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A couple of weeks ago I shot a new music video for Pega Loca, a Dutch acoustic band. They now have three band members playing acoustic guitar, acoustic bass and violin. We did shoot a version of this track (bass…
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Building Mutable Instruments modules
I have always been intrigued by Mutable Instruments modules but it took me a while to start building them myself. The fact that all modules use SMD components and you have to compile the source code yourself was initially a…
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SOMA Laboratories LYRA-8 Organismic Synthesizer
SOMA Laboratories SOMA Laboratories is a small boutique company focusing on developing extraordinary electronic instruments. The company was founded by Vlad Kreimer in 2016 after the success of the LYRA-8 synthesizer which he developed. They are located in Russia (design…
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Studio acoustics (part 4)
Ten years ago I installed acoustic panels and bass traps to improve the acoustics of my small studio space. You can read more about that in the related posts linked to at the end of this article.After finishing my EP…
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Sequenced Reality – Almost Morning Now
On Monday, May 24th 2021, I released my first solo EP “Almost Morning Now” as Sequenced Reality. It has been 25 years since I released my last album as one half of the band Syndrone. You can check out my…
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New electronic music by Sequenced Reality
New electronic music by Sequenced Reality – “Almost Morning Now”
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Syndrone – Outer Reaches remastered
In 1992 we released our first album Outer Reaches, an independent audio cassette release. About 15 copies were ever made. I remastered this album using the original audio cassette as the source. It contains 8 original compositions. Two of them,…
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Syndrone digital album releases
More than 25 years ago I was in band called Syndrone together with Harold Teunissen. In 1993 we released our first CD “Being There”, followed with a second CD “Blind Date” in 1996. As of today both releases are available…
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Viajeros – Pega Loca: a music video
Viajeros by Pega Loca Last November I shot another music video with Pega Loca, a Dutch acoustic band, with whom I have worked a couple of times before. They needed a new video to promote themselves and their new musical…
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Mamoni – Pega Loca: a music video
Mamoni by Pega Loca A couple of weeks ago I shot a music video with Pega Loca, a Dutch acoustic band, with whom I have worked before. As they want to play more live gigs, they wanted a good video…
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New display for Akai VX600
Vintage analogue synthesizer I have this Akai VX600 6 voice analogue synthesizer which I really like. It sounds great, has an auto calibration function and features an elaborate modulation matrix. I bought it used from Rob Papen sometime in the 90s,…
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Modular tracks – Saturday evening
Yesterday evening I created a glitchy groove on my home build modular synthesizer and Midibox sequencer which you can see and hear below. I used 4 audio tracks for this live recording. One for the drum sounds from the Arturia…