CD album

Recorded Mai 2004 in Berlin. Processed and deconstructed till June 2004.
From the CD liner notes: One of my favourite instruments, the Yamaha SY77 can produce timbres that slowly change and mutate via FM synthesis, and recordings of these sounds formed the basis for what was to evolve into Signal to Noise. The recordings mainly consisted of harmonic droning, so I found them to be a bit boring after extensive listening. I began filtering, pitch-shifting and processing the material using granular resynthesis, aiming to achive erosion and diffusion of the sound while preserve some of the original movements. The signal became the noise.

The sonic sculptures in Studies for Thunder were created mainly by feedig short pulses of filtered noise into a complex network of granular delay lines. No natural recordings were used as source material - this is a completely artificial world. But, in a fascinating coincidence, I experienced more thunderstorms in Berlin during the realzation of this project than ever before, so that the artificial storm took shape as I was listening to the actual storms outside my windows.