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  1. ryancolecreate
    Here are the tracks from this past week. I finally was able to get the iTunes podcast setup, so if you're into that have a look! I'm getting quite some traffic on the site too which is exciting! I've discovered the magic of Reddit haha. r/ambientmusic and r/chillmusic are gold mines you guys should checkout.
    I've also made some tweaks and optimizations on the site, so it should load a bit faster now. Hurrah for jsmin. :p
     
    Here's the podcast: on iTunes
     
    Day 10 | Sands Shift
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gj
     
     
     
     

    Day 11 | Curious Forms
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gm
     
     

    Day 12 | Days Moving Quickly By
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gr
     
     

    Day 13 | Ripples Along a Plane
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gw
     
     

    Day 14 | A Rush of Blood
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gB
     
     

    Day 15 | A Feeling of Remembrance
    http://wp.me/p3yOqP-gE
  4. ryancolecreate
    Creating something everyday is multifaceted challenge which presents a lot of opportunities, as well as hurdles. Some issues are easy to imagine, where as others appear only after a direction has been established. Based on last year's work I knew a few issues that present themselves in advance.
     
    Last year I hosted the entire project on Tumblr, which I found out about halfway through was quite insufficient. It was simple enough, but there are issues with audio on Tumblr, and sometimes the artwork would vanish mysteriously. This year I put more planning into the platform, and went with wordpress. From there I can publish to many platforms at once, as well as create a feed for a podcast. A little planning goes a lot way.
     
    Limitations
    With Daily Ambient I have created a framework with limitations, rules, and sensibilities which act as a structure from which to build. These limits and rules need not be strict, but having them in place does a lot to aid in the construction of new work, and to glue the separate pieces together to form a cohesive body of work. They also help to eliminate the "blank page" effect. That paralysis felt when starting a new piece of work. Each day tends to evolve from the previous in terms of process.
     
    Inspiration
    Inspiration is much less an issue than you might imagine when working inside a framework. Creativity can be wielded very deliberately and effectively when you have a solid direction to jump from. This is the strength of the framework approach. Once there is a "universe" to work within interesting opportunities reveal themselves.
     
    Time
    A big challenge is simple time allotment. I have a very young kid, so free time tends to be hard to come by. The work tends to be done in the evenings. Over the course of last year's project, I was able to get the process of writing, rendering and publishing down to about 1.5 hours. Most of that time is spent writing.
     
    Artwork
    The artwork is a challenge in itself. Last year the idea came about very organically. Over a few evenings I recorded live ambient tracks, and thought it would be cool to make a tumblr page out of them. Tumblr offered a space for an image with the track and so I had to find something. An old harddrive had a bunch of images of doors I had taken on a vacation to Greece, and so that became the theme.
     
    This year I wanted to dig deeper into the possibilities , and so spent a few weeks trying different options. Again I wanted to create a framework which fulfilled several criteria.
     
    To be effective it needed to:
    Be quick to create. Nothing too involved or time consuming.
    Be open enough to afford experimentation. I didn't want to get sick of it or get backed into a corner creatively.
    Be interesting as a system. They all need to work together and feel a part of the same body of work.

    After quite some trials, I decided to jump from the idea of cinemagraphs in the "subtle gifs" thread here. I chose to stylize the clips with a 2 color limit to simplify, but also to give each a more impressionistic feeling. The result is flexible, but recognizable. The video clips are easy to make. I can take a camera out and get 10-15 in an outing, and then pass them though a few filters and render a gif. The result is quite interesting and simple.
     

     

     
    I hope that you all find the project to be interesting and inspiring! For me it's a great way to dig deeper into a specific direction in music, and art.
     
    Stay tuned for more from Daily Ambient.
     
    - Ryan
  5. ryancolecreate
    So I've start with Daily Ambient 2013!
     
    The first day is here >> http://dailyambient.com/2013/06/01/day-1-soaking-rain/
     
    It's been raining non-stop all day and I couldn't resist sticking the field recorder out on the window ledge for a bit. :)
     
    I'll try to post each day here, but if you'd like to follow along on a different platform, here are a few I'm pushing to.
    https://twitter.com/dailyambient
    http://dailyambient.tumblr.com
    http://www.facebook.com/DailyAmbient
    https://soundcloud.com/dailyambient

    Enjoy!
  6. ryancolecreate
    So again this year I will be creating a new ambient track every day. I'll be starting in June, which is really soon!
    I'm hosting the main project at www.dailyambient.com but I'll also post stuff here, as it seems a lot of people read the watmm blogs, and because I think you guys might enjoy it. :) I'll also be starting a podcast, and pushing everything to soundcloud, so I'll post those links once they are up as well.
     
    I started this project last year as a way to push myself creatively, and to set a challenge to meet. It was tons of fun, and I generated a lot of great material. I look forward to the challenge once again.
     
    You can check out all of last year's music here : http://dailyambient.com/c/days/2012/.
     
    I hope you all enjoy the project!
     
    - Ryan
  8. ryancolecreate

    Days 5 - 9

    By ryancolecreate,

    Sorry for not posting these on time. :p I did do them on time, I just didn't manage to also post them to Watmm.
     
    I managed to get some hardware setup for these. :)
     
    Enjoy!
     
    Day 5 | Time Slips – Listen

     
     
    Day 6 | New Growth – Listen

     
     
     
    Day 7 | Movement in Wind – Listen

     
     
     
    Day 8 | Submerged Civilization – Listen

     
     
     
    Day 9 | Caught in a Torrent – Listen

  9. ryancolecreate
    So the first month of Daily Ambient is now complete. I have so far made 31 tracks. Not quite one each day, as it's been tough to keep up with a young kid. :) Anyways, if you like the previous things I've posted, head over and check out the new stuff!
     
    dailyambient.com
     

     


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