this one's for all the substitute teachers out there who get interrupted by announcements when trying to play dear nora songs on the music room keyboard! featuring piano and modular synth music by me and recordings from my iphone made from august 2024-march 2025.

for god's sake use headphones, i beg of you

96 years young (audio postcard #3)

live improv 250520_205721
first encounter of two n3rd aliens with their new gear. fully improvised shit on the fly.
l8 night, eyes closing, haziness, smokey

h0usm_z4k [LIVE RECORDING] w/ I$IK - 250520_205721

Bassist and composer Joseph Franklin returns to NM for a wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’ revises motifs and prompts from Franklin’s solo bass and extended technique LP for NM in 2024 with spectacular license, captured in stunning high resolution audio.

Surrounded by an encircling audience, Franklin’s fragmented acoustic cycles issued from an array of instruments and sources were splayed across 4 channels at Brunswick’s Quadraphonic Club via Carey’s impressively restrained synthesis, software interaction and live engineering, mixed down to stereo for this release. The duo’s staggering meshes lurch from blistering to elongated and back again, often as tactile as they are psychically liquefied, both performances rippling at each other’s wide-eyed interpolations.

Quantitively, mere sinews of the original work flit in and out of focus, yet these strands are most noticeable even to those with a cursory familiarity with ‘a thousand tiny mutinies’. Carey’s attention to detail and care in the mix actively places Franklin’s performance in sharpest focus, re-nesting these percussive, often inter-tonal molecules into a realm of digital faceting, dragging their shared rationale into the cosmological. 

Frightening in its unpredictable objectives, this rare capture of a duo in such gleaming, inspired symbiosis does not strike so often.

a thousand tiny mutinies live

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Somewhere at 3 AM, the fridge hums a lonely solo. 
Don’t listen too closely — it might recognize you.

5. Memories of an Internet Cafe Living in a Rice Field

7. Some shit from our album

1. Don’t Trust a Guy Who Sells Fog on Discount

A Stunning Portrait

Recording 998

track 13 from 2024's "Coraje Mundo" album

Fangora

DANCIN

Ohm Waves

Light and Sound Performance at the Art Museum

In this 30-minute experimental electronic performance, Troy Lin creates a refined soundscape using multiple analog and modular synthesizers, in collaboration with Gazer’s Crystal Interactive Ecosystem. Together, they transform the museum into an immersive stage of light and sound.

Synth Setup Includes:
	•	Moog – Arpeggiated Lead Scales
	•	Opsix – Pads, Drone, Lead
	•	Digitakt II – Drums, Percussion, SFX
	•	Modular Synth – Sound Design, Percussion, Ambient

Crystal Sound Installation:
Through bio-interactive technology, crystals become sound-generating instruments. By touching the crystals, visitors can instantly create and modify sounds. Each crystal is made from natural fluorescent minerals that glow vividly under ultraviolet light, producing a striking visual and auditory experience.

Lumen & Shade - Troy Lin feat. Gazer - Live set

My latest live set... this one is a little different...

Not a new direction, but just an experiment with playing some pre released tracks in live versions rather than completely improvising. I'm definitely not ditching the improvising - just trying something to see what I can learn.

Having been doing lots of entirely improvised sets recently I started looking into recording some of my improvisations and developing them into tracks. This made me get out my Cirklon sequencer again, and I thought for this month's Factory Setting event I'd have a go at recreating live versions of some of my studio tracks that had been released.

So this set consists of Indigo and Flight, which came out on my own label Cirrus Sounds, and Marble which came out on Traum Schallplatten and was the first Mentat track I ever released.

These tracks were originally written in Ableton Live, so I brought across some of the samples and the sequences to the BitBox sampler and the Cirklon sequencer, and live jammed the arrangements on the sequencer and the modular system.

This brings different challenges than improvising... having sounds in mind for each track and section I have to remember more. I have to remember what sequences are coming from where, how they should sound and how I need to set up the synth to make those sounds. When improvising I can be a bit more immediate and experiment, but here I have to get to something I have in mind, which is a different approach. I don't have to think as much about where I am going though, as I had the three track order planned and to a certain extent the types of arrangements I'd be creating, even though that was a bit improvised.

All in all I was pleased with how it went. It goes a bit abstract going out of Indigo into Flight where the transition in synth sounds wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be. But it's OK I think and something I'd quickly improve with some more practice.

Something I learned was how I might approach varying structures a bit more even when improvising. I have tended to be very loop and groove focused, but my released tracks have more back and forth of differing sections. No reason why I couldn't do this with the improvising - it's just another thing to develop and practice.

