Even if you take a different approach yourself, there’s no doubt that those who create their own music-making tools, building their own instruments from the ground up, often sound like nobody else. One such artist is Gábor Lázár. Working in Max, he designs and builds “compositional interfaces” that allow him to circumvent the traditional, linear ways of working that popular music software promotes, developing a musical language that’s all his own and arriving at unexpected musical conclusions in the process.
Lázár’s latest album, collects the results of these experiments, presenting raw and unedited snippets of the music that his self-devised software instruments have dreamed up and spat out, recorded in real time. Working with a basic laptop-and-speakers setup depicted on the album’s cover, he’s created some of the most adventurous electronic music we’ve heard this year, proving that with a decent computer, enough ingenuity and
