MAERLEON CEDRAEON SUBMERGES WITH ELECTROPLANKTON
One of the most common misunderstandings — and sources of post-release backlash — about Toshio Iwai’s early DS software Electroplankton was that it wasn’t designed to be a portable music creation tool.
Instead, Iwai was essentially giving players a portable music interaction tool — shrinking down the larger gallery installations he’d done over the years and making them more accessible both in their distribution as commercial software, and by giving the plankton themselves happy-face anthropomorphic charm.
While that did put off some, who quickly found their best laid sounds succumbing to the whims of the easily-bored plankton, it didn’t put off Merleon Cedraeon, who writes he was “suddenly motivated to create a new type of music that I had never before attempted” on discovering the software.
His “Submersive” album is an ongoing work all based around Electroplankton, and his newest song, Neptune, can be heard via that album’s webpage. Like the others, it’s an ambient mix of a number of the plankton you can interact with, and a good representation of both of what the software and Cedraeon are capable of. Also recommended is ElectricMan, which mixes his plankton style with the DS’s bootup sound for a more rollicking electro-track.
Submersive [f3music, via disquiet. Thanks Gus!]
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