music

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]

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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.

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

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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)

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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 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!

Video: Gleix Live @ NKB x Ars Electronica NYC // "60Hz" (Live AV performance)

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Performed live on September 9th, 2021 at Culture Lab LIC in NYC as part of a showcase put together by Never Knows Better at the Ars Electronica Festival Garden.

This performance utilizes a fully DIY modular audiovisual synthesizer, a collection of custom controllable systems built in Touchdesigner, and a CRT TV which has been modified into an pseudo-oscilloscope receiving dedicated audio & video feeds to generate colored waveforms.

Three 60Hz tones are generated by the AV modular representing the three RGB color channels, panned left, center, and right respectively. These three underlying tones, which the piece is fully built around, have harmonics which shift depending on the shape of the individual color channels in the image, with peaks of amplitude being built for each color's pixels as the image is scanned through on each refresh of the video signal. Additional waveform generators and simple oscillators are injected into the color channels and 'played' in tune with the underlying tones by dialing in exact frequencies, which at multiples of 60Hz, will also form stable scanlines in the receiving color channel.

Touchdesigner serves as a complex collection of controllable systems for handling & manipulating audio, video input, as a standalone visual system, to introduce generative elements and contained-randomness when triggering external audio elements and visual subsystems, and for general data & MIDI processing. Percussive elements, rhodes, and additional audio processing in FL Studio.

https://www.gleix.net

https://www.instagram.com/gleix

DIY Modular: https://www.gleix.net/modular

CRT Scope: https://www.gleix.net/crtscope

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Check out other performances from the showcase: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILH...

Event page: https://www.xrensemble.com/ars-electr...

Thank you NKB & Ars Electronica for the opportunity.

https://www.instagram.com/neverknowsb...

https://www.instagram.com/arselectron...

Thank you Ulisespal for providing additional footage

http://www.ulisespal.com/

New release: GULL x Gleix - Prepared Breaks (Music Video & Single)

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Bandcamp • Spotify • Youtube • Lagom Audio/Visual

GULL on Bandcamp

Via this article in Brooklyn Vegan:

“Gull is a masked one-man band that we once compared to Lightning Bolt and Battles, and Gleix is an electronic musician from Brooklyn who specializes in IDM, ambient, breakcore, and drill 'n' bass, and they've now collaborated on the new single "Prepared Breaks." As the title implies, it's a combination of prepared piano and breakcore, "though that's probably obvious and not the most.. creative title," Gleix says.

More background, via press release: "The project was spearheaded by fellow artist and collaborator Cy Fi, who shot initial footage and encouraged it to be built upon. From there, Gleix began manually cutting & warping the original footage to fit a consistent tempo. After building the audio and video in late 2017, it sat dormant for a few years. Once the idea of releasing it came back up, he was able to take some of the knowledge gained working in visuals, and add a system of real-time effects on top of it all."

Gleix also had this to say about the song, "I think it's easy to end up inadvertently working through issues while focusing on detailed or tedious tasks. You get into a sort of trance. In the more rhythmically complex pieces I've put together I might be listening to the same bar over and over for half an hour before moving on, trying to weigh what sounds best in the moment with what works best contextually. The process feels analogous to thinking about problems that exist in the present moment; thinking about what to do about them now, what decisions make the most sense given what's already happened, and how to make the transition into whatever comes next as smooth as possible. Slowly piecing together breaks is a very zen process and a sort of therapy for me I guess, despite how chaotic the end result can be."

If you're familiar with both prepared piano and breakbeats, you probably have an idea of what to expect, and this song delivers. It's equal parts gorgeous and dizzying. Check out the video below...”

Condensed cover of Theme from Ernest Borgnine by Squarepusher

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I put this on Instagram a few weeks ago and figured I’d put it up on youtube as well.

“A highly condensed/quick live cover of one of my favorite Squarepusher tracks, "Theme From Ernest Borgnine." That main melody still makes its way into my head every so often and the 303 line is nuts (I think I got it pretty close!)

Sub Phatty // SH-101 lead

x0xb0x // 303 line

Mother-32 // pseudo pads

Drum loops lifted from original”

Ambient music & visual performance, "Aurora (Migration)"

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Putting this online has been on my to-do list. Via the youtube description:

'“One of two pieces originally premiered at Lightbox in NYC as part of the Creative Code Art festival last November. "Aurora (Migration)" is an extra wide real-time render that was performed utilizing a controllable particle system with a collection of processing effects chains. It's also a variation on previous performances with a similar system.

The music in this piece is "Pretend You're Not," a track curated from a collection of live ambient rehearsal recordings made in the run up to a live performance at Avant Gardner in February, 2020.

Thank you to the space, organizers, and all involved in the Creative Code Festival:

Lightbox: https://lightbox.io/​

Creative Code Art: https://www.instagram.com/creativecod...​

New Media Art: https://www.instagram.com/new_media_art/​

Never Knows Better: https://www.instagram.com/neverknowsb...​

Ix Shells: https://www.instagram.com/ix.shells/​

Erin Wajufos: https://www.instagram.com/erin_wajufos/​

Extended Reality Ensemble: https://www.instagram.com/xrensemble/”

Did a synthwave thing

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1/12/2021 edit: So - in December I came across a demo somebody made on Youtube of a Japanese synthesizer. At the end of the video they do a brief little jam with it which inspired me. I kept wanting to hear it expanded and I made a quick song using it and built some accompanying visuals. After putting the video up the person who made the demo video that I sampled in this project, who I very prominently credited up front for this personal, unreleased, non-monetized project, made it abundantly clear through a barrage of comments and DMs that they were opposed to any use of his demo video that isn’t explicitly authorized, so this is gone now.

I've never understood that sort of mindset and, to be honest, I think that sort of thing is everything that’s wrong in the creative space. After they saw the posts (two weeks after I posted them and tagged them?) I was immediately bombarded with “This is illegal!” (it’s not) “All rights reserved, you can not use this!”

What this was is a fun personal project that I did, sampling their demo video, because it inspired me. If they’re unhappy with seeing their demo video re-contextualized, fine. But the aggressive bombardment of comments and DM’d threats due to a personal project that sampled some synthesizer demo footage, which again, was prominently credited to them right up front, is a massive bummer. It was needlessly aggressive, and that sort of mindset and approach discourages collaboration, drives people away from your work and the thought of engaging with it, limits exposure, creates an air of self-importance, and breeds creative isolation imho. This is a net negative for everybody involved. Nobody was making or losing money on this one-off, unreleased, short personal project.

While I don’t know the exact reason that my sampling of their demo video was such a massive issue for them, it’s their right to ask me to take it down and I tend to try and take the path-of-least-resistance, so it’s whatever. Just a bummer.

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Edit: 5/28/2024

I am placing the video here, on my personal website, unlisted.