Processor’s music is created using driving bass guitar
rhythms, pulsing synthesizer sequences, tapes and other
modulated sounds.
Processor’s second full-length release is a limited edition
vinyl LP and digital download album.
Titles on the limited edition (200 copies) LP include:
Motel, Loiter, Bus Ride, Radio, Default, Poems, Jasmine
and the title track Sea Side.
Processor began in 2011 when lighting designer M Joakim met cartoonist Lorenz Peter and the two shared their passion in making electronic noise and sound collage. Since then they have released five EP's and two full-length albums, as well as appearing on several compilations.
The band is involved in numerous side projects: Lorenz also plays synth in duos such as Corpusse, Bay of Creatures, Les Fontaines and Off World. Joakim plays synth in No Colour Blue and solo as Saturn City. Collaborators include Sandro Perri, Heiki Sillaste, Scott McGreggor-Moore, Jay Isaac, and Jess Forrest of Castle If.
Processor's music has been most accurately described by Mutek festival as "...rides an unruly line between chaos, composition and punk beauty" and also "relentless hypnotic noise within composed, genre-defying music."
In recent years Processor has performed in multi-media events in galleries such as AGO with photographer Kate Young and with visual artist Antonia Kuo of NYC at Cinecycle. Processor has provided a live soundtrack for a rendition of Stephen Spielberg's Duel at Channel festival with video artists Tasman Richardson, Brett Despotovich, and others.
In addition, Processor has re-imagined their sound for a spaced out multi-media show; Lorenz's Space Cat comic book creations are animated and synthesized by Joakim for a two-hour epic saga projection-mapped at the Nuit Blanche North festival.
Processor returns to form with their latest full length album entitled Sea Side. Bass guitar and Moog synth with vintage drum machine beats provide futuristic blissful noise.
credits
released September 17, 2018
Released Summer 2018
All songs composed, played, recorded by Processor
Lorenz Peter: Synth, Drum Machine
M. Joakim: Bass, Synth, Tapes and Treatments.
Poems previously released on
Processor’s Loiter cassette EP,
2016 on Reel Cod label.
Poems is inspired by
Achieving Unity by The Poems,
Drew and Rose McDowall on Polka Records, 1981.
Jasmine previously released on
Processor’s Rogersville Sessions
cassette EP, 2015.
Sea Side originally appeared on
Nite Comfort Compilation Vol. 1
complied by Aaron Dawson.
Loiter and Bus Ride
produced by David Lush
of Memorex.
Mastered at Wright Sounds, Toronto
by Heiki Sillaste and Kris Helstrom.
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