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Short Time Lapse Clip From Dakotalapse Featuring My Ambient Music

Sprites, Gravity Waves and Airglow

Here’s a new short but hypnotic time lapse video clip from photographer Randy Halverson at Dakotalapse featuring a brief extract from my atmospheric royalty free ambient space music collection. Hear more of my work in Randy’s previous videos here.

“On August 20th, 2014 I timelapsed a storm over central South Dakota with multiple cameras. I left for Wyoming without looking at most of the frames. I saw a post by Tom Warner about Sprites he caught on the same storm. Sprites are large scale electrical discharges that occur high above clouds.When I got back I went through the frames and found 7 with Sprites in them. The Sprites are only 1 frame each, so they will be a quick flash of red near the right side above the storm. The green Airglow is rippled by Gravity Waves, some faint Aurora moves in towards the end of the sequences, on the right side before the clouds cover it up.”

Randy Halverson (Dakotalapse)

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New Ambient Space Music Track: Birth Of A Distant Star

Ambient Space Music: Birth Of A Distant Star by Simon Wilkinson

Today I’ve released a new ambient space music track called Birth Of A Distant Star. The track is a 10 minute atmospheric instrumental ambient piece based around themes of star births, origins of the galaxy, space travel and epic interstellar imagery.

Full of atmospheric ambient textures and harmonically rich floating synth layers, the instrumental track would make ideal background music for space documentaries and feature films, astronomy time lapse films, art films, photo galleries or any video that calls for ethereal and highly textural audio, music and sound design.

The track is available to download and license here for use in your own films and videos and also on all popular music download sites like iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.

http://www.thebluemask.com/birth-of-a-distant-star

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New Promo Video For My Dark Piano Track Black Orchid

Dramatic piano music Black Orchid by Simon Wilkinson

Here’s the latest of my music promo videos, this time for the darkly atmospheric piano instrumental Black Orchid. The track features solo piano backed with ominous strings and subtle percussion and would be ideal background music for dark documentaries, thrillers or trailers, particularly suited for videos with an atmosphere of paranoia, political intrigue and other ominous subject matter.

The track is available to download and license here for use in your own films and videos and also on all popular sites like iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.

http://www.thebluemask.com/black-orchid

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Spain Time Lapse Video From Martien Janssen Featuring Tempest

Following on from Martien Janssen‘s last time lapse video The Weather which featured some of my royalty free piano music, here’s another really nice atmospheric video filmed in southeast Spain and featuring my orchestral track Tempest.

“This trip was all about getting up before sunrise, catching every sunset and traveling or relaxing during daytime. Land- and seascapes were beautiful and I’ve really come to love the wild coast and wild west country, where Sergio Leone once filmed the legendary westerns.”

Martien Janssen

I particularly like the igloo-style accomodation! See more of Martien’s photography and design at www.zy-co.com

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Weather Time Lapse Film From Martien Janssen Featuring My Piano Music

Here’s a really nice new moody time lapse short film from Martien Janssen featuring lots of atmospheric cloud shots and weather, all shot in The Netherlands. The accompanying music is my track The Waiting from volume 1 of my royalty free music collections.

“The forecast was ‘good’, so me and my buddy Pyropix headed out and captured some wild footage during the day when 2 storms passed right over us. I shot almost 5000 shots in 24 scenes from 2pm to 11 pm, at several locations, using a D700 and D800 with a Emotimo TB3 dolly for movement.”

Martien Janssen

Martien Janssen photographer and designerMartien is a talented freelance photographer and graphic designer from Utrecht in The Netherlands.

See more of his graphic design and photography work over at his website Zy-Co Design & Photo:

http://www.zy-co.com

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Time Lapse Stars, Auroras And Supercells From Dean Gill Featuring My Music

Here’s some stunning time lapse video clips of supercell storms, stars and auroras from Dean Gill and featuring my music tracks Tempest and Falling Down. The videos come from various locations around the world including Italy, France and the US.

Check out more of Dean’s great photography here:

http://www.deanostorm.com

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New Short Film From Eric Uys Featuring My Piano Music


Here’s a new short film from filmmaker and photographer Eric Uys which features some of my atmospheric royalty free piano music in the soundtrack. Filmed in one location with one actor in under 5 hours, Eric’s short film Vision is a dark and eerie piece based on the idea of a girl who gets a recurring dream in a dream warning of something ominous.

“So this film is essentially about the future and even knowing your future are you still able to escape its path?”

Eric Uys

See more of Eric’s work here:

http://www.ericuys.com

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New Royalty Free Ambient Space Music Collection: Deep Space Ambient

Royalty Free Ambient Space Music (promo video) For Documentary & Film by Simon Wilkinson

Here’s the promo video for my latest royalty free music collection called Deep Space Ambient. In the 8th of my royalty free music series I’ve focused on ambient space music to give 10 tracks (75 minutes) of atmospheric and ethereal interstellar instrumental music for film and documentary makers.

The collection is intended to be ideal background music for documentaries, feature films, galleries, YouTube videos and other visual projects which need a deep immersive soundtrack. You’ll find shimmering ambient soundscapes, floating piano, dark sound design and epic layers of textural audio with no distracting drums or percussion. Ideal to add atmosphere and ambience to your documentaries and videos, whether the subject is outer space or not.

You can watch the promo video above featuring short clips from all 10 tracks on the album to get an idea of the sound or hear full length previews of all the tracks in the shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-music-for-film-documentary-vol-8-deep-space-ambient/

Full licensing details are in the Licensing Info section or contact me if you have any questions.

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My Ambient Space Music Featured On SomaFM Radio

My ambient music on Soma FM Drone ZoneSome of my atmospheric ambient space music is being featured on online ambient radio show the Drone Zone on SomaFM.

The Drone Zone specialises in playing textural ambient space themed music from great artists such as Steve Roach, Brian Eno, Jonn Serrie, Max Corbacho, Lucette Bourdin and many more.

If you’re a fan of atmospheric ambient space music or just beautiful and hypnotic instrumental music and ethereal soundtracks you can listen to the Drone Zone online at SomaFM here:

http://somafm.com/dronezone

“Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.”

SomaFM Drone Zone