his is a studio improvisation (24.04.24) built around the wild sounds and textures of Benjolin.

The Benjolin is a standalone synthesizer designed by Rob Hordijk from the Netherlands.
It has two oscillators (VCO/LFO), a VCF, and a circuit called a “Rungler”, which allows chaotic cross-modulation possibilities between the different parts of the circuit. Hordijk refers to the Benjolin as a circuit “bent by design.”
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released June 7, 2024

Anton Boldenko: OP-1 & MPC live synths
Pavlo Lisovsky: sax
Stanislav Bobrytsky - double Benjolin & Synthrotek Nandamonium

Recorded and mixed by Stanislav Bobrytsky.

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Benjolingus

video teaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twc3xxWHzI

full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfeSm1ATcc

Stanislav Bobrytsky - modular synth, Roland MC-303
Dmytro Arzumanov - guitar
Anton Boldenko - electric violin

Stage sound by Vadym Oliinykov
Recorded by Kseniia Yanus
Remastered by Stanislav Bobrytsky 

Live in Otel 11​.​09​.​2024

1.1.25 Lo-Fi Organ

Full-scale russian invasion started exactly a month ago (24.02.2022).
Since any day may become the last here in Ukraine, it’s time to release some tracks recorded during the pandemic and finished just before the war.

This is generative music recorded on a large all-analog eurorack patch with minimal human control.

No sequencers, no drum machines, no keyboards, no composition plan - just irregular beats, floating tempos, harsh timbres, angular melodies and atonal harmonies of analog robot improvisation. 

And of course, the atmospheres represent current reality in detail.

All the costs will be donated to the Ukrainian Army.

on fire

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Frustradio Marathon

Close The Sky

A track from my new EP "Phase II":

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lE7_yrUe3ITKh00W55Sl66IQyGW0AZKy0

https://open.spotify.com/album/2K8Jv36jGdnYsmPUk5JNsV

https://music.apple.com/us/album/phase-ii/1621194467

https://www.deezer.com/us/album/314045097

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09YWWGMHH

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Zradophile

Brainhack Musicbox Trio - Липень У Травні (17.07.2022)

This is music improvised, recorded, and mixed during two months of my residency at the Ostriv Platform using the vintage transistor organ they have at their location.

This instrument is far from perfect - dirty and noisy sound with not every note playable. Recorded through the effects pedals (harmonic fuzz, ringmod, chorus, and freeze), it sounds a lot in the spirit of Canterbury rock bands of the 70s with psychedelic flavor.

Some tracks needed a beat, and then I recorded Vermona DRM drum synth for them without referencing any grid - the tempo always floats following the glitchy organ lines.

Of course, it's not exactly prog or jazz since this music doesn't develop any particular idea - it's got all jazzy proggish elements in a deconstructed state. The focus is always moving even when it's about drone.

stanislav bobrytsky: organ, drum synth, programming

Screaming Organ

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Abrasive Sky

Neighborman

Polychorus

Pedalbored

Jazz Fuzz

Superego

Nostalgic Bomb

Canterbury Kraut

Prog Hog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2S99eXtec

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Anton Boldenko, Stanislav Bobrytsky - Live At Ostriv Platform

05 - Tamagotchi Exorcism

04 - Brown Garden

03 - Shift Register Fauna

02 - Rotary Worlds Of Benjolin

01 - Summer Snow

Stochastic Funk

In a Sentimental Loop

FM Organ

Guitar Noise Intro

Trio Ambient Intro

played on MS-20 synth in improvised music orchestra

recorded live 24.04.2015
Conducted by Dmitriy Radzetckiy

Ukrainian Improvisers Orchestra — Terry Riley - In C

Day One (part two)

Day One (part four)

Day One (part one)

Day One (part three)

Day One (part five)

Day One (part six)

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LFO III

LFO II

LFO IV

LFO I

LFO V

LFO VI

brainhack musicbox trio - rehearsal 18.12.2018

noise-jazz #20181218

https://brainhackmusicbox.bandcamp.com/album/ep20

Stanislav Bobrytsky - modular synth
Pavel Lisovsky - sax
Zhanna Marchinska - cello

EP20

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Led Gossamer

Our trio proudly presents...
Every band needs a 2020 lockdown EP!

'brainhack musicbox' usually means modular synth - but timespace got warped so much this year - and this time our main musicbox was an old Sony TC-800B tape machine. 

The main drone source was a shruti box played by Anton Boldenko - the tracks he sent in April were recorded to the crappy old tape, slowed down by 2, 4 and 8 - and recorded back into PC through Electro-Harmonix Graphic fuzz. As a result we got a shruti orchestra with a massive sound. 

The same processing was applied to the sax tracks by Pavel Lisovsky. Even more - we make him play with himself in trio when the same notes played at different speeds simultaneously.

What’s unusual for this release is the minimum of synths: just a touch of Sidrax at the beginning and a bits of  MS-20 at some points.

‘Khrooshch’ is a transliterated Ukrainian name of some beetles from the Scarabaeidae family known for their specific low buzz sounds. 

Amphimallon larva is depicted on cover art by Lena Vnetlena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphimallon_solstitiale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melolontha


The album is available for all platforms:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/brainhackmusicbox/khrooshch

Melolontha

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