Gravity

Additive synthesis of a bell-like sound with more than 20 enharmonic partials individually shaped by LFOs. The title "Glas" means "knell" in French and "glass" in German. It is a little tribute or memorial to a great composer, the late Jonathan Harvey and makes obvious reference to his famous "Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco" from 1982. Starting with a big bell-strike, the harmonic field is shifted up and down later in the piece and new partials, all even more "out of tune" with the original ones are folded into the mix.

GLAS

RASP

DEVOUR (rmx)

GNAW

More overdriven viciousness and I think one of my very best pieces from this project. It's hard to believe this is mostly just a single "home made" oscillator that loops a short percussive impulse ("Kontakte" by Stockhausen still has its hold over me) and then the pitch of the impulse as well as its speed are independently modulated by up to 7 mutually interfering LFOs. There's something incredibly satisfying about making complex sounds, literally, "from scratch".

Descent

Physically modelled string oscillators (that is it's a software model of the way a violin string behaves), formant filtered and mostly kept quiet and in line until the craziness erupts violently with loads of cross-modulation. Just a work in progress but a good example of where my interests are heading. 

This is just a single note on the Nord Modular. No effects.

Sponge

Banks of string oscillators glissando around focal pitches and are progressively ruined by the introduction of greater pressure on the "string". This piece could be understood as a modeling of what happens when too much pressure is placed on a string, the note starts to break up and crack. This piece becomes a massive storm of noise towards the end. It should be listened to as loud as possible and with good bass response, there are a lot of things going on in the bottom end with a lot of pitch shifted rumbling. And yes it's meant to be scary.

DRAIN

Possibly the nastiest and angriest thing I've done so far. A screaming frenzy of distortion, feedback, ring modulation, comb filtering and waveshaping.

WOLFTÖNE