Oddzial

Mike Dickson

'Oddzial is music that can help keep you away from your phone, computer, or television. Oddzial is a composition that takes time, but also provides something to replace.' -- Jukka Mikkola

Ambient music in twenty nine movements, each of which comprises one non-repeating track that lasts for exactly fifty minutes. Taken together these give 29 x 50 = 1450 minutes of ambient music which, with suitable crossfades crossfades, will provide about 24 hours' of continuous sound. The individual movements can be downloaded separately but it may be best to play them as one continuous piece using this playlist.

An edited CD release of this project is now available. This edits the individual movements down from 50 minutes apiece to a mere two. Although this may prove to be more digestible to many of you, I do feel that a lot is missing in the translation and would encourage you to try out the entire experience instead. That said, the CD release is supported by this file and this file and can be burned to CD by using Imgburn.

This was part of an ongoing project completed in September 2017 which had additional parts added as time passed and inspiration ebbed and flowed. The compositional details behind these tracks are probably not worth writing about - you may prefer to listen to them (or to have them playing while you do something else) and figure it out for yourself. Primarily they are designed to lend a sense of peace, calm and still, as opposed to some of the wilder excesses found elsewhere on this web site.

Movement 1

probably owes a lot to this track from an earlier work.

Movement 2

features multiple cello sections (both real and electronic) and a Glass Harmonica.

Movement 3

draws much inspiration from works by the Scottish musician Steve Moore.

Movement 4

owes much to Steve Reich.

Movement 5

is actually a rework of an excerpt from this earlier piece.

Movement 6

features samples from a Hammond Novachord