Next I'm going to explore constructing some track starting with improvisation on the Torso sequencer, but recording them into the Cirklon and refining them into more finished tracks. The Cirklon is much better for that kind of detailed work - although the Torso shines brighter to me for ideas and live jams. I might try some live sets with a mix of more prepared and improvised stuff - it's nice to play some more detailed melodic stuff and recognisable tunes. But I do prefer fully improvising in the moment in many ways, so I'll see where it takes me.

Gear used:
Sequentix Cirklon - All sequencing
BitBox Micro Sampler - Drums, percussion loops, some synth parts
Mutable Instruments Plaits - Melodies and effect
Doepfer Wasp filter - Filter on the Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas - Melodies
Dopefer A-111-6 - Bass
Knobula Poly Cinematic - Chords and melodies
Make Noise Mimeophon - Delay and effects
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone) - Granular effects
Bastl Pizza Crust - Percussion and occasional synth
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot - Mixing
Happy Nerding FX-Aid x2 - Reverb on everything and multi effects on the Poly Cinematic
Mod Dwarf effects pedal - End of chain compression and mastering and some stereo whole mix hipass filtering and delay

If you're interested, my ModularGrid is here: https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2884273

Live Melodic Techno at Factory Setting, London

min tech

Doc No returns with “Mitsukurina,” channeling the abyssal depths on this deep sea modular synth exploration. Taking its name from the goblin shark’s scientific genus, the track echoes the quiet menace of this rare deep-sea predator - the last surviving member of a 125-million-year-old lineage.

Bandcamp

Mitsukurina

Two alien buddies start jamming with their gear, and ends up with something like Autechre on stereoids lol

6L1XuS-j+m [LIVE RECORDING] w/ I$IK

Monday 672

In the silence of space, it refused to let its light fade. Even as satelite drifted away, it kept sending its final signal. In the loneliness, it breathed through the memory of being known. With every orbit, it remembered a distant voice. It didn’t shine just to exist. It burned with the faith of revival.

For to shine until the end was its only way of being alive...
love, Tsyklon

Neues Licht

You said “be kind” to the ones who bruise,
Then hid your hands when the crowd lit the fuse.
Preach compassion from your stage of glass,
But silence hits harder than the past.

You said “hug the hate, don’t fight,”
While we bury names every night.
Your peace feels rich, mine costs breath
Your mercy sounds a lot like death.

Sue me
See you in court.
You can’t trademark truth or distort.
Sue me
Play your part.
But you can’t scrub blood from art.

You’re calm when it’s not your skin,
Talk reform while the walls close in.
White noise, white tears, same spin 
Love’s a word you keep locked in.

You wear grace like legal armor,
Sell the hurt back, just calmer.
Say “no hate,” then guard the door 
You’re the peace we can’t afford.

Sue me 
See you in court.
Mute the beat but not the report.
Sue me 
Make it short.
Truth survives your last retort.

Don’t say “we all make mistakes,”
When the cost is queer lives at stake.
Don’t call that love, it’s PR faith.
Your comfort’s built on someone’s grave.

Sue me 
See you in court.
Your kindness kills by quiet support.
Sue me 
Fall apart.
You can’t trademark a bleeding heart.

Sue me, QT

Welcome to my audio gallery! Here, you'll find an eclectic collection of tunes crafted using my Eurorack and VCV Rack setups, recorded from October 2023 to the present. These tracks are the result of my experiments with different modules and patching techniques in sound design and composition.

The entire sound is in my hands. I write cyber poetry, produce, and compose every track ready for Immersive 3D. Every beat is crafted for spatial and next-gen headphones.
Intimate lyrics, total immersion, every track.

For 30 years I kept unfinished demos to myself, never letting them out. Now I finish what I start and release it the moment it’s alive.

I use every tool available — human or machine — as an instrument.
Technology doesn’t replace creativity. It expands it.

i make ambient music most of the time i think

nicemusiclabel.com Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Learning modular.
Inspired by 2008 era dubstep, UKG, Jungle & IDM

Omni Pop 🌐🐉

RTT is 
Terry Cloth
Ken Shiro
Max Methane
Gerry Gemstone

multisensory documentary audio and sound art in NYC

PCML loves music & sounds & electronics & computers & algorithms & internet

co-founder of "GLIX STUDIO"
https://glix.studio
https://glix.shop
and makes music however she feels like

berk.eth
princesscamel.eth

www.berkozdemir.com
contact: hello@berkozdemir.com

https://www.youtube.com/@BogotaMusicMakers/videos

DIY

泊人ANKR 2025 Rebranding 

#探索自然與數位綠洲
Exploring nature and digital oasis.

Techno and progressive house from UK producer and live act Mentat.

www.mentataudio.com
Contact: mentat@mentataudio.com

New tracks tagged #Modular Synth