For this week's relaxing, ambient, improvised soundscape: we had some New Yorkers join us in the Twitch stream last week while the city was weathering Hurricane Ida. They requested some hurricane-vibes so today's episode, "eye of the storm" is inspired by Hurricane Ida. It may be less relaxing than some, but beautiful all the same!
welcome to synthquest: improvised, ambient soundscapes! i could not be more thrilled to share this spontaneous (and soothing) creation with you. this week's episode was hurricane themed by listener-request while they waited for Hurricane Ida to pass. livestream listeners requested a dark ending (there was such an increasing fatalistic energy around Ida coinciding with the climate report release). I hear hear some sounds in this episode that remind me of the tornado sirens that frequently sound here in Nashville.
if you'd like to donate to support Hurricane Ida recovery in NOLA, I recommend donating to the Mutual Aid Response Network here: https://donorbox.org/ida
i highly recommend listening to synthquest through headphones. i'll also suggest settling into someplace comfortable to listen, or listening during a bath, massage, on a walk, while you make dinner — basically wherever you go or whatever you do to relax and decompress.
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about jen starsinic
synthquest is created by Jen Starsinic, a music maker and multi-instrumentalist living in Nashville, TN. Jen is also the co-founder and artistic director of Girls Write Nashville, a nonprofit organization providing music mentorship and creative community to youth artists, as featured on NBC's Today Show and NPR's Here & Now. About her last studio release, EP Bad Actor —"there is a blissful aura that surrounds Starsinic’s sound, making for one of 2020’s must-hear albums."
about synthquest
synthquest is recorded live and livestreamed on Twitch currently on Monday and Wednesdays at 9pm CT/10pm ET. It is 100% improvised and unedited.
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