Resonant Drift

Resonant Drift

Founded in 2004 by Bill Olien.
After meeting each other in 2008, original solo-member Bill Olien has invited multi-instrumentalist Gary Johnson to join him in his project Resonant Drift, based in Southern California. Together, they developed a natural synergy and found common interests in the exploration of sound and music.

Hollan Holmes + Resonant Drift - Common Ground
Hollan Holmes + Resonant Drift - Common Ground

Artist: Hollan Holmes & Resonant Drift
P: 2015
December 1, 2015 - The journey has begun and a major milestone has been reached with the completion of a two-year project: the collaboration between Ambient duo Resonant Drift (Bill Olien and Gary Johnson) and Electronic Space music composer Hollan Holmes, with the release of their debut album, Common Ground. From this release forward, Common Ground will serve as the name of this collaboration and subsequent CDs will possess unique titles. We chose simply to call our first release Common Ground. Toward the end of production on the Common Ground project, the three band members, Bill Olien, Gary Johnson and Hollan Holmes,  began exploring ideas for the art and design for the music's packaging. Several ideas were discussed and they decided to build upon a theme based on a Planetary Gear Set, a mechanical engine component whereby a number of Planetary gears - in this case three (representing the three members of Common Ground) - rotate in synchronization around a central Sun gear (representing the common musical endeavors of the group) and within an outer Ring gear. The plan was for Hollan to model the components in 3d software (Maya), then surface (or "texture") the 3d objects, light the scene and render it all in Arnold, a powerful rendering engine used throughout the animation and movie industry. Hollan's original estimate for the time necessary to complete the job was 150 hours. In the end, it required approximately 176 hours, from the initial sketches to the final design and layout of the physical digipak.

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Resonant Drift - Call
Resonant Drift - Call

Artist: Resonant Drift
P: 2009
Resonant Drift creates ambient atmospheres with occasional tribal rhythms in the vein of Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie, Paul Ellis and Brian Eno. Mastered by Steve Roach, which have enriched the 60-minutes of compelling and intimate desert music enormously. The outcome has gained a lot of depth, as it slowly goes by in textural beauty and serenity, only occasionally supported by minimal sequencer patterns on the background.

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Resonant Drift - Passages
Resonant Drift - Passages

Artist: Resonant Drift
P: 2011
"Passages" opens mysteriously with "Summons", but very soon this composition turns into more dynamic tune with its rhythmed tribal ambience, nice intro. With "Departure" this Californian duo is heading into some beautifully tranquil orchestral space washes nicely enriched by warm and nostalgic strings, very evocative and relaxing piece. "At First Threshold" with organic and environmental sounds moves to more deeper and mysterious terrains. It's evident that Resonant Drift delivers on "Passages" quite varied, but complex mixture of sounds and moods. "The Task" keeps on spookier tense path, even if some kind of exotic bird calls can be heard here and there. Next two compositions, "Initiation" and "Seeing Through The Veil", go back towards more sentimental cinematic feel while the next one, "Beyond The Vision", transports us into the panoramatic desert sceneries with all its graciousness. "Crossing The Threshold" explores again the organic flavours with all kinds of eclectic natural sounds, mostly centered around some buzz that might be bullroarer. With shorter "Two Worlds" we are again diving deeper into very quiet and calm desert soundworlds that lead us into the longer epilog.

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