Lunae Lumin is a concept album for the short story, "A Perch Made of Moonlight." This record was recorded and edited to a 432hz standard. High resolution download of the story, the front and back covers, included with purchase.
Aelia is a short, rhythmic ambient track with melodic fragments caught in a web of delay and reverb.
Lunae Lumin is a concept album for the short story, A Perch Made of Moonlight.
This music was recorded and edited to a 432hz standard, which to some ears sounds way better than the perfectly tuned 440hz.
High resolution download of the story, the front and back covers, included with purchase:
Extremely influenced by Tim Hecker, Tomasz Bednarczyk, and Abul Mogard, the newest from Wicked Cities From A Distance focuses deeply upon a moving organ drone expressly synthesized through a Eurorack granular synthesis patch. It’s available for members of Fire, Fire, Red Star Down only.
The Nightmare Machine, or Apprehension Engine, is a unique device designed for horror film sound design. It utilizes mechanical components to generate eerie noises.
Created by film composer Mark Korven and his collaborator Tony Duggan-Smith, this one-of-a-kind instrument produces sounds so unsettling, it elevates a horror film from kinda scary to truly terrifying.
The Nightmare Machine's wholly-analog nature makes it stand out; Many sounds put in horror films today are entirely digital in nature and not created on the spot. The Nightmare Machine is a live beast by comparison.
I’ve release three Nightmare Machine videos so far (below).
Also, you can listen to the OFFICIAL Nightmare Machine record, here: https://firefireredstardown.bandcamp....
Kaffir Piano employs a variety of unconventional production techniques to make its less-than-two-minute track stand out. It is bass-focused, but not to the point of overshadowing the other elements. The atmosphere it creates lingers over the guitar and bass, perhaps capturing that moment when you come home from work at 6 PM, and it's already dark. You're home, but the day has slipped away.
Evocative analogies aside, Kaffir Piano draws the listener a tad bit closer to themselves, as all of The Double Headed Seagulls’ music tends to do. It's great for sparking your next creative idea or perhaps planning the perfect prank to pull on your closest friends.
The Double Headed Seagulls have never shied away from a tightly focused, harmonically experimental sound. Much of their music evokes a constantly shifting musical undercurrent. Flowery language aside, you can certainly count on The Double Headed Seagulls to push harmonic boundaries but in a very understated way. Kaffir Piano does just that.
When the tree branches hold a great deal of weight from ice and snow, when the air seems almost too still for breathing, and when driving anywhere horrifies you, "Music For Ice Storms" is the remedy.This is music that serves you well if you'd just rather... not.
Though Wicked Cities From A Distance's prior two releases have explored the noisier side of ambient with both *Dual Portamento* and *Lodern*, "Music For Ice Storms" marks a return to the more relaxed, chill ambient roots. Always tinged with a slight edge of melancholy, this music is still perfect for a chill snow day.
Névé: A noun meaning granular snow on high mountains that has been compacted into dense, icy formations, related to "nival" conditions in snowy environments.
Gelid: An adjective meaning extremely cold, icy, or frosty, describing temperatures that go beyond "chilly" and penetrate to the bone.
Satire. You know it. Here it is:
Part of the joy of Eurorack synthesizers comes from their melodic generative algorithms. AfterLater Pachinko, a clone of the epic Mutable Marbles module, serves as a random chance machine, allowing musicians to set the guidelines for melodic construction. In other words, I specify the notes I want, the range I desire, and the rhythm I envision.
From there, Pachinko goes to work and creates music.
The resulting music often has a scientific feel to it. Music created as a byproduct of exploration can sometimes come off as clinical and unemotional. It wasn't until I began mastering this work that I realized one of the reasons I love exploring Eurorack so much is that much of my musical life outside this medium focuses on evoking the emotional heartstrings of listeners. This is a common aim for film composers, and for some, it can feel like emotional blackmail.
Nonetheless, this quick little album offers surprisingly fun moments. I found that the music works best when you're looking for something detached, unemotional, and not vying for your attention.
This original motion picture soundtrack is now released. Nice! Three months in the making, this soundtrack features an orchestra with an extremely reverb’d guitar. Good fun!
If you've seen the banner on the top of the Bandcamp page, you've probably guessed *something* was going on. I decided to go a little crazy this month and just put out as much music as I could. Why the hell not??
THE DATES for these five mystery releases are as follows:
* December 8th
* December 11th
* December 15th
* December 18th
* December 22
Health. Happiness. Music. Love. Friendship. Family. Mentors. Guitar. Orchestras. Synthesizers. In short everything, including you.
