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  • SOMA Laboratories LYRA-8 Organismic Synthesizer

    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 and development) and Poland (manufacturing). Most SOMA Laboratories instruments are available as ready to use…

  • Studio acoustics (part 4)

    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 “Almost Morning Now” I was thinking about how I could further improve the acoustics of…

  • Sequenced Reality – Almost Morning Now

    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 music on sequencedreality.bandcamp.com or use the player below. Almost Morning Now by Sequenced Reality It has…

  • New electronic music by Sequenced Reality

    New electronic music by Sequenced Reality

    New electronic music by Sequenced Reality – “Almost Morning Now”

  • Syndrone – Outer Reaches remastered

    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, Ykaiia and Avonlea, would also be released as new versions on our first CD album…

  • Syndrone digital album releases

    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 as digital albums on Bandcamp. Check out the Bandcamp page here: syndrone1993.bandcamp.com/music or use the embedded…

  • Viajeros – Pega Loca: a music video

    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 program. In the video they play an original composition called “Viajeros”.For more information on Pega…

  • Mamoni – Pega Loca: a music video

    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 to attract attention and to be able to show what they are capable of. In the…

  • Modular tracks – Saturday evening

    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 Drumbrute (MIDI clocked by the Midibox sequencer) and the other 3 for the modular synthesizer…

  • Midibox sequencer MBSEQ V4

    Midibox sequencer MBSEQ V4

    A modular hardware sequencer I discovered the Midibox sequencer MBSEQ V4 via a forum post somewhere and was immediately interested. It’s a project of Thorsten Klose and lots of people have added code and hardware modules to it. For more information check out the following websites. http://ucapps.de/ http://midibox.org/forums The main thing that made we want…

  • New music video for Pega Loca

    New music video for Pega Loca

    Last april I shot a music video with Dutch acoustic band Pega Loca. Today they launched their website. Check them out at www.pegaloca.nl! This is the video I shot for their song “Welcome Home”. The video was edited and colour graded in Davinci Resolve. I also used Resolve for some blurring of visible art in…

  • Welcome Home – music video for Pega Loca

    Welcome Home – music video for Pega Loca

    Last Wednesday I shot a music video with the Dutch band Pega Loca. This is the second music video I shot with Eric van de Kerkhof, who started Pega Loca. Two years ago, I made a video for promoting the debut album “Welcome Home” of his previous band, Grain of Wood, with the track “Just…