Synthèse / Synths

🇫🇷 Synthèse sonore et explorations sonores

En dehors de mon travail de bassiste et de compositeur jazz, j’aime explorer les sons électroniques à travers les synthétiseurs, les samplers et les effets. C’est une approche très intuitive, basée sur la recherche de textures, d’ambiances et de compositions spontanées. Je m’inspire beaucoup du design sonore de films, de la synthèse modulaire et de la musique expérimentale pour créer des paysages sonores qui vont du calme ambiant à la tension rythmique en passant par l’impro brute. Que ce soit en captant des jams sur le vif, en empilant des couches de textures ou en jouant live, mon but reste toujours le même : raconter une histoire à travers le son, sans trop me soucier des genres ou des techniques.

🇬🇧 Synth / Sonic Explorations

Outside of my work as a bassist and jazz composer, I love exploring electronic sounds with synths, samplers, and effects. It’s a pretty intuitive process for me—about chasing textures, moods, and spontaneous composition. I draw a lot of inspiration from cinematic sound design, modular synths, and experimental music, creating sonic landscapes that move between ambient calm, rhythmic tension, and raw improvisation. Whether it’s capturing spontaneous jams, layering textures, or playing live, the goal is always the same: telling a story through sound, beyond genres or techniques.

Fractures and Circuits, Vol. 1 – Learning

Fractures and Circuits, Vol. 2 – Playing

Fractures and Circuits

On December 29th, 2024, I broke my hand while jogging. Two days later, I played a New Year’s Eve gig on bass synth with one hand, having never done it before. For the next 12 weeks, I couldn’t play bass, my primary instrument for over 20 years. So I bought hardware synthesizers and started exploring. Fractures and Circuits documents that year: learning new instruments while immobilized, improvising on unfamiliar tools, finding a voice in constraint.

These pieces are live, single-take improvisations captured between January and November 2025. No overdubs, no extensive post-production, just rough mixes from the board, as performed. The approach was simple: turn on the machines, create some cool sounds, hit record, and see what emerged. Out of nearly 40 sketches, these 14 tracks best represent this period of exploration at the intersection of my jazz improvisation backround and synthesis.

Presented as two volumes (Learning and Playing), they document the same timeline, like sides A and B of an LP. Both trace the journey from early exploration to more confident performance, though they’re not strictly chronological. Think of them as companion pieces that together tell a complete story.

Playlist Jam Synthé ✨🎛️🎶 | Synth Jams Playlist ✨🎛️🎶

Playlist Expérimentations sonores & tests de patchs 🎚️🧪🎛️ |
Sonic Experiments & Patch Tests Playlist 🎚️🧪🎛️

🇫🇷 Mon Setup Synthé Actuel

Mon matériel pour explorer le son, performer en live et enregistrer.

🇬🇧 Current Synth Setup

This is the gear I use for sonic exploration, live performance, and recording.

🟣 🇫🇷 Synthétiseurs et Sources Sonores 🇬🇧 Synthesizers & Sound Sources

Moog Matriarch
Moog DFAM (Drummer From Another Mother)
Moog Messenger
Make Noise Strega
Make Noise 0-Coast
Make Noise 0-CTRL
Novation Bass Station II
Arturia DrumBrute Impact
Sequential Take 5
Soma Laboratories Lyra 8
Soma Laboratories Pulsar 23

🟡 🇫🇷 Mixage et Routage 🇬🇧 Mixing & Routing

Tascam Model 12
Roland SP-404 Mk2
Yamaha MG06
Apogee Duet 3