Travelogue Album
Give the full album a listen
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936


1 - Little Island
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Lwdm9k52ZZpCwKleQ2Wtx?si=K9d0U20TS9yq0b5SyubcAQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/little-island/1808904936?i=1808904940

2 - Family Complex
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6GA5O8CGCxvvILrwdRaW8Q?si=UIZD0T3DT-a8Mnx9575rgA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/family-complex/1808904936?i=1808904943

3 - antennas to god
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GRM2bECvCIuJocqyxdOo4?si=Qo8OaUwIRfiFGrAGP4ZlIg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/antennas-to-god/1808904936?i=1808904947

4 - Ding Dong Express
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2hvS3b7kxraPT09OQiy5nA?si=CwkWcYB0SqKSa8BI4InCHw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/ding-dong-express/1808904936?i=1808905283

5 - Watch this Space
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1IuOTS4USX08njJzF8qAEp?si=NhcKYwxfSGStZa52Ay_RTg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/watch-this-space/1808904936?i=1808905287

6 - Seoul Train
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3fP48fJYmlhVDgI8IAfx1l?si=8y2XiDpzTzWhM0-cQdmGqQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/seoul-train/1808904936?i=1808905293

7 - BrutalUSt
Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Q1L1OY00jBnnjjFGgyEQf?si=NAtGH6aCQgeJR4X1CFauHw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/brutalust/1808904936?i=1808905301

8 - Tokyo Rift
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3JPOzHtsM1zkOK4SSF5mds?si=8IrPkU5jTJ-imjlTFqWBVw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/tokyo-rift/1808904936?i=1808905307


Travelogue (8 tracks)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Wooden hand-cranked music box, uKORG, Launchpad, SMK, Bloom, Audio Kit One, Logic Pro X
Samples: Skywave schedules, selected North American broadcasts from a 10Mhz scan.
** An XLab3 production **

antennas to god (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Korg iMS20, Synthmaster KV331, Loopoperator, Hammerhead, uKORG, Logic Pro X.

Samples: Modulated waveforms: Found TV audio snippets and themes, band rehearsal in the Royal Military Chapel -
 London, Illinois school band.

Cover Art: Detail from "Black Chapel" (2022) by Theater Gates. Constructed at the Serpentine Gallery.

Watch this Space (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Experimental Electronica
Parts I:1'58" / II:2'02" / III:2'14" / IV:2'25"
Kit: Hammerhead, Fugue, volca fm, Minimoog D, AudioKit Synth One, OMG Guitar, Teraverse, microKORG, Sector, beatwave, Hilda, Logic Pro.
Acknowledgements:
Audio Samples: Emergency vehicles, police and car horns. Pedestrian crossings, conversations in cafes, on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Chelsea district and streets of Manhattan. Busker music from Union Square and MTA platform. All field recordings captured in New York, Christmas 2023.
Music: Thanks for the classic intro (5 seconds) from "Good Morning USA" by Walter Murphy, Seth Macfarlane, Mike Barker, (c) Fox Film Music Corp. et al.

Little Island [I - IV] (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

family!.. you can't choose your relatives! Inter/racial inter/esting, rich in culture, complex in nature, reflected in music.

Kit: uKorg, Volca fm & nubass, Hammerhead, AudioKit Synth One, iMS-20, Hilda, Animoog X, logic pro X...
Acknowledgements:
Audio Samples: Singing vocals sampled from background music in Luogo Cafe, Taipei.
Cover art: family photo c.2000, manipulated.

Family Complex (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, volca FM & modular, Hikari monos, Minimoog D, Sector, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements: 
Audio from Seoul (2024)
a) Modulated church service hymn at the Jeoldu-san Martyrs' Shrine.
b) Various field recordings along the Seoul Metropolitan Subway transport system.
c) Voices and motorbike from Gyeongdong Market.
d) Traditional Korean folk music (processed excerpts) at the Korea Traditional Culture Experience Center at Incheon Airport featuring the haegeum and gayageum instruments.

Cover art: The Closest Church, Seoul.

Seoul Train (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit : uKORG, Hilda, Minimoog D, Drumcomputer, Hikari Monos, Sector, Volca FM, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgements :
Field Recordings : 
Audio from Tokyo (2024):
Metro, Sensō-ji Buddhist temple, Taito City hustle and bustle, Nezu shrine.
Cover Art: Fuji TV Headquarters, Tokyo

Tokyo Rift (excerpt)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, AudioKit Synth One, CS2x, ODYSSEi, Hammerhead, Sector, Hikari Monos, Logic Pro.

Acknowledgements:
Audio: 
1) Excerpts from a busker near the steps leading up to the Lincoln Memorial.
2) Transportation information and police sounds in Boston and DC.
3) Excerpts from the woodwind quartet from the Band of the Grenadier Guard band (London).
Cover Art: 
View from the Hirshhorn Museum.

BrutalUSt (excerpt)

a.k.a.  -..-
Pre-releases and Experiments
- Final releases via https://linktr.ee/dashdotdotdash (Apple Music, Spotify)
Support creativity through Bandcamp.

- Artists: 
  (1) -..- , xperimental 
  (2) XLab3 , xperimental
  (3) Ding Dong , vintage electronica

- xmachines: Logic Korg Yamaha Moog Teenage Engineering iApps ccMixter freemusicarchive field recordings radio
- Header Image Acknowledgement: (my silhouette in front of) an excerpt from the video, 'Plato's Alley' by Charles Atlas (2008)
- Profile Image Acknowledgement: 'Switching Marys' by Mike Kelley (2004-2005)

- History: 
1980s - Casio VL-tone, Wasp synth, Moog Concertmate MG-1, 2 track compact cassette recordings: tape to tape mixing ... emergence of Ding Dong. Revelled in the limitations in lo-fi sonic pallette and student budget...
1990s - Upgraded to 4-track compact cassette recordings... Casio CZ1000.
2000s - finally onto DAWs & xmachines & budget soft/hard synthesis & quirkiness in the Hikari Monos......Cakewalk>Sonar>Logic