The Greater Light To Rule The Night

Compound Disturbance is featured on the new Tapage vinyl 'Recursive Behaviors' on Ant-Zen.  


Tapage - Recursive Behaviors
A
The Error-Controlled Regulator
B
Centrifugal Near-Equilibrium
Compound Disturbance



'Recursive Behaviors', in more than one sense, investigates a mutual space where humans and machines mingle and exchange sonic materials with one another. Machines infused with chaotic processes, allowed to follow their own strange and unstable logic. As one encounters these shape-shifting entities, riddled with unpredictabilities, one soon realizes that they can merely be influenced and explored, but never fully controlled.


The machines develop their own internal sonic language. A lexicon and syntax of sound, at times playing fragile melodies, other times developing textural structures, locked into semi-repetitive rhythms. Timbres emerging from the intertwined recursions that form the backbone of their internal wiring. Machines, able to analyze their own actions and adapt behavioral patterns. Machines that hum, sing, mumble and scream.


'Recursive Behaviors' started out with extended recordings of these machines, letting them act out in uninterrupted passages of sonic expression. These recordings formed the backbone of each of the pieces, as an opening statement waiting for a response. My initial counter took the shape of cello improvisations, complementing the electronic textures with slow-moving, sorrowful drones. This resulted in a back and forth between the calls of the cybernetic machines and a range of acoustic responses. Pieces, written as much by the instruments themselves as through any human engagement with them.


All sounds and video by Tijs Ham (Tapage) 
https://tapage.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
https://earlabs.org/
ant-zen. audio & visual arts
https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/

Compound Disturbance

All-consuming chromatic voidspawn slathered in putrid, prismatic, acrylic grease

Amorphochromia

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Clipperton

A more recent version of my Reverso Remix

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Reverso (Solipsis Remix - Stage 2)

Night Terrors

Anything (Original Mix)

White Light

Mechanically Void (Kettel Remix)

Live Set from the night at Calm Class L'usine Geneva

09 september 2018

01_The Green Kingdom_Untitled 8 (Roel Funcken rmx)
02_Roel Funcken_Participatory Anthropic Principle
03_Roel Funcken_Console Flutter
04_Roel Funcken_Zonic Emulsifizm
05_Roel Funcken_Bozen Frebop
06_Ivan Shopov & Avigeya_Belo Rade (Roel Funcken rmx)
07_Ochre & Roel Funcken_Spock Covex
08_Roel Funcken_Ogden Morrow
09_Roel Funcken_Nefit Kraton
10-Roel Funcken_Other Form of Matter (Erothyme rmx)
11-Roel Funcken_Felting Bogrow
12-Roel Funcken_Nuclear Beta Decay
13-Roel Funcken_Ghostly Particle

Roel.Funcken.Live@Calm.Class.LeZoo.L'usine.Geneva

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

Buy / stream: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/ohbs

It's hard to know what to say when it's the release day of a new album. So much time and work and thought and joy and pain goes into the process, and then I need to sum it up in a sentence somehow. All I can say is, I put everything I had into this one, and tried to be as musically honest as I could, I hope some of the ideas and feelings resonate with you.

As with my other releases of recent years I've used a visually related theme and collaborated with visual artists for every track to tell the overall story. I wanted to try and link this theme into my process of creating the album as closely as I could. So I chose a theme of the mind, and spent the first month of the project in total isolation with no outside contact, in order to look inwards for what creates us, and me, to provide content for the music and visuals. 

I named the album "one hundred billion sparks" after the one hundred billion neurons in our heads, and their act of "sparking" to create our experiences. It seemed a nice way to visually summarise what the project was about, and lent itself to the album artwork form, beautiful delivered by Tyler Hobbs with his countless networked fragments. 

The individual chapters of the story stray pretty far from the usual ideas around brains, but that's way too much info to include here, so we've made a little website summarising the whole project, which will be updated with each music video as they're released.

So that's it, I hope you find some music or ideas in there which you enjoy, and I'll be touring the new album AV show in 270 surround visual format wherever possible, so hopefully catch you at one of those gigs sometime soon.

Buy/Stream/LP/CD

Funck'd

Dimson Crawn

Jopus Magnum (current) = 
Ambit (old ambient works) =
Solipsis (early experimentation)