A Sonic Creature EP : Where synthesis, Musique Concrète & ecoacoustics meet.
From an early age, I’ve had a deep interest in the natural world. Drawn to its organic rhythms and earthy melodies, I began sculpting a
series of soundscapes wherein I wanted to synthesize the ecosystem's structure and timbre. Creating unpredictable, evolving patterns
and textures from field recordings and analog synthesizers, I started to treat sounds as organisms within a food chain. Sonic creatures
bursting into life, and then dying off, being absorbed by other forms, or 'species' of sound.
I’m fascinated by early electronic music pioneers like Pierre Schaeffer and Morton Subotnick. Thinking of a sound as if it were an (imaginary)
animal feels remarkably close to Schaeffer’s concept of the Objet Sonore (a ‘sound object’). Composing, recording, and producing with an
acousmatic ear, as these pioneers did, opens up a world of sonic abstraction.
Tracks:
1. The Forest And Its Cocoons, a piece inspired by peristaltic movement in caterpillars, set in the autumnal forest. I used Karplus-Strong
synthesis and tube resonance samples to create the 'walking contrabass' lines in the opening.
2. A Wasp Queen Sings Her Song From A Pine Tree, born from bumblebee, wasp and hoverfly recordings. These bursts of energy and
microscopic Doppler shifts are supported by a fuzzed-up 12-string guitar and a modular synth.
3. Shiny Goldfish Tape Loop Simulation, inspired by aquatic, freshwater environments and Paul Klee's luminescent painting Der Goldfisch.