POLL: Sync Eater stylistic mockups

I put together a few quick design mockups of different styles of Sync Eater designs. Would love to know what people are into - images and poll below!

Jungle music release, M8 compilation

Some of the fine folks on the Dirtywave M8 tracker discord organized a community compilation awhile back, and it’s just been released!

Check this insane 68-track jungle compilation here! Tracks were all composed on the Dirtywave M8 tracker!

I’ve placed my contribution (#20 on the compilation) on my own bandcamp page as well; if you purchase it here you’ll receive a download with the M8 bundle (M8 project file + all assets).

Website updates! Changes!

gleix.net is changing!

Been awhile since I’ve gotten things in order around here. The website is showing its age - and while I initially had been looking into a fully new website which would mean archiving this one, for the time being I’ve decided on upkeep and big changes here given the existing structure (and headaches of a major migration).

I noted some changes in the last update blog post which included:

• The addition of a huge CV

• Addition of Orbitals & The Bulleit Limitless Lounge over in Installations.

• New chiptune music by Broken Alias written in LSDJ on the Nintendo Gameboy

In addition I’ve been doing lots of general upkeep. Boring stuff like some SEO stuff and minor tweaks to individual pages across the board, but also some big stuff:

• The Visual Art page is now filled with gifs of all sorts of work from the past decade, including a ton of never shown or private personal & client works.

• I’ve fully redone the home page and optimized it for both desktop & mobile. Mobile is pretty straightforward, and desktop has a nifty lil’ spotlight feature.

• A brand new resources page has been added to navigation, listing things like cool NYC spots & groups for all sorts of creative stuff, online educational resources, affiliates/collaborators, and some online communities to check out. Info needed, but links are all there!

• Experimenting with putting a music player on the sidebar (desktop only) that will play a random album from Gleix or Broken Alias’ Bandcamp!

• I never turned comments on for this blog! I think I’ll do that moving forward - though I don’t think I’ll go back through the full backlog. At least not right now.

• Those who follow my work surely picked up on the fact that my old logo has essentially vanished across the board. Initially this was part of a rebranding, though now it’s just a bit of a full de-branding until I figure out what I wanna do. The old one was originally designed specifically for the Anxiety Dreams album and somehow turned into my logo for everything over time.

• Tryin’ out a darker theme.

There are some major revamps I’d like to work on, and some updates I need to make to include new work from the past few years that never made it up here, including some larger jobs like my work for Keinemusik @ The Brooklyn Mirage and at Zamna Festival in Tulum among other things.

May have some other fun updates to come in the near future.

This website acts as a massive historical portfolio for a lot of my professional creative endeavors, which at this stage means it’s problematically vast and unfocused. This is something I’ll hopefully move toward tackling after some of the more general stuff is sorted out. Lots of slow tweaks and additions. Expect little things to break here and there while this place is under construction for the foreseeable future!

It's been awhile, huh? Updates, thoughts, etc...

Ohhhhh let’s not get into everything. People are, I think, basically here for funky electronics and “art” stuff and whatnot.

Long story short - big life hurricane. Pretty much everything. Finance stuff, employment stuff, living situation stuff, health stuff, back surgery, burnout, disillusionment, personal stuff. Big jaded about everything, most of life is in storage out of state. Mostly healed up from surgery, slowly moving forward and trying to figure out what makes sense to try and do in a world I hardly understand. Had a decent 7-8 years tenure in NYC somehow managing as a self-employed creative & technical generalist but it’s also just a bit untenable at this stage. Especially for artists. Cost of living + housing is pretty nuts atm. Definitely uh, went through the meat grinder so to speak and have come out on the other side with less of a spring in my step.

P.S. Don't let yourself end up with a massively herniated/extruded disc in your back. Not recommended. Debilitating. And my experience with the health care system in the USA during the ordeal was a nightmare.

Some notes in no particular order~

1. I’ve got a huge CV up here now. Check it out. Also… Hey - hire me! Make big commission requests! Book me for gigs! I need work! :) Big pivot point though; exploring new opportunities and options.

2. Check out Orbitals & The Bulleit Limitless Lounge over in Installations.

3. Instagram (Meta et all) and social media in general is a plague on our society and the cause of much suffering. But Instagram has also been my dumping ground portfolio thingy for ages and I’m still usually fairly active there, though I disappear from time to time. But if you want to keep up with me, that’s the place to find me!

4. Chiptune stuff! Check the broken alias instagram & this new live set. Some other new music on YouTube as well. The broken alias page has some new clips~

5. Email blast went out to the mailing list re: Sync Eater, Video Synth stuff. Feel free to inquire directly if you missed it, but the gist is that I hope to get back to some building after a few months as I may be able to re-establish a workspace which I’ve been without for sometime.

