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u/patternshiftsynth ยท 1 pointr/listentothis

No vocals here (quick skip if you were looking for them).

I make electronic/cinematic synthwave music as PatternShift. I have an eclectic set of influences and bleed across a genres a bit. Best matches by genre preference would probably be:

(main links are YouTube)

  • Soundtrack/theme: PatternShift - "Walking the Manifold" or SoundCloud
  • Chill: PatternShift - "Departure" or SoundCloud
  • Straightforward Synthwave: PatternShift - "The Physical Option" or SoundCloud
  • Ambient: PatternShift - "Orbital Resonance" or SoundCloud
  • Cyberpunk: PatternShift - "Exsurgent" or SoundCloud

    I just released my EP May 1 (technically an album on several services due to ambient outro and bonus track). It's my first release after getting back into independent music production, this time with synths/electronic music. I'm a long time musician (play a few instruments) and wanted to be a soundtrack composer as a kid, spent some time as a music comp major in college, etc. The songs take thematic inspiration from both science fiction and science, reflecting my background and interest/involvement in both.

    A bit of the story on "Walking the Manifold" -- the title is a reference to "Walking the Pattern" in the Amber books by Roger Zelazny. But it's mapped onto a real scientific concept - in machine learning, the Manifold Hypothesis is a way of explaining how deep neural nets work. For an over-simplified explanation, one type of manifold, in topology, can be thought of as a mapping from a high dimensional space to a lower space, where some properties hold that make those spaces equivalent in certain ways. An OK analogy for this is a street address -- it's a 1D mapping (go N far on this street) by which you can find a house in a 3D world.

    The thing is, that's a way that music works as well. Music is wired into the part of our brains that processes things emotionally. The machinery from our evolutionary past, hooked up to animal cries and calls, etc. We feel this raw emotional stuff in our brains (and bodies as well), and we can encode and decode all of that in music - notes and chords and beats and timbres -- and then other people can decode it!

    The way that works has gotten personal for me. I have a son with autism who is really into particular sounds, spinning, etc. (common topics of autistic perseveration). Before diving back into music and writing this album, I found and read a book on Language, Music, and Autism and was blown away by a small fact tucked away in there: for autistic people, a lot of the deficits in encoding emotion into and out of natural language are just not there with music. That is, there are often no emotional deficits in processing music in autism. It's that effective as a medium for communicating things emotionally (possibly due to the degree of redundancy in its signal, versus normal language).

    Anyways, I've mostly played my cards close to my chest re: the meaning in the music as I want people to find their own things in it, as what they discover is IMO just as valid as what I tried to put there intentionally. But I think a little bit of story is justified in this case. If you're into it, it's on the majority of streaming platforms, etc. and it's all linked on my landing page.