u/Arcane_Synthetic

Finally the fact I’ve enjoyed APC live dawned on me tonight framing this tour poster we scored from the recent Budapest show.

A pinch of happiness looking at this. 🖤

Looking forward to the Auckland show alongside Puscifer in December! 🤩

Good evening everyone,

For those unfamiliar, let me introduce myself:

‘Arcane Synthetic is a conceptual multimedia project from Auckland, New Zealand — avant-garde transmissions from a time-travelling entity dissecting the human condition through industrial, dark ambient, and cinematic sound. Confrontational, uncompromising, and ultimately illuminating: music for those who question everything and still dare to feel.’

In the lead up to Bandcamp Friday a month away now I’ve discounted everything across the board. 40% off in some cases. There may be something that tickles your fancy.

https://arcanesynthetic.bandcamp.com/

If funds are in short supply but you want to enjoy my work, maybe even show support, check out my profiles on both GetMusic.fm and Band.codes. There’s still a bunch of codes there.

https://getmusic.fm/artists/arcane-synthetic

https://band.codes/arcanesynthetic

Got a few things on the go I’m looking forward to sharing with you soon.

Have a lovely week,

Arcane

arcanesynthetic.bandcamp.com
arcaneSynthetic.substack.com

Not just texture, but something that would fall apart without the idea driving it.

I'll go first: 

Au bord des Ténèbres...

"This album transposes Pierre Soulages’ idea of "Outrenoir" into the scale of a human life.
Here, black is never an ending. It becomes a living material where light transforms, withdraws, fractures, and returns in new forms."

Full Lucid

Follows a narrative of a bizarre dream my friend had, plays like an audio drama. So multilayered with a ton of space. One of my favourites from him.

My own project (Arcane Synthetic) is trying to do this — time-travel concept, dystopian sci-fi — but I'm more interested in what I'm missing. What else?

Dark ambient does something almost no other genre does: it forces you to stay with discomfort until it becomes something else. I've been thinking about why I'm drawn to making music that refuses to offer an exit, rather than just an atmosphere.

One release that sticks out for me is APPARATUS by Atrium Carceri and Kammarheit. It probably helps that Pär Boström works primarily with tape machines and this release particularly resonates for me on cassette; my favourite tape I own. The "warmth" most experience from analogue listening is just distortion in my mind- I love it. Life is messy and chaotic. I don't get the same experience of being moved in quite the same way from something sounding like it needs some dirt thrown on top to sound believably human.

Curious what draws people here — the texture, the headspace, or something harder to name?

I'm also making things in this space (Arcane Synthetic — industrial/dark ambient from Auckland, sci-fi concept, somewhere between NIN and Chelsea Wolfe but stranger) if that's relevant. Mostly here to actually have this conversation.

With the recent release of Revised Reports - Volume 2 https://arcanesynthetic.bandcamp.com/album/revised-reports-volume-2 , free download codes for Revised Reports - Volume 1 👇

https://band.codes/arcanesynthetic/revised-reports-volume-1

https://getmusic.fm/r/arcane-synthetic-revised-reports-volume-1

Insomnia

I feel it fits well with the rest of the Awaken The Androids collective piece yet is quite different. It's pretty different from any track I've ever written let alone. Short, straightforward structure, kind of jazzy, some drone aspects to it I guess, strange little number... I like it though.

It's in the title; sleep wasn't happening. I hopped on Ableton Live. It fell into my lap in about half an hour. I tend to usually labour over songs or individual elements for days, even months sometimes.

Below is regarding the conceptual side of things following a time traveller sent to observe the human condition across time:

TRANSMISSION LOG 06

The Observer Suffers Sleep Deprivation

The observer reports states of unease during downtime.

Assumed cause of restlessness is sensory overload - a common symptom reported among assigned time travellers; often a result of regular repeated exposure to historical precarious and/or menacing public surrounding conditions.

The observer describes unexpected brief periods of euphoria followed by longer periods of “weighted bewilderment”.

If while listening something occurs you fancy sharing, please do. I'm not precious and am open to critique.

Cheers,

Arcane Synthetic