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Chosen Waves 020: Benjamin Mauch – (H)over
Title: (H)overArtist: Benjamin MauchAlbum: A (C)able Tethered to the SkyYear: 2020Label: Self-released A (C)able Tethered to the Sky by Benjamin Mauch How was this track born? Benjamin: “(H)over” was...
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Step Into the Time Machine: MMOW, the Graphic Novel That Never Was, Pt.1
MMOW, aka Music Makers of the World was a graphic novel project I had conceived between 2009 and 2011. MMOW was supposed to take place between fact and fiction and be a mix of interviews and real-life...
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Chosen Waves 021: MOWUKIS – Anything With Colors
Title: Anything With ColorsArtist: MOWUKISAlbum: Was this part of what you believed?Year: 2020Label: MARE NOSTRUM Records Was this part of what you believed? by MOWUKIS How was this track born?...
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From Monotron to Infinity
Life is full of coincidences. One day this album pops up in my Bandcamp feed. It’s an album called at the place, by an artist called infinite digits. Something seems familiar about the name, but for...
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Intimate Spaces Making-of Pt.1: Inside the Bridge
Friday is going to be an important day for me. Friday my album Intimate Spaces will be released! It’s my first proper album, the culmination of 5 years of work. I love it when artists share their...
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Intimate Spaces Making-of Pt.2: The Cavaedium
There’s an incredible sense of liberation being able to say the words: “it’s released!”. Something that has so far been a mental construct, caged in the artist’s mind, is being set free. But it’s also...
View ArticleBlinking Lights 006 – Lovely Leftovers
This might look like a best-of-2020 list, but it’s not. It is, rather, a random – albeit carefully curated – list of the following: albums or videos I was planning to write about in 2020 but didn’t...
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Intimate Spaces Making-of Pt.3: The Pool
The last months have been quite busy and chaotic, so this new instalment of Making of Intimate Spaces comes with a bit of a delay. This will also be the last update on the matter here on...
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MMOW, the Graphic Novel That Never Was, Pt.2
Music Makers of the World, aka MMOW was a graphic novel project, that I started ages ago, but for several reasons never completed (see Pt.1, Step Into the Time Machine: MMOW, the Graphic Novel That...
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Blinking Lights 007 – Design Detour
Émilie recently delighted us with an in-depth recount of Beads’ long and windy history. It all started about 4 years ago with the above mockup Émilie sent me. You can read the full story here: Beads...
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Sketches of Sound, the Papernoise Edition
A long time ago I made this drawing for Marc Weidenbaum’s excellend blog disquiet.com. It was for a series he was doing called “Sketches of Sound” (hence the title of this post), where he was inviting...
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Blinking Lights 008 – On My Behalf
Updates on my own projects have been piling up over the last few weeks. So this edition of Blinking Lights is selfishly all about me. Ambient Nuggets #4: Kurodama & Benjamin Mauch by Purlieu...
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Blinking Lights 009 – Tape Fields and Boom Plants
Why Blog? Marc Weidenbaum has a good answer to that. Also I’ll try to follow his suggestion and post a bit more often. Let’s see how that goes. If you’re somebody who posts regularly on social media,...
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Synth Design Podcast
I was recently inerviewed by the Synthux Academy podcast about my work as a Eurorack Frontpanel Interface Designer. If listening to me rambling for an hour about frontpanels, interface design and how...
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Music Furniture
Recently – through a discussion on the online forum llllllll – I found out about various appearances of modular synths in adverts for Swedish furniture company Ikea. Credit go to users xmacex and...
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Blinking Lights 010 – Pixel Modulars
Even if this blog is mostly about making electronic music with things that you can use IRL, today’s issue of Blinking Lights is all about software modulars, which you maybe haven’t heard of yet. Most...
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In the 80s, when I was a kid, we used to have this thing on TV called “intervallo”. It mostly consisted in slow, soothing music over photos of pictoresque Italian locations. Here’s an example:...
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Video and Music: Kurodama Here’s a new one from my Intervallo series. A snippet from a track in the making.
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Design Notes on Colour Blindness, Part 1
I’m definitely stating the obvious when I say that we all see colours differently. Who’s never gotten into a discussion about a certain hue being more red or more purple? More blue or more green?...
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