Icarus Reggae

March The kcamow

Rauw en plat (Live in Hoboken, 29-12-2006)

Tuesday, September 13 #1

This is a remix I made from Roy Orbison's glorious "In Dreams" I made for Klara, Belgium's classical radio station who did a 4-hour radio live transmission around "In dreams", featuring Brion Gysin's Dream Machines and many great artists performing dream-related pieces.

Indreams (Reuzenversie)

Sint Norbertus IV.WAV

Let Go

The Mask

Teen in het water

The first time I heard Emily Sprague’s music was on lines. Somebody posted a video of hers, 'Three Sisters + Harmonic Oscillator', that had captured their attention as a high watermark...and it’s easy to understand how. The straightforward and earnest exploration of a beautiful module, through a looped melody you could listen to for hours, seemed the work of a seasoned pro. Somebody else commented, revealing that the synthesist was Emily Sprague from the band Florist. While they brought up that Emily had just started working with modular synths in the last year, digging deeper revealed that the video was actually made in her second week.

Beyond the quality of her music, which has only swelled over the last year, what’s fascinating about Emily’s work is how public her process has been. While most whittle away for months, releasing new work only after long incubation, Emily seems to revel in sharing each step of her growth in realtime — a direct response to the trajectory of her own self-education.

If you’re new to modular synthesis, this is the episode for you. If you’re deeply settled, this is the episode for you. Emily has retained a beginner’s mind while leveraging her rich decade-long background as a musician, producer and engineer to create music that is playful and emotional, while remaining technically impressive.

As you’ll notice, there are more music breaks in this episode than previous ones — due to my own fandom and Emily’s generosity, you’re the first to hear the demos that will make up her much-anticipated modular album.

Beyond her talents, Emily is an insightful and passionate addition to the lines community and personally, I hope that her reflections help anyone who feels that their voice is un or under-represented in this field to join the conversation at llllllll.co

Emily Sprague: SOUND + PROCESS #8

Extract from a recent jam session. Had the Cyclebox running through one channel of the Serge Res EQ, and the 2nd channel setup as a feedback loop with the upper and lower comb outputs mixed with a kick from a Boogie filter being pinged. 

Let Go

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