(1982) Matrix (Syntape 005)

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Matrix (1982)
released as SYN005 on the Syntape label, released on Vinyl (limited edition) and digital (label Alter-K)
All tracks recorded in your own studio (except A1: 24 Track Studio)
Instruments (the most important…):
Moog Modular System 15A
Roland Jupiter 4
Roland TR 808
Roland CR 78
Roland RE 501
Korg MS20
Korg SEQ10
Hohner Strings
Elka Strings
Elektor Vocoder
ETI Vocoder
Rack Flanger
DD Phaser
Tapedecks: Teac A-3440 and Akai GX-630D SS

Title:

Page A

  • Voyager
    Describes the voyage of the Voyager spacecraft and contact with extraterrestrial intelligence and another probe. Pretty elaborately recorded, should have typical song length in hope of release as a single. Later I recorded the piece again in another studio.
  • The Transcendence
    I was terribly in love. Played with the Moog modular system and sung about the ETI self-construction vocoder. The Moog is just great. Text:
    The transcendence of geometric spaces
    is like the depth of the sphere of endless dreams.
    See: Where the thought is missing
    radiant cosmos dust swells in wounds
    mandatory fatal scars left
    rises again in the universal branches
    a branches without a trunk, constancy through nets
    uneven spider animals without laws.
    Only commandments: beauty, art
    intangible solar vapor…
    broken by dew-fresh fog,
    who cannot bear the lyrical everyday bulge
    and so in the early morning hour
    grey moist birth the divine customer:
    The transcendence of geometric spaces
    is like the depth of the spheres of endless dreams, endless dreams, etc.
    I don’t believe in the happiness of the world
    by Mammon, pomp, through a lot of money.
    I believe in the one sound,
    who recently penetrated me so much,
    that all feelings, impressions,
    which I forgot to emphasize,
    self-declared
    by being — and I wee, and I cry
    The transcendence of geometric spaces
    is like the depth of the spheres of endless dreams, endless dreams, etc.
    endless dreams (vocoder)
    See: Where the thought is missing
    etc (such as start)
  • Step by Step
  • Spring Rain
  • New Generation (live)

Page B

  • Melancholic Walk
  • Flight
  • Rush
  • Siren
  • but Munich
    I noticed that newsreaders often use the word “but”. This was then actually painstakingly cut in by me as tape snippets
  • up and down G.
  • Electron voice
    From the Android cycle. It is the first song of the cycle. Describes an Android’s journey to Earth. Loneliness in space as the sole passenger of the spaceship. (“On the way to Earth – I have only my – electron voice. She is my partner everywhere – also here alone in space….. everywhere, everywhere, even here alone in space”)
    Somehow the Android then becomes more cheerful and improvised towards the end with the vocoder…
  • Meta (live)

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