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I’m in Brighton this week and while I was watching the sea from the pier, I decided to shoot a little video for the remix I made for @_holyoke_ which is out now, I hope you like it! ❤️ For the remix I cut up some amazing layers from the original track, added bass and chords with my beloved @dreadbox.synthesizers Murmux Adept, and I recorded some piano for the piece as well. Find the links to the full video & piece (which is part of a remix compilation with some amazing other remixes) in my bio/story.

All For That One Time - Remixes out now!!! Remixes/reworks by: @salamirosejoelouis - Pedestrian @willem_ardui - De lijn der verwachting @isthisthomas - All For That One Time @markschilders - When we go-.Up_/ @laplandermusic - All For That One Time @winterdagen - When we go-.Up_/ @liommakesambient - Chorus of Something @erikbuschmann - De lijn der verwachting @rrrrrrobertaandersen - Pedestrian @stanbekker - When we go-.Up_/ Mastered by @timbiesta Out on all available streaming platforms via @_syrupmusic Video by @zukaaisme Thanks to all who give light and inspire!!!

Huge congratulations to @morphor.radical.acoustics for having their ECHON 6 win the Innovation Award from @sonicstateuk during @superbooth_berlin last week! It’s such a special synth and it fully deserves the recognition ❤️ Time for another patch! For this one I made use of ECHON 6’s looping envelopes and I dialed in a lot of movement in the mod matrix. One of the four polyphonic lfos is changing the decay times of the envelopes per voice. The decay times, lfo speeds and lfos that I routed to panning are keytracked, which results in unique rhythms and stereo movement for each voice. Sounds quite complex, but it really is so easy to dial in modulation like this on the super intuitive mod matrix. Hope you like the patch and the music, full video on YouTube! #synth #synthesizer #ambient #composer

This is one of the most beautiful synth sounds I’ve ever heard. For this patch on the amazing ECHON 6 synthesizer by @morphor.radical.acoustics , I’m not using its exciter/synth section at all. The sound comes from its 6 BBD delay lines feedbacking indefinitely. The fact that the people at Morphor got to make BBD delay chips track pitch this well is already wild, but how they also managed to implement the super special glide you’re hearing in this patch is beyond me. It sounds so alive! I made use of ECHON 6’s super intuitive and extensive mod section to give this patch some movement; with some LFOs I’m slowly opening and closing the filter in the feedback path and moving the voices in the stereo field. I applied keytracking to the LFO speeds making sure that each voice has different movements and a different place in the stereo field. I love that you can route keytracking to anything on ECHON 6. I did use a fair bit of Valhalla Vintage Verb for this patch as the synth doesn’t have an internal reverb. A gliding patch like this really benefits from some time based effects. Every time I sit down with ECHON 6 for a bit, a new sound that I’ve never made on any other synth arises, it’s so cool! I’ve made a lot more music with it and I’m super exited to show you. I’m off to @superbooth_berlin now, I’ll be back with a new video next week! If you happen to be at Superbooth as well and want to say hi, feel free to shoot me a message on here. #synthesizer #ambient #synth #synthmusic #echon6

With a sound like this, melodies just come pouring out ❤️ The movement in this patch comes from routing Katla’s LFO to its phase distortion, which sounds different than modulating the filter. So many on panel options to create moving and characterful sounds on Katla! I named this little piece ‘Closing Credits’, hope you like it. @genkiinstruments #synth #synthesizer #ambient #katla #synthmusic

Sound on:) - My dear friend @evavanmanen has an amazing new album out called Tussenruimte and I got to produce a modular synth track with her for it! Eva is such a great artist and I’m so happy to be a tiny part of this album. I made the synths in a live take with @intellijel Metropolix, Atlantix & Sealegs and @qubitelectronix Surface and Data Bender ❤️ Additional production comes from great artists @roryronde and @erikbuschmann ❤️ Go listen to the album!

