Tag: Analise Hausmann

Ana Hausmann’s Ambient and Modern Classic Song “come on, I’ll catch you” is a Poetic Evocation on Isolation

Analise Hausmann, photo courtesy the artist

Ana Hausmann establishes a strong sense of mood and place from the beginning of “come on, I’ll catch you.” Icy violin stretches out over the sound of splashing water as a slow roiling drone serves as a backdrop like a constant presence, like a haze at sunset. Wordless vocals resound in the latter half of the song like someone commenting on a time and place that seems quiet and all but abandoned. The song comes from Hausmann’s album seminary which is a little like a musical diary capturing slices out of life and the landscape and evoking time spent meditating on small details that can be otherwise missed in the rush of life spent catering to the relentless demands of commerce and finding poetry and a deeper meaning in those moments of observant contemplation. The who track feels like an expression of the essence of isolation as an opportunity for reflection and cultivating deeper and nuanced understandings. Musically the piece and many of those on the album blends ambient composition, modern classical attention to tone as texture and processed field recordings as a foundation of songcraft. Listen to “come on, I’ll catch you” on Soundcloud and if you like what you hear the rest of the album is on Bandcamp. Follow Hausmann’s further adventures in soundscaping at the links below.

Analise Hausmann on YouTube

“Stars in the Riptide” by Micah Pick and Analise Hausmann Charts the Life Cycle of a Wave From Formation to Crashing Into Shore in Ambient Drones

Micah Pick, photo courtesy the artist

If you close your eyes and listen to Micah Pick’s and Analise Hausmann’s ambient piece “Stars in the Riptide” you can picture the heavens reflected off the waters as they rush into a rocky inlet, shimmering and endless fragments of glinting light. The song begins with a distant sound like a slow swelling wind, the waveform building in the ocean headed to shore then splashes and rushes as the tide rises. White noises as the crest of the waves ripple through the scintillating melody into a slow cascading frisson of tones that peaks and fades. In the extended version of the song we get to savor that heady anticipation early in the song as it evolves with seeming subtlety into a flood of activity but we hear the simulated sounds of sea birds on the edges of the soundscape much more distinctly and the resonating tones toward the end and apex of the song stretch out like an elongated vortex that breaks and dissolves abruptly into infinity. Listen to both versions of “Stars in the Riptide” on Spotify and follow Micah Pick on Bandcamp.