Here’s the promo video for my latest atmospheric ambient music track Frozen White Light which features a short extract from the full length track (the full track is over 30 minutes long) and is available to buy and license for your own films and documentaries from my website here.

The track is a long and slow moving ambient piece of music with a peaceful atmospheric and hypnotic feel, ideal as musical background for films, documentaries, time lapse films, art installations and exhibitions etc. (as heard in the soundtrack to the full length Dakotalapse film Horizons by Randy Halverson). Due to its long and unobtrusive nature, it can also be used as calming background music for studying, writing, relaxation, meditation, yoga etc.

When I was working on the track, it was usually in the small hours of the morning and my 1 year old daughter (who’s always been a problem sleeper) would often start her nightly routine of waking up crying. I noticed that when I went to comfort her and brought her into the studio while the track was playing, she would immediately calm down and become transfixed with the music and the video. After about 10 minutes of sitting there listening quietly on my lap, she would always fall back asleep, which amazed us because we’d tried everything up until that point. So it could also work as sleep therapy if you or your children have problems sleeping!

Get the full length 30 minute track and find out how to license it for use in your own projects here:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/frozen-white-light

A new time lapse short film from wildlife photographer Marsel van Oosten which features my music has won 1st prize at the Travel Photographer of the Year awards. Namibian Nights is a short but beautiful piece (video entries in the competition were limited to a maximum length of one minute) and features my piano music track Leaving Paris.

You can see more of Marsel’s beautiful photography work on his website www.squiver.com or on his Facebook page here. Leaving Paris is available to download or license for use in your own projects here.

Here’s a beautiful new time lapse film from www.sicilylapse.com featuring my piano music track Midnight Air from volume 5 of my royalty free music collection (available to license for your own film soundtracks here).

Here’s a beautiful new time lapse film called Under The Texas Sky from photographer Harley Grady that features my piano music track The Harder Ground. Harley has many more excellent time lapse videos that you can see on his Youtube channel here.

The Harder Ground is available to license as a soundtrack for your own films or just to buy and download from my website here:

www.thebluemask.com/shop/the-harder-ground

My collection of music from the Dakotalapse time lapse films by Randy Halverson (dakotalapse.com) is now also available to download on iTunes and Amazon, as well as directly from my own website.

The 11 track collection features 45 minutes of atmospheric and dramatic music from the Dakotalapse films and is called ‘A Momentary Lapse: Music From The Time Lapse Films Of Randy Halverson‘.

You can buy it from any of the links below or just search for me (Simon Wilkinson) directly in iTunes. You should also be able to find it on eMusic and Spotify:

Click here to buy from iTunes

Click here to buy from Amazon.com

Click here to buy from Amazon.co.uk

Click here to buy directly from me at www.thebluemask.com

Here’s a trailer for a new documentary film by Colin Ruggiero called Exuma which features some of my music. As you can see from the trailer, the film features some beautiful underwater photography and time lapse footage all shot in HD:

“Prepare to hold your breath and dive into a thousand shades of blue on an exploration of the Exuma Cays – a tiny string of pearls tucked away in the middle of the 3,000 other islands that make up the Bahamas.  Shot entirely in HD, the film uses innovative underwater and time-lapse photography to capture the surreal beauty of the Exumas through the eyes of a young woman who lives there. Through Susanna’s eyes, we are given a window into a world few people have ever seen. Welcome to Exuma.”

Find out more about the film at www.exumafilm.com

A new mp3 music compilation album is now available to download of all my music that’s been used so far in the soundtracks to the Dakotalapse time lapse films and trailers from photographer Randy Halverson. The collection is called A Momentary Lapse: Music From The Films Of Randy Halverson and contains 11 atmospheric and dramatic tracks, as well as  a 10 page liner notes pdf. You can hear short excerpts from all the included tracks by watching the promo video above or visit the album page (see link) where you can play full-length previews of all the tracks and buy the instant download collection of CD-quality 320 kbps mp3s.

The full tracklisting is as follows:

Scorpio
Shadow Watch
Exodus
Eclipse
Tempest
Shadowland
Soma
Atlantis
Reflections
From An Ember To A Sun
Chrome Skies

You can buy the album directly from my shop at the following link:

thebluemask.com/shop/a-momentary-lapse-music-from-the-time-lapse-films-of-randy-halverson

Please note: the album is for personal listening only and the download does not include any license for use in any other videos or projects. If you would like to use any tracks in your own videos, please ensure you also buy the relevant license.

See more of Randy’s stunning time lapse work at his website:

www.dakotalapse.com

Here’s another awesome time lapse film featuring my music in the soundtrack. This excellent piece from photographer Ben Chase is called Surreal Journey and uses my licensed track Scorpio. Ben describes his work:

“From the late-night departures in inclement weather to the exploring of distant unmarked roads, my pursuit of photography is often a “Surreal Journey”. This was produced from footage and time-lapse frames taken in the Northwest Territories, Wyoming, Washington State, and Montana.”

Read Ben’s blog entry about this piece here and check out his website www.benchasephoto.com

Here’s the latest stunning time lapse film from Randy Halverson at Dakotalapse called Temporal Distortion. The online clip above features an awesome original custom score written especially for the piece by acclaimed composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Eureka etc.)

There is also a longer extended version of the film (over 23 minutes) available to download from the Dakotalapse website here which uses all my music including 2 new pieces written especially for it, as well as other music from my royalty free collections. Below is a short collection of excerpts from the extended film using one of the tracks I wrote for it called Shadowland (the full track is over 8 mins):

The film incorporates stunning time lapse footage of the Milky Way, Aurora and other night time lapse scenes. There is no CGI – what you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of 20-30 second exposures, edited together over many hours to produce the time lapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other phenomena, in a way you wouldn’t normally see them.

See more of Randy’s phenomenal photography and films at www.dakotalapse.com

The new tracks written for the extended cut are culled Shadowland and Soma and available to download from my store:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/shadowland

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/soma

Another beautiful time lapse film from Eric Hines, this one’s called Fall Timelapse Collection and features my track Outpost 31.

Outpost 31 is a dark and atmospheric instrumental track with an epic, atmospheric, icy winter feel. You can download the track or license it for use in your own films, trailers and videos from my online music store here:

www.thebluemask.com/shop/outpost-31/