My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0628: Alchemical Brothers.

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I wanted something that started chaotic and then through the process of repeated "cleansings" ended up with something more "pure".

The equipment used was a Bora (a small six oscillator dronesynth made by a local company called Decadebridge), an OP-1 (just acting as a USB interface), and VCV Rack running on my Mac. In VCV Rack, the signal from the Bora was put through a filter and a delay, the cut off and delay times of which were modulated by a slow LFO. The final sound was put through Vahalla DSP's Übermod and Room plugins for a bit of stereo width and reverb, with some final EQ and compression in U-he Presswerk.

When recording I just left the LFO to affect the filter and delay, then on the Bora slowly removed the oscillator cross-modulations and then five of the six oscillators until only one was left.

disquiet0628 cleansing

Traveling through blissful dreams and memories

Dream Engine

Floating in space, sunlight glimmering on chrome satellites

Chrome Satellites

This is a high quality track for this Siluria demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAX_sI-JIQ

Feel free to download it, remix, reuse.

Siluria Drone Synthesizer, first patch demo

'Darkness' is a jam I performed for Jamuary 2025. The Lyra-8 demonstrates its sheer brutality and spreads a pure post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Such a beast!

Darkness

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Another Jam. Lyra-8 only, focussing on some roars deep down. 

Ambient Session 011

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I have expanded my setup again. A small SQ-1 from Korg now ensures that I can easily create great arpeggios in Ableton and send them to the engines in the Solar 42F via the integrated CV converter - and with two voices.

This is the first jam with the new device. Although this track is very well prepared and the chords are finely tuned, I find it easier and easier to make spontaneous jams with the instrument that are not perfectly pitched. 

In addition to the Solar, the Soma Cosmos also plays a part here, albeit in a rather small role. I actually wanted to use it more and develop a more prominent backdrop with it. Next time.

Sequenziell

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Practicing with the Solar 42F internal sequencers. As much as I like to write the melodies with Ableton Live and send them via the Korg SQ-1 to the Solar, I want to make better use of the internal features because it's better for travelling and I also want to get better with performing on one machine.

For this jam, I devided the touch sensitive keyboard in two controllers, each of them is playing different melodies on the two VCO voices using the sequencer features. 

I also used the Soma Cosmos to create a texture sound layered under the arrangement and the Endorphin.es Golden Master Pedal lets the BigSky Cloud Reverb sparkle so nicely <3

As always, you can download the full jam on my websitehttps://www.59perlen.com/community/59-perlen-updates/discussion/3699eca3-6cb0-46ce-9e39-c880031ec3e7

Fifty

The waves crashed and tore through the sand
A storm carved its mark on the land
I ran through the rain
With a heart full of pain
Grief clung like the sea to my hand


After the Storm 5 27 25

“Swim To You” has a long and rather unique journey behind it.

The original piece was composed for a temporary art installation called "Shopping Bag". Back then, it was performed entirely on the Vermona Performer—some of those original sounds still remain in this new version.

I loved the textures so much that I decided to release it as a single titled "Swim To You". A singer-songwriter later added vocals, turning it into a calm, chill-out track.

Months later, I created a dance remix for my first vinyl album "Forget About The Music", where the track was also released as a single.

The song eventually reached Swiss artist "Ingeborg", who sent me a reel with spontaneous vocals recorded over "Swim To You". I loved it immediately, and together we developed a new version, which became a new song titled "Siren".

Ingeborg later reworked the Siren vocals again, transforming the piece into a completely new standalone track with the same title, carried by her extended vocal lines. It was released on August 25. 

Finally, when I began revisiting my older material as ambient reinterpretations, I returned once more to "Swim To You" and created a very small sample set of the stems. This latest version reshapes the song into an ambient soundscape, performed on the Solar 42F and Soma Cosmos.

Swim To You (Ambient Mutation)

My first Jam with the Elmyra 2 drone synthesizer from Neutral Labs. What can I say - even though this device has a lot of hidden secrets in a nerdy menu system without any screen, its so accessible,versatile, dark and deep in such a tiny lightweight box, it's a real dream for ambient musicians. I just use 2 of the 4 voices in this little jam (one in Chord Mode, one with Sub-Oscillator), the audio out is running though a Big Sky Reverb. 

Tomorrow

Bambino: One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.
Trinity: Well, you asked me to give you a hand.

Echoes::of::Light ✨✨✨✨

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"Performing live and taking the audience on a journey has always been my dream". 
 
59 Perlen is a Music Artist, Performer and Mentor living based im Zurich, Switzerland. He plays house and ambient sets with various hardware setups for diverse audiences. The often minimalist tracks tell a story with combining dubhouse elements and ambient atmospheres while they still remain danceable.

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