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These Analog Synth-Scored Videos Of Explosions Are The Bomb

This synth soundtrack is explosive.

Feeling a bit moody? Then these atmospheric synthesizer improvisations set to the grainy footage of old bomb tests might be the perfect audio-visual accompaniment for your day.

In March, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uploaded 63 videos to YouTube of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and 1962. Musician Andrew Jones has set these creepy videos to sound. His 59-track soundtrack of analog synth improvisations vary from eerily beautiful ambient studies, to powerful square-wave pulses to grand melodic gestures. The tracks are intended, in his words, “to focus the viewer’s attention by pausing contextual thought and introducing or allowing for new ideas through sound.”

Scroll down to hear five of the works from the soundtrack. To pre-order the record, out June 23, click here.

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