Various Artists Tone Science Module No.5 Integers and Quotients DiN:TS05

Release date 14th May 2021
Limited to 555 copies. Digipak CD format

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Tone Science sub-label, from DiN records, continues to explore the world of modular synth music.

Following the success and critical acclaim of the first four Tone Science compilation albums, DiN label boss Ian Boddy has collated another nine tracks from musicians of varying backgrounds  working in the realms of modular synthesis.

One of the things that is so delightful about artists working with modular synthesisers is the sheer variety of styles on show. These instruments more than any other can be personalised for each musician who can then express themselves within their own sonic world.

The journey on this fifth volume gets under way with the gentle, layered tapestry of “Incantation” by Hélène Vogelsinger followed by the beautiful, glitched piano treatments of “Iterations” from Raffael Seyfried. These two opening tracks compliment each other with their melodic soothing tones before entering deep space territory with the cosmic soundscape of the track “Waving And Drowning” from Stephan Whitlan.

The next two pieces very much put the modular synth in the foreground with their sound and technique. “Cuckoo” by Johnny Woods is a hypnotic, cyclical track featuring his Wiard 300 series modular system. This is followed by “Clocks, Unravelling” by Polypores which shows an astonishing command of the modular environment with its ever evolving rhythmic acrobatics.

Lisa Bella Donna then takes us back into deep space with the beautifully authentic vintage synth soundscape “Electronic Study #26” featuring her venerable ARP 2600. The next two tracks re-establish the rhythmic side of modular with firstly Matths playfully combining the techno and ambient genres in the wonderful “Delusion”. This is followed by Chuck van Zyl who goes all out with his Berlin School piece “The Zanti Misfits”. The album then comes to a rest and closes out with the static dronescape of “Delicate Elementum” by Philippe Petit with the pure sound of Buchla synthesisers.

“Tone Science Module No.5 Integers and Quotients” continues the journey down the rabbit hole of possibilities and sound worlds inhabited by artists and musicians working in this ever fascinating and varied musical field.


01 Incantation by Hélène Vogelsinger 6:28
02 Iterations by Raffael Seyfried 6:07
03 Waving And Drowning by Stephan Whitlan 6:47
04 Cuckoo by Johnny Woods 6:41
05 Clocks, Unravelling by Polypores 6:45
06 Electronic Study #26 by Lisa Bella Donna 8:52
07 Delusion by Matths 6:30
08 The Zanti Misfits by Chuck van Zyl 7:03
09 Delicate Elementum by Philippe Petit 6:41

Total Time: 62:11

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TA: Buchla Series 200, Serge Modular, contact microphone.
No plugins or other DSP. 

Recorded at EMS, Stockholm.

Thanks to Mats Lindström, Gabrielle Karlsén, Daniel Araya, Jan Rohlf, Marcus Gammel, Fernando Sixto and Marion Innocenzi.

Serge & Buchla (excerpt, recorded at EMS Stockholm)

Costruzione1
A song created a long time ago, starting from small loops left by chance inside a loop station. After years of forgetting about the song, I found it again and discovered it’s much longer and layered than I remembered leaving it.
As if in all this time the modules that built it had gradually replicated themselves and made it grow like a plant. Maybe a distorted memory.
Maybe it wanted to live.
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released June 16, 2020

Performed & recorded by Matteo Mariano between 2005 & 2020
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

Thanks to Rich Dodgin

Cover art: "Portrait of God" by Chiara Di Salvo - www.chiaradisalvo.com
(Gran Paradiso sand, pigment, oil, china, gold leaf on wood - 2018)

Matteo Mariano - www.macrogramma.com

Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

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