6. Open for consulting! I went through the meat grinder so you don’t have to! Oh god, the trauma! If you’re after some industry advice please do reach out. Happy to chat most of the time.

7. I had a cat for a brief moment in time?

10/16/2025 edit: I’ve gone back and forth about having published some long winded diatribe about my disillusionment and general… outlook & disposition after the past 7-8 years. Decided to leave it out for the time being - that’s a book and a half for another time.

More to come. Drop your email on the mailing list if you’d like to keep up to date with whatever I’m doing in this next chapter.

Currency Audio × Gleix - Chaos Reflector [Live A/V Performance]

A performance by percussionist Currency Audio (Rajeev Maddela) with visual accompaniment by Gleix (George Gleixner). 

This fully improvised first-time collaborative performance, utilizing a MIDI drum kit and custom controllable generative software pipelines developed independently by both artists, merges the two in a complex web of real-time data sonification and visualization via software like Ableton Live, Cycling '74 Max/MSP, and Derivative TouchDesigner.

 The theme for this event, provided to the artists, was to do with Richard Brautigan's "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (1967).

Performed in Brooklyn, NY in May of 2024.

Video also available on youtube, here.

Broken Alias - O.A.E. /// Music Video + Track release

Song on bandcamp [link]

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Music video below

more to come

Interactive A/V Installation @ Phase Space NYC (5/6/2023)

Event link

I’ll have a some interactive pieces in place at this event coming up at Phase Space NYC.

‘Out of Phase’ is the last audiovisual show happening before the space transitions into something new as Andrei and Paloma depart for new adventures.

Expect CRT scopes and interactive projections to play with, alongside the multitude of talent on the poster.

I haven’t kept up with updates the past month or so due to a busy schedule, but have kept up the creative output amidst the client work. Still continuously working through a backlog of projects, music, and hope to find the time to share some of the recent events and visual projects I’ve been lucky enough to take part in.

I don’t know if anybody reads these things, but I hope you’re doing well!

• George

Gleix - Lenntrak Blue 88 (Single release through Liminal Editions)

Gleix - Lenntrak Blue 88

Lenntrak Blue 88

Single

Synthwave, Chillwave, Synth-Funk

Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music

Music video on Youtube

Liminal Editions

Join Lenntrak Blue 88 on a synthwave voyage through space as it heads toward inter-dimensional shapeshifting monolithic enemies of the 16bit era.

Composed on the Dirtywave M8 tracker. The M8 project file for this song is included with the Bandcamp download!

Broken Alias - Commuter Focus (EP Release + Visualizer)

Broken Alias - Commuter Focus EP

Bandcamp link

Picking up where 'FM in the B4' left off in 2020, 'Commuter Focus' is a return to form exploring melodically driven lofi synthwave sounds and FM synthesis.

In an homage to video game music stylings, 'Commuter Focus' pulls inspiration from a number of disparate genres, but blends them together into a cohesive package by utilizing a similar set of voices.

Tracks like 'Eggshells' and 'Exist 4 Cute' pull in classic chiptune-esque sounds and melodies. Meanwhile, tracks like 'Imbiber' pay respects to psychedelic dub music, and 'Frost Kill' explores Jazz, Rock, and DnB.

Music written during travels and commutes using Caustic 3 for Android.

Released through Lagom Audio/Visual

Vizualizer: youtu.be/LTtZIVC3e3g

Broken Alias - Eggshells (Single release) + music video

New single by my side project Broken Alias out today via Lagom Audio/Visual! Music video + streaming links below. Part of an EP coming out one month from now on 3/3/2023~

Eggshells

Single // Chiptune, Synth, VGM

Released on Lagom Audio/Visual

Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music

Music Video

Gleix - Ruinous Empaths (Single release)

Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music

5x belated event recaps // live generative visuals, interactive installs

Much belated update to the 2022 event highlights blog over on the live visuals/events page. These are minimal recaps with basic information & stills, but no video edits (yet).

11/12 - Copacetic 002: Fort Romeau, Baltra (Viz, Interactive installation)

10/31 - Cityfox Halloween Festival 2022 w/ Gorgon City, Nora En Pure + More

10/01 - Cityfox Transcend Festival, w/ Victor Calderone, Giorgia Angiuli, Onyvaa & More

8/10 - Genesis G90 Reveal Event

2/01 - Philip Lim's Lunar New Year Dinner Celebration

All Day I Dream @ The Brooklyn Mirage (round 2!)

Still working on getting a some video together - but a post about this event from last month on September 18th, 2022 can be found here :) This was a second iteration that built upon the visual system made for the June iteration of this event at The Brooklyn Mirage, now with 100% more birds.

