A Look At My Portable DIY Modular Synth.. - PortaKosmo

it was a very fun few days at the lengths on residency, i made a collection of live songs im quite happy with! there are videos that accompany them, and also the EP is available to download link in the description.

Bob Moog would be proud. It’s easy to buy ready built kit and do this, but building the kit yourself and doing this 70’s style synth stuff again in the 2020’s is something else.

Among the most beautiful and (dare I say) matured music we ever heard from you!

You're an inspiration, Sam. Not only are you building your instruments, but you're making you're using them to make music (like I was trying to do before health problems blew me up), then sharing the process in videos. Plus there's that crazy museum thing that I love. You restore my faith in humans - or some odd ones, anyway. Thank you.

Thanks Sam! You are a total F**CKING Mad Genius (meant as a massive compliment🙂) as well as being a bloody nice bloke! Both in electrical and electronic design, musical and videography skills! Love these tunes and the videos! Take care mate! 🙂😎🤓❤

PortaKosmo sounds amazing, and Cloud Inversion is the best song I have heard in a long while. Awesome work mate!

The scenes, the sounds, the bridging of built and natural objects and spaces. I get used to the behind the scenes work on the museum etc and then you come along and drop a crazy project with hainbach, or make a retro tv show, or, *this*. The residency was an amazing way to launch the portakosmo concept and journey. The way you summoned these sounds and ideas from that process and that place was amazing. Right down to the little things like the foghorn emulation/composition. Listening to Sounds from the other Shore, staring at those 3 'moduliths' each standing there, towering above the transient seaweed world, dwarfed by the ancient mountains. Something starts swelling and radiating an awesome emotional intensity. And from such a serene, unassuming stillness. Like the way you describe the tides rising. To reference Nihls Frahm and Catechism, you came 'All Armed' to summon a 'Spectral Torrent'. Now I'm off to lmnc bandcamp. Thanks Sam.

Great sounds and visuals, love it! Would make a great concept dvd album

fascinating, thanks for letting us in on the thoughts and process that went into making this. i think it helps make art so much more alive, instead of having it sit around in a museum in a kind of sterile way

It's so cool seing how artist works, explaining where the inspiration for their work came from. Very inspiring!

The ambience on these new tracks is epic. Could listen to it all day.

loving the instrumental pieces lately, berlin school or post rock or whatever is happenning here suits you well!

I really liked this series of videos and the music that the place inspired! Truly awesome stuff!

It’s incredible to see your work progress and development over the years. Really interesting videos and you are so transparent about why you do things and the process along the way. 7:57 That sounds amazing btw

I am a dork. Just found the link of the EP here. Totally getting it next payday! Your a big inspiration man! Keep at it

I really love the aesthetics you chose for this. Visually and soundwise. - Great to see some more music-related activities broadening over your quite busy channel (some time ago, I had subscribed for exactly that)! :)

I like this. I'll admit that I'm the first to criticise when things get hippie-dippie-arty-farty, but at the same time not all tools need sharp edges, and going out and being inspired by the "mood" of things does just work. I especially like the thematic juxtaposition of synth music and nature, and I think Cloud Inversions is my favourite for this because even though they contrast each other, they both have that cold and grungy vibe linking them together. That beach full of seaweed, the constant decay of the dry plants, doing their best to resist the frost before the tide wets them again, it just feels like something there has been captured by the music perfectly.

That was a very pretty video, it sounded good, looked good, and felt good. Thanks Sam.

That shoot at 6 minute mark is just great <3

Your new uploads just ooze inspiration. The new year has started with some bangers!