"Instant But Distant" is the soundtrack to a 15 minute paper VJ-ing, single-take performance art film In collaboration with artist and filmmaker Igor Simic.

In the film, a series of drawings and mixed media images are placed into view by hand. The images play with internet culture and handwritten, material note-taking on immaterial, digital images, inspired by Duchamp’s extensive photocopied notes. 

The soundtrack is comprised of a collection of spoken word poems, field recordings, found sounds, and onomatopoeia recorded and performed by Igor Simic on his mobile phone during the May 2020 Covid lockdown in Belgrade, Serbia, and then forwarded to me. 

These "organic", emergent sounds are then anchored and enhanced with electronic elements such as drum loops and synthetic bass lines and then interconnected by having certain elements crossover and blend from one section into the next, creating a shifting continuity that matches the moving images and the ideas within them.

Instant But Distant - Soundtrack & Excerpts

Originally released in 2009, this spring tune was a favourite during my outdoor performances in Japan.

As Of Now

In 2013 I produced a remix of a track called "Into Space" for UK artist Aural Imbalance. It appeared on a collection of remixes from  his Album "Legacy" - http://movementinsound.com/buy/legacy-115/ - released on the label Movementinsound - http://movementinsound.com/.

I often end up with several versions of a remix when I get the creative juices flowing.

Three distinct ideas evolved while I was working on the "Into (Berry) Space" remix: 

- a remix rooted in the drum and bass ouvre of the original.

-  a remix rooted in my own deep/dub techno approach, doubling as an homage to my longtime collaboration with Aural Imbalance and previous remixes I have done for him.

- a remix which met somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. 

The "meet in the middle" version was chosen for the remix album, and you can watch the video of the drum recording session here - https://vimeo.com/101391542

Presented here is the unmastered, unofficial deep techno remix.

Enjoy!

Deeper Into Berry Space

In 2013 I produced a remix of a track called "Into Space" for UK artist Aural Imbalance. It appeared on a collection of remixes from his Album "Legacy" - movementinsound.com/buy/legacy-115/ - released on the label Movementinsound - movementinsound.com/.

I often end up with several versions of a remix when I get the creative juices flowing.

Three distinct ideas evolved while I was working on the "Into (Berry) Space" remix:

- a remix rooted in the drum and bass ouvre of the original.

- a remix rooted in my own deep/dub techno approach, doubling as an homage to my longtime collaboration with Aural Imbalance and previous remixes I have done for him.

- a remix which met somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.

The "meet in the middle" version was chosen for the remix album, and you can watch the video of the drum recording session here - vimeo.com/101391542

Presented here is the unmastered, unofficial chill drum and bass remix.

Enjoy!

Out Of Into Berry Space

Deep, dark and brooding, digital glitches and haunting melodies interweave over a hypnotic, driving pulse. Rain is a remix of an original track by Nikolai Sliwerski.

Rain (Remix)

"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the "unmoved mover" paradox. 

The metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of the model that Earth is actually flat and is supported on the back of a World Turtle, which itself is propped up by a chain of larger and larger turtles. Questioning what the final turtle might be standing on, the anecdote humorously concludes that it is "turtles all the way down".

Joe Rogan and Neil de Grasse Tyson discuss the fact that since the universe never makes things in ones, why would there be only one multiverse?

Image: Polytet - Milky Way V2.0

Turtles All The Way Down

Track 003 of my Twisted Synth Series "Tactus" is a composition with two synth lines - a snarling rhythmic bass line juxtaposed with a more melodic and playful midrange line. The arrangement is less tricky than Omaynd's (in which I switch the down beat intermittently and place seemingly random breaks) and the overall intention of Tactus is to create a more straightforward, predictable track that raises the energy level on the dance floor without entirely alienating it but still freaking it out - a lot. 

The Twisted Synth Series is heavily influenced by the architecture of the legendary club space in Tokyo - Womb, a cavernous concrete room almost 4 floors high with a capacity of 850 people.

When I started to perform in this larger venue I found the more intricate stylings and production techniques I had been exploring in my releases on Trapez LTD to be a little irrelevant at the time. My productions from this period (2007-2009) are heavily didactic and in your face club tracks but offset by deliberately oddball break downs and unexpected twists and turns in the arrangement.

At the time of their creation I was very interested in the journey of playful synth lines emerging from within the basic groove of a track and then erupting into a thrilling, playful madness that kept the dance floor guessing and thrilled.


Tactus

compositionwithwhitenoise?

dropoff?

foundnlost?

gremlins?

osboy?

tothepoint?

whatareyoulookingfor?

wtf?

Turtles all the way down mkII is a reworked version of the track Turtles all the way down. A similar arrangement, but with added synth and drum layers and an extended breakdown.

"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the "unmoved mover" paradox.

The metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of the model that Earth is actually flat and is supported on the back of a World Turtle, which itself is propped up by a chain of larger and larger turtles. Questioning what the final turtle might be standing on, the anecdote humorously concludes that it is "turtles all the way down".

Joe Rogan and Neil de Grasse Tyson discuss the fact that since the universe never makes things in ones, why would there be only one multiverse?

Image: Polytet - Milky Way V2.0

Turtles All The Way Down MkII

Shane is an electronic music composer and sound designer creating audio content for short films and games. His commercial audio work appears on campaigns for multinational firms such as Red Bull, SuperCell, Riot, and many more.

Shane is an accomplished recording artist with music released on labels such as Trapez, Ministry of Sound, Kompakt, Sinewave NYC, and Greta Cottage Workshop, and he has more than a decade of live performance experience on the underground techno scenes in Tokyo and Belgrade.

Shane is currently based in Tokyo, Japan and works as Audio Director for the award-winning Demagog Studio.

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