Hi everyone,
I’m excited to announce that my debut album Diorama just came out on Inverted Spectrum Records (online). It’s the culmination of a year and a half of experiments with my Eurorack modular system and in terms of style I’d say it’s a mix of generative ambient, drone and acid with some echoes of krautrock. I think throughout my patching adventures my main inspiration has been James Holden’s album The Inheritors, but I wouldn’t claim to come anywhere near his brilliance. I made the cover art with the Midjourney AI algorithm.
Available on Bandcamp here and on Spotify here.
Some notes about the process of creating the album: these are all modular improvisations, some recorded to stereo and others multi-tracked to a Zoom LiveTrack L8, all finished in Ableton Live where I added some extra layers and effects. My setup changed a bit in the half year over which I recorded the patches, but one constant is that most sequencing is done by Mutable Instruments Marbles. A few of the patches were focused on a specific module, e.g. Clockwork Junction explores Karplus style delay effects with the W/Delay, Rock Paper Psyche explores Rings as a rock guitar (with some winks to Pierre Henry’s Psyche Rock), and Etude for Broken Glass is all about the Mutable Instruments Clouds Pitch Shifter / Time Shifter mode.
