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

The Stylophone CPM DS-2 Dronesynth arrived yesterday although DPD failed to deliver to my door even though I was in (and Royal Mail managed to deliver a different parcel during the same one hour slot). They didn't even give me the option of re-delivery - instead I had a half-hour walk over probably the steepest hill in South London to some random supermarket 'pick-up point' where I had to collect it. The climb over the hill on the way back told me I'm not as young or fit as I was when I lived in Wales and would regularly walk 10-15 miles in a day (and Wales is VERY up and down!) The view from the top of the hill was pretty spectacular though - and it was all downhill from there back to home.

I had a little play with the DS-2 yesterday on its tiny built-in speaker just to check it was working but toaday I plugged it in and had a proper play.

Stylophone CPM DS-2 Dronesynth
Behringer UB802 mixer
Sony MZ-R37 portable minidisc
Yamaha REX50 multi-effector
Mooer Ocean Machine dual delay/reverb/looper
Cup of Ceylon tea

Space Nomads (21/08/2025)

I've had an afternoon crawling around on hands and knees and leaning into strange contorted positions as I've added a few new 'boxes' to my drone setup. The new Stylophone drone synth is now plumbed through an old Micro FX compressor (a mono half-rack sized unit I've had for years) and the laptop feed now goes through an Eventide Ultratap digital delay pedal (a powerful little pedal that I didn't quite gel with on guitar) and an old Alesis Nanoverb (1/3 rack sized).

I've managed to squeeze everything into the small space available and still have all controls accessible. I just need to tidy up the cabling a bit and sort out the power plug situation (I'll need to buy a couple of splitter blocks to neaten it up).

After the surgery 'Throbulus Prime' is now fully functional and I recorded a little throbulous drone piece to check all was working as intended.

Stylophone CPM DS-2 dronesynth > Micro FX Compressor
OB-Xd softsynth (Lenovo laptop) > Eventide Ultratap delay > Alesis Nanoverb reverb
Behringer UB802 mixer < aux loop > Yamaha REX-50 Multi-effector
Mooer Ocean Machine (dual delay/reverb/looper)
Cup of ceylon tea (cold by the time I recorded this)

The Droneworkers of Throbulus Prime (23/08/2025)

“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)

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.

Steve Baker, Producer/Guitarist, London, UK

Guitars, guitars, guitars.....and some more guitars! With a few other devices thrown in (notably, a Line 6 DL4 looping pedal).

All the tracks here are emissions from the venerable 'Steam Abacus' - once a wheezing old pentium-powered antique (Windows 98SE!, mainly utilising Cubase VST 3.7, Cool Edit Pro and T-Racks), now resurrected as an only-slightly-antiquated younger specimen (Windows XP, Cubase SX, et al).

Much is initially recorded direct to minidisc before being edited/compiled on the Steam Abacus.

Some older tracks even started life on Compact Cassette. 

State-of-the-art this ain't!

Echoes::of::Light ✨✨✨✨

Lyra-8. Model:Cycles. Monotribe. Native Instruments Maschine. Rumble of Ancient Times. FM3 Buddha Machines. Music. Art. Citylife. Whatever.

"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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