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"Source (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" was featured in this week's Other People's Music, "Synths and Sensibilities" by Fediverse music maven Ether Diver.
The review describes the album as "an absolute smorgasbord of synthesized texture, timbre and tone". You can read the whole review here, and be sure to check out the other indie music featured in the issue!
"Source" is available to stream for free at bandwagon.fm.
My latest album, "Source (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)", is now available! Inspired by the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus and the wisdom of Rick Rubin, "Source" is the soundtrack to a fateful journey through a dream-like Underworld in search of a doomed love.
The 8 tracks on this album represent a departure from the post-punk sensibilities of my earlier work. Using a wide variety of vintage, analog, and modular synthesizers, "Source" is as much an exploration of the Underworld as it is a recontextualization of vintage sounds in a non-nostalgic, contemporary context.
"Source" is available on Bandcamp, or free and federated on bandwagon.fm. You can also hear it as part of the regular rotation over at the Indiebeat fedi radio station.
I came across an unfinished poem from 2017 and decided to put it to music. Features a spoken word performance over analog and digital synths.
Listen to "I've Been Deleting Your Texts" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud, and please call me back, okay?.
May 24, 2025 was the final segment of my 5-year "Gangs of Ireland" project. Starting in 2021, each year on Drone Day (droneday.org) I've created a new experimental piece inspired by a segment from an 80s-era Irish talk show featuring young goths, punks, & mods. This year wrapped the series revisiting each of the young people and paying musical tribute.
The performance was recorded live at a Drone Day festival in Marlboro, New York.
Highlights from the weekly Disquiet Junto prompts. The full archive is here.
Disquiet Junto 0718 asked us to imagine the audio our stealth drone recorded on a visit to the surface of the alien planet.
This one was a lot of fun to put together! It gave me a great excuse to experiment with microtonal composition, and learn how to configure custom tunings in Logic. I chose the Maqam scale, a traditional scale in Arabic music believed to have originated in ancient Egypt. The main melodic line is typical for the scale, arcing from root to octave and then descending again. The percussion was inspired by reading about Wahda w-Nuss rhythms.
Listen to "The Asar Sequence" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
Disquiet Junto 0719 had us dueling with a metronome, challenged to record a piece of music that weaves in and out of beat.
I recorded the lead performance on my old favorite, the monophonic Moog Minitaur. Since this synth doesn't sync to the MIDI clock on the computer, riding the LFO controls manually let me improvise the swirling/cycling/beating patterns that dance within, against, and without the beat, satisfying the prompt.
In addition to the Minitaur, the track features the Roland JU-06 and Waldorf Streichfett string synth.
Listen to "Legend of the Moon People" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
After wrapping up A Little Fire Scarecrow in early 2021, I started a new solo project, Sudre's Violin, to reconcile the guitar-centered approach of my pre-transition music ("Dust and a Shadow") with the synth-centered music of 2016-2020.
You can listen to the first Sudre's Violin EP, "Five Lies Left", on Bandcamp, or stream it on Apple Music, Pandora, or Spotify.
Following their 2022 debut is "The Nine Doors", a full-length album featuring 9 original songs. The wordless narrative of "The Nine Doors" unfolds through the dark instrumentation, hypnotic rhythms, broken synths, and haunted piano that is the signature sound of Sudre's Violin. The theme and feel of "The Nine Doors" is inspired by the modern literary classic "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Listen or pick up "The Nine Doors" on Bandcamp.
In 2024, Sudre's Violin released "Seven Souls", a journey through 7 sonic landscapes haunted by broken synths, throaty guitars, eerie pianos, and hypnotic rhythms. You can listen for free on Soundcloud or download the album on Bandcamp.
The fourth and final release from Sudre's Violin, "Figure Six", was released on April 6th. Six new tracks explore new rhythmic territory while maintaining the dark, atmospheric, and literary mood that the project is known for. Get your copy of "Figure Six" on Bandcamp, or listen on bandwagon.fm.
A collaboration with composer and experimental musician Craig Chin. We worked asynchronously, taking turns adding or removing layers to compose these pieces.
The name is a reference to the band we were in together in the 90s, Uncle Karma. We had a manifesto. Like I said, it was the 90s.
Listen to Auntie Kismet on Bandcamp.
An unlikely collaboration with synth pop duo Eloquent,Shapes With Two Edges an experiment to see what happens when crisp, precise, crystalline digital meets messy, analog, and atmospheric. The name come from an obscure Euclidean degenerate.
We've got plans for a 4-song LP, digital and vinyl. For now, you can preview our cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors".
A Little Fire Scarecrow was a recording project featuring percussion by Jeremy Greenand contributions from Kevin Chatham (bass), Frederick Wells (bass), and Alva Snædís (guitar and bass). It was my return to music after thinking I had lost my creative center. It was an important part of my journey, not only musical but also personal.
4 years, 8 albums, 65 songs. Only 8 songs left standing. RIP 2016-2020
All my music is available free-or-pay-what-you-want on bandcamp:
Some folks in my community I recommend checking out:
Want to talk? Or maybe collaborate? Send me an an email, or reach me on Mastodon at @CoralineAda. (I'm friendly, I swear.)
Thank you for reaching out-- I'll be in touch soon. You can also reach me on Mastodon at @CoralineAda.
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