Chill Nite by Clint Goss

During my year of pandemic lock-down, I developed an electronic rig that captures the sounds of my beloved real-world instruments.
The core of the rig is the Sylphyo – an electronic wind instrument developed by Aodyo in France. It is augmented by hardware and software virtual instruments and a looper setup that lets me layer sounds.

In October 2021, I offered two solo ambient concerts at Flute Harvest in Encino, CA. The music of the first five tracks was played live over a sparse nature soundscape. I played the last three tracks live, supported by the recorded music of my mentor, David Darling, pianist Alexander Nakarada, and the drone sounds of a particular species of “drumming fish”.

I played virtual versions of these real-world instruments: Native American flutes, clarinet, oboe, cello mandolin, tubular bells chimes, Armenian duduk, bansuri, and silver flute. I also played various virtual instruments that do not have real-world equivalents: Heaven Bells, Respiro (Desert Wind), EVI-NER, Marble, and Matt Traum’s IndiaFlute and Beauty.

** Gear

Sylphyo electronic wind instrument by Aodyo, Yamaha VL70-m, DynaSample XpressO, Boss RC-505, RME Babyface Pro FS, Samson SM10, and a Toshiba laptop running Kontakt, Reaktor, MassiveX, and Cantabile.

Tracklist

1.	Forest Prologue	1:35

2.	Heaven Bells	3:55

3.	Darling Cthulhu	8:04

4.	Marble	4:14

5.	Ambient Duduk	4:50

6.	Fish	2:30

7.	Ether	7:28

8.	Desire	4:26

Credits

released December 9, 2021

Cover image by Marcyn Del Clements.

Virtual instruments and effects by Chet Singer (French Horn), Christian Henson (Spitfire Audio Labs / Pedal Pads: Ethereal Piano), Christian Knufinke (SIR3 Convolution Reverb), Christoph Scholl (Heaven Bells), Clint Goss (Kontakt sound libraries for Native American flutes: Cypress NAF CG, Cherry NAF CG), Davidson Carpenter (EVI-NER), Gino Chimenti (Sonopuro / Duduk), Ingo Scherzinger (DynaSample Xpresso / Cello, Mandoline, Tubular Bells), Matt Traum (VL70-m Turbo / Clarinet, Oboe, IndiaFlt, Beauty), Rene Dohmen and Joachim Dürbeck (Cinematique / Marble, Chimes), Rudy Verpale (Imoxplus / Respiro, Desert Flowers V), Sean Costello (Valhalla Shimmer), Steve Duda (Cthulhu), and Uli Baronowsky (Native Instruments / Galaxy Instruments / The Grandeur Piano).

Native American flute sound libraries are freely available at Flutopedia.com/soundlib.htm.

Nature sounds are courtesy of:
• “Drumming Fish” on Track 6 courtesy of Cornell University / Andrew H. Bass.
• “River Stream” by Çağan Çelik (CC0 1.0) [Freesound.org/people/CaganCelik/sounds/444272/]
• “Birds in Kalopa State Park” by Tom Benedict (CC-BY 3.0) [Freesound.org/people/tombenedict/sounds/398000/]
• “Bird Sing 2” and “Bird Sing 3” by Wakerone (CC0 1.0) [Freesound.org/people/Wakerone/sounds/395831/] [Freesound.org/people/Wakerone/sounds/395830/]
• “Nightingale Song” by Smand (CC0 1.0) [Freesound.org/people/smand/sounds/521035/]
• “Tawny Owls 2” by Benboncan (CC-BY 3.0) [Freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/64544/]

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