Helsinki-based composer and electronic musician Viktor Toikkanen presents an EP ‘Meme Concréte’ under his new alias Zaum. The release studies the possibilities of loop-based composition formats and trance-inspired melodies - Their interaction contributes to an aesthetic which gives room to synchronicity and sudden revelations in repetition which is deliberate in its execution.
While composing the release at hand Toikkanen was inspired by Finnish Instagram meme culture, and its repetitive but carefully curated streams of pictures. While Toikkanen’s musical craft reflects upon the daily repetition of social and informational cycles, Meme Concréte manages to create something greater than the sum of its parts - beautiful and contemplative in its essence.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Viktor Toikkanen
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel and Otso Reitala

Zaum - Meme Concréte 1

Zaum live at Kotimaan Teknokatsaus XII, Kuudes Linja 17.12.2021

Modularset with Sensors and AI @b_movie_kino Hamburg 2023
Part II - Drone
Foto: @finnglink

Mimesis and Failure - Part II (Drone)

23 - 11 - 11 T 46 - 56 (FM, HK, JL)

Hier die Fortsetzung meines Dub Songs... Part 2

Fireworx - Techno 04 (Dub Mix)

Oberheim Xpander making noise in real time using patches generated by the Xplorer editor software. 
Only a plate reverb behind. All other effects & glitches by the Xpander itself.


Oberheim Xpander - Xplorer Randomizer Session

This is the BONUS track from MONOCUBE which you can download for free with the purchase of the next DRONE MIND // MIND DRONE LP (#5). 

Monocube - Alessandro

100% Doepfer A-100

Buchla inspired self-running modular patch based around 4 x Doepfer A-110-4 Thru Zero VCOs frequency modulating each other. Filters: A-103, A-101-2, A-105. Clocked by a frequency modulated A-143-4 quad LFO.

Reverb: Electro Harmonix Cathedral.

Not a track by any means. Abrupt edits and all. :/

Buchla Style West Coast Beatz - 100% Doepfer A-100

just a simple demo of the wonderful am sounds from the cg products xr22 vco. a sine wave modulates the am in audio rate. changes of frequency of carier and modulator by hand at random, modulator morphs into saw wave sometimes. delay from c0.

XR22 VCO AM

a simple demo of the FSK part of the XR22 VCO. FSK means frequency shift keying, the single vco has two frequency controls, manual and with cv, by applying a gate to the FSK in one can change the path of the incoming freq cv information (also in audio rate wonderful). i feed the vco two related pitch cv information from an asr. if the gate is time related and carefully shifted the resulting tones sound like trills or an modulated sequencer. sound is then selfmodulated by square into am in. c0 delay.

XR22 VCO FSK

Oblique Noir is presenting some snippets at soundcloud, exploring modules of his Eurorack synth system. There will be updates periodically, so please be invited to come round.
Oblique Noir (aka Helge Kaul) is exploring musical crosstalks – between digital rigour and analogue aesthetics, between live performance and reproductive synthesis.