Track for a work in progress production. Made with Pure Data, Derek Holzer's SoundBoxes and effects pedals.

Workshop by Derek Holzer & Jeroen Vandesande. Performers: All students from EHB Rits Brussels. Bram Verrecas, Amber Meulenijzer, Jana Rymen, Kimberly Struyf, Francesca Van Daele, Anna Van Hoof, Max Adams, Zoë Bossuyt, Iben Stalpaert, Milan Van Doren, Nils Melckenbeeck, Emma Schiettecatte, Michèle Even.  Performed at KC Nona, Mechelen, Belgium.

Winterschool Rits - Derek Holzer

Preview track of Dispirit "Separation" cassette coming mid 2015.
Recorded live at Oboroten, mixed at Oboroten by Drassogh. Inquiries about purchase will be ignored until it is available. Check www.dispirit.org , http://www.facebook.com/Dispirit https://dispirit.bandcamp.com/ for updates. 

DISPIRIT "Odylic Void" preview

Music inspired by Raaijmakers' electronic music from the 1960s, and his writings on sound composition, particularly "Cahier M: A Brief Morphology of Electric Sound".

TA: Serge Modular feedback & sine/pulse generators, contact microphone.

Two short excerpts from a longer piece.

Please use speakers, not headphones, because of the inner-ear phenomena involved.

Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (excerpt 2)

From the 2016 EMPiRES Discordia Compilation.

EMS Synthi A & Buchla 200.

Check out the rest of the compilation - some really incredible music from very talented musicians and composers!

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Limited edition of 180g black vinyl record will be released on 21st of October 2016.

Pre-order here: 
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Music by Ilpo Väisänen 
Mastering by C-drík 
Photography by Dmytro Fedorenko 
Artwork by Zavoloka

Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta

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ILPO VÄISÄNEN - Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta (KVITNU 49)

An older track from 2003, but one that I still appreciate. It uses the sample-and-hold noise-driven LFO of a Soviet-era Formanta EMS-01 synthesizer, digitally cross-bred with the surface noise at the end of a scratchy old Russian vinyl. Reflecting on this piece, I can see the start of a deep interest in automatic, generative and self-modulating processes taking shape. Thanks to Maksim Borisov for use of his amazing electronic museum piece!

Formanta Drone [surface noise]

Outwash was composed in 2019 for high density loudspeaker arrays.  Development of the piece began during a residency at Virginia Tech’s Cube in March and it was later completed at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Spatial Audio Studio.  In this work, twenty independent voices reliant upon the same underlying erratic synthesis procedure move throughout the room in varied spatial formations.  Audible contours and modulations are produced by parametric deviation and distance fluctuations between the voices of this ensemble.  While the piece is set in its duration and sequence, real-time processes afford unique outcomes in each performance. Ambisonic field recordings from a 2018 Anchorage Museum residency in Alaska can be heard throughout, providing a counterpoint to the synthetic sounds.  The piece premiered at Virginia Tech's Cube Fest 2019.

Shawn Greenlee "Outwash" (2019, stereo mix)

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound as well as taught workshops in noise art technology across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.

Formanta Drone [surface noise]

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