For the past weeks I was diving into the world of tape loops. I bought a used cassettes recorder. Built my own loops. In this track I used one loop almost throughout the whole track drenching it in reverb at the beginning. The song builts up over a long period of time where I add more and more layers including vocal samples from my girlfriend. The rhytmic clattering is originally tape noise from a Tascam 4-track recorder (which I accidentaly destroyed on the second day by plugging in the wrong power cable...you live you learn I guess) which I modulated a lot. 
Enjoy listening!

FOUR POINT FIVE ONE I

A song about uncertain times and trying to stay calm by finding beauty in little things. Like building tape loops, sending piano notes through delays and the sound of birds recorded  on my trip to Washington on a peaceful morning earlier this year.

RIPPLES

Slow paced ambient composition with many layers and long build ups, a strong lead melody on top of textures fading out only to be followed by a more uplifting part where high pitched plucks tinkle over rising chords and an industrial snare drum. Out of several layers of drones a fragile tape loop rises and over time becomes the new lead part only to be swallowed by a deep void of nothingness. 
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After mostly jamming with Elektron sequencers for a year I finally received the expressive Osmose synth. While spending long evenings with going through the presets I came up with what would be the main theme of the first part of the composition. This time I recorded layer after layer - mostly in one take - into the DAW and added the drum part from the Digitakt. I doubled the main melody, pitched it up an octave and let it run through some gate and delay effects controlled by Lfos to get a bit of randomness and unpredictability.

DAZE

OFF CHAMBER

FAT SWAN

Hi! This is the sonic outlet of a painter. After being self employed for half a decade I felt the urge to have another creative output in early 2020. The pandemic hit and I took the time to soak up everything I could find about synthesizers, beats, effects, sampling, recording… Initially I never wanted to publish anything and after one year I had plenty of recordings on my HD. It was then that I realized that I was doing this because I saw a video of someone twisting knobs which hit a spark in me. So if I get just one person into making their own music and becoming as passionate about the world of sounds it would totally make sense to publish my work. 
So here we are. A few years have passed. I am still in love with making music. I jam almost every day and occasionally I sit down and record a song :)

LOWOAKS

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