for 5090 this year i'm going to be making modular synthesizer experiments.

during COVID lockdown last year, i started exploring eurorack synth modules. but at some point it turned into more "collecting" than "music-making." so i'm pumping the breaks on new modules and will try to make ~50 recordings that use what i already have in new ways.

some of them will be "generative" self-composing and evolving sonic experiments.

some of them will explore various approaches to algorithmic composition.

some of them will be hybrid modular/daw pieces.

some of them will be more musical.

i'm a guitar and keyboard kind of guy, which are polyphonic instruments so i'm used to thinking of songs chord sequences, and of chords as units (rather than being composed of different "voices"). with monophonic synths and the like, it's just a different way of thinking musically. so... this will be a summer very much outside of my musical comfort zone and i'm looking forward to seeing where it leads!