Ambrosia Musica

By listening to this material, you will hardly think that it has been recorded on an
ordinary cassette player, on an old and poor quality cassette containing computer
games for the ZX Spectrum. The gear we used: a €5 Lewis microphone bought at a
marketplace, an electret microphone taken out from an old cassette player, a hand-
made 5-channel mono mixer, a handmade delay effect, which is more a noise
generator than delay, Casio CT-480 keyboards. The only professional equipment in
our setup was a guitar effect Boss HF-1 High Flanger.

Although this material doesn't sound bad even in its original form on that cassette, to
get its current width and depth, modern AI tools were used that allowed me to
separate the material and re-mix it while adding elements that we didn't have then,
such as reverberation. It also fixed major problems with resonances and feedback
that often spoiled the listening experience. Now, the sounds breathe with new
life—reverberating and immersive—delivering an experience far richer than the
original mono tape ever could.

The first session took place between December 28 and 29, 1991.
Because of this recording around midnight, the piece was called "Midnight
Meditations". The process wasn’t without trouble: poor equipment caused unwanted
resonance between a microphone and the amplifier, forcing us to redo the recording
session 3 days later in the afternoon.

This 26-minute soundscape was recorded using the sounds of many old mechanical
clocks and digital clock alarm sounds, along with a metronome, a metal plate with a
hammer, zippers, radio sounds, water bottles, flutes, keyboards and whistles, and
the use of flangers and delays.

The curiosity of this recording is that it contains samples from radio news where you
can, at times, hear historical moments, the disintegration of the Yugoslavia, war
madness and a hint of what will happen in the new coming year, which will start in
about 5-6 hours after recording this material.