Outline of Nature

Description

"Outline of Nature" began as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and transformed into a voltage-controlled outpouring of love for nature. Of sylvan origin and animated by a pastoral energy, brimming with sap and charged with lightning, this album was born from the damp and fluorescent recesses of the woods, each note, each sound, a fractal extension of their nascent sounds. "It was conceived at the Twilight Research Centre, a studio located on the border of Somerset and Dorset. During the first COVID lockdown, I spent our allotted outdoor hours wandering the centre's surroundings, the green lanes, woods and wild corridors, with their wary and wavering inhabitants, under the distant gaze of soaring buzzards and imposing red kites. I didn't expect it, but it was in the calm, fiercely vibrant nooks of nature that I found a deep connection to it. It made sense again to feel as much a part of the forest as the trees; I felt like a natural entity in its habitat again, something I hadn't truly felt since childhood, when I ran through the ravines, dells, and hills of the Midlands. And I was seized by a powerful desire to build strange electronic sound systems, organic, chaotic, fractal, and in some way reflecting the awesome natural systems around us and around the centre. I plugged in the modular and set out in search of signs of life."