A Voice in the Wilderness

Synthesisers are great for producing many unusual and strange electronic effects and sound textures. They make possible new sound worlds to explore and this is what excites me. “A Voice in the Wilderness” is really about using synthesisers to ‘paint’ pure electronic music onto tape. In this album, different scenes come and go; some are short sound-scapes, some are rhythmic sequencer episodes. Overall I’ve tried to create a sense of space or rather various interesting different spaces that just flow into one another. Constantly changing, there are non of the usual track breaks so there are no real tracks that I could list. Each of the parts plays through several scenes, but it’s really just one piece of music. The two parts actually listed are retained from the days when the music was released as a cassette on the “Mirage” label.

This was the first album to feature the micro-processor controlled polyphonic sequencer described in the “synthesiser adventures” section of the site. All the electronic music on the album was produced using modular analogue synthesis except for a Godwin string synthesiser (also analogue). The recording was entirely analogue, mainly a 1/2” 4 track pro. recorder aided by a couple of extra stereo machines. The CD production master is a direct copy from the master tape, using a stand alone CD recorder and a very high quality analog to digital convertor system.