For all of your electronic audio requirements.

May 21, 2023

https://lagowski.bandcamp.com/

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New therapies

April 7, 2024

I sold my Ableton Live software, a Korg drum machine and some other bits and pieces, to fund a new direction that brings me more joy and less anxiety.

‘Other Planet People’ video Promo 1

March 29, 2024

Coming soon…

March 23, 2024

Thank you to those who have supported my recent releases on Bandcamp. Although I couldn’t make it to Berlin for the 33YLOKI celebrations, I’ve been working hard here at Studio FWD on forthcoming material. I’m trying my best to keep the sounds fresh and not go over old ground. Fans of S.E.T.I. may be surprised by the next set of recordings 🙂

Strange Minds 2

March 20, 2024

The second in a monthly series of experiments and improvisations. As always, play loud on a good system, to appreciate the full range of frequencies.

Noise continues nonetheless….

March 2, 2024

S.E.T.I. not able to attend 33YLOKI in Berlin

February 28, 2024

Strange Minds 1 – the first in a monthly series

February 22, 2024

Simple slow tones – an iPad Pro musical interlude

February 20, 2024

Things that I have come to realise and believe (some more obvious than others)

February 18, 2024
  • Nobody is interested in my opinion, so I must try to keep it to myself as much as possible (apart from this list).
  • Very few people are interested in purchasing my music. The ratio of Bandcamp listens to purchases, for example, is 100:1
  • Restricting equipment/software = more creative ideas.
  • More equipment/software = pain.
  • Joy comes from total immersion in the creative process, regardless of the outcome.
  • Joy is much harder to experience when producing sounds on machines or software with pre-programmed boundaries. No, that does not mean I will be selling my car and buying Eurorack gear. And yes, I will continue to use such machines and software when Mr Hyde returns.
  • Spending hours working on how one drum sound or sequence fits in with the others is exhausting and a waste of energy. Also, nobody cares.
  • Nobody on this entire planet needs another set of Amen breaks, 303, 808 or 909 sounds, however they’re packaged. 
  • The cube filter from the EMU Morpheus should have been sold as a separate box 25 years ago.
  • Laptop music, however good to listen to, does not make interesting live entertainment to watch – why do you think Autechre turn the lights out?!
  • I’m not doing anything for a reaction: if you like it, that’s great and I am truly grateful. If you don’t – I don’t care anymore.
  • People you thought were good friends can disappear, sometimes without a word, overnight. Don’t think you know anyone – it’s dangerous and will only lead to sadness.
  • Don’t try to recreate the sound you had 30+ years ago because that’s what people want now. It’s too exhausting and is not the real you.
  • Social and mass media exist to generate anxiety, spread lies and encourage turmoil. Avoid at all costs. Do not let propaganda determine your path in life.
  • People in positions of power will do anything to keep themselves there.

Hardware and software at Studio FWD

February 14, 2024

This is an approximate list of the gear and software I’ve been using for the last few years.

Hardware

Synths

Novation Circuit Mono Station

Novation Circuit

Bugbrand Weevil

Mute Synth 1

Nebulophone

Mutable Instruments Shruthi

Noise Toy

Drum Machines/sequencers

Error Instruments Passive Operator

Arturia KeyStep

Korg ES-1 Drum Sampler

Korg SQ-1 sequencer 

Effects

Orgeldream Eoten B – glitch/fuzz

Koma BD-101 delay

Jomox T-Resonator II

Zoom MS CDR70 Reverb/Delay/Chorus

TC Electronic Flashback 2 Delay

Software

Arturia Pigments 5

Metasynth 5

Reason 11 

Ableton Live 11

Reaktor 6

Tracktion Waveform 12

Izotope plug-in set

A lot of AU and VST plug-ins

iPad applications

Effects

iDensity

Shaper

Eos 2

Harmony Eight

Replicant 2 & 3

FuzzPlus3

Other Desert Cities

Gauss

Tape Cassette 2

Underlator

Crystals

Utilities

AudioShare

AUM (MIDI and audio recording environment and host)

Atom (MIDI Sequencer)

Fugue Machine (MIDI Sequencer)

Zoa (sequencer)

Instruments

iMS-20 (synth/drum machine/sequencer)

SECTOR (musical microworld)

Photophore (swarm based synth)

Patterning 1 & 2 (drum machine/sequencer)

dot Melody (freaky sequenced instruments)

Samplr (musical microworld)

iSpark (drum machine)

Bebot (!)

Ribbons (synth)

BeatMaker3 (drum machine/sequencer)

Tera Synth (synth)

SoundScaper (musical microworld)

Jasuto (musical microworld)

Borderlands (musical microworld)

Poly (freaky sequenced instruments)

Ripplemaker (synth)

Ruismaker (drum machine)

Ruismaker FM (FM drum machine)

Mononoke (synth)

Model D (synth)

Starwaves

Relic Waves

ID700

King of FM

FM Player 2

Synth One

Fractal Bits

………the list goes on forever!