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Ben Buchanan

The music I make under my own name can be a calm electronic ambient soundscape, an experimental warping of samples, an abrasive drone of noise and discordant voices, and more. It's whatever I feel like making. Most material is composed and recorded in VCV Rack, with a focus on generative composition, improvised performance, and modular synth soundplay.

Official releases can be found on my Bandcamp, but I also post a lot of videos to my YouTube channel, whether they be live patch performances, Teletype scene overviews, audio visualizers, and plenty more you won't find on my Bandcamp.


Discography

Four Songs For Wind & Light

Dec 05

2024

A four track collection of material that evokes the wind and light of winter, as well as the passage of time.

Tracklist
1. Winter Sunlight
2. Deep Canals of Wind
3. Yellow to Red, Brass to Bronze
4. Through a Forward Light

Thousand Wishes of Rain

Jul 27

2023

A double-LP of material that recalls the interactive, improvised recording process of 'Inner Weather' and uses it to craft a suite of rain-soaked drone, synth, and piano passages.

Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Time Slathered in Textures
2. Interlude (Momentary Patience)
3. Leaking the Dust of Their Mothers
4. Interlude (Saturated Heart)
5. Hatching Song
6. A Thought of a Love Thick as Light
7. Interlude (Thousand Wishes of Rain)
8. Endless Remembering
Disc 2
9. Twisting Spirals of Tongues Laced With Leaves
10. Interlude (Thrumming Clouds)
11. Dandelion Sky
12. Melt My Slow Forgetting
13. Interlude (Ancient Joy Returns)
14. Resolve / Fragility
15. In My Ether

Reach Through

Jan 09

2023

An album where I try to manifest the warmth and joy of spring by exorcising the rime of winter with six drone-focused cuts. Dissonant layers of chords and noisy distortion combine to create a feverish slew of melted light through panes of glass.

Tracklist
1. Burning Tracts
2. Moon Attraction Cycle
3. Like Fever
4. Seen Through Glass
5. Reach Through
6. Deliverance

Sketches in Parallax

Aug 02

2022

A four-disc collection of ambient sketches, experimenting with sample manipulation, distortion, and generative composition. An allegory of the four seasons, repeating over and over.

Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Headtrauma
2. Misthymnal
3. Paintedeyes
4. Clingrelapse
5. Juno
6. Eveningflow
7. Luna
Disc 2
8. Slowdawn
9. Amethystlight
10. Familiarnoise
11. Terrafirma
12. Rustmoon
13. Predestination
14. Sleep
15. Firmamentdreams
Disc 3
16. Kazabana
17. Circuitgnasher
18. Wiltedfaith
19. Maelstrom
20. Undone
21. Stilldrama
Disc 4
22. Autumnleaves
23. Komorebi
24. Lilacsong
25. Sunslaker
26. Amberscape
27. Noel

Icarian Sea

Jan 16

2022

A shorter collection of tracks where I first begin to play around with more distortion and generative composition. It serves as a brief taste of what would follow on 'Sketches in Parallax'.

Tracklist
1. Mechanicalpoetry
2. Driftcontemplate
3. Omicron
4. Hazetide
5. Wraith
6. Cloudmosaic

Inner Weather

Jul 15

2021

My first foray into the world of modular synth music with VCV Rack. An ambient electronic representation of my inner state of mind during its recording.

Tracklist
1. Lorenz Attractor
2. Digital Magmatics
3. Machine Heart
4. Rifted State
5. Rain Charms
6. Tangled Petals
7. Dawn Drifts Into Evening
8. Sun Rhythm
9. Permutations
10. Reconcile
11. Spring Communion
12. We Wash Away Tomorrow

A Dream of Shapes Returning

Jun 16

2019

My first official release, where I use homemade tape loops, an old Yamaha 4-track, and a DAW to score a series of dreams, visions, and emotional states. Static weaves a tapestry of dreams into a story.

Tracklist
1. Ex Nihilo
2. Desert Aureus
3. Cumulonimbus
4. Hyperdrip New Age Blooming
5. When Love Was Here
6. Palace of Broken Mirrors
7. Metro Postcard
8. Alive in the Snowdrifts
9. Before Paradise
10. Ad Infinitum