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Showing posts with label Synth Albums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Synth Albums. Show all posts

Thursday, July 02, 2026

Energy Field by Reductionist






via Nick Wilson of Clan Analogue: "I'm touching base about a new release from Australian electronic music collective Clan Analogue by the Melbourne artist Reductionist. I thought it might be of interest to you as a release made entirely with cheap Korg gear, specifically the Monotron, Monotron Duo and Volca Modular.

The release is a two-track single called 'Energy Field'."

From BandCamp:

[before the Big Bang and the beginning of time…]

"There was no matter. All that existed was space/time and energy. An ocean of energy, almost still but gently rippling. A near still ocean of energy filling the void." Brian Cox, Universe (BBC, 2021)

Reductionist explores the wavefolding of time and space using battery-powered technologies and microvirtuosic technique with the debut release Energy Field.

Reductionist utilises the humblest of ephemeral technologies, including battery-powered micro-instruments, forgotten music tech products, and cheap effect pedals, to express through sound the vastest concepts that we, as humans, can attempt to comprehend.

The title track is inspired by the idea of an immeasurable energy field, theorised to have existed before the Big Bang, with the entire Universe lying dormant, waiting to emerge into existence…

The new single also includes the extended companion piece “Energy Field Refolding”. Could the Universe refold into itself as an energy field once again? Humans are attracted to the idea of rebirth - perhaps we need to imagine that existence will always continue in some form.

Reductionist is the solo project for electronic music artist Nick Wilson, whose previous work has included Random Acts of Elevator Music, Darrow, Tiatto, City Frequencies and Continuum. Nick has also been the Label Manager for Australia’s longest-running electronic music collective Clan Analogue over the last twenty years. In 2025 Reductionist and multimedia artist Aday collaborated on the MacroVerse collaborative performances at the Abbotsford Convent, which were nominated for the Best In Music category at the 2025 Melbourne Fringe Awards.

“Energy Field” is the first track to be released from the forthcoming Reductionist album MacroVerse. Prepare for existence and experience Energy Field.

released June 9, 2026

You can find addtional details on the release at Clan Analogue.

Friday, June 26, 2026

The Prophet


video upload by Robin Rimbaud-Scanner

"What began as a little studio playtime with a new software synth from GForce developed into this neat little EP.



I made a little demo online for social media and had a number of requests to make this track available, so you not only get that track, but also three additional tracks, all of which I made on the same day.

A little context - Few instruments have left such an indelible mark on modern music as the Sequential Prophet-5. You’ve heard it on countless recordings, from Michael Jackson’s Thriller album to Phil Collins, from Radiohead to Vangelis, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, oh the list goes on and on."

https://www.gforcesoftware.com/product/prophet5/

Sunday, June 21, 2026

SCJS#101- THE AIRPORT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA


video upload by FL3SHB4CK

"Small Case Jam Sessions #101

BEAN JELLY, ONEIROI

Recorded live thru Syntakt delay & reverb

Available on Bandcamp:



Thanks for supporting me!"

HWJ - THE AIRPORT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - HWJ Edit

video upload by FL3SHB4CK

"Hardware Jam Challenge: AIRPORT

BEAN JELLY, ONEIROI

Recorded live thru Syntakt delay & reverb"

Saturday, June 20, 2026

Wheel Within the Wheel EP by Michael William Gilbert






A new release via supporting member Michael William Gilbert via Tall Dog Electronics (tindie)

Hello friends,

I am very happy to share this new project with you: an EP of original electronic/electroacoustic fusion music. There are six tracks, including the single "The Prayer Is The Road"(a)/"The Road Is The Prayer"(b). To be clear - prayer in my context is secular: "a practice focusing on gratitude, mindfulness, and reflection to foster positive change, connection, or resilience without appealing to a supernatural being".

"Wheel Within the Wheel", the title track, is influenced by a visit to Tibetan Buddhist monks while they werein the process of creating a sand painting and then destroying it. "Fractal Loup" is about a state of active and curious meditation, a metaphorical wolf mind interpreted with looping. "The Float" is a dream through the worlds of techno and Berlin school. All music recorded & mixed at Alibi’s Little Corner Studio by MWGilbert and mastered by Sean Magee.

