Lucas Abela & Zach Hill - Never 7”

Never is a collaboration that fuses Zach Hill’s frenetic drumming dynamics onto Lucas Abela’s textural glass noise. For the project Zach’s drumming is used to generate rhythmical control voltages to interpolate his performances into Lucas's glass sound using modular gear. To be clear when referring to modular the project uses zero synthesis, instead think of this collaboration as Lucas’ glass being an oscillator or synth voice while Zach’s drumming takes on sequencing and envelope generation duties. Essentially when they play together a myriad of parameters within various parallel effects chains are being automatically adjusted simultaneously by Zach’s performance. Each strike creating an envelope replicating its attack decay sustain and release that’s used to adjust settings within the modular system causing Abela’s sustained textural glass signal to be rhythmically torn apart by Zach’s drumming.  - dualpLOVER