Mastering
madness was sad
Single. Mastering done, release 19.06.2026. Pre-save live.
Progress 95%
/// Process / Setup / Current work
Studio
One room in Novi Sad. Three synths, too many cables, a shelf of philosophy books, and a window that faces nothing in particular. This section is where the process lives — unpolished, documented, occasionally embarrassing.
/// Right now
Currently working on
Tracking
Untitled album / working name "Night Office"
4 tracks drafted, 6 more in sketches. Target: autumn 2026.
Progress 30%
Writing
Essay series
Three essays in drafts on phenomenology of tape, Cioran and drone, and absurdism as a production technique.
Progress 40%
Reading
Thomas Bernhard / Correction
For the sixth time. Different book every time.
Progress 0%
/// The tools
Setup
Modular
- — Make Noise Shared System
- — Mutable Instruments Plaits (x2)
- — Make Noise Maths
- — Intellijel Rainmaker
- — Strymon Magneto
Synths
- — Roland Jupiter-8 (eternal setup piece)
- — Sequential Prophet-6
- — Elektron Digitone
- — Arturia MatrixBrute
Outboard
- — UAD Apollo x8 interface
- — Elysia Xpressor (parallel bass)
- — OTO BIM bit crusher
- — Eventide H9 (reverb of choice)
Software
- — Ableton Live 12
- — VCV Rack (for nights without the hardware)
- — Soundtoys (everything)
- — FabFilter Pro-Q3, Pro-L2
The list updates as the setup evolves. Things get sold, things get added, things stay the same for years. The Jupiter-8 has been there since the beginning and will be there at the end.
after midnight only • tape first / plugins second • no click track / no quantize / no apologies • mono for a month • patch from zero every session
/// Diary
Session notes
Spent four hours on the 55Hz sub-bass in madness was sad. It had to be exactly the frequency where the chest recognizes it before the ear does. Ended at exactly 55.3Hz — not what I planned.
Rebuilt the modular patch from scratch. The old one sounded too clean. Now it has a tiny instability that I can't identify — I'm keeping it until I can.
Tried writing in the morning. Everything I made sounded like someone else. Cancelled it. The project only works after midnight. This is not romantic, this is empirical.
Realized the album needs silence between tracks that's as composed as the tracks themselves. Maybe 8 seconds, maybe 40. Still testing.
Decided to record one track a month in mono only, as a constraint. First one is done — it made every choice harder and better.
"The studio is not where you make music.
It's where you find out what you were trying to say."