Music

I make electronic and orchestral music, mostly with Ableton Live, hardware Eurorack modular synthesizers, and semi-modular synthesizers. Below is a sampling of my songs from over the years.

Through 2021, all my songs were made entirely on a computer. Then I took a break and spent a few years building my own hardware modular synthesizer. It was a good way to stay occupied during a pandemic. In 2023 and 2024, all songs were made with that hardware. I completely changed my approach: instead of meticulously editing and tweaking things on the computer for far too long, I recorded my hardware in typically a single take, edited it down to the good part, spent minimal time polishing things (often only adjusting the relative levels of a multi-track recording), and called it "done" rather quickly. The focus was on improvisation and performance rather than composition. Imperfection was deemed ok and even welcomed. I published a lot more songs in these years.

In 2025, I'm getting back into software-based music, and I want to keep using my hardware too. I'm on another break from producing songs while I explore how to deeply integrate my software and hardware. I added an AudioFuse 16Rig interface with 16 channels of ADAT (pristine digital audio over fiber optics cables) connected to a pair of Expert Sleepers ES-10 modules in the Eurorack hardware. It's ridiculously powerful and has broken down all barriers between my hardware and Ableton Live. Now I need to figure out what to do with all of this and impose new creative constraints on myself (I'm seriously unable to finish anything right now because I'm overwhelmed by possibilities).

You can also find me on SoundCloud: @adamodular (hardware modular-focused recordings) and @adamj. All of the songs on SoundCloud can be found here too: