Idiosync

After releasing in 2006 his debut album ‘Public Jewelry’ as Moonscape, Daniil Alexandrov decided to introduce to his music a stronger conceptual component. Having parted with his past stage name, the musician set out to search for a new alter ego. The search have led him to a thought that a lot of sounds, be it music, noise, signals etc., have solid connections with certain events, occurrences, objects and persons. These connections are usually so strong that we are able to complete the entire sound sequence after hearing only the beginning of it. If we violate this connection by altering and combining sounds that have these permanent associations, we can cause a perceptual conflict. Exploiting this effect has become the musician’s main goal.

Experimentation with styles and sounds brought Daniil to the idea of modifying soviet music.  In the USSR, music, as well as other types of art, was performing a propaganda function: ideology was the dominating factor of its form and content. The political situation, along with the censorship that was blocking foreign influence, favored the formation of a unique musical environment. The succession of classical music traditions, the futuristic enthusiasm, the energy of military marches, the folklore motives, the lyricism of pre-revolutionary love songs—Soviet music was entirely different from its Western rival. Some signs of Western trends such as jazz, lounge, funk managed to sneak behind the Iron Curtain, only to further increase its specificity. At the same time, the strict control of the creative process promoted unification of its sound. Perhaps, like no other, this music strived to establish the listener’s automatic response to concrete compositional techniques.

Idiosync sees his task not in remixing individual pieces, but rather in creating a new sound at the junction of contemporary tendencies and the heritage of this now forgotten stratum of history. The musician intentionally breaks the association between the sample and the particular work, composer or performer. As for electronic instruments (beat, bass, special effects), they primarily act as a rhythmical framework.

The name ‘idiosync’ comes from the term ‘idiosyncrasy’, which refers to an individualizing characteristic, reaction or eccentricity. Idiosync stands for sample-based music that pursues unpredictability and ambiguity of interpretations.

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