Giovanni Grandi of Frap.tools, the Eurorack musical instrument maker, interviewed Unthunk’s Trevor Tunnacliffe for a wide-ranging discussion including how Frap.tools specifically, and the modular synthesizer generally, is used in Unthunk recordings. The podcast is part of their Let’s Talk Music…
Excerpt of Altostratus from album: Oblong. Thanks to Lauri A. Kangas for use of the video. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Trevor Tunnacliffe (@unthunkmusic)
Mixing is complete for the next Unthunk album. Stay tuned for further information on the release. Meanwhile, here is the track listing: 01 Galumph jr. 02 Uncoil 03 Fire bath 04 Go figure 05 Bacci 06 Awaiting her return 07…
We have completed recording for the next Unthunk project! Now we’re attending to post-production and packaging duties. By packaging, I mean coming up with an album name, cover art and notes. Most recent Unthunk releases have some sort of organizing…
The sixth Unthunk album was released today on Bandcamp. It is called Elliptic, with material relating to the celestial mechanics phenomenon of orbital resonance. Elliptic makes extensive use of the modular synthesizer, which is is a perfectly appropriate instrument to…
The new Unthunk album is nearing completion. A few post-productions remain, while the artwork is finalized. Read the album notes at https://unthunk.ca/item/elliptic/ Stay tuned for more.
We’ve given the Unthunk project-in-progress a working title – Elliptic. It is based on a lingering fascination with orbital resonance. Sometimes gravity and motion among celestial bodies results in them developing stable, inter-related orbits, which can be considered polyrhythms on…
We’ve started posting to social media, as a way of adding some character and context to our musical releases. We’re limiting ourselves to Instagram for now, with a planned modest story output focused on our view around the music-making, especially…
We have released a new album, call Utter. It is available on Bandcamp, and you can read about it here.
Following Free Music Archive’s change of ownership and direction, Happy Puppy Records removed its catalogue from the FMA site, including Unthunk’s music. You can still find it on archive.org and youtube.com seems to have extracted the files from FMA. Some…