heat wave ambient support me making clouds here: https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

CLEAR ACRYLIC THOUGHT PATTERN

sky archer

BONUS MICROPOD - ambient piano and cloud study --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

silent hands

musical compositions, beats, exercises and experiments, mid-may to early june, 2020: track 1 - "box of rain WET version" - i found stems for classic dead tune on american beauty and slowed it down, pitch-corrected the lead vocals, added lots of wet fx track 2 - "already a distraction" - shiny high def resonator and filter staccato chord blasts like the cool kids are into mixed with strange breakbeat chops track 3 - wandering bodyguard - samples of the viral "south east asian soulful r&b numbers singing man" from tiktok/youtube inna drifted cloud of organ drummachine beat and bellow track 4 - "bordering on blah" angular guitar, strange DMX drum machine beat in odd time cycle, big ambient swell, obtuse fuzz solo. overly complicated and therefore short. track 5 - "won wet wednesday" - a drifty samba dream on a murky cloud, strange wisps,  track 6 - "dark truth" - darker brooding break beat that was intended to be like golden age PE/ jungle brothers study, but probably ended up sounding like DJ shadow, lol track 7 - "red sauce" - early neptunes/timbaland/missy inspired beat for rapping over track 8 - "why ballin" - early 2000s Juelz Santana / diplomats new york new jersey fitted hat and puffy winter coat type beat track 9 - "bamboo sheets" - early 2000s cam'ron, early kanye pitched r&b sample type beat track 10 - "pompous kings" - early 2000s NYC style swizz beats / Jadakiss pompous new york mc telling you why he's the best type beat track 11 - "warm water feeling" - laconic creeper track 12 - "organbeat may20th" - wandering lounge foliage with early eno/fripp backwards snake guitar noodles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

springworks

seven new wordless songs support my various endeavors and this podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

floating spring distraction elements

there is a piano in my neighborhood left out first time i stopped to record it streets quiet but the birds very loud the next time i came, it was after heavy rain the wood mechanics inside swollen and stuck together there was a rain piano and a bird piano they were the same piano here are some rain pianos and bird pianos with an appetizer of clouds: 00:00 - CITY RHYTHM 04:05 - Wushy 10:45 - rain piano 1 26:12 - shallow pool of bird piano 27:50 - sleep dark bird piano if you like what i make, please consider dropping a couple dollars a month to keep me going https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or: --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

rain piano, bird piano, clouds

A meandering collection of creative outpouring from today.  Its been about a week since my last attempt at music creation. Everything has been weird lately, plus it was my 44th birthday last friday.  Today I finally forced myself back into the process of creation in my studio. I started by making some rather dry and crackly dissonant guitar textures which i then scanned through a print of what I had created and resampled bits and refrains in various ways, creating chords, odd textures, unexpected combinations. drums, synths & guitars were added to some of the sketches, which turned into various iterations on an invisible theme.  then i made some more micro songs. I got back into a groove of sorts. I hope your weird world is well, that you continue to create, that you enjoy these micro-songs and that you consider sponsoring via https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner or https://anchor.fm/adamforkner  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Ornamental Cotton Sour

I recently watched the Miles Davis documentary put together by PBS and available on netflix, among other sources. It re-ignited my life-long hero worship of Miles, reminded me why I chose to learn the trumpet as a kid, reminded me how much of an influence he has been on the core values of artistic expression I still aspire to in my own very small way. Although it was the In A Silent Way/Bitches Brew era Miles that forever changed the way I think about music when I was a teen, in my mid-life it has been his late-period, final burst of creative energy which fascinates me. One reason I keep coming back to Miles' late 80s energy is the outfits. The outfits are amazing. Another reason is that he seemed more open to talking about his process, somehow more humble and open while shrouded in garish 80s plumage. But underneath, above, around and beyond all of these things is the music - a fascinating approach to the modern synthesized sounds of the times, It might be so much projection onto the past, but he seemed unafraid to embrace the strange near-tepid mauve MIDI tones of the day and still come up with something subtle, elusive and sublime. And his paintings... reflecting a sort of afro-funk post modernism and a sense of a return to a willfully playful naïveté . Under all of the pressure to live up to the caricature of the intense, dangerous and adventurous auteur... humbled by health problems..bursting out of a depression that lasted years....he becomes playfully funky, bemused and inspired by his new context. Its an inspiring display of renewal and a return to the joy of growth into the unknown. The music I made for this episode today probably isn't directly related to Miles Davis'  80s period or, more specifically the 15 minute version of Human Nature live in Paris that I have watched a million times over the last couple of years, nor would I ever claim to even attempt to reach anywhere near his heights of genius... regardless, I hope you enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

BEAMING INTO AND ONTO

27 minute meditative plume of foggy electric piano and guitar swells put thru many layers of a special proprietary blend of refraction, loop mangling, re-sampling, echo and pitch fading and cross dissolve processes to create a blissful yet quietly churning and evolving cloud of sound. Perhaps useful for background, focused meditation or as a dream aid. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Another Sky Approach // Sleep Museum

