Hello World! (Again)

It’s been a while since the last post. We can all admit during the pandemic, we’ve lost touch with the world a bit. I certainly have gone full hermit mode but I’m glad things are opened up again and I’ve been busy catching up with all the people I love and it feels great! Plus, me being a hermit means I’ve been doing a lot behind the locked doors so here are some of the examples. One of the most memorable recent work is called DREAMMACHINE and it’s a fully immersive art installation happening in London and Cardiff at the moment. I’ve helped mixing the composition which was done by my good old friend Jon Hopkins and without spoiling what’s it about, I’d highly recommend everyone to go book a ticket since it’s all free!

I’ve been busy mixing many albums during the lockdown too and so happy that these works are finally out and here are some of my most favourite ones. If you haven’t got around checking it out, I’ve included the link to Spotify below. These 2 albums are in a way very opposite but both came during the times that are very challenging to all of us. It was such a privilege to be part of their journey and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did while mixing.

Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy [Domino]

Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8 [Smalltown Supersound]

I’m also really stoked about the amount of people who have listened to my remix of Manu Delago’s “Delta Sleep” despite it being 40 mins long and all the great positive feedback that came after. Thank you so much for all your support. I love each and every one of you! If you are interested, you should go check out the whole remix album which is about 7.5 hours long. You can relax to it or even fall asleep.

This year so far

So I had been really busy with multiple projects from top of the year till now. I finally had a chance to sit down and revise what I’ve done so far and decided to share some of my work.

Bjork - Utopia Tour - DSP design

I was commissioned by her team to create Max For Live plugin utilising machine learning and Markov chain to process and create new melodies based on her performances. She’s touring with it as I type this and I can only share this much as it still is in development phase but I surely enjoyed every single moment! If you are interested, here are a link to Vogue article regarding the tour.

https://www.vogue.it/en/news/daily-news/2018/08/23/behind-the-scenes-on-bjork-utopia-tour/

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Submerge - International digital arts festival - Bristol - with Bean

We were commissioned by Arts Council last year to develop a durational piece based on human live input and machine learning. We had an honour to premier the work at Submerge Festival in Bristol at the prestigious Arnolfini. Here are some clips from the performance

Profound Sound - Experimental music festival - Folkestone

We had another fantastic year with the festival and it was really special experience for me as I was part of the curatorial team and get to invite some of my favourite artists including Tim Exile as well as running a PureData workshop based on the work I’ve done with Rebel Technology for Raymond Scott foundation. I also had exciting time on stage with my good friend Anil Sebastian on stage for our collaborative improvised performance. Here’s a pic of us looking serious at twiddling some knobs! Once the video is ready, I’ll share it with you!

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Brighton Modular Meet/Rebel Technology OWL Workshop

Very excited to run another OWL/Gen workshop at the famous Brighton Modular Meet. Now it's bigger and longer! It goes on for 2 days! Our workshop will be on Sat 1st July. If you are curious about how to make your own sound generator/processor and CV processor using Cycling 74 Max and fully integrate it in your eurorack system, this is the one to attend. Get your ticket from here

For the full details of this 2 day modular goodness, please visit their website

See you all there!

Modularism

Special Limited Edition Boxed Set - 1000 units only (500 vinyl & 500 cd) 'Modularism' a collection that spans the range of modular synth creativity from the melodious to more progressive compositions. Presented as an elegant multi-vinyl box set and CD box set (Digital download free with vinyl/CD album).

I'm feeling honoured to be included in this new compilation album "Modularism". It's the first comprehensive collection of music explicitly composed on modular synth and the lineup is unreal! Law & Auder records is currently running a pledge on pledgemusic.com for a special vinyl boxset version so if you are a wax buff, please go and help fund the production!