While working on an album (working title: Atlas) I came up with a few scales. There’s a total of three, two heptatonic ones and one octatonic one. General Properties We’re thinking in 12TET (i.e. twelve equally-spaced semitones per octave mindset), and what is known as a Z12 circular group: doubling the frequency (moving up one …
April 15th of 2026 is the official release date for the vinyl version of #maxialbum.
Formally closing what, in many ways, was my biggest album project to date.
It’s beautiful!
My collaborator Rolando and me went on a wellness vacation. Which was actually us making musik in a wellness resort.
The other day, I told you how I built a pedalboard. But why did I choose those specific effects? And how are they connected to the amp?
Let’s find out.
But why would I do that? And if I did, how? Accompany me on my journey of securely assembling little effects pedals on a board.
The other day (January 21st to be precise), a new album project was decided. It’s going to be technical death metal. For something different. How this came about With MAX pretty much completed (safe for the vinyl release), there’s time and energy available. What to put this into? There was an idea earlier called Emmy …
Not a lot has happened this year. Except for the big thing. Which is also nice. This was my 2025!
Today (December 24th of 2025) would have been my father’s 90th birthday.
This album is for him.
Milestones continue to fall into place. Anna and I went into tour-de-force mode to complete the design concept and the design artifacts for the digital release, completing that by Wednesday. Which allowed me to put together the digital album in Bandcamp: That now makes the actual album release a zero-risk-item. Nice! Looking forward to the …
The title says it all: the master (‚though technically for vinyl: the premaster) is in the can. And what a stunning (pre)master it is!