Season 2 of Clear Acrylic Thought Pattern podcast continues with another wordless, ambient guitar improvisation called "Even Lighter Sleeper", which comes as I continue my personal fascination with - and lively debate with some of my peers - of the Paul Schrader's 1992 film Light Sleeper, starring Willem DaFoe, Susan Sarandon and Dana Delaney. A subtle, quietly disturbing and debatably failed movie about the mid life existential crisis of small time party drug dealers who've stayed in the game long after they should have left. It's got a lot of classic Schrader obsession with a sympathetically broken man, mixed with vague dialog and Ozu-inspired lack of momentum, horrible early 90s blocking, claustrophobically tight framing and awkward, stillted editing. Aesthetically, it's like chewing rocks. But somehow I am completely fascinated by it's almost un-nameable umami flavor qualities. There's no easy nostalgia for its nasty early 90s style, costuming or set design. Its palette is completely gauche compared to, say, the flat-yet-chic neo-noirs of the 80s, or the hard boiled Schrader/Scorsese movies of the 70s. Anyway, maybe the guitar ambience I made after talking to @babyfacedjunkie about the film today is completely unrelated. Regardless, I hope both the movie and the vaguely directionless slightly melancholy and ultimately soothing music I made sit well within your newly weird personal/ societal situation.  Roger Ebert said of Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper: "It is filled with great weariness and sadness; the party has been over for a long time, and these old druggies, now approaching middle age, have been left behind. Because they were survivors, because they were more intelligent and honest than most, this is the thanks they get: They continue to work in the scene long after they should have been replaced by a new generation of losers. I've talked to some people who had this or that complaint about the plot of "Light Sleeper," often that they didn't like the way the ending seemed like an ironic echo of "Taxi Driver." This movie isn't about plot, it's about a style of life, and the difficulty of preserving self-respect and playing fair when your income depends on selling people stuff that will make them hate you. In film after film, for year after year, Paul Schrader has been telling this story in one way or another, but never with more humanity than this time." we recommend you watch it and any other Paul Schrader movie and get in contact with me with your thoughts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Even Lighter Sleeper

I remember vague malls various colored doors  by coat tail or nape you too can be a parachute --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

how many times have you been a god?

Clear Acrylic Thought Pattern returns for Season 2 with a new foggy cloud of ambience and fuzzed out guitar meanderings for the unexpectedly gloomy weather and even more extreme isolation of LA in total shutdown mode. Please enjoy! Much more to come soon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Lilac Cumulus Sunbreaker

Honorary Permanent Recurring Guest Mikey Kampmann and I get into some bar stool philosophizing outside of Crawford's in Los Angeles' emerging Filipinotown neighborhood.    Also: A.I. Lao Tzu & toenail dream interpretation. I had a disturbing dream that my big toenail turned into flakey crystalized shards like digital fractal geometry.   Also includes: Lil B/Imogen Heap/Clams Casino classic Birth of Rap  and a throwback to oklou's youtube bedroom dream vocoder synth ballads w her track "Virgin"  speaking of vocal layering: Bobby McFerrin is better than Reggie Watts.  Speaking of long delays Sorry for the long delay between pods. For weeks it's been too hot to think in my apartment. Also I've been broke, which leads to demotivation. On that note, please consider supporting me and this podcast's creation by visiting https://anchor.fm/adamforkner or https://www.patreon.com/adamforkner to make a small monthly donation  or consider a one time gift via venmo @adamforkner or paypal  https://www.paypal.me/adamforkner --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

JST 4 LYF (cluck cluck)

ambient music with birds! Recorded and released August 12th 2019. If you enjoy my ambient music, check out my other musical works as Airboy Express on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp & etc. Here's a Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UhWzPT7RtGFwNUNgjvtlV?si=5BHnZiYuQhK_QfnmlHXM9w  Apple Music click here: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/airboy-express/1191850037.  buy my music here: https://airboyexpress.bandcamp.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Ambient Music with Birds

A Mega Anti Logic Pod Collage of Hot Summer Ice Cream Sandwich Thoughts and Fractal Cake Batter Pavarotti Mixtures, including:  - Dream logic automatic song composition. - Discussion of bird nests and dryer exhaust pipes with Mikey Kampmann (https://www.instagram.com/babyfacedjunkie/)  - A bootleg re-pod of the recent Poundcast podcast when they called and we talked about ice cream sandwiches and Faith No More. (originally on Ep 159 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/159-johnny-pemberton/id673595597?i=1000445987287)  - Live recording of Moon Diagrams - the solo recording project of Deerhunter's Moses Archuleta. check out his new album Trappy Bats on streaming.  - Travis instagram.com/saw_wuz calls in to talk about what people don't wanna talk to him about. - Henry Hynes drops in with some car & beach poetry. (https://www.instagram.com/man_cave_prepper/)  - A snippet of a new piece by modern composer Jordan Dykstra. (http://www.jordandykstra.com)  - A snippet of a field recording by artist Adam Tullie (https://www.adamtullie.com/)  - A wonderful moment with OG Ron and James Sinclair aka Live for Each Moon (https://jameswilliamsinclair.com/) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Pavarotti Ice Cream Sandwich Dreamstate Mega Pod

In this episode: Remote audio reports from Mike Devine and Donyel Donnie Blossoms. Extended talks with Mikey Kampmann.  Mike Devine: https://www.instagram.com/mikethedevine/ and his danker page https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzytp6dFgDg/ Donnie Blossoms: https://www.instagram.com/donnieblossoms/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHSqIBRQMlI Mikey Kampmann: https://www.instagram.com/babyfacedjunkie/ Music: Today's Latin Project ( Yasuaki Shimizu) - "Danza Lucumi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSffZ2eCUsA Junei - "Let's Ride" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CCfmHfiUo --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

Devine Blossoms and Extended Kampmann

Adam Forkner presents various thoughts music poems jokes beats drifts clouds and guests. A muddled purple hue. Fake zen anti-pod jokes and sound collage. Short format. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adamforkner/support

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CLEAR ACRYLIC THOUGHT PATTERN

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