chaotic synthesis

In the early 2000's I was blessed with access to Sonology Analogue Studio BEA5. The admiration of low-level modular processing was instantly born and the gems from that period can be found on earlier albums below. After 10 years of little to no access to CV gear the comeback to analogue sound synthesis was a blast. Having saved good cash from teaching audio synthesis I decided to invest it back into a modular synth. Additionally, the myriad design strategies of sound synthesis implementations saturated me and I was seeking to dismiss the cognitive agency. Quickly I realised that non-linear inversions in feedback produce unexpected and unpredictable intermittencies. My developed modular instrument thus consists of 3 matrix mixers, 5+ folders 10+ filters and a few, ifa any of other standard components like envelopes, oscillators and such...

mravi (2026)

Seven tracks of chaotic electronics made with David Paredes and released by the spanish noise label República Ibérica Ruidista. Find it on bandcamp

sky zoo (2026)

NUMAREC25, the third annual collective recording convened by the NUMAcircuit festival in Tenerife and gathered as the Big Band of Visual Noise. Seven pieces, PSALM 1 to PSALM 7, recorded live in May 2025 with Yexza Lara and Tamara Ascanio on voice, Anastasia Koroleva, Alex Pleninger and Dieter Mauson on electronics, Pablo Selnik on flute, David Paredes on guitar and modular, and me on modular synthesizer. Released by Alina Records on vinyl and as a free download. Find it on archive.org

wobbaz (2025)

Twenty years after my first appearance in their catalogue the dióbél label invited me back for this one. It takes the monophonic chaos of mono a good deal further, groovier and more layered, gathered between 2015 and 2025 in Nagymaros, Bristol and Paris. Serge Rogalski joins on whistle, guitar, mandolin and organ, acoustic voices threading through electronics that refuse to be told what to do. Find it on bandcamp

years apart (2023)

One of my favourite hungarian drummers is Aron Porteleki who has an extremely attentive musicality without lacking the progressive challenge. David Pap has brought us together for an improvisational gig back in 2013 when I was excited by manipulating digital samples in a live setting. 10 years later we played another gig, this time with my modular and came up with the concept for this album combining the two. Find it on bandcamp

qactus (2020)

In this album my admiration of microtonal scales meets the chaotic modular synthesis. Dunnja Crnjanski was initially interested to collaborate and performed intriguing improvisations with the keyboard based instruments that I programmed. The album was released by EXILES and also sparked an attempt for audio based video synthesis using macro photography. Find it on bandcamp

jalovo (2019)

Marija Sukovic recites her poems through modular synth patches.

                 01 jalovo

hands off (2018)

Six cassettes and over eight hours of live recorded manipulation of analogue modules, with feedback driving the filters and non-linearities into deliberate malfunction. Released under the SL@T MACHINE alias by Farbwechsel, sleeve by Daniel Jani. Find it on bandcamp

abhorrent (2017)

My admiration for free improvisation had many outlets starting with my postgrad studies in Birmingham. Some threads surrvived a decade and flourished in this collaboration with Dominic Lash and Federico Reuben. Our attitudes seem to reaonate oh so well, and the recording of our perofrmance in Bristol was deemed good enough to call it an album and stick it on bandcamp

stale mate (2017)

Developing chaotic synthesis circuits it became apparent that they serve well as radical distortion effects. The sonorites were found very radical for processing wind instruments. Of many duo performances with Attila Dora some were captured on an album hosted on bandcamp and a gig on youtube

bicsaklom (2017)

Further developments chaotic procsessing yielded extreme timbres with voice inputs. Hence I sought actors and poets to explore this domain. One such improvisational performance at Tilos radio became an album now hosted on bandcamp

disturbulence (2016)

These are recordings of improvisational performance with Misha Cvijovic and other musicians playing acoustic intruments. The challenge of musical amalgamation with harsh noise may not have been fully accomplished yielding an uncanny duality. Nevertheless, tehe sincere intent is transparent and there is little, if any space to doubt that we are on the same journey but with radically different tools and perceptions. Albums are hosted on bandcamp

mono (2015) zipped

This is my first album using only analogue modular electronics exploring chaotic synthesis. It might seem that the music consists of layers, as usual, but the fact is that these are actually monophonic, in both senses. There are no stereo signals and strictly speaking it is always a single conmplex and and largely intermittent chaotic signal. This is a system that is impossible to control and can only be steered. Akin to a good surf, the underlying forces are immense and the task is to stay alive and discover unheard and intrinsically natural sounds of electrons freaking out.

                 01 sail for sale
                 02 scrap trap
                 03 coax hoax
                 04 bravo kravo
                 05 tub of sub
                 06 formal dismal