colleen

I have another 4 months of studio work ahead of me to finish my 9th album @thrilljockey , which is more than half-completed by now in terms of composition and synthesis. I haven’t hit the Record button yet on the final sessions (though I do record everything as I work through ideas), for the good reason that making music via synthesis is like exploring the Amazon: you know you won’t be able to explore all of it in your lifetime, but the sweet spots and surprises you find along the way, you want to be sure to include them in your research paper – or, in this case, my album – and I know I will be learning until the very last minute 🤓
As always I can’t wait to share the final results with you and take this to stages in spring 2026. I now book myself worldwide except North America @groundcontroltouring , so please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me directly. 
I am also toying with the idea of giving more @moogsynthesizers Matriarch deep dive and synthesis workshops in cities where I’ll be playing, so feel free to contact me about this too!

This will be the album opener and although I am nowhere near finished with it, I love the patching ideas on it: it is my most complex patch so far and I’m so happy the months of studying tutorials – as well as preparing the workshop I gave at @elevatorsound_eu last month – are paying off in terms of gaining patching autonomy and actual understanding of what I’m doing, as opposed to a more haphazard trial-and-error process (which it obviously still is for me, but to a much lesser extent than before). Patching now feels organic and second nature, and if you’ve been learning synthesis, you’ll know how amazing that feels!
I also wanted to share this particular song because I disabled the keyboard from the sequencer through MIDI settings, in great part inspired by @gabechurray who has a super clear tutorial on it, and by allowing playing the keyboard on top of the sequence, it does completely change the synth’s abilities.
Using @befacosynth squid cable, maybe not in the intended way of sending a signal to multiple destinations (doing the opposite 😅), but it works!