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SpaceWalker

from Synchronicity by ThinkingMetal

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This piece evolved in two parts, each with quite different beginnings.

The introductory choral effects were put together from samples downloaded from freesound.org, randomly dropped into the mix at intervals just to see what would happen next. I was aiming for a bleak, desolate expanse of sound, full of detail but empty of any real meaning. It's complex but without any real form or purpose.

The main body came from a lengthy improvised session a few months later, just sitting at the keyboard, hunting around for a melody and an arrangement. I'd been reading about the exploits of the first American Astronauts at the dawn of the Gemini project, and putting these two pieces together successfully I felt recreated the feeling of anticipation and dread, that fear of the empty void, followed by the exhilaration of emerging from the capsule and floating, freely, in space.

I later reworked it for a public lecture about radio astronomy, which was delivered as part of the British Science Festival in 2013, although the original version is presented here. The reworked version will appear later as a bonus track. Probably.

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from Synchronicity, released April 1, 2019

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