Working with museum-grade synthesizers and sequencers
brings the realizations of Jeffrey Koepper all the closer to the
electrical current at the source of all electronic music. His cache
of late model gear operates at the mechanical level today's
virtual modeling synthesizers attempt to recapture. Certainly
Koepper's diagnostic familiarity with this equipment informs the
music on MOMENTIUM. An interesting balance between
sensibility, technology and technique, this album presents eight
pieces which range from fluttering thought tones, to echoing
synth pulses, to cerebral powered beatbox. Influence is an
invisible shadow cast on this work, as Koepper is ever
reverential to both the artists and engineers who pioneered the
genre he now navigates within. His endless fascination with the
sequencer, a device meant to provide a steady run of
predetermined notes, dominates this disc. The interlacing
latticework of patterns becomes an animated force carrying
reverb laden harmonic figures into the foreground. Koepper's
subtle real-time adjustments to timbre and counterpoint
provides this work with enough variation to keep it out of the
realm of minimalism while referencing this genre's pulsing
motorlike motion and incrementally expansive growth. In his
music, Koepper is seeking a sense of voyaging. Yet, as in all
quality spacemusic endeavors, we do not leave the listening
area. MOMENTIUM is a stationary adventure meant for the
contemplative audience.

Tune into STAR'S END this weekend for music from
MOMENTIUM
by Jeffrey Koepper

For more on MOMENTIUM, access:
http://www.jeffreykoepper.com

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