Hi friends - hope all good :)
Been a fantastic week, the support for Tales of Introspection has been amazing - CDs sold-out a few days ago, loads of lovely messages and digital still going strong - thank you!
Half-price ends on Friday - also on Friday, Bandcamp are:
“donating 100% of our proceeds to MusiCares to provide emergency aid for artists in need, partnering with A2IM, WIN, Harman, Lagunitas, Roland, Shure, Victrola, and Women in Music to amplify the effort. Mark your calendar & spread the word. bit.ly/4gt9ka4"
Fair play to them, very good cause - so if there’s anything you’ve been thinking about picking up from quiet details, fields we found, or anyone else - it’s a good day.
Big thanks to all the people leaving comments on the qd29 Bandcamp page too!
Love to Andrew, The Inexpressible Sound Archive, Past Inside the Present,
orlandolovekill, Faru, Masayume. Ews Nsj, Manuel, AndyMio and the medic x
Now some fields we found news - the second part of my monthly series, resolve / relate, is out next week.
Continuation of the long-form, close listening pieces - performed live on analogue modular instruments - all elements interconnected and musically expressed through interactive and patch-programmable techniques inspired by the innovations of Serge Tcherepnin, his contemporaries and the designers that followed.
Of course the influence of the other great designers (Alan Pearlman, Don Buchla, Robert Moog, Peter Zinovieff, Dave Rossum.. the list goes on) is present in my work (especially Mr Pearlman as the 2600 is fundamental) - but it’s the open-ended nature of the Serge and subsequently-inspired modules and the techniques they allow that gives me the most freedom to communicate the music I want to share.
This edition will also be the first with an alternate version of the piece - the stasis dub.
More about this next week, will be available to everyone until after the listening party, then be made a subscriber exclusive - so if you subscribe it’s yours forever, if not don’t sleep and get in there early if you want it.
Dub’s been huge for me since I first heard King Tubby in my friend’s brother’s room when I was fourteen - the music I make is a long way from that but the process, live studio performances and the whole studio as an instrument, is everything to what I do.
You can hear this in all my music - these new versions (and something else coming very soon…), explore that further than ever before - very much looking forward to sharing it with you x
Here’s 01 if you missed it - subscribers get all new music, all exclusives and the fwf back-catalogue, cheaper than if you bought the resolve / relate editions separately.
Shout-outs now!
qd29 ASC
Stephan over at Zensounds for the review and lovely words about quiet details
zensounds with Stephan Kunze
Richard Heinemann for the play on E-Lodie
Neil for the coverage in Moonbuilding
qd28 Wil Bolton
qd26 Tomoyoshi Date and Bill Seaman
Mat for playing a track over on Sonic Tapestries
qd25 r beny
wavelight reviewing the album here
qd22 Veryan
Trevlad playing a track on Turquoise Moon Sparrow
qd20 Plant43 and qd15 Slowreels
Jens playing a track from each album on this lovely mix “recorded live at Bar Maldoror, January 2025, compiled and mixed by JENUS”
finally…
resolve / relate 01
Brad over at Foxy Digitalis writing some kind words about the piece, read it all here
An emotional resonance hums at its core, expanding outward, yet its purpose is to slow us down—to suspend us in aural molasses. Time is not infinite. Slow-moving swells stretch across a vast landscape of unfolding drones and harmonic reveries. Small details—a deepening sub-shimmer, a delicate ethereal phrase—enrich the timbral spectrum, enhancing the stillness of the moment, the life within the expanse.
Much love friends - ASC Q&A Part Two coming on Friday x
Alex
quiet details studios - mastering and audio services
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