This page is to showcase my major music projects from the past 15+ years.
Latent Jamming
What I call “Latent Jamming” is a combination of techniques of real-time intervention in the latent space of VAE architecture-based AI models, namely RAVE, MSPrior and vschaos2.
These architectures as well as the Pure Data object nn~ have been developed at IRCAM and open sourced in the course of the last years.
From early 2023 on, I’ve trained these models on my own body of work from the past 15+ years as an electronic music producer and started experimenting with them in various kinds of constellations and setups.
The nature of these experiments is mainly of explorative and performative nature; their point of departure usually is in the latent space of the models employed. Hence “Latent Jamming” seemed a fitting description of that practice.
Conserved outputs from these jams have been released on various channels.
Generative Jungle
One of my main music projects of 2023 was developing a technical framework in Pure Data that allows to create Jungle and Drum & Bass tracks in a generative fashion.
One prominent approach was employing the Fibonacci number sequence to replace conventional meters and to restructure common track build-up sequences prevalent in Jungle and Drum & Bass.
This Fibonacci Jungle framework has been awarded second place at the Generative Music Prize 2024, hosted by IRCAM, Paris.
I’ve published different versions of the same parameter constellation and sample set on Bandcamp, Nina, and the streaming services to make visible the conflict between static recording artifacts vs. generative framework.
Additionally, I’ve written another Drum & Bass framework that follows a more conventional structure while keeping the variability through constant randomization.
The topic remains of key interest in my current practices, so I intend to continue working and researching on these frameworks.
Kerner
In 2018, Hidden Hawaii put out my album Kerner. The album was released as double 12″ record and in digital format including two additional tracks.
The artwork comes from a series of motives from artist duo IRIS-A-MAZ with whom I also collaborated on media art installation Animalis Prismatis.
The Weevil Series
The Weevil Series consists of three EPs LARVA, PUPA, ADULT. It was originally released in 2010 on limited edition vinyl.
In 2020, the series surfaced digitally, remastered and each release containing additional reinterpretations by DYL, Felix K. and Katsunori Sawa on The Weevil Neighbourhood.
Anthone
Anthone is the artist alias I’ve been using for releases on my label The Weevil Neighbourhood.
Bokeh
Katsunori Sawa and I are producing as Bokeh. We’ve been putting out material on The Weevil Neighbourhood, UVB-76 and Mirae Arts.
On the latter, our album Lenses Dances has been released in 2020. For the album, a custom Bokeh logo has been designed by Paul Nicholson/ Number3, who also was responsible for the infamous Aphex Twin logo.
Black Plastics
Black Plastics is an ongoing series of four-track EPs self released from 2012 on in digital format.
Other
Various single releases, EPs or contributions to compilations as well as remix works are spread among different record labels and music imprints in the past 20 years. This is a selection.