the quick ascent from bass to high harmonics is one of the delicious aspects of yr instrument and playing. The overtones produced anchor the high play in an easily referenced tonal centre without it simply being an ostinato drone. Your work here also blur the line betwen attack and glissando really well, there is a near percussive sound created with feels out the timbre range. Its mood and dark part with a helathy amount of playfullness in it. fascinating listening

one of things i admire here is the command of space/pace. enough confidence to let each note ring and transform

wonderful! a most enoyable listening experience :)

from strength to strength, every time i listen to your work, i am impressed again. it seems you keep refining the instrument you designed and built, expanding its expressiveness. sounds incredible.

Awesome ! I always like the development you create. It keeps on going , yet keeps  sort of suspense.

really great piece! sounds deep, mysterious, unpredictable and suffocating at the same time!

Great sound ! It made me calm :  it was relaxing  listening to it. A journey into oneself it apears, thanks Wilhelm !

darkpebble-bluewave presents: October Grounds (1-8)

Abstract Vignettes in De Stijl Sound Grids

Gardens of GoG (Inversion)

Then She Reaches For The Gun was a one off project, bringing together more than 50 artists from across the globe, releasing an album in late 2022 nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-…ely-future But it was so much fun we are back for more.

Flashing My Vagina At Koalas features the following artists:
Ambient Annie - Electronica
Ariad Music - Piano
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Frank Wilke - French Horn
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Voice 
Johnny Python- Rocking Outro
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Keyboards
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Electronica 
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Thomas Bergheim - Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Processed Organ 
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Ms Pacman Slasher Sounds
Zanshin - Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangement/Noise/Voice

Then She Reaches For The Gun - Flashing My Vagina At Koalas

‘quasi’
Modular Hedonism.
2023 live performance.

A wink to @mesmo1, to the consistency of his talent and creativity.

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles, Varigate.
- DFAM.
- Loquelic Iteritas Percido.
- Plaits (chords) > FX Aid (#25 reverb room stereo).
- Pluck.
- Morphagene (voice sample) > Data Bender > Overseer > Monsoon (clouds mode).
Ochd, Batumi (saw).
Buff Mult, Sinc Defero, 3x MIA.
Mutes, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Vulcana Popo [modular hedonism]

one pill more - erik wycísk + r.s.stropharia (16.03.2022)

‘a divinis’
Wastes & Sequences.
2023 live performance.

Chaotic music engineering franchise.

Tools :
Marbles / modulations.
Semi-generative.
- 0-Coast > Data Bender > FX Aid.
- Morphagene (voice sample) > Zagrzeb (hp out).
- Basimilus > Desmodus Versio.
Batumi (saw out), Ochd, Rnd Step.
Sinc Defero, A-160-2, Mutes.
StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Locephalus Higopterid [wastes & sequences]

Paulo Chagas lives in Portugal and I in the USA.
We agreed to make this album by sharing music files over the internet.

While we worked on this album, 
making music for a peaceful world was on our mind.

All over the world, 
tensions, conflicts, suppressions and violence
of one group over another have arisen.

As musical artists, we believe that our artistic process 
demonstrates what we wish for the world,
paraphrasing Ghandi’s 
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world”:

Create agreements and honor them

Listen carefully, respond with care

Openly point out problems, openly work to fix them

Create music that acknowledges conflict but also overcomes it

Support the spirit of engaged creativity

Support joyful life


Wilhelm Matthies and Paulo Chagas, April 2025

Honoring agreements

12-4-2025

method: after creating another digital punchcard and some listening to singing bowls (see video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpWlMmt9M6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==), I took my melodica out to a nice spot in the forest, later going through samplitude (daw) paces
narration: I imagine some human ancestor sitting in the mouth of the cave, still awed by printing his ochre hand on the cave wall - she or he or they .....such a puzzeling, bewildering act:  the creation of identity and the affirmation of connection simultaneously .... Identification, after all, is a younger sibling to alienation ;-)
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

his astonishment
when he saw
his own hand
on the cave wall

imprint

Still Here Tonight

Spring Impressions

October Grounds, 6, is the 1st of 2 album preview pieces that I am releasing.
I continue to evolve the mosesa instrument line, in this album I use a Cedar plate to filter and pre-amplify the string sounds, but I also use external and virtual pedal effects.
I improvise in what could be called "modern modal music", meaning that I reference each tone and timbre to the base tone of the instrument, but give myself full freedom of choices of tones and colors. 
Let me know how it sounds to you!
Download the full album here, pay as you wish https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/october-grounds-1-8
Enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies

October Grounds, 6

October Grounds, 8 is the 2nd of two album preview pieces for the album
October Grounds (1-8)

In this piece I used my 8th mosesa. If you compare how the mosesa 8 sounds to the 9the one, you may hear that it has higher pitches, thinner strings and a thinner, lighter character.
As with October Grounds, 6, I mixed external and internal effects to get the sound quality that you hear, it is a semi-acoustic instrument using a thin wood bowl to filter and preamplify the sound quality before being processed. The intent is to have an instrument that is as versatile and as expressive as possible as established world instruments are such as the viola from Western Europe, the Kamnache from the Mid-East and the Erhu from the Far East but offering new sound qualities not heard by those instruments.

Compositionally speaking, this is an improvisation as the other 7 pieces are on the album, and this is the concluding piece, ie. summarizing the themes I used in the other pieces. 

As with “October Grounds,6”, this one is also a “modern modal piece,” meaning I intentionally use the physical and auditory vibrations of the instrument to find dominant tones and then to respond in contrast with sounds that cause expressive tension, but to also use sounds in degrees of concordance to blend towards resolution for expressive tension and release.

Please leave a comment on the track as it means a lot to me to hear how you think/feel about the presented piece. You can download the album, pay or do not pay as you wish here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/october-grounds-1-8

Enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies
10-21-18

October Grounds, 8

I share music that I have made here solo or in groups. I am bundling my work with some online friends as a project oriented, micro-collective. We are happy to share with you!

https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Wilhelm Mattthies, John Daly (aka Tuneind52), Paulo Chagas and Matthias Boss

October Grounds, 6

Wilhelm Matthies

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