Clevolati is another melodic electronic music album I have written which is an exploration of time moving way too fast. Where the regrets are not so much wistful regrets, but a sense of not realising how fast time was passing and wishing one had taken more time to appreciate the good moments. The album is inspired by this need to view short moments as a perfect eternity and drink them in. When I was on clevedon pier (see the cover) I really enjoyed walking backwards and forwards over it - looking at all the details of the planks meant I could create an eternity out of short evolving moments. It's true that the past does indeed burst into the here and now on this album - but it doesn't do this in sepia tinged nostalgic way but rather a supremely hyperreal way. On this album I felt that when I was hit by the past I was proper whalloped by it, it wasn't just a case of warm wooziness. Although the transition form the hyperreal to the woozy might be an interesting theme to explore in future works.

A word about the production of this album. The entire album was done in MAX/MSP. I coded the synths and sequencers myself but the effects I used were BEAP modules.

Ever since I started making music when I was a teenager, the whole process of learning different bits of electronic music gear has always been a huge part of my identity. To the extent that I often defined my music through whatever gear I used at the time. Going through lots of different hardware platforms meant my back catalog had a lot of sonic variety but I was unable to easily reproduce what I did two or three years ago. It was also clear that I was ALWAYS going to want to change things up.

So in 2019, I started using MAX/MSP and developing my own instruments. At first I did this, I had a big dose of imposter syndrome - there was no way that anything I did would ever sound as good as an electron, a tempest or an Aira. And I make no claims on this basis. I can only say that the process of building electronic music instruments in MAX/MSP excited me in much the same way that straightforward acquisition once did. And there is still much to learn! Every setback brings a step forward. My time became a form of capital investment. Much as the MAX/MSP 'system' I build has evolved over this album, so to. my music is constantly evolving over time. I present to the good people of bandcamp this particular snapshot of 2019. Writing albums has always been for me a way to make sense of whatever times I am living through.