This is a vintage recording of an interactive/self-generating patch I created back in the early 1980's. The units are: Serge, JP-8 & Effectron II. I would put the JP-8 arpeggiator in hold mode then play 5 notes which then would cycle randomly.  The Serge controlled the arpeggiator triggering, the JP-8 controlled the varying delays on the Effectron, etc.  It was always fun to enter notes in the morning and see what it sounded like when I came home from work.

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Zeitdehner (time stretcher) is one man's output channel for sonic abstractions.The pieces depict events, feelings, thoughts, facts, illusions and realities in a simple and focussed way, with much attention given to moods, textures, density and resolution. Going down to the very grain of the image, like an examination of a Polaroid snapshot through a looking glass or a microscope, like putting the time & space flux through a sample & hold device. Sometimes zooming back out to get a broader picture, thus altering the very sense, the perception of time & space, hence "Zeitdehner". Always looking to reconcile the abstract with the concrete. These microfictions are created exclusively on modular synthesizers. The approach is to use no multi tracking techniques, instead capturing the patch live, as it is, in real time. This is to retain the spontaneity and the live nature of the work, with all the idiosyncrasies of the methodology. The computer is only used to capture the, so to speak, unaltered ephemeral moments.

 

I've always been fascinated by electronic music and what better instrument than the synthesizer to create such music? Over the years, I used lots of different types of synthesizers, all with their particular interface, set of features and character, but never was I fully satisfied. Eventually I found satisfaction in starting a modular synthesizer. This type of instrument is taylor made for my approach to electronic music and my way of working. I love the ergonomy, the aesthetics, the sensual, physical and intellectual relationship with the instrument. It offers me quasi total functional freedom and the means to explore the realms of  my creational processes, limited only by my own imagination. The resulting music is, at last, up to my expectations. The music in itself is more of abstract soundscapes than the casual, academic forms. I would not dare to call it experimental, as this has all been done long before by real experimentalists and sonic pioneers. "Its substance is in the instant, the ephemeral, like a split second in eternity, like polaroid snapshots of the fabric of time and space, like depictions of the Human nature within Nature and the Universe".So do they say...




composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

Doing music for fun inspired by analog music from 70' 
Interest in jazz (Corea, Meola, hancock...) and funky things (sly, ike, and so many...)

Composer, sound artist, performer and educator residing in Reykjavik Iceland.
He's made music for various musicians and ensembles that in term have performed his music in many different places around the globe.

#experimental #ambient #electroacoustic #modularsynthesizer #modular #animatednotation #slatur #tjecktech

Synthesizers, 8bit/trackers, Max Msp, SuperCollider and Guitars.

Analog modular synth. Mostly Serge and Buchla diy
Music for people who don`t counting to four
Profile artwork by my daughter Anna. Inspired by Edvard Munch`s The Scream
Some of the other artworks also by Anna and my son Gjermund
If you wanna use my tracks on radio shows, dj mix or for other purposes please ask me first and you probably get yes from me. Then I will make the track downloadable.

"Travaille ton instrument !"

courtes improvisations pour travailler le modulaire / short improvisations ; improving my modular playing skills is the aim here.

but i also make music sometimes :P

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