Thank you for being a part of this weird music journey in 2025. I haven’t always risen to the challenges, but I did get a little stronger for it. I hope you did too in your life and your way.
Thank you,
- Dave Wirth
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From the dark intersections of Austin and Portland, where sound becomes both art and experiment, Evil Gima stands as a bold testament to music’s power to disturb, provoke, and transcend. Founded in 2015 by Dave Wirth, an award-winning film composer known for his cinematic storytelling and membership in The Double Headed Seagulls, Evil Gima was conceived as a creative sanctuary, a space where boundaries were meant to be broken and sound itself could be reinvented. Wirth envisioned a project that would challenge the notion of what “music” should be, favoring emotional honesty and textural complexity over comfort and convention. But Evil Gima truly took form in the early 2020s when Wirth invited longtime collaborator Jorge Martinez, a critically acclaimed musician and artist, to join him in expanding the project’s sonic horizons. The partnership was alchemical, two minds drawn to the same dark gravity of experimentation, working not to please but to provoke. Their creative synergy gave rise to the 2021 release Alluvion, a record that blurred the lines between ambient music and psychological exploration. With Alluvion, they earned a spotlight on Bandcamp’s Daily, where their work was described as “chilling ambient music with mournful tones and barren textures, perfect to score an abandoned cityscape.” The recognition affirmed what Evil Gima had already proven to themselves: that music could be a medium for catharsis, a way to exorcise the restless noise that lives inside the mind.
Despite its haunting, eerie tones and the project’s prophetic moniker, ‘Elements’ is not certainly evil. Far from it. While its aural boundaries are soaked in gripping, noisy textures and dark harmonic work, the record itself is a child of wonder, a slice of committed, authentic artistry delivered by the creative minds of Dave Wirth and Jorge Martinez. Collectively known as Evil Gima, the pair threads the fine line between dystopian melancholia and chaotic, gritty industrial euphoria.
What follows are four tracks steeped in escapism and abstraction, four pieces that challenge listeners on a personal level. We suspect not everyone will manage to even understand Evil Gima’s complex musical endeavour. One has to be courageous, ready to perhaps deal with negative and uncomfortable emotions. Yet, the final award is freedom – from oneself, from a troubled consciousness.
Avec Elements, Evil Gima signe un tournant audacieux dans sa discographie. Né d’un week-end créatif en mai 2024, cet EP de quatre titres utilise les synthétiseurs Eurorack pour explorer des territoires harmoniques inédits. Entre quarts de ton, modes atypiques et textures sonores inquiétantes, le duo pousse l’expérimentation jusqu’à ses limites, offrant une expérience auditive qui bouscule l’oreille et les repères.
De início, parece não haver sequer um sinal de som. O silêncio, portanto, molda a paisagem inicial, intrigando o espectador. No entanto, de maneira gradativa e tímida, um detalhe estridente começa a surgir, quebrando com o estado de torpor. Entre um vaivém ora oco, ora de aparência nítida, essa textura acaba atingindo seu ápice em meio a uma sonoridade que não apenas beira, mas flerta gentilmente com o sombrio. Com direito a pulsos rítmicos ecoantes e a uma oferta de sensorialidade associada à solidão, Enthalpy destaca o caos de uma inicial dissonância, enquanto faz com que o ouvinte mergulhe em um mundo de vulnerabilidade e insegurança.
Elements marks a significant evolution in Evil Gima's sound. This new record was created during an intense weekend of music-making in May 2024. The duo utilized Eurorack synthesizers to craft four tracks that push the boundaries of traditional harmony in an excessive way. By incorporating quarter tones, atypical scale modes not commonly utilized, and disturbing sound design, the album invites listeners to experience a new dimension of sound.
Across its roughly twenty-minute runtime, the EP conjures an emotional spectrum that few lyric-driven projects achieve. One moment, you’re caught in the throes of an anxious pulse like on the opener “Enthalpy” and the next you’re suspended in an ambient void towards the midway point with “Nuclear Charge”. With all the music we consume on a daily basis, it’s become difficult to grasp our attention, but this managed to do it a little too easily.
Elements is an EP that simply gives wings to the imagination. However, not by a disneyresque, colorful and cheerful optic. Here, there is the dense, the tense. The chaos. Here, the shadows whisper and the silence murmurs. Darkness presents itself as the majority setting of all its sonic narratives.
