Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher

Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher

Synthesist, Electronic & Experimental Musician, Multimedia Performance Artist | Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet Founder. More info at https://MarkMosherMusic.com

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October 30, 2023 13 mins

In 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...

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This  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.

Music by Mark Mosher: 
Real-time musique concrète performed with original field recordings of household objects, and on location in Iceland and Melbourne Australia. 

Video by Mark Mo...

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November 5, 2022 4 mins

An ambient drone soundtrack to the act of approaching singularity.

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher. Cover by Mark Mosher. (C)(P) 2022Mark J. Mosher

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This 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. MosherSubscribe to Podcast:Any Podcatch...
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Season 4 Epiisode 7 of the Sonic Encoiunters Podcast is up. It's a soundscape called "The Signal Within the Signal". Enjoy!

Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher.

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Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. Mosher.

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May 28, 2021 7 mins
Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. MosherSubscribe to Podcast:Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rssApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast.
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Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. MosherSubscribe to Podcast:Any Podcatcher: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:17182/sounds.rssApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-from-the-sounds-around-us/id1005123672Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcastComposer's Notes:Bewa...
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February 2, 2021 1 min
An ambient improv performed solely on the Deluge.Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. MosherCover: Mark MosherSubscribe to Podcast:Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rssApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast
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Credits: Composed, Performed, and Produced by Mark Mosher (C)(P) 2021 Mark J. MosherSubscribe to Podcast:Any Podcatcher: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…182/sounds.rssApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soni…us/id1005123672Follow and listen on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/sonic-encounters-soundscapes-podcast
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An experimental piece re-purposing improvised phrases and motifs with more classical instrumentation as "musical objects" which I further manipulate in a 2nd improvisational pass.
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Sonic 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 "S...
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Composer'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.rssApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.co...
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Story: 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  betwe...
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July 30, 2020 5 mins
Composer'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 ("ch...
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Composer'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 Subs...
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A 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.rssCredi...
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September 20, 2019 5 mins
Story: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. ...
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August 8, 2019 7 mins
Story:It appears the menu has changed. Please Press 3. Subscribe:Links to subscribe in Apple Podcasts or your fav podcatcher here http://SonicEncounters.comComposer 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 MosherCopyright Mark Mosher 2019My artist site is here http://MarkMosherMusic.c...
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February 15, 2019 3 mins
"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 MosherCopyright Mark Mosher 2019http://SonicEncounters.comhttp://MarkMosherM...
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