I feel like I’m in synth heaven these days. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the new ECHON 6 from @morphor.radical.acoustics , which is a gorgeous sounding, super unique synth: a 6 voice polyphonic analogue BBD resonator synthesizer. Yep, that’s quite the mouth full. In a nutshell it’s one part analogue poly synth, one part analogue BBD chip physical modeling synth. I’ve been a big fan of physical modeling kind of synths for some time, and Morphor’s take on this concept is the most special one I’ve come across so far. I know this type of synthesis mostly from either quite complex plugins, or Eurorack stuff such as Rings and Surface. Morphor has managed to take this concept into an analogue desktop format and it’s super special. In this little sketch I’m exploring quite typical karplus-strong like plucks, but feeding in some sine wave oscillator, having full ADSR control over the the exciter, and having BBD chips as resonators, makes for a super expressive sound. Apart from its amazing sound, ECHON 6 is also beautifully built. One of the most sturdy, smooth and well built synths I have ever come across. One of its superpowers is that it also has an absolutely amazing and intuitive modulation section, which I’ll tell you more about in some following videos (I’ve been making a lot!). Thanks so much for letting me explore this beauty, Morphor! #synth #synthesizer #ambient #echon6 #morphor

Time for a new video on the mighty @genkiinstruments Katla! ❤️ While last rays of a setting sun were hitting my living room window, I was playing around with Katla’s stereo CMOS distortion, and this beautiful gloomy pad emerged. You can drive Katla in no less than four different places. This took a little getting used to for me, but it makes for a super flexible synth engine. I’ve never heard internal drive sound this good on a synthesizer. #synthesizer #synth #ambient #ambientmusic #katla

Thrilled to share that I’ve been composing the score for STAND UP, debut by @mari.j.sanders . Today we’re happy to share that the film has been selected as part of the #Tribeca25th International Narrative Competition! Can’t wait for the world to finally see it. Every year @tribeca brings together the best and brightest in storytelling, and it’s an honour that STAND UP gets to be part of that conversation. @thefilmkitchennl @nedafilm.gr @bnnvara @ertofficial @gusto.ent @nederlandsfilmfonds @cobofonds @eurimagescoe Cast: Lucia Zemene Daan Buringa Tamar van den Dop Guy Clemens Hana Hussein Manouk Pluis Sara Afiba Kendrick Etmon Nikki Manuputty Casper de Gans Litania Blom William Boeva Jol Abels Crew: Sal Kroonenberg N.S.C. Mink Steekelenburg Nadide Argun Leandros Ntounis Manon Blom Scarlett Kraidy Saida van der Reijd Remy Mulder Anna Spierings Doortje de Jager

The kind people at @genkiinstruments and I decided to put the music I wrote on Katla out as a release, ‘Sounds of Katla I’ is now available on all streaming services! ❤️ Thanks again to Genki for having me, it’s been such a privilege to work with Katla, it really is an absolute dream synth! Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing some more videos I recorded with Katla, but you can already hear the music that’ll be in those vids in the release:) Link in bio etc. etc. and all that jazz

Back at @operator.radio next week on April 22 at 5pm ❤️ Here’s some slides from last month’s show. If you want to have a listen to the full mix, there’s a link in my bio. As always, thanks for having me Operator! Slide 1: @dorian_concept - Hide (CS01 Version) Slide 2: @danielmarkavery - New Life (Midnight Version) Slide 3: @throwingsnow - Yous Slide 4: @nouveau__monica - Universal Mind Chaos Slide 5: @mountkimbie - Bells_5 Slide 6: @delaygrounds - Wood_Building into @nathanpaulfake - Bialystok

I can’t get enough of these kind of gentle key patches on the @genkiinstruments Katla! After I filmed this one, the sunlight in my studio hit Katla so nice, I decided to film the piece again with slightly tweaked settings. Which one do you prefer, 1 or 2 :)? For this patch I used a similar approach to the previous gentle keys one, using the self oscillating filter as a sound source. But this time I played with modulating the wave folder, which at times in the piece almost feels like an extra melody coming in. I also once again tuned one of the voices an octave higher than the other ones, for unpredictable octave jumps in the melody, I just love that so much on Katla! For the next patch I’ll try a more distorted one, promise.