Cloud Opacity – Queen City Sounds and Art

You can hear the sound of waves coming into shore on Cloud Opacity’s “Noshine Coast” and through the melodic drones you can also hear what sounds like cars driving by on a highway. What makes the title effective with this soundscape is that you can experience these sensations without needing the visuals. Like you’re sitting near that shore in the dark of night with maybe a bank of fog obscuring the stars before moonrise. It’s a feeling of being out of normal time because the evolving background tones could hit as either late night or early morning before the sun climbs into the sky to burn away that fog. Its a feeling of mysterious tranquility that washes into your mind with the slow-lapping waves and arc of tonal texture. It’s a very specific aural sense of space that Cloud Opacity has crafted here with elegance and sonic poetry. Listen to “Noshine Coast” on Spotify and follow Cloud Opacity at the links below.

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Cloud Opacity must have spent a good deal of time in remote places where a cold wind washes rapidly through the landscape as inspiration for “Backcountry.” The white noise of the wind gives an unpredictable textureal quality that serves as a sonic through line for the piece. In the background, melodic drones like a musical manifestation of the Northern Lights hangs and peeks through the sound of a windswept snow bound landscape with impressionistic notes accenting the atmosphere like lights marking the tops of power lines and communications towers faintly discerned through the whiteout dusk. Listen to “Backcountry” on Soundcloud and connect with Cloud Opacity at the links below.