Kites in India

Kites in India from Macgregor on Vimeo.

Its a really beautiful short montage that Mike Hedges and friend shot in India.

Mike is also working on another video documentary: http://asthedustsettles.com/

"People are having life-changing experiences; we want others to share the same life-changing experiences. "

Highway 1 - DVD-Audio ISO Image

I've added the Highway 1 DVD-Audio Disc to Tradebit here:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/9347921

This is an ISO image file of the DVD-Audio (Not the same thing as a DVD-Video) album "Highway 1" by Diatonis. It can be burned to a single sided DVD-R and played in a DVD-Audio player.

Specs:
Menu is NTSC
Autoplay - will start playing when place in player
24-bit / 96kHz 5.0 Surround Sound (no LFE)

There is no video on this ISO image. You can download the DVD-Video version of this album here:

Highway 1 is an ambient / electronic / soundscapes album that was inspired by traveling up Californias Highway 1. The highway is located on the coast of California (US). The area I most frequent is between San Simeon and Big Sur but have traveled much of its length.

The album has 6-tracks:
1 Highway 1
2 Tall Shadows
3 Night Drive
4 Currents
5 Between Fenceposts
6 The Wind's Direction

Diatonis Update Jan. 14, 2010

Update Jan. 14, 2010
Getting closer to completing the next ambient album. I went back and re-recorded a few of them. The songs are shorter than my other albums from about 4 to 6 minutes. Half have guitar in some form or another. Most of them where created using a roland fantom and korg triton extreme, with some absynth and reaktor, if that's even worth mentioning at all. It'll probably have a painting as a cover. I'll probably include some infrared photos in there as well.

Update Oct. 18, 2009
Lately I've been finishing one ambient album, working on a darker ambient album, and doing a lot of painting.

The Ambient Album is very close to the mastering stage. It has 10 songs and is 52 minutes long. The songs are shorter than my other albums. There will be a 5.1 surround version (DTS and MLP) as well as a stereo CD. The DVD-Video disc will have both PCM Stereo and 5.1 DTS Surround sound. Two of the songs will have videos. There will also be photos of the current painting as well.

The CD and MP3's will be available at CD Baby, MP3's at iTunes, and both the DVD-Audio and DVD-Video disks will be available at Tradebit.

NASA Rocket to Create Noctilucent Clouds

http://www.livescience.com/space/090914-mm-noctilucent-clouds.html

A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth's atmosphere.

The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), plans to trigger cloud formation around the rocket's exhaust particles. The clouds are intended to simulate naturally-occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, which are the highest clouds in the atmosphere.

The song "Chasing Decades of Noctilucent Clouds"... can be found on An Abstract View.

Diatonis - Whale Song II Video

This is a remixed version of "Whale Song" found the 'Pond' album: http://www.diatonis.com/pond.html

This song (Whale Song II) is from the upcoming 'The Secret Doctrine' album. The full length version is about 12 minutes. It seems the six other songs are somewhat long as well. I've been trying for shorter length songs but these just came out long form songs.

You can download a full length / resolution MP4 here:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/8998527

Noctilucent Clouds Mystify

[via wired.com]
Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth’s polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the past several days.



The song "Chasing Decades of Noctilucent Clouds"...

Update July 30, 2009 via slashdot: Comet Likely Culprit in Tunguska Blast

Thin clouds have appeared at abnormally high altitudes over polar regions following space shuttle launches on several occasions in the past decade.

It can be found on An Abstract View.

Diatonis - MP4 Ambient Videos

These are individual MP4 videos that can be found on my Ambient Music DVDs that can be downloaded at Tradebit.com.

They are encoded in the MP4 format and are designed to work with programs like iTunes. They have the correct information tags along with the album cover image.

Specs:
720x480
29.97 Frame Rate
2 Mbps

The aspect ratio used is square pixels so they can be displayed properly on your computer monitor. The originals were shot in 16:9 (horizontally elongated). The video quality is decent but not as good as that found on the DVDs but saves a lot of room on your hard drive. The audio is 192kbps AAC stereo and sounds good if not great.

Here's the current list which will be updated as new videos are added:
Highway 1 - Night Drive mp4
Highway 1 - Currents mp4
Highway 1 - Highway 1 mp4
Highway 1 - Between Fenceposts mp4

Perception - Merge mp4
Perception - Trees In Mist mp4

Trajectories - Lucid Dreaming mp4
Trajectories - Nothing In Mind mp4
Trajectories - One To Be mp4

Ambient Life - From Beyond the Edge mp4
Ambient Life - The Dreaming Sky Priest mp4
Ambient Life - Singing Kettle mp4
Ambient Life - The Seventh Portal mp4
Ambient Life - Over Clouds mp4
Ambient Life - Heat Fades mp4

An Abstract View - Chasing Decades of Noctilucent Clouds mp4
An Abstract View - A Moment Disappeared On Shadows Field mp4
An Abstract View - They Once Roamed This Land mp4

The Convolving Universe - Lunar Dream mp4
The Convolving Universe - Daath mp4
The Convolving Universe - Corona mp4
The Convolving Universe - Aurora mp4