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.
"Figure Six" is the fourth release from the mysterious postpunk ensemble Sudre's Violin, and according to sources is likely to be their last for the foreseeable future.
The six songs on the album feature the usual lineup of heavy percussion, luscious bass, lonesome guitar, and sinister piano that the band is known for. In an interesting bit of trivia, the final track on the song was inspired by a Disquiet Junto prompt and is in the bizarre time signature of 29/16.
Get your copy of "Figure Six" on Bandcamp, or federated on bandwagon.fm.
In honor of David Lynch's passing, I made a dramatic short story in sound, doing my best to make "Walkin' After Midnight" into something creepy. I wanted to avoid the trope of a woman being followed late at night, and instead went with the trope of the hitchhiker who may not be all that she seems to be. I spent a lot of time on stereo orchestration so please use headphones when listening.
If you're interested in that sort of thing, there's a pretty good overview of the production of this piece in the description on the Soundcloud page. Just click the "Read More" link to see all the details.
Listen to "The Hitchhiker" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
"A Foolish Consistency" from the Sudre's Violin release "Seven Souls" was featured as the fourth track on the inaugural episode of Disturbing Dreams, a radio show highlighting dark ambient and electronic music from unsigned artists.
Check it out at Mixcloud.
Following 2022's debut "Five Lies Left" EP, and 2023's "The Nine Doors", "Seven Souls" is the latest release from Sudre's Violin. As successive layers of veils are lifted from their eyes, the listener is taken on a journey through 7 sonic landscapes haunted by broken synths, throaty guitars, eerie pianos, and hypnotic rhythms.
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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
Calamity Orchestra explored contemporary social and political issues through the lends of retro new wave and post-punk musical styles. It was a collaboration between Coraline Ada Ehmke (Guitar, Synth, Vocals), Jeremy Green (Percussion), Frederick Wells (Bass), and Kevin B Chatham (bass, video).
All our music is free or pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. Everything is released to the commons under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
"Gangs of Ireland" is an experimental project inspired by a 1983 Irish television talk show featuring interviews with young people from goth, mod, and punk subcultures. Starting in 2021, every year on Drone Day I will create and perform a new piece for the five-song EP.
Responses to the weekly Disquiet Junto prompts.
More information about Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/
All the videos from my live sessions, original music videos, tribute videos, and short films. Everything is Creative Commons licensed.
As I work on new songs or albums, I upload snapshots of various milestones along the way. The idea is to show how a musical idea evolves over time on its journey from vague sketch to final mix.
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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