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.
"Seven Souls" is available on:
Disquiet Junto 0649 had me consider the form of the concerto: its constraints, its traditions; and to create our own composition based on these traits. I read up, listened, read some more, and made my list of rules and constraints. Then I set to it.
The solo instrument is an ARP2600 that I sampled in the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) a couple of years ago. I improvised some chord movement with a generic pad and got the thin, flute-like ARP lead kind of dancing around on it in a single take. The overall feel reminded me of "Deckard's Blues" from the Blade Runner soundtrack, so I ran with that. The entire composition is 4 tracks of analog synths and an illegal quantity of reverb.
Listen to "The Voight-Kampff Concerto" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud wearing good headphones, like the ones you got at that little shop under the glittering c-beams near the Tannhauser Gate.
May 25, 2024 made year 4 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 was "The Mod".
The performance was live-streamed, and you can see the concert video from the livestream broadcast from NO SIGNAL Multimedia Labs.
The studio and live versions of this track are available on the "Gangs of Ireland" playlist on SoundCloud.
My response to the latest Disquiet Junto prompt, "0627 - Just Ice Society", calling for a piece built around the sound of ice in a glass.
The vocals were created by AI-enhanced text-to-speech, with a script adapted from a WikiHow article. The track was recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago, IL USA.
Headphones are recommended, and please remember to use your allocated break time to make connections with others in your work unit.
Listen to "Making Ice at Home May Seem Overwhelming" by Coraline Ada Ehmke on Soundcloud.
All my music is available free-or-pay-what-you-want on bandcamp:
Some folks in my community I recommend checking out:
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 this 2022 debut, "The Nine Doors" is 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. (There's also an obligatory Nick Drake reference, of course.)
Listen or pick up "The Nine Doors" on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, Pandora, Soundcloud, or Spotify.
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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a50f12e at 2024-08-13 22:17:24 +0000 UTC by CoralineAda
"Add release of Seven Souls"