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Noble earths are needed to fulfil humanity’s wish for digitization and technological progress. That is indeed ironic since in order to construct a world only using digits it still needs nature’s rarest elements. Therefore it must be questioned how much the digital dream is worth in the end. I wanted to convert this question into electronic music that consists of primal elements of rhythm and sound to celebrate rudimentary things that let us feel and dance – powerful elements of the past to guide us into the future.

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Europium (Preview)

Lanthan (Preview)

Recorded Dec 2009 at the CEM studio in WORM, Rotterdam NL with their Serge modular and ARP2500 synthesizers, my own pedals and a nice big mixing console. Edited in Ardour. An early sketch, which may be returned to at a later date.

Mathesis (early edit)

Neodym (Preview)

Scandium (Preview)

Artefact

Solitude

250e/259/266/285e

Above are the key modules for this patch which relies heavily on feedback loops. Basically, I have the 250e and the 266 feeding into and back at each other in as many ways as I could think of at the time. I also made use of the really neat "External Inputs" on the 250, feeding the QRV and SRV into one input each. The FRV is controlling the 285e Ring Mod Timbre as well as playing a part in the tempo of the 250e. 
It's really twisted. :)

Uncertain Spinning Drone

An older track from 2003, but one that I still appreciate. It uses the sample-and-hold noise-driven LFO of a Soviet-era Formanta EMS-01 synthesizer, digitally cross-bred with the surface noise at the end of a scratchy old Russian vinyl. Reflecting on this piece, I can see the start of a deep interest in automatic, generative and self-modulating processes taking shape. Thanks to Maksim Borisov for use of his amazing electronic museum piece!

Formanta Drone [surface noise]

Four oscillators are used in this polyphonic drone. Modulations of filters and wave multipliers create floating, changing sound structures. The track is based on a largely generative structure and is therefore not repeatable. I apologize for the occasional interference: it is analogue manual work.

Cover: 16mm filmstill by Thomas Breuer, 2020

ionidum d200917

ionidum (d200917)

modular synthesis / serge modular
experimental composition
live performance
sound installation

ionidum (d200917)

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