In the Absence of Time

Reminisce

Hold Your Dream

Autumn By The Lake

Inconsistent

Dissertation in Waves

Spine

They are out There

I have been continuing to explore how a delay audio effect can enhance my music and in this piece I used a plugin called Valhalla Supermassive on its "Hydra" preset on quite a few of my sound elements and thus the name was born!  

I then went on to thinking about stars and constellations as I continued the composition.

I am also really enjoying practising and developing my mixing skills.  Every composition reveals different focus areas to me. This one has taught me that I need to use my meters more and has also shown me how much changing note velocities can affect the music.  Thank you to Chris Adams for continuing to teach and guide me!

Hydra

el ping y/o el pong

vintage.05

On a simple planet, complexity lies hidden in every silent breath. The world narrows into subtle lines of movement, where tiny changes carry the weight of entire lives. In the stillness between actions, meaning expands, revealing serene harmonies woven into everyday space. Here is where emotion softens, where thought becomes gentle gravity, and where the smallest spark transforms the entire horizon. Simplicity becomes the universe, and stillness becomes a guide.

Parallel Motion

I started playing around with digital music creation in my early twenties, but I have always been haunted by a quote from Theo Parrish who said that he is "not comfortable with convenience replacing artistry", meaning that you need to put effort into learning and mastering the skills in order to bring something good. I studied computer science and have a passion for logics and programming and somehow my lack of any musical background has kept me from publishing any of my works.

Many years later I got inspired by an interview with Thomas Fehlmann where he explained how the focus in his work is not on the result so much but on the process itself. How the process is a "source of expression" and something he just feels he has to do. This resonated with me and I realised that it's ok to be an autodidact in music and it's ok to make music just for the sake of making music. I make music for me and if you, dear listener, like it along the way I'm very happy about that.

I am inspired by nature, natural processes and the interaction we have with them. Organic asymmetric fractal patterns that are rooted in logic but unpredictable as they express. How a particular stormy night can affect the shape and growth of a plant for years to come.

I use Bitwig Studio to create my tracks.

(I don't always respond with "thanks" to each comment but I read and appreciate all. If you have a question or really need a reply send me a message)

(With a few artists we run a little group on discord to discuss ideas and what not. The link is below if you're interested in joining)

Dissertation in Waves

Derk Bell