Traditional Synthesizer Music (10th Anniversary Edition) Double CD

The tenth anniversary edition of Venetian Snares039 Traditional Synthesizer Music adds ten more tracks and alternative versions previously available only on a limited edition compact disc from the artist039s Bandcamp.Traditional Synthesizer Music is a collection of songs created and performed live exclusively on the modular synthesizer by Aaron Funk. Each sound contained within was created purely with the modular synthesizer. No overdubbing or editing techniques were utilized in the recordings on Traditional Synthesizer Music. Each song was approached from the ground up and dismantled upon the completion of its recording. The goal was to develop songs with interchangeable structures and substructures, yet musically pleasing motifs. Many techniques were incorporated to 34humanize34 or vary the rhythmic results within these sub structures. An exercise in constructing surprises, patches interrupting each other to create unforeseen progressions. Multiple takes were recorded for each song resulting in vastly different versions of each piece, a number of which are released for the first time on vinyl and digital for this updated version of the album. BIO Aaron Funk, mainly known artistically as Venetian Snares, is a Canadian electronic musician based in Winnipeg, Manitoba whos been working since the mid nineties. He is widely known for innovating and popularising the breakcore genre being something of its breakout star. His signature style features complex drums and unusual time signatures and a knack for making ultravivid music that takes listeners into unusual places, from the aggressive and extreme, to the surreal, comic and sometimes plain beautiful. His musical explorations extend out in many different ways, from the complex Hungarian, classicalinspired Rossz Csillag Alatt Szletett, to acid explorations as Last Step, to innovations with modular synths on Traditional Synthesiser Music. As a collaborator, hes made music using intimate recordings as musical elements with the artist Hecate as Nymphomatriarch, as Poemss with Joanne Pollock, where they both sing over strange delicate pop. Hes recorded an album of rich, edited improvisations with producer and guitarist Daniel Lanois and hes also part of the sometime duo Speed Dealer Moms with John Frusciante. Most recently he features on Rosalias album Lux on the song Reliquia, providing drum programming and production input.