The origins of this series of recordings started …um... some
40 or years or so, when as a teenager at school I was packing books away at the
end of a Physics class, and two students came and started setting up different
bits of kit at the back of the class. Based around an oscilloscope and a
function generator, they were setting up a series of electronic tones to record
on cassette tape. Since I first heard those sounds – the way that they sounded
like nothing else I had heard, and the way their tones could be altered and
modulated - I was completely hooked. I
went back to that Science room several times afterwards, trying to recreate
those sounds, but without any success.
Eventually I got hold of a Function Generator – but it took a long time after
that, hooking it up to various mixers, EQs and effects to try and get those
electronic sounds again. And then, with the recent acquisition of an Alesis
Akira digital delay processor – which is an amazing piece of kit – and
rerouting signal paths into various effects pedals, it started falling into
place. Finally, those sounds started coming back to match what was already in my Head...
So that’s what we have here – abstract tones, space noises,
multi layered aural madness, all out aural attack, rhythmic beats and pulses –
and sometimes, all of these in the same track. Enjoy!
