Birgit Jauernig’s track “NGC 604” has a magnificent glimpse of a massive star system for its accompanying image. The title, like the image, relates to “a vast nebula,” as the website of the Hubble space telescope [refers to it](https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9627c/). NGC 604 lies some 2.7 million light years from our little blue marble. The audio track is the latest in an ongoing series by Jauernig, who goes by Ahornberg on SoundCloud, that take inspiration for celestial bodies. The association is an exploration of space music, which here means a series of slow, undulating swells that move from vast cetacean droning to rich, impossibly detailed chime-like shimmers.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/ahornberg](https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/ngc-604). More from Jauernig, who is based in Vienna, Austria, and is part of the Rumourtone Ambient Collective, at [mixcloud.com/Rumourtone_Music](https://www.mixcloud.com/Rumourtone_Music/).

If [yesterday](https://disquiet.com/2018/02/09/45-seconds-of-granular-acoustic-bliss/)’s bit of Auxels’ music was [a modest excursion into acoustic guitar and granular processing](https://disquiet.com/2018/02/09/45-seconds-of-granular-acoustic-bliss/), the next is thundering texture. Presumably this is all guitar again. The massive tone suggests a thick, lower-register string on a guitar rumbling up close. On headphones, it feels like it’s been blown up large as a house and is vibrating nearby in the dark. That maximalist presence is balanced by a more trembling, treble-y sound, and the whole thing is ensconced in a dark, deep ambience. This track represents the 91st in a 100-day, ongoing project by Berlin-based Auxels to record a different 45-second track daily. Follow along at [soundcloud.com/auxels](https://soundcloud.com/auxels/).

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/auxels](https://soundcloud.com/auxels/4500-091-underbelly). More from Auxels at [twitter.com/auxels](https://twitter.com/auxels) and [auxels.bandcamp.com](https://auxels.bandcamp.com/).

In the note that accompanies the brief sketch “4500/090:Teal Velvet,” the musician who goes by Auxels wonders briefly if the approach is “possibly now tired.” Let’s hope it isn’t, because in Auxels’ hands this approach — a combination of acoustic guitar picking and granular synthesis — is a sedately paced exploration of melody, texture, and the pattenrs that exist within both. It’s the 90th entry in a daily exercise Auxels has been up to, producing a new 45-second piece each day. The diary entry reads: “the past week or so, I’ve been focusing on practicing with the block party rig, and trying to get more adept at the kinds of pieces I can put together by dubbing multiple mixing performances as takes. it slowly feels like things are coming together with it, though the timing and latency still leaves rather a lot to be desired.” Follow along at [soundcloud.com/auxels](https://soundcloud.com/auxels/).

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/auxels](https://soundcloud.com/auxels/4500090teal-velvet). More from Auxels, who is based in Berlin, at [twitter.com/auxels](https://twitter.com/auxels) and [auxels.bandcamp.com](https://auxels.bandcamp.com/).

This lulling piece by Mike Brosco, “Awash,” makes a strong case for ambient music’s ability to waver between atmosphere and composition. At times this track, just three and a half minutes in playing time yet with the sense of something much longer, has the lushness of an evening’s semi-internalized backdrop, all distant insect noise and mental meandering. At others it introduces melody-like transitions, or developments, that the ear can focus on, such as shifts in register, and synthesizer warbles, and bits of symphonic impressionism. In those latter moments it achieves a proximity to early-1980s Brian Eno recordings, in particular *On Land* and *Apollo*. Very nicely done.

Track originally published at [soundcloud.com/brosco](https://soundcloud.com/brosco/awash). Brusco is based at Champaign, Illinois.