new age electronic · synth electric piano
A piano absorbed by machines and taught to feel again.
The work sits in new age electronic: synth electric piano as signal path, shaped around machine & human and synthetic modernity rather than melody-first.
Output to date — “Silver Zipper”, “Yellow Clouds” — is one evolving patch, refined release to release.
In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
It's mostly synth electric piano, close-mic'd, with the room left in.
I make music about machine & human and stillness, and I mean every note — but I won't pretend it's free.
Choosing quiet can look, from outside, like disappearing. Some days the calm I write about is the calm I most need myself.
If you make gentle music and feel overlooked, you are not doing it wrong. That is just the shape of it.
No secret to how this gets made: one synth electric piano, two microphones, a room, and a lot of erasing.
Most of a session ends up deleted. What survives is the piece.
Owed to Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Ludovico's quiet school. The rest I took by accident.
There are worse things to build a body of work on than Bach to synth.
Between the notes I left in as much Bach to synth as I could.
It isn't a message — it's company for a particular hour.
I didn't plan “Silver Zipper”. It arrived as the idea of machine & human and asked to be finished.
Each pass got quieter until only synthetic modernity was left.
Play it low. It was made low.
Signal in, most of it cut. That's the record.
“Yellow Clouds” started the way these do — a long look at Bach to synth, at an odd hour.
Each pass got quieter until only synthetic modernity was left.
Made small, on purpose.
