tl; dr;
I’ve been dragging a selection of works now for years, refining them and preparing mentally for a release. Ready very soon. Have been side tracked by other events.
Die Synthflut
In the beginning, there was abundance.
And from abundance came excess, until meaning itself began to dissolve.
We built towers of light and called them progress.
We shaped waves of sound and called them life.
And in the rising tide of our own creation, we lost sight of what we are.
The flood came not as judgment, but as consequence.
A surge of synthesis, of signals without silence, filling all that was left.
And in that fullness, we began to fracture.
Then came the breaking—
a silence beneath the noise, a collapse beneath perfection.
From the remnants, a breath.
From the breath, a pulse.
From the pulse, a return.
Not saved, but reset.
And so the cycle repeats—
of rise and saturation, of doubt and unraveling.
This is the Synthflut.
A flood is coming
For what feels like an eternity, I have been carrying around fragments: tiny samples, sketches, melodies, loops, failed experiments, and half-finished machines. Some were abandoned. Some kept returning. Some refused to die.
They were dragged through years of creative outbursts, shaped by technical play, stubborn melodies, sounds designed to give restless thoughts a direction. I’ve condensed them down to 16 pieces, gave them a soul and baptized them.
The tide is rising. A flood is coming. Not to punish but to purify.
As usual, most of the songs in this album do not aim to be popular radio pieces but rather explorations in psychoacoustic effects and plain synthesizer fun. It’s the kind of music you keep running in the background while working on complex problems. Or when you have a restless night. This is my gift for those of you who struggle to find peace in their clouded heads. Feel the pulse. Get dragged along evolving themes. Seek tones that ease the tiny tensions in your body.
A release date will be announced soon.
What’s new compared to Flux and Folds ?
Flux and Folds of Consciousness relied heavily on reverberant sounds, esoteric acoustic artifacts and fuzzy cream to fill your ear tunnels and put you into a trance. Die Synthflut takes a different path – it is mechanical, technical and cleaner. Drawing inspiration from EDM and House techniques, I applied different layering techniques and filtering to provide rich sounds without overwhelming. Progression is clearer and there’s more intent behind each and every sound you hear. Textual lyrics are still entirely absent, but some songs tell a story anyway: through different voices, evolving textures, and melodies that paint a picture without words.
A word about AI
Since 2020, there’s been a lot of movement in the AI department and the boundaries of human creation and algorithmic foam have become near impossible to keep apart. So here’s my line in the sand on this topic.
I’m entirely avoiding AI to create the music itself – a promise I made to myself in the past and will be holding far into the future. My aim is not to make loads of money by squeezing out one pattern after another. I am creating music by hand in order to calm my soul.
Where and how I do employ AI is here:
– I’m using various AI tools to generate images / illustrations. While I love hand-crafted art, I found it is the major factor that blocks me for the release of an album. I simply don’t have any budget to hire an artist, or the patience to create a refined illustration on my own.
– Refinement of text. I still write the vast majority of my text on my own, straight from my cerebral cortex to the tips of my fingers. I noticed, however, that it requires a LOT of work to make my somewhat funky way of storytelling readable to anyone – myself included. LLMs support me by refining rough edges, stripping and simplifying text and words.
