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D.U.M.E.

D.U.M.E. is the solo modular synthesizer project of Providence, RI based musician, composer, recording engineer, multi-instrumentalist artist Alec. K. Redfearn. It was started around the time of the 2016 US presidential election. Redfearn surmised it would be wise to immerse himself in an all-enveloping project as a keen distraction from the grim state of the world. That project was learning modular synthesis and in turn building an ever-changing, ever-evolving synthesizer labyrinth. 'D.U.M.E. represents a major shift in approach from the electrified avant-folk of The Eyesores. D.U.M.E. is dystopic and post-human. The music machines will still be playing when there are no humans left. The ghost in the machine. Haunted circuits. Demons manifest in voltage. Uncanny events. Sigils growing out tangles of wire. Pareidolia. From Wikipedia: Alec K Redfearn is a musician and composer based in Providence, Rhode Island. He has composed music for dance, theater, and film. His primary instrument is the accordion. Most notable is his body of compositional work for The Eyesores, a genre-bending ensemble of unorthodox instrumentation which spawned in the mid-1990s and whose music spans old-time Americana, Appalachian, folk and Eastern European music. He composed the soundtrack for, and had a small acting role in, the 2004 film, Stay Until Tomorrow, by Providence-based director, Laura Colella. In 2005 he was awarded the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation. He has also developed a unique style of playing the accordion, introducing elements commonly associated with the guitar such as distortion, drone, and noise. He has performed on accordion and recorded in several ensembles of which he also composes for, such as Amoebic Ensemble, Barnacled, and Beat Circus.