Void XXIV

I moved into my new studio in mid-August. The flat is not sunny, but quiet and peaceful.
Only the room I use for my studio protrudes from the building and the volume is comfortable. It seems to be a nice environment to concentrate.
The only slight annoyances are the shouting of the old man who lives in the building next door doing his exercises and the smell of the food coming in at dinner time.
Constantly feeling the presence of neighbours is an occasional occurrence in the city, and perhaps it's a good thing, like in the Edo period.
We just released "Void XXIII" last month, but now we're in a new studio and we're very motivated.
It was quite a challenge to prepare a new album in one month, but I was lucky enough to have enough time to mix and edit.
The concept of the previous album "Void XXIII" was to record the guitar performances as if they were live and then edit them.
I took a different approach with this one. For this album, I used a different approach: I used recent recordings of guitar performances and stock guitar recordings from 2019 and 2020.
I used Reaktor software to edit and process my recent guitar recordings, as well as my stock guitar recordings from 2019 and 2020, and overdubbed new guitar performances, synths and basses on top of them.
This was my main method of composing until about 2015, when I felt the limitations of this method and shifted to modular synths and live guitar playing.
However, time has passed and Reaktor is once again fresh on my radar.
The layering of past and recent recordings has added an aspect of time passing and a dialogue with my past self to this album. In the Pandemic of Corona
I feel that this album is imprinted with the atmosphere of the times, when I spent more time in the studio and it seems that I spent more time in dialogue with myself than with my friends.