Electric Zoo NYC 2022 Visuals // Stage 2, 'The Landing'

Scenes from Electric Zoo 2022, held from September 2-4 on Randall's Island in NYC, which I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to run visuals at.

These shots are from Stage 2, 'The Landing', which featured a stage design utilizing five circular LED walls. This video shows a few moments from sets by Carl Cox, Dimension, DJ Diesel (Shaq), Loco Dice, and others. Full lineup available at https://electriczoo.com/

Custom visual content for the event provided by Sila Sveta (https://silasveta.com)

Additional VJing by Erin Wajufos (https://www.erinwajufos.digital/)

https://electriczoo.com/2022/08/25/electric-zoo-presenting-our-all-new-stages-for-3-0/

Broken Alias performance at STILLSUITE A/V Showcase in Brooklyn

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Brief recap shots from a performance at STILLSUITE, an A/V showcase held at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn.

I was asked to perform as part of the showcase and opted to focus on music this time around, and to give my chiptune focused project Broken Alias some attention, with Erin Wajufos (of Never Knows Better) providing some stellar accompanying visual projections. This 1 hour set was a sort of 'mobile music showcase' for me, utilizing unreleased material from 3 upcoming albums which were written and performed using LSDJ on the Nintendo Gameboy, the Dirtywave M8 portable tracker, and Caustic 3 - a DAW for mobile. I also decided to lug six of my CRT Scopes across town to display the music's waveforms (and, subsequently, think a lot about that exhausting choice).

Thanks so much to Erin and Anto who curated the showcase for having me, Erin for the custom live visuals, Dolphin Uppercut who shot and cut together this video (during the event!), and all those who had kind words or just stuck around 🕹🎵 Be sure to check out all the other talent that was a part of this fantastic live A/V showcase, as well as the host of the event, Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn!

Live generative visuals // All Day I Dream @ The Brooklyn Mirage

Event post here (click)

Interactive analog visuals install + live viz for Boris Brejcha

Copacetic is a new event series that started at Avant Gardner earlier this month on 5/13. Recap & info here. Article here.

Also, on 5/22 I ran custom visuals for Boris Brejcha @ The Brooklyn Mirage. Recap here.

Recap videos of each event below.

Gleix - Anxiety Dreams (album release)

Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music

Youtube stream

Composed & produced between 2017 and 2020, Anxiety Dreams is a 37 minute gapless album that attempts to contextualize an evening of nightmares, the accompanying dysphoric confusion, and the moments grasping at lucidity. A series of ambient, melodically driven reflective moments are punctuated by intense, drum-break-driven psychedelia while navigating a disorienting landscape formed by disjointed memories of waking life.

Built through granular refinement over time, and with a large focus on the density of its textures and consistency of its motion, Anxiety Dreams oscillates between stylistic explorations of IDM, Ambient, Breakcore, Classical, Drill n' Bass, Dub, and a slew of sometimes disparate experimental territories in an attempt to weave each sonic thread into a larger cohesive patchwork.

Informed heavily by early electronic songwriting habits, a collection of personal audio recordings with emotional connections dating back to childhood are broken apart in this album and arranged to form rhythmic and melodic structures. This process often forms the backbone of each piece, while a combination of hardware synthesizers, homemade machines, acoustic instrumentation, and meticulously programmed drum-breaks help guide things into place.

 • • •

 This album is pay-what-you-want. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting me by sharing it with somebody you believe may enjoy it as well. A donation with your purchase of the downloadable material on Bandcamp is very much appreciated, but not expected.

As this is a gapless album, my recommendation is to download the audio through Bandcamp and listen in your gapless audio player of choice. A gapless version of this album (split into two parts due to length restrictions) is also available as part of the album download.

Many thanks to everybody who listened and provided feedback on the many, many revisions of this album that were passed along over the years.

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When I was very young my mom would sit with me before bed and pray for me to have ‘good dreams, and good thoughts of the wonderful things made in this world’. One night I asked her to change the prayer going forward, and asked that instead we pray that I have no dreams. Sometimes we just want to shut things off for a while.

Music video release // KAIXI × iku - fizzBuzz()

Just released is the music video I did for fizzBuzz(), a collab between kaixi & iku~

This started as part of the visuals for one of iku’s sets in 2020, and grew into a properly sequenced MV spanning the full song that was *mostly* completed at the beginning of last year, but revisited and wrapped over the past month.

You can check this fun track out, and my accompanying video of strobes & spikey low-poly geometry on Youtube, and in a blog post @ the top of gleix.net

Thanks Kaixi & Cy for involving me in this project, and congrats on the release!

Check the song out on Spotify here!

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