Hello and welcome to Waxin' Aetherphonics, a newsletter where I share my creative journey.
I'm Koyl, a french independent musician, producer, composer, and improviser who creates and releases music under multiple monikers, touching on a wide array of styles.
"Aetherphonic" is the entity under which all my musical projects regroup and work together, forming a holistic creative ecosystem. "Aetherphonics" is the term I use to describe the personal musical language I'm trying to develop, which is what I'll be sharing and discussing in this newsletter!
I’ve been making music for something like 20 years during which I have been involved in many projects and explored a variety of styles.
Currently, I have 3 solo projects: Koyl, K⏣LYDER & The Arkanist. Please find a brief introduction to each of them below.
I happen to be born with a disability (cerebral palsy… you see Walter White’s son in Breaking Bad ? This !) that has me going around in a wheelchair. The bad side is it sometimes prevents me from doing things. The good side is it often prevents me from doing things like everyone else. This can often turn out to be a great advantage when it comes to creativity !
It has taught me to see open windows when others might only see closed doors and provided me with an out-of-the-box vision and quite an experimental approach to music creation.
I will treat this newsletter as a creative diary, in which I’ll share my process, behind-the-scene, new releases and the ideas behind it all.
Doing this on Substack will allow me to do this in a more thorough way than I could on social media, without having to please temperamental algorithms. it also allows me to have a direct link to my readers (that's you!) with the possibility of getting feedback, questions, and suggestions from them. I value this dialogue aspect very much, and it's been more and more lacking in traditional social media platforms.
Music and art don’t happen in a vacuum so it’s also important to me to speak about my influences and share art that I find inspiring.
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A quick introduction to my different music projects:
K⏣LYDER / Ⲋσnɨȼ ᕈⲇɾŧɨᥴƖє ȺȼᥴεꙆєɾᥲⲧσя
With this project, I perform improvised soundscapes using live-looping, guitars, virtual instruments, synths and vocals. The releases are pretty much live recordings.
The music is ambient, experimental, cinematic. It can be calm and soothing or more intense and chaotic, sometimes within the same track.
Listen to K⏣LYDER here / Links & latest news
The Arkanist / Ɓєⲁⲧⲥⲅʌƒⲧ & Ⲋꮻꮜƞɗ Ʈɾαƞ⳽ɱυᴛⲇⲧισɳ
The Arkanist is a beat-centric project built on the idea of transmuting existing sounds to create something entirely new. Right now, my focus is to mainly use bits of what I create with K⏣LYDER as material that I can shape into new tracks.
The music mixes HipHop, Electronic, Ambient, Cinematic with Industrial, LoFi, & IDM.
Listen to Ƭ𝔥є Δⲅƙʌηⲓ⳽т here / Links & latest news
KOYL
Koyl is the name I used before creating Kolyder + The Arkanist. The music I released is very too varied: Live-looping soundscapes made with lapsteel & resonator guitars, TripHop, Drum&Bass / HalfTime / Industrial Ambient, etc..
It’s pretty much on hiatus right now but it might revive at some point, with a more focus spectrum.
Listen to KOYL here / Links & latest news
I have a lot of things coming out in the next weeks and months and I hope you’ll embark on what promises to be an exciting ride !
Welcome!
Congratulation !