Upcoming: thanks to my partners at ElasticStage, "Wheel Within the Wheel" will soon be available as both an LP and a CD! You can check out my previous album "Electronic Music": https://elasticstage.com/mwgilbert

Hope you enjoy "Wheel Within the Wheel". I'm always pleased and grateful to hear what you think, so please let me know!


Thanks for listening!

- MW Gilbert mwg@mwgilbert.com

Thursday, June 04, 2026

sinus transmission completed original motion picture soundtrack trailer part 1


video upload by teenage engineering

"our friends ericsson & reuter have, through their very important scientific research, gone out in the field once again, working on something special. a limited edition visual anthology documenting the sinus transmission completed motion picture project. featuring photographs, drawings, scripts and lyrics created by the artist duo, together with the original soundtrack pressed on two 10" vinyl records. all gathered in a 20-page gatefold book. designed and engineered by teenage engineering.

available in limited quantities at:
https://teenage.engineering/products/..."

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

LoFi Future - Fragmenter 45 Circuit Bent HDMI Video Glitch Processor


video upload by LoFiFuture

"Available to order here: https://www.lofifuture.shop/product/f...

Track: LoFi Future - Canicular Days
https://lofifuture.bandcamp.com/track...
https://open.spotify.com/album/5oSvIp...

The Fragmenter 45 is a circuit bent Extron 1604 HDMI Scaler. It is a very high quality unit that demanded a very high retail price when originally released. The HDMI signal integrity is pixel perfect and doesn't compress your image when passed through this thing. It processes 1080p 60fps signals without even breaking a sweat!

This one features some effects that are new to myself, targeting a specific part of the clock circuitry that I have not experimented with before on any other device. The 3 push buttons trigger different clock glitch effects that completely take over the signal and make some mesmerizing patterns. They are an extreme and immediate set of effects, perfect for the most intense parts of a live visual performance. A bonus feature of these buttons is that when subtle artefacts build up on the screen after a while even when the effects are all off, a quick press of one of these buttons and they are all cleared! No need for a reset mid performance!

Another effect unique to this device in the horizontal warp effect that makes the clean HDMI signal degrade into something that looks like a weak analog transmission.

8 knobs control the colour digitise effect and another 9 knobs control the "fragment" effect section that splits the image up and repeats it in slices at a 45 degree angle. These two banks of knobs can be linked together with a toggle switch for even more effect possibilities.

This unit also features a VGA input and can scale the signal to a HDMI output, all of the effects work the same when doing so."

Monday, June 01, 2026

Haiku Generative Music Album by Giorgio Sancristoforo for Mac OS Released



Giorgio Sancristoforo's Haiku Generative Music Album is now available for download. You might remember the demos from previous posts here.

It's a fascinating concept. According to Giorgio Sancristoforo:

"Haiku is not an instrument, it’s a music album in the form of software.

Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing."

Be sure tee the Giorgio Sancristoforo website for his additional creations including dedicated experimental software synthesizers. You can also find posts featuring them via his label below.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

大雨-Ooame: Promoting melancholia with digital radicalism and a cub


video upload by Giorgio Sancristoforo




"In an age in which artificial intelligences spew out thousands of pseudo-commercial hits every day, making algorithmic music may seem like an exercise that has lost its meaning. And yet, for some reason, my unconscious has pushed me for decades — from time to time — to create electronic music without using sequencers, synthesizers, samples, or plugins, relying only on mathematics, writing computer programs that give shape to my sensibility without ever tempting me with the absurdity of the prompt.

It would be a lost battle anyway. A commercial AI would never be able to create these strange melodies full of errors and digital stutters, because this is music for outcasts, for nostalgics of a future betrayed by the massification of tools, by cleverness, by pleasant sound design, by cliché, by winning formulas and shortcuts constantly winking at the listener.

I have always believed that real experimental music is music that destabilizes the listener’s very concept of music, and I still believe it.

This is paradoxical music, in which the soul attempts to transmit nostalgia, intimacy, and melancholy through code — and precisely because it is born from code, it is the most anti-AI thing I can imagine.

It is not original music; music ex nihilo does not exist, and it does not pretend to say anything innovative. Yet it tries to communicate that it is still possible to imagine the algorithm outside the algorithm."

