Im Zentrum steht dabei weniger rhythmische Virtuosität als das feine Ausloten von Frequenzverhalten und räumlicher Tiefe. Vom Label heißt es: “The Nord Drum 2 has six channels, and in most scenarios, even one single channel gives a lot of sound to dive into the changing tempo’s routine. Besides that, this time Belorukov was concentrating on reverberation algorithms applied to the synthesiser’s sound. Creating artificial spaces made a huge impact on music and even a small addition of reverberation deeply transforms the sound. Adjusting parameters is an endless process, and he tried to simplify it to keep the idea of making music on the spot without overthinking. No edits or additional recordings were made. After the recording, some equalisation and compression were used to complete each piece.” Das Album erscheint als CD und zum Download.

“This album was created in 2020-2021 in the most strange times of the pandemic, when almost all live music was stopped and many had to work from home. Honestly, this was not something totally unusual for me, as I have a habit to compose at the computer when I have some kind of inspiration or, better said, when I try different things. I tend to work on several concurrent pieces at any given time, slowly developing them, and sometimes finding they can come together as an album.

Scattered Underfoot is one of these cases, and it is something new for me. It is an electroacoustic composition that crosses analog and modular synthesis, field recordings, percussion, and processing. This was an experimental process, exploring possibilities for the computer to add its own inputs by developing chance processes. A similar process was developed with the percussion elements, improvising with small setups of snare drum, cymbal, and objects, focusing on sounds rather on playing, as I am not a drummer, after all. Several of these sessions were collected, serving as a starting point to the compositions.

There is no randomness in the creative process itself, it all comes from thinking and trying to connect sounds and ideas to each other in, most importantly, new ways that I had not already explored in my previous electroacoustic or acoustic improvised music.” (Ilia Belorukov)

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