It is precisely before them that the listener has to deal with his own weaknesses. Insecurity, fear, a sense of disprotection. Loneliness as proof of weakness associated with the perception of trust. Even if the tears run out at certain times, the drama Elements offers is fleeting and almost ludibriant. Here is an EP in which acid, synthetic and lo-fi unite in a dark and noisy aesthetic-structural rawness.
Elements Album Cover, by Evil Gima
Elements is equal parts melodic dirge, pitch-defying and foundation destroying drone, and expressionistic hallucination. The whole thing is a short but wild trip down a mountain mudslide with an innertube for protection. Journey if you dare:
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Elements Album Cover, by Evil Gima
Working with Jorge Martinez on Elements has been both rewarding and demanding.
We aimed to create experimental music with intention and symmetry, not just layered noise.
Somehow, we manage to push each other into stranger, more affecting places, sometimes unsettling, weird, magical, or blown-out.
We went for broke with this record. It helps to be bold in saying it: We want to create experimental music stops you in your chair.
Elements is our next iteration. We hope it moves something deep within you, as it did us.
[Play Artful] sounds like music boxes attained intelligence and learned to communicate with each other via electrical wires in on the process of communication in a collective, harmonious process in which every entity involved contributes to a dynamic sound that reflects a joyful spirit sustained for the track’s two minute and thirty-seven seconds run time. Tones pulse slowly, a background wave of low end comes to the foreground in pleasing pulses and the simple but jaunty percussive sounds buoy the energy of all the other elements for a net effect of a gentle momentum that feels like a completion of some kind of journey at the end and arriving at your destination at ease.
All in all, “Play Artful” by The Double Headed Seagulls — a livening breath of fresh air that isn’t afraid to push the boundaries — heck, to redefine them entirely. The epitome of self-expression, this album is more than worth a listen.
“Play Artful” is a reinvention of sound and memory, a work that transforms forgotten cassette fragments into a vibrant sonic canvas where experimentation meets playfulness. By blending lo-fi electronica, dreamy synth textures, IDM-inspired rhythms, and expressive jazz guitar, The Double Headed Seagulls craft a listening experience that feels at once nostalgic and refreshingly new. It is an EP that invites reflection but also delights in spontaneity, striking a rare balance between sophistication and childlike wonder, where every note feels both intentional and effortlessly free.
Where some experimental albums risk alienating listeners with too much abstraction, Play Artful remains accessible. Its melodies and grooves, while complex, are inviting rather than intimidating. This makes it a record that can be appreciated by both serious audiophiles and casual listeners alike.
In an era where much music feels polished and predictable, The Double Headed Seagulls has crafted a collection that is unpredictable, joyful, and utterly alive, confirming his place as an innovator in the indie-electronic landscape.
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Epic, hurting, intense, and slow. Piano with soaring strings and an epic chord progression. Want to preorder the record?
I even had to get on my computer on a Saturday to keep up! You can listen to Play Artful at all the places, but here’s the more common ones:
Bandcamp | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music | iHeartRadio | Deezer | Tidal
It’s an imaginative, cathartic record, one that requires a certain amount of effort and commitment from the listener. At times melancholic, at times calming, otherwise bittersweet: The Double Headed Seagulls has mastered the art of communicating through aural fragments and liminal soundscapes.
The feeling is that of finding an old chest in the attic and discovering that the toys stored inside still work, but now speak a more complex and enchanting language… The jazz-like modulation of guitars converses with the ambient textures of synthesizers, creating a lo-fi IDM that is paradoxically both nostalgic and futuristic.
[Play Artful is] …a lush, playful soundscape where digital synths, textured feedback, and intricate guitar modulations collide.
[Play Artful is] …an electronic avant-garde release complete with engaging arrangements, warm melodies and welcoming production.
Equal parts IDM electronica, ambient shimmer, and jazz guitar propulsion, Play Artful has officially released on all streaming platforms today.
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The first of the reviews have also officially arrived:
There’s also a cinematic quality to the work that embodies Wirth’s film composer background. Each piece feels like a scene in an unfolding dream, full of color and texture, each transition handled with an editor’s sense of pacing. Despite that polish, nothing feels too controlled. The music retains a looseness, a spontaneity that makes every detail feel discovered rather than engineered. You never really know where things are going, especially on “One Pot Screamer”, but collectively the whole record gives off the perfect experience.
This is no ordinary record. It’s an exercise in turning sound into sketches, tones into brushstrokes, and rhythm into unexpected shapes. Wirth folds together post-rock dynamics, lo-fi electronica, IDM patterns, experimental ambient layers, and the fluidity of jazz guitar to create something vibrant and exploratory. The result is an EP that feels like creative kids scribbling on the walls—messy, colorful, imaginative, and ultimately, delightful.
