Elliptic released

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…


Elliptic recording complete

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.


Upcoming project: Elliptic

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…


Stepping into social media

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…


Bandcamp now hosting Unthunk

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…


On the spot

Unthunk’s first two singles and last two albums are available on Spotify. The task was undertaken due to the possibility that Free Music Archive was to be taken offline. The remaining releases will also get posted to Spotify at some…


Freeharmonic Orchestra v.2

The Freeharmonic Orchestra is a musical collective associated with the Freemusic archive. Unthunk is a member, and we’ve released our second album. Each piece is collaboratively created by a pair of members. Have a listen: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Freeharmonic_Orchestra/Space_Robots_the_Future/


Half cocked cover

A colleague from the Freeharmonic orchestra has released a cover of our Purge. Have a listen: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/half_cocked/Refractory/half_cocked_-_Refractory_-_07_-_Purge