Harmonious

Ratchet

Outskirts

Overture

(m)Egoless [version]

Music created by someone with a love of movie scores, Tom Waits, Al Bowley, Fad Gadget, Yazoo, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Industrial, Darkwave and other high emotion forms of music and art.

This is the first Deathwatch Beetle Repairman album since Hollow Fishes in 1998. It was released in September of 2024. It is a mature work with a more cohesive theme and sound than that of its predecessor. Expertly mixed in Toronto, Canada by Dwayne Slack and beautifully mastered by Martin Bowes of Attrition at the Cage Studio in Coventry, England.

Deep in the Haunted Heart

Grainy Lullaby

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I almost ran out of patch cables for this eurorack patch. I created the piece around a arpeggio cords using Mutable Instruments Plaits wave-folder model texturised using Clouds and percussion using the Plaits filtered noise model though the Veils VCA.

Saturation

Distances

Swamp

a rework from Mean Flow of a previous track by Marco Lucchi

gennaio 2021

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Maelstrom

As Manchester’s streets and skyline are warped by the ever-accelerating process of urban renewal, the city’s edgelands and green spaces are at risk of being swallowed by waves of property development. Not only does this raise questions about the ecology of the city, as carbon sinks are flattened and wildlife is displaced, but it speaks to broader trends pushing urban residents away from shared space, community and local identity.  

This project shines a light on these spaces and the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing. As we are faced with crises of both environment and mental health, the role of public green spaces has become ever more crucial in the eyes of those who enjoy, nurture, and maintain them.  

As the tide of urban growth edges closer to the open boundaries of our shared spaces, the trees, wildlife and insects continue their gentle movement, unaware that these spaces are likely reaching the end of their rich lineage. If nothing else, this project documents these final days. 

This work weaves together recorded conversations, composed music and field recordings from a handful of Manchester’s urban wildlife havens. Interviewees include community activists Julie Ryan and Tara Parry from ‘Friends of Ryebank Fields’, award-winning alternative tour guide Hayley Flynn (Skyliner) and Dr Jenna C. Ashton (artist, curator and lecturer at The University of Manchester).

Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2020.

Edgeland

Impulsive Habitat, 2014.

The material of this work is based on a static recording: I installed a microphone under the roof of my father's house in a small village in Alsace (France) for one year. Each day, I recorded one minute of sound on the hour at four different intervals: midnight, morning, noon and evening. I subsequently selected one recording per week for each of the intervals.
These (untreated) recordings were then sewn together in four different tracks, one for each time of day, spanning the course of a year. This results in a cyclical movement consisting of four different time-lapse sequences that trace the entirety of a year in one place.

A Year's Hours Behind my Father's House (Excerpt: Midnight, from May to September)

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