Happy new year everyone!

I’m starting this year of with a new video. The last year (and the one before that to be honest) have been very busy for me and while I have been working on some incredible projects, not having time for exploring, making new releases and these videos has been bothering me.

So I plan to do this more regularly this year. I’ve slowed down the pace. I started out with the plan of doing one video a week, which is just not doable, so I decided for this year to do one every month.

So here’s the first one:

It’s another exploration of rhythm and how different patterns and time signatures change the perception of a piece. The piece starts out in 7/8 and through the development of the pattern it shortens first into 5/8 and then a 3/8 pattern.

I originally planned this as a piano piece, but I wasn’t satisfied with how I was able to play it. But I had the idea of doing it on the modular as I also felt the piece was lacking something with just the pattern. For a recent film score I did with Gregor Keienburg we experimented with woodwind growls (singing and playing a woodwind or brass instrument at the same time) and how that technique produced difference tones quite similar to ring modulation. The inspiration for that came from the music of Colin Stetson or Bendik Gieske. So I decided to take the pattern and improvise a melody to it the signal of which will be ringmodulated with the signal of the pattern. Producing a sort of interference sound.

For the video the story is sort of similar. I wasn’t happy with the material I shot me performing the piece but I liked the piece itself at that point. So I recycled some footage I had of snow falling outside of my studio. I then took this footage and created a point cloud of it in Blender with the height of the point corresponding to the brightness of the pixel at that point.

You can get the score for the piece as well as the soundfile as an download on my patreon!