Is there more stuff on the way?

Yes, there is always new Ambient music in the hopper.

I’d say, on average, I’ve added about 18 hours a year for the past decade. The speed of ingress was a lot more fervent back in the early years, when S E B was all fresh and sparkling-new.

Hit & Miss

My experiments are not always successful.

For example, I spent a whole boatload of time on my Christmas 2002 broadcast, and most people didn’t like it. Never can say that I don’t try. But then again, that was then, and things do change. I’ve since more than tripled the size of my Winter seasonal Broadcast Disc, and I have gotten some compliments now that it has become a yearly tradition.

And then there are the Aleister Crowley quotes, which have been with S E B since Disc 1. They’re gonna get played, and you’re either gonna like ‘em or you aren’t. Love under Will, my friends.

I have no idea how people feel about (what I refer to as) my “Beats & Conets” collection. I rarely play it – because it’s somewhat orthogonal to the station’s Ambient nature – but when I do, it’s during “the Daytime”.

Which reminds me – Shouts out to the lads at Seance Radio, a Techno & Electronica station whose overnights get downright gaseous. You’ve been a source of many great crossover songs.

Grand Designs

I have a huge assortment of long-term projects and / or never-ending projects relating to the radio stream. Given the free time, I continue to make forward progress on:

more Albums & Content – the music itself, added as it falls within my scope of influence.
“drops” – additional film samples and effects. Perhaps a brief call-sign at the top of every (other?) hour.
Resampling – gradually upgrading my old 96kB MP3 rips. This is almost entirely complete. Only the unrecoverables – such as Robert Henke’s Floating Point – still remain.
Database Integration with Ambience for the Masses – mostly for de-abbreviating ID3v1 titling data and pulling other things to display for the current track. it’s a hybrid stack comprised of Java, MySQL, Node.js, MongoDB, React, Docker, Ruby tooling and AWS.
some sort of DMCA compliance algorithm – which, in a perfect world, would portion out the artists and albums according to doctrinated repeat-play constraints.
and maybe a DJing algorithm – the ‘brains’ of the operation, to make the playlists sound like they’re spinning the music rather than shuffling it. Which could be supported by …
Crowdsourced Tagging – whereby listeners could categorize the songs along various spectra – sweet vs. sinister, synthetic vs. organic, intense vs. drone – to serve said algorithm. Or maybe even …
full Frequency Analysis – letting an algorithm find the piano songs for me, with a little help from massive distributed computing.

This website was most recently overhauled in 2021 * Archival , so at least that’s checked off the list for a little while.

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