Lodsb - Helicon 2 (2017)

The album is mostly a synthesis of the experimental composition
and processing techniques started for the Aero album and the playful,
melody-centric voice leading found in the lazer.eyes.love album.

The Helicon series explores the body<->sound relationship.
While contextually rooted in club music, compositionally all songs are
based around various techniques to interact with sound in real-time.
The series is, quasi, my playground to explore and discover
new methods while the "club music" & real-time control
impose contraints and limitations on the compositional form.
Helicon1 approached this search more conventionally with
hardware modular synth patches generating multi-track audio and simple
patch
parameterizations that are controlled for the recording. Helicon2
forgoes this
and instead shifted towards more broadband and high-frequency control data
based on accelerometer sensors/multi-touch input/... to control DSP.
Afterwards, cross-modulation techniques have been employed,
even for the mix-down, to give the compositional elements the opportunity
to interact or react, thus extending the organic flow of the composition.