With ‘Play Artful,’ The Double Headed Seagulls mark a fascinating entry into the experimental scene, proving that playfulness and sophistication can coexist beautifully. Dave Wirth uses his filmic instincts to draw us into shifting landscapes—sometimes chaotic, sometimes serene, but always captivating. This is music for the imagination, a reminder that creativity is at its best when boundaries dissolve.
…a beautiful and dreamy sound universe…. In a lively and engrossing way, Play Artful blends art-rock, jazz guitar modulations, lo-fi IDM, and rich ambient synthesizers. It seeks to astound and excite those who hear it. I vouch for this song but, if you don’t believe me, listen for yourself and see how wonderful it is.
If you’ve ever had the experience of doing something you love to do, but got no joy from it, this is the soundtrack for that moment:
Play Artful by The Double Headed Seagulls
The Double Headed Seagulls, with two albums under their belt so far, are set to release their third record in their 15+ years of music making. Play Artful can best be described as a lively combo of jazz guitar, ambient synths, and propulsive rhythms. It’s a bit child-like in it’s delivery, having a happily messy but driving, youthful energy. Play Artful is set for a public release on the 28th of August, 2025. But, you can get it today…
For those who want to grab the bull by the horn and get Play Artful today, you can do that at the Fire, Fire, Red Star Down Bandcamp page if you become a member. To sweeten the deal, I also offer a rare Double Headed Seagulls song Half An Hour Past Hanging Time for your listening pleasure. I invested a lot of energy into the 3D sound of this single, so I think it’s worth it. Plus, you’ll get a TON of other perks as a member. Go here if you’re interested in signing up (it’s affordable: $14/year).
Even better: Why not a couple of behind-the-scenes looks at the Ableton Live files? Yup. Those are included in the Bonus Edition, too…
What a joy! I was hanging with Maurice Moore a couple of days ago, and he told me more about this festival. Apparently, there’s only five feature films in this years Hollywood Black Film Festival, and Finding Solace is one of them. Holy crap!! Yes!!!
My friends, who all love to tease me about my discomfort with social media, had a field day when they saw that I was following them on Instablarg (I can’t even bring myself to write the darn name). Well, I’m there. If you’re into connecting, it’s now super clear…
After the premiere of Finding Solace, Maurice Moore called up the cast and crew involved in making the film. I got up and stood with everyone. Maurice then basically spills the beans and says, “And congratulations to Dave Wirth for winning Best Original Score for Austin Action Film Festival!”
A confused 30 seconds later, when I figured that people were looking at me, I finally remembered to say thank you! Ha!
Sounds like it’s time for me to update my IMDb page:
Play Artful - August 28th, 2025
Half An Hour Past Hanging Time - August 21st, 2025
Play Artful is getting ready to drop onto unsuspecting ears everywhere. I can hardly contain my excitement. I’m ready! The record drops for everyone on August 28th, 2025, unless you’re a subscriber of Fire, Fire, Red Star Down…
Play Artful as well as Half An Hour Past Hanging Time are available on August 21st, 2025 for members of Fire, Fire, Red Star Down, at Bandcamp. I can’t wait to get this music to y’all.
If you’re already a subscriber, thank you. I mean it. This is the least I can do for your awesomeness. I hope you dig the music.
I can't help but be a tiny bit suspicious when "Mercury Retrograde" hits and all things technology fall apart. Bandcamp was quite fussy this week.
The Finding Solace preorder gave me multiple error messages when i wanted to release the main track. Instead, I've included it here along with a little behind-the-scenes info on what it was like to work with Maurice Moore on this film: www.davewirthmusic.com/blog/finding-solace-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
Further, the first two Finding Solace teasers were released this week. This teaser is pretty fun and scary (Horror movie soundtracks are the most fun to compose the music for):
I also released a 14 second teaser of Full Oxford, the first song off of Play Artful by The Double Headed Seagulls. It's got a really interesting chord progression in it (at least to my ears, and ego):
Play Artful is coming out on August 28th, 2025. If you're a subscriber, you'll get a never-before-heard bonus DHSG track one week before the album releases: firefireredstardown.bandcamp.com/members
Finally, Finding Solace is currently set to premiere at Austin Action Fest, August 9th, 2025. For tickets, go here: filmfreeway.com/AustinActionFest/tickets. I really hope to see you there. Feel free to tell me what you thought of the music. Honesty is the best policy.
