"Dissonance Future" (2025)

This one is my best yet, I think

"Dissonance Future" was half of my senior project, along with a Max4Live synth. The record was inspired by 2020s leftfield bass and rave sounds.

It was also my attempt to back in touch with dendable rhythms and songwriting forms after the chaos of my previous record, "Bismuth." I tried to reliably guide the listener's ear through the forms while mainting a lot of sponteneity.

"Dissonance Future" is also an exercise in genre! Most tracks are a combination of a few different subgenres being woven together, which is somewhat exactly just about the OPPOSITE of what I did on "Bismuth"

The pacing on this thing is definitely the best I've ever achieved. A few tracks, like "KEYGEN" and "HYPERdisk," still absolutely grip me from start to finish. (Though it gets dicey in a few places, like on "hexFFFF." That thing is way too short!)

I will come back soon to write a little about each track. In the meantime, I'll say thank you to my classmates in Matt Sargent's class on experimental recording techniques; your samples are all over "Dirt Physics!"

major inspirations:

Tsuruda - "Move"
MUST DIE! - "CRISIS VISION"
MUST DIE - "FERAL FANTASY"
ISOxo & FrostTop- "Angels Landing"
ISOxo - "REDloop"
JOYRYDE - "4AM"
VCTRE - "Duffle Bag"
South & Kosu - "keygen"
Saka - "Split Punch"
Saka - "Salvo"
Potions - "New Aura"
Eprom - "Hope"
Imanu & Jon Casey - "Kotaro"
Hudson Lee - "Chasm" (Niko Scheme Remix)
Seppa - "Forked"
Mr Bill & kLL sMTH - "Uncle Punch"
Eptic - "Never Again"
Quiet Bison - "Goblin"
Quiet Bison - "Moth"
Eprom - "The Cat"
Danny L Harle - "On a Mountain" (Flume Remix)
Moody Good - "Moody Good"
Skrillex - "Quest For Fire"
Skrillex, Noisia, Thys & Sleepnet - "Horizon"
Papa Khan - "Diary of a Poor Kid"
Dog Blood (in general)


    section updated: 4 August 2025
    

    while listening to:
    

    "my personalized wormhole" by BUGCORE