day at last! Braving minor flooding to get to the polling booth. Still, it's much much less than people in some countries have to go through to vote. #Auspol

An interesting discovery. The incredibly irritating noise that I had assumed was a mouse scratching in the bedroom wall turns out to be a very cute micro-bat. Instantly, the noise is no longer annoying. Amazing how the brain works. I've decided to call it Mike. (Music reference)

It's been a bad month for my #music enthusiasms - I've got pretty much a whole vinyl shelf each of Klaus #Schulze (& related) and #Vangelis (& related). Makes me want to post Brian #Eno some extra multi-vitamins.

#Vangelis also did his fair share of #experimental albums - most notably Beaubourg (1978) and Invisible Connections (1985). Not exactly new age relaxation elevator music by a very long shot.

#Vangelis is often wrongly associated with New Age #music. For those who are of that opinion, I'd suggest they check out the Aphrodite's Child album "666" - possibly the heaviest album of all time - and not in the usual metal sense.

#Vangelis has returned to Mount Olympus. I've without question listened to more of his #music than any other musician in my life. He my not be alive - but he is without question immortal.

Some strange things going on with my my #Funkwhale instance right now, but still... Here's my last solo #album "What There Is" available in it's entirety. I could make an attempt to tag #music genres, but better mention some literary influences - Robert Calvert, Angela Carter, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, William Burroughs, JG Ballard, Robert Holdstock etc etc. https://audio.tryptophonic.com/library/albums/1/

It's a Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique kind of day here. #Stivell #NowPlaying

My Ben Wheatley viewing spree continues tonight with his 2020 version of Rebecca. Being quite partial to du Maurier & to a lesser extent the Hitchcock version, I was expecting to be critical of it - but was very pleasantly surprised. Wheatley is rapidly becoming one of my top-shelf directors.

Beannachadh Bealltain! Happy #Beltane! (Even though its technically speaking Samhain here in the southern hemisphere). Raining like the clappers, so no bonfires hereabouts tonight.

Vale Klaus #Schulze, one of the most important & prolific #synthesizer pioneers. I've been regularly listening to his music over the last few months, having picked up a new turntable. I've a pretty extensive collection of not only his solo work but many of the other artists on his label Innovative Communications. Great stuff. #NowPlaying #Timewind. #klausschulze