Between Stations - live eurorack performance

Описание: An experimental ambient performance exploring the collective dreamlike state shared on Tokyo area metro trains. Commuters hypnotised between stations, lost in their own worlds but together in a communal trance. Hypnotised, and transported elsewhere. literally and metaphorically.

This recording was made with my Eurorack modular synth in Matsudo (Japan) during my Artist Residency in Japan (July-Sept 2023). I recreated each sound as I heard and interpreted them, the deep thump of the train brakes releasing, the hiss of the pneumatics, the roar and whine of the electric engines, the clack of the wheels changing to new rhythms as we leave the central area and onto the different train tracks.

As for the technical details for those Eurorack synth people. The drone and low pulsation comes from a Dreadbox Hades into an FX aid. There's a repetitive staccato chord noise from a Mutable Instruments Plaits clone. The little jingle tune at the start is actually a sample I recorded at the start on the 1010music Bitbox Micro, as are a couple of the white noise blasts and low thumps and the some of the metallic "squealing brakes" noises. The stuff which sounds a bit like choirs is just a pitched Dreadbox delay into a clouds clone. The clackety clack noise is white noise filtered by another Dreadbox chromatic filter/amp module. The tonal noise which goes with it is a Dreadbox Hysteria into a Rings clone. I then use an AI matrix mixer and a few other tricks to create feedback drones. The vocals are from my small Dictaphone playing back recordings from the train announcement into Morphagene.