All posts by Andre Theelen

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)

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

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 […]

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

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 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 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 […]

New display for Akai VX600

Vintage analogue synthesizer I have this Akai VX600 6 voice analogue synthesizer which I really like. It sounds great, has an auto calibration function and features an elaborate modulation matrix. I bought it used from Rob Papen sometime in the 90s, so this synth is almost 30 years old but still going strong. The original display […]

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 […]

Moon Eclipse 2018

On Friday night the longest Moon eclipse of the century occurred and I took some photos of this event. I couldn’t see the first part of the eclipse as the Moon was just above the horizon and it wasn’t visible from my location. From the roof of my house I could see the Moon when […]

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 […]