Cycles, Echoes & Geometry is an album firmly focused on its subject, the aesthetics of minimalism, but with a wide range of variations within that theme. The tracks progress towards increasing complexity. It is essentially a tribute, in my own way (sequenced on a modular Eurorack), to the three main representatives of American minimalist music: Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass. Although it deals extensively with American minimalist music, Cycles, Echoes & Geometry is a hybrid album.
Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass are evoked through me, in a very personal way. This American minimalist music is also evoked through the language of the Berlin School. Even though I've had a particular love for Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass since my early teens, I remain, in my own way, musically speaking, a child of the Berlin School.
In relation to my previous album, Ars Modularis, it's pointless to look for a single note played on a keyboard here. In Cycles, Echoes & Geometry, there are no melodies, not the slightest texture, but only sequences, nothing but sequences, but enveloped in echoes.
Every album stems from a deliberate choice; mine is that of stripped-down sequences, simply adorned with delay. This ultimately makes Cycles, Echoes & Geometry a solo album that is first and foremost deeply personal.
