Julia Bondar - Industrial Symphony (2020)

"During the past 3 years of releasing my music, I slowly came to understand how much modular synthesizers liberate and ease the life of composers/performers. This thought was confirmed after I read the interview with Hans Zimmer in the ‘Patch & Tweak’ book by Kim Bjørn:

Scoring with the modular started out because Hans could not afford to pay real musicians and to get more voices he just needed to add more oscillators and filters. Though, he jokes that it is cheaper to feed a bunch of oscillators that a bunch of musicians:

'It was enough voices to do the stuff that was going on in my head. I grew up in a very traditional German music tradition and the thing I could not understand was why orchestras were not expanding their sound palette by including more synthesizers.' -- Hans Zimmer /Patch &

Tweak We all know the roots of modern music come from the classical compositions of big names like Beethoven, Satie, Mozart, etc. However, the culture is changing and our ears are being trained for a new synthetic sound. This is where the modern spirit brings us. When you are united with the machines they play according to your mood: sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce.

While I was recording the tracks for ‘Industrial Symphony’, I was able to extract very orchestral sounds from my modular synth system. That was the moment when I realized that my modular is my orchestra and I am the conductor. Direct your symphony and feel the liberty of self-expression. Do not play on the safe side. My symphony is industrial. It is a tribute to today‘s cultural spirit and love for synthetic sounds; a blend of techno rhythms and dark pop; a modern symphony that calls to a dance floor." -- Julia Bondar