Ephemeral Ponds by QUINTRON

A throbbing, deep-swamp-listening album, created with the "Wildlife Organ" instrument as well as Mellotron, Weather Warlock, and other homemade synths. The USB frog seen on the cover is the actual USB you will receive (click on merch for this release). These little USB frogs were custom designed specifically for this project to look like the infamous dusky gopher frog. The live frogs seen on the cover are "Whites Tree Frogs".

ABOUT THE WILDLIFE ORGAN: The Wildlife Organ was built by Quintron in May and June of 2023 at A Studio in the Woods, an educational / artistic residency program located as far down the Mississippi River as you can get before it begins to splinter out into Gulf of Mexico. The premise is simple – four high quality condenser microphones, housed in protective tubes located at different elevations in the remote woods and swamps. Each of the four microphones were dialed in to capture different wildlife sounds – tree frogs, mockingbirds, carpenter bees, feral hogs, gators, nutria, even the occasional person or pet dog. These sounds were then “musicalized” with custom built circuitry and used as inspiration for more homemade synth music which was layered over the nature sounds at the Spellcaster Lodge recording studio in New Orleans. If you have ever wanted your old Folkways nature-sounds LPs dumped into the blender with an army of budget synths...

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