SESSION

The Eurorack modular format lends itself heavily to discovery and experimentation. There is very little facility for composition, and once a patch is created, it can only ever exist as long as the cables, knobs, and sliders stay put; to make something new, the old needs to be destroyed.

For myself, it's important not only to capture these ephemeral sketches, but also to perform them, to converse with the instrument and all its generative behaviors. Then with a camera setup and a video format, I created SESSION.

Once I'd wrapped up a few recordings, the project had organically taken on a visual language inspired by the digital era of the late 1990s and early 2000s. SESSION became both an exercise in music performance as well as in art and design direction, one informing the other in a very natural way.

Since the first performance entitled "JULY 2024", SESSION continues to grow on a semi-monthly basis.

Working on this patch for SESSION with its detuned pads and lo-fi fuzziness lent itself immediately to the aesthetics of You Are Watching, at the time around two years since release. To commemorate, I'd picked up a bit of know-how in Blender and DaVinci Resolve to create a local television interstitial in the vein of PBS in the 1980s.