Simon Wilkinson | Atmospheric Music For Documentaries, Films & YouTube
My ambient track Vortex Of Coloured Light from Perpetual Dimensions is featured in the latest Mixcloud mix from ambient guru Mike G at Ambient Music Guide. The mix is titled Up There and is the latest in Mike’s series of ambient and electronic music mixes and also features artists such as Banco De Gaia and Ishq.
Listen to the mix directly above or at the following link:
www.mixcloud.com/ambientmusicguide/new-ambient-2016-vol-14-up-there-mixed-by-mike-g/
Check out this trailer for the new iPhone game Lonely Sun from Rinikulous Games which features some of my atmospheric ambient space music. Lonely Sun is a side scrolling game that puts you at the center of a fledgling solar system.
“All that stands between you and the fulfillment of a distant sun’s destiny are five unique, both visually and auditory, hand-crafted levels – one for each of the five levels. Every level divided into three stages has its own strange landscapes, distinct dangers, and gravitational forces to surmount on your way to building a complete star system.”
Lonely Sun (Rinikulous Games)
Get the game from the iTunes store here:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/lonely-sun-be-gravitys-guiding/id1084945377
Follow Rinikulous Games and Lonely Sun here:
https://twitter.com/RinikulousGames
I’m very honoured to have one of my ambient space music tracks featured on the final compilation album release from the wonderful Free Floating Music netlabel.
The collection is titled Reflection and includes 18 tracks of calm and atmospheric instrumental music from artists including Altus, Bing Satellites and many more.
My contribution is the track Parallax Frequency Shift which is taken from my Perpetual Dimensions ambient space music album.
What’s even better is the album is a free download, in keeping with Free Floating Music‘s mission to distribute free and legal ambient music.
The album is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial NoDerivs license, meaning you’re welcome to download and share the album for free personal listening (so if you want to use the music in your own videos you’ll still need to seek permission from the artist but I’m always happy to discuss licensing if you want to contact me).
So why not go grab a free download of the album or take a listen to some of the tracks from the player on the right.
Free Floating Music also have a nice collection of other ambient albums and compilations, all available for free download from their Bandcamp page or see their official site for more info:
https://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/
“Music for drifting and dreaming.”
Today sees the release of my latest ambient album called Perpetual Dimensions. A collection of 7 tracks spanning 87 minutes, Perpetual Dimensions is an album of atmospheric and ethereal space music. It’s the follow up to my last ambient album Cryosleep Dreams and includes a musical collection of deep bass drones, sparkling highs and shifting landscapes of panoramic musical vistas.
Equally suited to focused immersive listening on headphones or as atmospheric background music for meditation, relaxation and subconscious drifting. You can watch a promo video containing short previews of all the tracks set to atmospheric deep space visuals above.
The album can be purchased directly here on my site or also on Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify and most other music streaming services:
On this site:
http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/perpetual-dimensions/
Bandcamp:
https://thebluemask.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-dimensions
iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/perpetual-dimensions/id1143008762
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Simon_Wilkinson_Perpetual_Dimensions?id=Bwpfdpydtc5rzseo6yfu3gljmz4
Amazon:
http://amzn.to/2aYHQvR
Field Of View is the amazing new timelapse video from Randy Halverson at Dakotalapse which you can watch above. Randy describes some of his photography below:
“Field Of View is a compilation of timelapse I have shot in the last year. The first shot of the sunset supercell was done on July 23, 2015. That storm dropped multiple Tornadoes in eastern South Dakota, I was shooting it from central SD. I shot timelapse of that same storm for almost 4 hours into the night. Other locations in the sequences are Aurora in central, western South Dakota and the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. The Red Desert in Wyoming, Badlands and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands area of South Dakota. Bighorn and Teton Mountain areas in Wyoming.”
Randy Halverson
There’s also an extended 30+ minute version of the video available in 1080p featuring my atmospheric ambient music tracks Halo’s Edge and Orbital Drift which you can get directly from Dakotalapse here:
http://dakotalapse.com/2016/03/field-view-4k-uhd/
As with all of Randy’s work, the photography is stunning and it makes for a beautifully calming video to watch, so I highly recommend supporting Randy by purchasing the full version!
A new ambient music compilation album called New Day Under New Sky has just been released featuring my track Coronal Mass Ejection. Compiled by Solarsoul, the album is a beautiful collection of calming atmospheric instrumental music and also features some well known names from the ambient music world such as Jonn Serrie, Phillip Wilkerson, Numina and many more talented artists.
“Mankind will not forever remain on Earth, but in the pursuit of light and space will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere, and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.”
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
You can hear excerpts from all the tracks in the teaser video above or get the album direct from Beatport and Juno below:
https://pro.beatport.com/release/new-day-under-new-sky/
http://www.junodownload.com/products/chasing-dreams-new-day-under-new-sky/3006105-02/
New promo video now up on YouTube for my latest ambient space music track Halo’s Edge. It’s a 22 minute long atmospheric soundscape with ethereal and evocative tones of outer space imagery. You can buy and license the track for use in your videos or just for personal listening directly on this site at the following link:
http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/halos-edge/
It’s also available on all my store pages on Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. (links to these stores are at the very foot of the page).
Just added to the site today is a new 22 minute atmospheric ambient space music track called Halo’s Edge.
The track is a long ethereal and floating instrumental with no percussion, rhythms or distractive elements and is ideal for meditation, relaxation or deep immersive listening.
22 minutes full of deep bass drones, sparkling floating textures and hypnotic tonal elements that conjure up visuals of deep space landscapes.
You can license Halo’s Edge directly from this site for use in your feature films, documentaries, time lapse videos or other artistic videos by clicking the following link:
http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/halos-edge/
The track is also available for personal listening from iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify, Amazon etc. (see the Social Links section below right to find the track on other stores).
Check out this cool high altitude ballooning video from Michael Mönch which uses a weather balloon and 2,000 litres of helium to film a journey up to the outer reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. When the balloon finally bursts due to the low pressure at over 30,000 metres high, a parachute brings the camera safely back to earth and is located via GPS.
My ambient space music track Coronal Mass Ejection is used in the video.
How Far Away Is It is a video book by David Butler that examines the Hubble space telescope and details the distance between objects in our galaxy. The video is split into several chapters covering the Earth, the Solar System and the Heliosphere and you can watch the whole thing for free on YouTube and also on the official website at howfarawayisit.com
The video has been up for a while but only just come to my attention (my music track Exodus is featured several times in the video, as can be heard in the video clip above). It’s a fascinating and beautifully put together project about astrophysics, cosmology and the scale of the universe.
“How Far Away Is It is a video book of Hubble and other space and ground based telescope pictures together with an illustrated explanation of how we know how far away these objects are -- from your back yard to the most distant galaxies. How Small Is It takes you from your backyard to the smallest things that exist and covers the Higgs Boson.”
David Butler
The project has obviously been lovingly put together by David with a lot of care, experience and knowledge and it’s a fascinating look at the scale of our galaxy. A great learning resource about our galaxy and well worth a watch!
