( Go to my website at www.mikeolsonmusic.com to get more info about this and other pieces of music I've created. )

This is an electronic music composition which was created in 2018 using a vintage Polyfusion analog modular synthesizer. It is the first piece I’ve created using this particular instrument and I chose to restrict myself to using it exclusively as my only sound source for the piece. 

Aesthetically, this piece is a little on the dark side, (though not particularly lugubrious). It exhibits characteristics that could fall under such headings as “experimental drone” and “pattern-based minimalism”, over which sometimes ecstatic gestural outbursts emerge. Like much of my recent work, I am striving for a sense of restraint, which I am only partially successful in achieving. This ties in with the idea of limitations, which I am also very interested in. I begin every new composition by establishing meaningful limitations to work within. For this piece my limitations were that the piece must be all electronic and use only the Polyfusion as it’s sound source. This has resulted in a finished piece which unabashedly celebrates the sound of electronics and the sound of the Polyfusion modular synthesizer in particular. There is nothing in this piece which is trying to sound like an acoustic instrument of any kind. It is electronic and it sounds electronic. The only acoustic sound is the sound of the switch at the very beginning of the piece. This is literally the power switch for the Polyfusion being thrown. The hum which follows is the actual hum of the Polyfusion’s power supply. I mic-ed it and recorded the sound of that hum. Though this is not an audio signal being produced by the instrument, it is an audible hum which is in fact being generated by it. So it could be said that the piece starts with the physical sounds of the electronics, and then transforms into a sonic world that those electronic components produce as audio signals.  (more on the website)

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سب آتے ہیں خیریت پوچھنے 

تم آ جاؤ تو یہ نوبت ہی نہ آے

Sound sketches.

collaborations: jonathanwaldo@gmail.com



Joshua Ryan Adler (b. 1998) is a composer of acoustic and electronic music and multi-instrumentalist based in Tampa, Florida. Adler’s music integrates various influences, including rock, impressionism, minimalism, various forms of folk music, and jazz. Adler began compositional studies as a music major at the State College of Florida, later transferring to the University of South Florida to pursue a Bachelor of Musical Arts in acoustic/electronic composition. Adler has had music performed at Infrequent Seams in New York City and Operation Opera in Spokane, Washington. He has studied under professors Paul Reller and Dr. Benjamin D. Whiting, has formerly studied under Rex Willis, and has taken lessons and masterclasses from Michael Timpson, Chichun Chi-sun Lee, Matthew Kennedy, Hilary Tan and Baljinder Sekhon II.

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