Ambient and experimental electronic music

Zeitdehner (time stretcher) is one man's output channel for sonic abstractions.The pieces depict events, feelings, thoughts, facts, illusions and realities in a simple and focussed way, with much attention given to moods, textures, density and resolution. Going down to the very grain of the image, like an examination of a Polaroid snapshot through a looking glass or a microscope, like putting the time & space flux through a sample & hold device. Sometimes zooming back out to get a broader picture, thus altering the very sense, the perception of time & space, hence "Zeitdehner". Always looking to reconcile the abstract with the concrete. These microfictions are created exclusively on modular synthesizers. The approach is to use no multi tracking techniques, instead capturing the patch live, as it is, in real time. This is to retain the spontaneity and the live nature of the work, with all the idiosyncrasies of the methodology. The computer is only used to capture the, so to speak, unaltered ephemeral moments.

 

I've always been fascinated by electronic music and what better instrument than the synthesizer to create such music? Over the years, I used lots of different types of synthesizers, all with their particular interface, set of features and character, but never was I fully satisfied. Eventually I found satisfaction in starting a modular synthesizer. This type of instrument is taylor made for my approach to electronic music and my way of working. I love the ergonomy, the aesthetics, the sensual, physical and intellectual relationship with the instrument. It offers me quasi total functional freedom and the means to explore the realms of  my creational processes, limited only by my own imagination. The resulting music is, at last, up to my expectations. The music in itself is more of abstract soundscapes than the casual, academic forms. I would not dare to call it experimental, as this has all been done long before by real experimentalists and sonic pioneers. "Its substance is in the instant, the ephemeral, like a split second in eternity, like polaroid snapshots of the fabric of time and space, like depictions of the Human nature within Nature and the Universe".So do they say...




Buy my music.   
https://mikahsykes.bandcamp.com/album/love-consequences-and-serenity

Split Level Records in Brooklyn NY 
https://splitlevelrecords.bandcamp.com

City Sonic Sound Art Label (citysonic.be) - By Transcultures Belgium (transcultures.be)

Sous le pseudonyme de Ordinaire, Eric Therer accompagné par Stephan Ink (basse-laptop), emprunte à la fois à l’expérimentation sonore chère à Luc Ferrari et à l’héritage post-dadaïste de StockHausen et Walkman; la démarche du duo liégeois est de collecter des images et des sons dans notre environnement quotidien le plus immédiat qui ont valeur d’icônes incontournables. Les dancings le long des routes nationales, les friteries, la lourdeur administrative… autant de références qui appartiennent au patrimoine culturel réel ou onirique de la Belgique ici poétisé avec humour, insolence et une esthétique low-tech.

Under the pseudonym Ordinaire, Eric Therer creates in collaboration with Stephan Ink (bass-laptop), creates experimental poetic sound art works. The approach chosen by this particular Liege duet is to collect images and sounds in our everyday immediate environment that have the characteristics of the valuable-unavoidable icons. The dance clubs along national roads, chip shops, the administrative burden ... many references that belong to the cultural heritage of Belgium poetized here with cold humor, acid energy and low-tech aesthetic.

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