Passing Through, by Starthief

Passing Through

by Starthief

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Acef Stripe I really like this latest from Starthief, great sound design and textures through out. If you have interest in modulars, there are patch notes available too for the music! Nice work and recommended. Favorite track: Sine Cobra.

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1.	Patina 04:42	buy track
2.	Unhook 03:42	buy track
3.	No Sudden Moves 05:33	buy track
4.	Alpha Channel 03:59	buy track
5.	Through Topography 03:57	buy track
6.	Shallows 04:11	buy track
7.	Sine Cobra 06:55	buy track
8.	Inharmonic Collision 05:42	buy track
9.	Kukri 04:31	buy track
10.	Tintinnalogia 04:32	buy track
11.	Chonk 03:25	buy track
12.	and then gone 06:35	buy track

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Inspired by thoughts on Marshall McLuhan's concepts of "visual space" and "acoustic space." We can think in terms of a binary map of obstacles and spaces, ink on a page, a world where only one object can occupy any given coordinate location. Or we can think in terms of interpenetrating, overlapping, reflecting, refracting energy fields such a sound.

I realized that my own mental imagery when making music is often of caverns, tunnels, roads and so on and thus, strangely, more "visual" than acoustic, so I set out to change that.

"Passing Through" refers both to travel through such a mapped space and permeation through a porous medium. Perhaps they're really not so different.

Abstract, mostly improvisational electronic music with modular synthesizers, FX pedals and software.

Patch notes and more detailed thoughts can be found at blog.starthief.net/patch-notes-passing-through .

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released April 6, 2019

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Starthief Saint Louis, Missouri

Starthief is a modular synthesist, software engineer, former taiko drummer, former game developer and possibly a descendant of mermaids.

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