Out now on Blank Artists - vinyl and digital

Codine - Solve for X (Alex Israel's Double Tapered Mix)

The first release on Somnambulant Drift, digital and limited cassette tapes out now at www.somnambulantdrift.com 
I created this generative music by building elements of arbitrary length that work together melodically but do not correspond in time. As the individual components replay, they overlap coincidentally, resulting in music that makes itself. I made the art for this album in a similar fashion, selecting colors and entering a geometric formula as constraints, and allowing RStudio to fill in the blanks with a random seed to plot what you see here.

Uncertainty Manipulated

Uncertainty Manipulated (clips)

In honor of the release of my Creme record, the Front Butt EP, I'm putting this song up for free download. Please support vinyl and buy the record!

Alex Israel - Spite Donkey Scolding Leech

Suite for Egg Shen

Rich Heebner - Suite for Egg Shen (clips)

Rich Heebner - House of the Lord

Alex took his first musical steps by studying piano and guitar at the young age of 6. His fascination for the more outlandish, experimental side of each instrument corrupted his lessons and sent him down a modular synths and tape loop composition wormhole. Years later Alex resurfaced, got himself clean and, through connections made while spending time as a vocal audience member (and sometimes uninvited participant) at Lyman Woodard, Phil Ranelin, and other Tribe- and Motown-linked gigs in Cass Corridor during the mid-1970s, spent time as a session musician for Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, and Prince. It was only toward the mid-90s he found himself enthralled by the techno and house sounds of Detroit and Chicago so he went into the woodshed and came out firing electronic salvos.

Alex Israel

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