Buoy by Matt McBane

‘Buoy’ is an album of patterns and ambiance for synthesizers and violin by composer, electronic musician, and violinist, Matt McBane.

It is his first primarily electronic album and first entirely solo album on which he plays a variety of analog synthesizers (modular and fixed), violin, piano and bass guitar, and manipulates it all in his computer. While this album marks a new development in McBane’s work, it is rooted in many of the same musical currents as his past music – the patterns and processes of classical minimalism, the sonic manipulation of electronic music, the elemental qualities of fiddle music, emotional nuance, cinematic space, counterpoint, atmosphere – all filtered through the voltages of his synthesizers.

It is the follow-up to his 2022 album on Cantaloupe Music for percussion and synthesizer, ‘Bathymetry’, called an album of the year by Wilco, an album of the month by Bandcamp, and “a musical and sensory journey like no other that has been offered in contemporary music recently” by Montreal’s Pan M 360.

Matt McBane is a composer, electronic musician and violinist whose music draws on classical minimalism and studio production; analog synthesizers and fiddle music; orchestras and found percussion; complex patterns and emotional nuance.

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