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Peter Chilvers

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Musician and software designer. Collaborator with Brian Eno, Karl Hyde and Tim Bowness, co-creator of Bloom and Scape, cofounder of Burning Shed. Fond of Dogs. http://peterchilvers.com generativemusic.com

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Aug 16

Thrilled to have finally released Dust 4, my first full album on Curious Music. It was written in tandem with a beautiful 60 minute video by Dion Johnson, whose stunning drone footage perfectly captures the landscapes that inspired it.

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Dust 4 by Peter Chilvers. Filmed by Dion Johnson. (4K)

YouTube video by Curious Music

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 28d

Listen again: This is not a disco / 09th September 2025

Playing tracks by wolfgang perez, sheldon agwu, zakè spieth guentner, sadeedo, peter chilvers and more.

www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/this...

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Sep 1

Never trust a jaunty melody! There could be anything hiding behind it.

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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.bsky.social · Aug 22

Review | Peter Chilvers - Dust 4 by @zmnathanson.bsky.social

"You know that this will be a mournful time of looking at the destruction and the abandoned buildings will make you go inside and think of a place that once was, has now been stuck in the past."

echoesanddust.com/2025/08/pete...

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Aug 16

Here are links to the streaming versions. I’m particularly pleased with the Atmos mixes on Apple Music and Tidal. Atmos seems a particularly good match for this kind of album. lnk.to/4dust

Peter Chilvers - Dust 4

Listen to Dust 4 by Peter Chilvers.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Aug 16

Dust 4 by Peter Chilvers. Filmed by Dion Johnson. (4K)

YouTube video by Curious Music

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The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · Aug 10

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PacificNotions

Peter Chilvers:
🎵 A Frosted World

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▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

A Frosted World, by Peter Chilvers

from the album Dust 4

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Aug 7

… and piano heaven. I rediscovered Telegraph Road a few weeks ago, having not listened in decades. Their best album, it think.

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 30

Weird, I was trying to work out if Brian had ever been to Glastonbury (I’m guessing not), and this was one of the first results on Google.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 22

Thank you! We were originally just thinking of some images to add atmosphere, but it became something of a love letter to the fens. It’s a wonderful landscape to lose yourself in.

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 21

Lovely piece! I like the typo too, I think Theo should change his name to “The Travis” from now on. Has an element of bling to it.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 21

Curious Music wanted to make an atmospheric music video, a live performance, and an interview explaining how a track was made. So filmmaker Dion Johnson and I set about doing all three simultaneously: youtu.be/BhntdvhURVk?...

Gathering Dust (4K) with Peter Chilvers. Film by Dion Johnson.

YouTube video by Curious Music

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 18

Very pleased to announce Dust4, my first full length album for Curious Music, alongside stunning coloured vinyl editions of the Dust 1-3 EPs. www.curiousmusic.us

Curious Music

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 12

Thanks Rodney - great photos! Nice to see you there.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 10

Thank you - so pleased you’re enjoying it!

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 10

Quite! It was unexpected though, by me at least. I hadn’t thought beyond making an experimental music device, but we quickly started getting messages from carers of autistic children as well as dementia patients. And many, many parents getting children to sleep…

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Jun 10

I’m a bit late stumbling across this post, but thank you! I’m wary of making any bold claims about Bloom, but we’ve had anecdotal reports of people with advanced dementia responding well to it. One non-verbal patient started happily singing along with it, which was very moving.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Apr 18

Small world! I joined MI in 94, I think, and was on Creatures a year or so later. Maybe we met!

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Apr 18

I had one of the weirder moments in a weird life last night when I realised that the Black Mirror episode Playthings was inspired by Creatures, a game I worked on in the 90s. Charlie Brooker reviewed it at the time, and apparently it stuck in his head.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Apr 12

I’ve always found monarchies a bit too ruly.

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Apr 12

I was searching for a word to meaning “having as few rules as possible” and realised how literal “unruly” is. Never struck me before. Isn’t language marvellous?

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Mar 6

Can I interest you in buying my vintage fork collection?

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Feb 13

This collaboration between Nils Frahm and Robert de Niro is currently playing on 6 Music. A 15 minute mixture of grainy folk orchestra and spoken word. Absolutely stunning.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Feb 13

I’m delighted to have enhanced the blopfest!

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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · Feb 7

Instead of Bandcamp Friday today, BC's% is going to WILDFIRE RELIEF, 👏. Meanwhile, our own % of Fovea Hex sales today will be going to GAZA via @unicefireland.bsky.social. From €5, collaborators/guests include Eno, Matmos, Abul Mogard, Peter Chilvers & more...
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SINGLES €5 each: 'WE DREAM ALL THE DARK AWAY', Abul Mogard's stunning remix of 'All Those Signs', our hymn to the hubris of climate denial; 'THE GLACIAL LAKE' (2 tracks): Peter Chilvers' delicate and beautiful remix of this song, as well as the original track; THE SLOW SLOW AIR, a fugue-like homage to the Irish slow air; HAIL HOPE(2 tracks): Hail Hope is a rousing anthem for anyone whose heart is sinking in darkening times, and Carol reframes darkness as "Mother of Light"; COCKLES AND MUSSELS is a beautiful deconstruction/reconstruction by Matmos, in tribute to Alan Turing, of the famous Irish song, sung by Clodagh. (Faced with imminent trial on charges of gross indecency, he insisted upon playing it on the violin for the police officers who came to his home to take his statement).
EPs/ALBUMS €7-€10 each: SALT GARDEN 1, 2, and 3 (4 tracks on each);
HERE IS WHERE WE USED TO SING (11 tracks); SALT GARDEN LANDSCAPED (2 x 20 min remixes by Steven Wilson of 2 tracksfrom the Salt Garden eps); NEITHER SPEAK NOR REMAIN SILENT (9 tracks);
for track listings, guest artists, lyrics, etc. see https://foveahex.bandcamp.com and for reviews, see http://www.janetrecords.com/2019/reviews.html

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Feb 6

I’m enjoying the refreshing optimism of believing the world will still be standing in 2032.