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ZIQ446_Herva
16-09-2022
Herva
Seez
ZIQ446
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01 Xid
02 Anm
03 Ruh
04 Obeye
05 Maki3
06 Etop
07 Imperat
08 Lu

Herva started to work on ‘Seez’ right after the release of his last Planet Mu album ‘Hyper Flux’ back in 2017. He was experimenting with home-made hardware and after the album release wanted to raise the bar, challenging himself to build a point-to-point mixer from scratch. This task took almost a year of intense soldering and forced him to scrap music production. Eventually all this hard work grew into making studio hardware properly and he co-founded a new company making mixers and compressors that work with Eurorack, called Audio Gear Obsession.

On ‘Seez’ Herva moves away completely from the sample-based music he’s most known for and into programming and computational production, which he mixes and compresses with his newly-built hardware tools to give them the life and feeling he requires. There’s also an element of randomness in ‘Seez’ as the music is generative, defined with numbers and ratios from his own software, tuned by ear rather than to set scales, with unexpected outcomes.

To make the record, he spent more time digging between the different iterations of each track than coding the programs that generated them. He says “How I make music is kind of weird for most producers, but I like it, and I plan to dig further. You can think of ‘Seez’ as the alpha version of what I and my system are able to do.”

The new music still retains Herva’s laid back airy feel. Each track is like a small ecosystem of chiming tones, wafting drones and skittering rhythms, hinting at formal patterns and melodies but developing on its own abstract terms. It feels as if it’s the audio equivalent of watching sped-up recordings of a camera capturing different combinations of plants growing, a pleasant and curious experience to let yourself enjoy.

Releases
ZIQ470 PLANET MU 30
09-05-2025
Various Artists
Planet Mu 30
ZIQ470
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SONY DSC
24-02-2017
Herva
Hyper Flux
ZIQ385
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ZIQ372_Herva_Kila
27-11-2015
Herva
Kila
ZIQ372
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ZIQ370_MUTWENTY
04-09-2015
Various Artists
µ20 (20 Years Of Planet Mu)
ZIQ370
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