Simon Wilkinson | Atmospheric Music For Documentaries, Films & YouTube
Here’s the full 6 minute time lapse film Night Visions: Astro La Palma from Daniel Lowe at Star Mountain Media which features some of my music in the soundtrack. Daniel’s written a detailed blog entry about the making of the film over on his website here.
“I hope that you enjoy the film, creating it was definitely a highlight experience in my life that I will always remember.”
Check out more links to Daniel’s work here:
http://starmountainmedia.com
http://www.facebook.com/StarMountainMedia
Today sees the release of my latest ambient album called Perpetual Dimensions. A collection of 7 tracks spanning 87 minutes, Perpetual Dimensions is an album of atmospheric and ethereal space music. It’s the follow up to my last ambient album Cryosleep Dreams and includes a musical collection of deep bass drones, sparkling highs and shifting landscapes of panoramic musical vistas.
Equally suited to focused immersive listening on headphones or as atmospheric background music for meditation, relaxation and subconscious drifting. You can watch a promo video containing short previews of all the tracks set to atmospheric deep space visuals above.
The album can be purchased directly here on my site or also on Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify and most other music streaming services:
On this site:
http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/perpetual-dimensions/
Bandcamp:
https://thebluemask.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-dimensions
iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/perpetual-dimensions/id1143008762
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Simon_Wilkinson_Perpetual_Dimensions?id=Bwpfdpydtc5rzseo6yfu3gljmz4
Amazon:
http://amzn.to/2aYHQvR
Here’s the trailer for a great new time lapse film from photographer and filmmaker Daniel Lowe at Star Mountain Media. Daniel has licensed music from me previously for his excellent time lapse piece Outer Banks and this new film is just as stunning to watch. The trailer features my track Sabotage from volume 6 of my royalty free music collection Dark Matter.
“It was filmed over 14 days (and nights) on the island of La Palma, Spain off the coast of Africa. I’ll be writing a blog entry soon with more personal details about my trip. Until then, please enjoy the video trailer.”
Daniel has lots of great time lapse clips, stock footage and photography you can license for use in your own projects over at his website so go check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/StarMountainMedia
All individual music track downloads bought from my website have now been upgraded to the highest quality 320 kbps mp3 downloads. So when you place your order, the downloads you receive will be the highest CD-quality mp3 music files available.
Additionally, all royalty-free music collections are also available as full broadcast quality wav files, or as 192 kbps mp3s if you prefer a smaller download but still high quality.
Select the option you prefer for the royalty free collections from the dropdown when ordering. And if you’ve recently bought any single music tracks at the previous 192 kbps mp3 format, don’t worry, you can re-download at the new highest quality by just logging in with your original details and downloading again!
Enjoy the highest quality music download formats from thebluemask.com:
Today I’ve released a new ambient space music track called Birth Of A Distant Star. The track is a 10 minute atmospheric instrumental ambient piece based around themes of star births, origins of the galaxy, space travel and epic interstellar imagery.
Full of atmospheric ambient textures and harmonically rich floating synth layers, the instrumental track would make ideal background music for space documentaries and feature films, astronomy time lapse films, art films, photo galleries or any video that calls for ethereal and highly textural audio, music and sound design.
The track is available to download and license here for use in your own films and videos and also on all popular music download sites like iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.
Here’s a nice new video from 3D graphic artist Dylan Gauld featuring my atmospheric ambient music track Antarctica. Growth is the outcome of a year’s worth of Dylan’s collaboration with mathematicians to develop new ways of visualising mathematical models to predict the growth and development of cancer cells. More info can be found on Dylan’s website at www.dylangauld.co.uk
Antarctica is a 7 and a half minute ambient track of slowly evolving atmospheric organic soundscapes and minimal piano. You can download or license the track for use in your own film or documentary here:
A few days ago I had the belated pleasure of watching the 2013 film Still Life directed by Uberto Pasolini. The film stars the always brilliant Eddie Marsan as a council worker who tries to track down relatives of people who’ve died alone. It’s a very quiet subtle film and Eddie Marsan is amazing in his ability at being able to really hold and hang on to silence but still captivate your attention.
One thing that really stood out and framed the whole thing perfectly was the beautiful score by British composer Rachel Portman.
The music is very delicate and haunting (you can hear the end titles in the video on the right) and it suits the melancholy emotional tone of the film perfectly.
Rachel Portman is an extremely talented and prolific composer having scored numerous films including The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Never Let Me Go and Mike Leigh’s Four Days In July (in fact the score for Still Life reminded me at times of the soundtrack to Mike Leigh’s Naked, composed by Andrew Dickson and another one of my favourite film soundtracks).
The soundtrack for Still Life is available to download from iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/still-life-original-motion/id924943882
Screen is a great looking new horror film from David Paul Baker which features some of my music and is due for imminent release on Vimeo On Demand. The film is about a group of horror fans who are found dead in front of an old drive-in screen. We go back 24 hours to follow two of the characters from this group who discover people died at the drive-in back in the 70s and the screen is haunted… The movie was shot between Tulsa and Cleveland, Oklahoma and bristles with a style reminiscent of horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween mixed with a classic grindhouse feel.
“Simultaneously reminiscent of Grindhouse Exploitation films and the new and old waves of “found footage” flicks, and with an opening newsreel sequence, and that kind of foreboding, Tubular Bells-ish music that just isn’t used in movies often enough anymore, SCREEN, directed by David Paul Baker is low-budget, self-sufficient Indie gold at it’s very best.”
The film featuring my music will be released on Vimeo On Demand on the 15th December and you can watch a trailer from the movie above, or sign up to the movie’s mailing list for updates here.
Writer/producer/director David Paul Baker has a lot of other film ideas in the pipeline including City Of Sin, a branded hub destination for features and shorts under one umbrella.
You can follow news about Screen, City Of Sin and David’s other movie and short film projects at the following links:
Film and documentary maker Liam Leahy has made a series of films portraying some of the people involved in the Occupy movement. The video above shows a portrait of ‘Rene’ from Occupy Boston.
Liam’s videos have featured several of my music tracks and the above video uses my track ‘A Kind Of Distance‘ from Volume 5 of my royalty free music collection:
www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol-5-cinematic-piano
See more of Liam’s great work on his Vimeo page:
Here’s a new eerie zombie horror film from Mark Wojcik at nnuu films featuring some of my dark atmospheric music.
The Horror Of Green Mountain is a short CGI animated film with a dark unsettling atmosphere.
The music featured in the video is licensed from my royalty free music collection Volume 7: 13 Days Of Nightmares as well as the track Eclipse. Both of these are available to buy here on my website at the following links:
http://www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol-7-13-days-of-nightmares