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

LEPLOOP'S Tonylight: Lumanoide Made with Gotharman's Tiny LD





via Tonylight

"Some music I've made just with tiny ld3

https://www.51beats.net/51bts078-tonylight-lumanoide/"

http://www.gotharman.dk/

https://www.leploop.org/

Friday, May 01, 2026

Mitchell Sigman - Memory


video upload by celebutante

"From Mitchell Sigman's 2026 record, 'Memory Banks'
Available for streaming/purchase here: https://linktr.ee/mitchellsigmanmusic"

Some additional notes on the release from Mitchell:

Polysilicon - Realmless Eyes


video upload by Light Vortex

From the EP Exanimate Utopia - available now on Bandcamp.




"New music by Chris Moore, who has released acclaimed LPs on Mortality Tables, Neo Ouija, SKAM and Chocolate Industries as While and Light Vortex; and recorded with David Bowie, TV on the Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more."

Friday, April 03, 2026

PMC 01 - Meska - Chromatic fall


video upload by Meska (Meska)

"This is part of a bigger compilation you can found here :
https://parismodularclub.bandcamp.com...

During the 2024 we make some jam/sound design session in paris , record everythings and after all menber have using the audio material for building track here is my take on it.



Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)
Contact/booking: meskastatik@gmail.com"

Friday, March 27, 2026

PMC 01 - Meska - Forgotten Path


video upload by Meska (Meska)

"This is part of a bigger compilation you can found here :



During the 2024 we make some jam/sound design session in paris , record everythings and after all menber have using the audio material for building track here is my take on it.

Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)
Contact/booking: meskastatik@gmail.com"

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Pluto's Moons (Album) by The Pedalboard Orchestra




Also see The Pedalboard Orchestra's demos of Modern Sounds Pluto Semimodular Synthesizer



"This album presents ten extended ambient soundscapes (approx. 150 minutes total), composed and recorded using the Modern Sounds Pluto semimodular synthesizer as the sole sound source. Pluto’s architecture—featuring five primary modulation engines named after Pluto’s moons (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra)—served as both a structural and conceptual framework during production.
Each track explores different interactions between these modulators, ranging from FM-based timbral shifts to complex CV-driven rhythmic deviations and slow-evolving modulation cycles.

Across the sessions, the wider effects chain underwent several iterations, incorporating various pedals for filtering, spatial processing, and granular-style textural shaping. However, two components remained consistent throughout:

Modern Sounds Pluto (core synthesis + modulation)

Eventide Space (primary reverb stage, used for long-tail ambient diffusion, shimmer variants, and modulated plate algorithms)

All material was captured as real-time, single-track, one-take recordings, with no overdubs or post-layering. Performance control relied heavily on Pluto’s internal modulation matrix, manual parameter riding, and dynamic interaction between the... more
credits
released March 7, 2025

Many thanks to the brilliant creators of synthesizers and effects pedals -
especially the teams at Modern Sounds, Chase Bliss, Old Blood Noise Endeavors, and Eventide Audio.
Without their innovations, this album would not have been possible.

All sounds and noises by: The Pedalboard Orchestra
Recording and mastering by: The Pedalboard Orchestra
Photo and album cover design by: The Pedalboard Orchestra"

Friday, March 20, 2026

Eric Schlappi & Bastien Lavaud - Orbital Mirrors


video upload by SCHLAPPI ENGINEERING and Concrete Collage

"Full album on Bandcamp:



Eric Schlappi is back on Concrete Collage with the distant cousin of Larval Beak. A collection of seven weird and intricate compositions / performances.

Rave music for another universe?
Songs made of electricity and noise?
Tribalism for CMOS chips?

You decide."

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

MultiWAVE meets Music Mouse | Make Noise


video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse software has been reissued in a modern package by Eventide, and so we just had to take it for a spin with MultiWAVE!"

https://www.eventideaudio.com/softwar...
https://www.theverge.com/report/87981...
https://unseenworlds.com/blogs/linern...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Friday, February 20, 2026

MSTRBLSTR - Pattern Clear Pattern Write


video upload by MSTRBLSTR

"MSTRBLSTR - Pattern Clear Pattern Write.
124 BPM machine-driven acid house - negative space, dub handoffs, tape delay + spring reverb. Brief clears, then a new polymetric logic takes over."

https://open.spotify.com/track/4dNO60... https://mstrblstr.bandcamp.com/track/...






"Machine-driven acid house at 124 BPM: transient-forward percussion with hollow-bodied punch, a constant bass groove that shifts in intensity, and an arrangement built on negative space and dub-style handoffs.

