"God is in the reverberant spaces"*

A short extract from a generative modular-synth work using @Qubitelectronix's stunning Nebulae. The piece is based on one of the module's bundled samples run through an array of filters, Audio Damage Grainshifts and a Z-DSP plate reverb to create ever-changing clouds of sound. No external processing or sequencing. I might release unique captures of the full piece on cassette tape if there's enough interest. 

*I'm not particularly religious, but this description seemed somehow appropriate... 

Aalto Geist

Zeitdehner (time stretcher) is one man's output channel for sonic abstractions.The pieces depict events, feelings, thoughts, facts, illusions and realities in a simple and focussed way, with much attention given to moods, textures, density and resolution. Going down to the very grain of the image, like an examination of a Polaroid snapshot through a looking glass or a microscope, like putting the time & space flux through a sample & hold device. Sometimes zooming back out to get a broader picture, thus altering the very sense, the perception of time & space, hence "Zeitdehner". Always looking to reconcile the abstract with the concrete. These microfictions are created exclusively on modular synthesizers. The approach is to use no multi tracking techniques, instead capturing the patch live, as it is, in real time. This is to retain the spontaneity and the live nature of the work, with all the idiosyncrasies of the methodology. The computer is only used to capture the, so to speak, unaltered ephemeral moments.

 

I've always been fascinated by electronic music and what better instrument than the synthesizer to create such music? Over the years, I used lots of different types of synthesizers, all with their particular interface, set of features and character, but never was I fully satisfied. Eventually I found satisfaction in starting a modular synthesizer. This type of instrument is taylor made for my approach to electronic music and my way of working. I love the ergonomy, the aesthetics, the sensual, physical and intellectual relationship with the instrument. It offers me quasi total functional freedom and the means to explore the realms of  my creational processes, limited only by my own imagination. The resulting music is, at last, up to my expectations. The music in itself is more of abstract soundscapes than the casual, academic forms. I would not dare to call it experimental, as this has all been done long before by real experimentalists and sonic pioneers. "Its substance is in the instant, the ephemeral, like a split second in eternity, like polaroid snapshots of the fabric of time and space, like depictions of the Human nature within Nature and the Universe".So do they say...




"...En calma, algo que no se entera.
En la gran serenidad.
Con inmensa indiferencia
planea silenciosamente en lo alto.
Es la inmovilidad
que se mueve obediente a la luz.
Abandonada a la divina voluntad.
Ensimismada y ofreciendose a la par.
Un movimiento que no es de traslación ni alteración
y que es calma profunda, quietud..."
(Maria Zambrano)

To hear more of my music
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril
https://soundcloud.com/victoryibril2

dusty noises, pictures & field recordings

see also:
https://soundcloud.com/thechalkgroup

Communicating through the joy of periodic vibrations that are audible to the human ear.

The rural music workshop of  Jérôme Mabille (Dropthedyle) and Flavien Gillié will guide you to sonic lands in which shall interlace field recording, nature and electronic textures...



I threw my computer out of the window and bought a modular synth because I wanted to do something real...

"Emergent Properties" EP https://soundcloud.com/drberndthoffmann/sets/emergent-ep
"Onkalo" EP: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/onkalo-ep
"Kingdom Sands" EP: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/kingdom-sands-ep-2
"The Dark Light" album: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-light
"Taikonics" mini-album: http://drberndthoffmann.bandcamp.com/album/taikonics

booking/inquiries : tocovervisch@gmail.com


08.07 Pointe Lafayette (Solo)
28.06 Charbon Collectif, Bagnolet
21.06 Chaton indépendant (Vélvélé)
14.06 Non Jazz (Stéphanie Lotion )
08.06 Tour Orion, Milieu Studio (Stéphanie Lotion)
06.06 Plateforme Paris (solo)
04.06 Olympic Café (solo)
29.05 Ground Zero (Stéphanie Lotion)
25.04 Furium, les Nouveaux sauvages ( Stéphanie Lotion)
19.04. Non Jazz, Cantine pas si loin (solo)
25.01 Vanilla café, cmptrmthmtcs (Stéphanie Lotion)
21.12 Pan café (solo)
13.12 Théatre Berthelot, Montreuil, Collectif Coax et Instants chavirés (Stéphanie Lotion)
30.11 La Berge, Saint Aignan, 41 (Stéphanie Lotion)
05.11 Olympic café, Sport National (solo)
19.10 Tour Orion, l'Amorce des consignes (solo)
02.10 Shakirail, dernière de vaagues de chaleur (Stéphanie Lotion)
28.09 Festival l'Ode Mère (Stéphanie Lotion)
20.09 Consulat (solo)
12.07 Sport National Café de Paris (solo)
27.06 Beaux arts Paris (Stéphanie Lotion)
01.06 Le boulingrin Rouen (solo)
13.06 Beaux arts Paris performance avec Margot Bernard
05.06 l'international (Vélvélé)
04.05 Feux avec (Stéphanie Lotion et Vélvélé)
16.04 Instants Chavirés (solo) Quasi
16.03 à DOC performance avec Laure Mathieu 

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12/01/24 Chapelle Port Royal avec Stéphanie Lotion 
13/12/23 Pointe Lafayette avec Velvélé (silence kills concerts)
10/11/23 Zorba, (La sale pépinière) solo 
03/11/23, Café de Paris, Sport National avec France Connect
26/10/23 Supersonic avec Velvélé
18/08/23 Pallistock festival 
11/04/23 Instants Chavirés, solo show

Synthesizers, Sequencers and Bass Guitars….the sonic me! Some pieces are available for download now ...for you to keep and listen to. Please respect my rights. 

You will find that since i have started to repost tunes the list of tracks gets longer and longer...
You still can access my work quickly by clicking on "tracks" right above.
But treat yourself to the tracks reposted as well!

You might want to check out MacroDX for his amazing synth sounds....a true space cadet. I just hope we get to jam again and .... don't touch those mushrooms! 
And speaking of drums.....go and check out Joerg Huenninghaus!
You will find links to both musicians below!
Peace, Reinhard!

Update 06.05.19 - Due to being out of Order, a broken shoulder that is, i won’t be online for some Time. Thank you for your awesome Love and Support! I’ll Be back, promised! 
Update 01.07.19 - Got a metal plate and a couple of screws in my shoulder and can move my arm somewhat now. Thank you for your patience and Support!

Discography @ http://nulldimension.bandcamp.com/

Aalto Geist

Dr Berndt Hoffmann