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A Syntax of Feeling

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This recording captures a live performance pairing of two disparate instruments, an ASM Hydrasynth and a Make Noise Shared System, with The Crow Hill Company’s Dot Allison Dulcet Voice plug-in. The customized patches were designed not as a static framework, but as a living instrument, intended for a performance that breathes with the spontaneity of a poetic recitation.
The guiding principle here is to eschew the loop and the grid, which often defines electronic music. Instead, the piece unfolds through gesture and improvisation, prioritizing nuance of moment over predictable repetition. The aim is to create a syntax of feeling, where phrases develop, pause, and respond in a way that feels intuitive and human.
The emotional heart of this music finds resonance with the 18th-century aesthetic of Empfindsamkeit, or the "sentimental style" characterized by intimate, personal, and often melancholic expression of fleeting emotional states. It valued the authentic, the sensitive, and the introspective. In this performance, that spirit is channeled through a modern lens of tangled patch cables, fluctuating voltages and software code, that can express the inner world of thought and feeling. This is not music as architecture, but as a current of sentiment, captured as it flows.

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released October 3, 2025
Composed, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Bruce Reinoso.

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Bruce Reinoso Raleigh, North Carolina

I compose electronic music for synthesizers and eurorack modules, and acoustic music for orchestra, band, chamber groups and solo instruments. For many years, I was a member of the AFM and played trombone with a wide variety of musical performers and in music theater. I love all kinds of music. ... more

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