Tape delay and spring reverb open wide. Brief breaks wipe the grid just long enough for the pattern to snap back into focus. Then the momentum clears and a new polymetric logic takes over. Modulated melodic drifts change the room without abandoning the floor, leaving you somewhere familiar but newly yours.

Hardware: Din Sync RE-808, Roland TR-606, Roland/Tubbutec MC-2oh2, Cyclone TT-303, Alice 1228 mixer, Boss KM-60 mixer, Boss RCL-10 compressor, RE-201 Space Echo, Jeff Rubin Mu-tant Fly Phase, edited in Ableton Live.

iLL ACiD Cat. No. ILL015

iLL ACiD is 5 years old, so this one’s a free Bandcamp download + available on all platforms"

https://mstrblstr.bandcamp.com/track/pattern-clear-pattern-write

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Self Playing Patches by BENGE


video upload by Memetune Studio

"This series of studies explores an idea that Benge has been working on over the past year or so, namely that of Cybersynthesis. This involves programming self-contained patches on various modular systems which, once set in motion, will produce dynamic, evolving soundscapes, sometimes purely abstract in nature, at other times veering towards the more melodious

Many different methods were deployed in the patches, depending on the system being used, but normally multiple sequencer and switching devices were combined to give varying degrees of control over long time periods, often without repetition

Other things like random control signals and semi-random events were combined with the sequencers and switching units to bring variation to the performances the machines were making

The key idea at the heart of Cybernetics is the concept of bringing control to chaotic processes. To do this, some kind of feedback loop would ideally be established that can monitor and limit events that might otherwise spin out of control. The Serge and Modcan systems featured here each have various comparator circuits that can, to a certain extent, achieve this highly advanced synthesis feature

In the absence of such sensor paths, it is sometimes possible to use audio or voltage mixers and feedback chains to set various parameters to be on the very edge of chaotic behaviour, an approach used in many of the patches on display here

Other techniques such as the quantisation of voltages and the forcing of notes to play within certain predetermined musical scales were also employed in some of the pieces, which is another way of taming chaotic elements into into a more musical realm

Overall, a wholly experimental approach was applied to the various setups, with the intention of providing an insight into how these machines can behave. Of course, each system has an almost limitless depth to the complexity of patches available, and each track on the album provides just a single snapshot of each instrument used. But hopefully it provides an interesting glimpse into the wonders that these self-playing systems can achieve

Tracklist:

01 - Buchla 100 and EMS VCS3
02 - Serge Paperface
03 - Modcan A-Series
04 - ARP 2500
05 - Buchla 200 and DK Synergy
06 - Serge and LW Comparator
07 - Moog Modular 3C
08 - Roland Discrete System
09 - Buchla 200

MORE INFO HERE:
https://modular-station.com/modulisme...



Synthesiser programming and recording, design and concept: Benge (B D Edwards)

Made at Memetune Studios, England

(c)+(p) 2025 Memetune Recordings

Special thanks to Philippe Petit at Modulisme (modular-station.com/modulisme) for his continued support"

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Mindfulness and Meditation For the End Times by Benefaktor






"Sean Drinkwater performs on the Korg Opsix SE synthesizer! Relax, it will all be over soon.

released December 30, 2025"

This one is in via supporting member, Loscha who had the following to say:

"My friend Sean Drinkwater (of the band Freezepop) has a new album out on Bandcamp.

It's a made on one symth album, the Korg OpSix, the super Dx7 for these modern times.

One hour of name-your-price peaceful ambience."

https://benefaktor.bandcamp.com/...

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Soul of the Machine | Inside the ARP Centennial Compilation


video upload by CatSynth TV

"We explore the new compilation _Soul of the Machine_, released by the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation as part of this year's centennial celebrations of the birth of Alan R. Pearlman. There are two CDs with twelve tracks each, plus a digital-only "bonus disc" with another 12 tracks, featuring a diverse roster of artists. All tracks feature ARP synthesizers, including the rare 2500, the ubiquitous 2600 and Odyssey, the Pro Soloist, OMNI, and more. We highlight a few of the tracks and artists from each disc and share some thoughts on the compilation as a whole.

To find out more about the compilation, as well as the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation, please visit their official website:
https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/s...

You can also find the compilation on Bandcamp:
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/a...

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0:00 Introduction
0:29 Overview of the compilation
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