Venetian Snares – Traditional Synthesizer Music – green/blue/pink 3LP

Description

Venetian Snares marks ten years of Traditional Synthesizer Music with an expanded edition featuring ten additional tracks and alternate versions, previously issued in limited form via the artists Bandcamp. Performed and recorded live by Aaron Funk using only a modular synthesizer, the album is built without overdubs or edits. Each piece is constructed from scratch, then dismantled once recorded. Funk focuses on interchangeable structures and substructures, shaping fluid, humanised rhythms and allowing patches to interrupt and redirect each other into unexpected progressions. Multiple takes of each composition resulted in markedly different versions, several of which appear here for the first time. A key work in Funks catalogue, Traditional Synthesizer Music highlights his fascination with modular systems alongside the complex drums and unusual time signatures that define his output, from breakcore landmarks to acid experiments as Last Step and collaborations with Hecate, Joanne Pollock, Daniel Lanois and John Frusciante.