Four years since his debut album ‘Underwater‘, Italian born Berlin-based producer Valentino Mora returns to Spazio Disponibile venturing even further from the dancefloor, delving into a rich, psychoacoustic realm shaped by modular and spectral synthesis.
‘Biotope‘ is a slow-moving, tension-laden collection of deep techno, drone and ambient music – where frequencies pulse with intent, textures breathe, and sound behaves like organisms with resonance, friction, growth and decay. Delving into a rich, psychoacoustic realm shaped by modular and spectral synthesis.
Built primarily around the Rossum Panharmonium, a module that analyses and re-synthesizes audio into evolving harmonic clusters in real time, the album conjures an imagined ecosystem, where sound behaves with the logic and fluidity of organic life.
Eschewing traditional field recordings, Mora instead sculpts textures and gestures that feel deeply natural yet are entirely synthetic. Inspired by elements such as soil composition, air, humidity, light, temperature, and the chemical properties of both land and aquatic environments and the living creatures that inhabit them, the soundscapes emerge as a kind of sonic biology.
‘Biotope’ is scheduled for release 12th September via Spazio Disponibile. Order a vinyl copy from Inverted Audio Record Store.
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