SourceCodeX is a project created by John W. Patterson- head of the ASMID forum, and publisher of music. He is the reviewer and webmaster of http://eer-music.com, a musician-based jazz/ambient site and store. Though a guitarist (since 1967) he always had a strong liking for synth music. Inspired by the New Age era, which gave creaative music artists an outlet to release electronical atmospheric and ethereal space music -- some being void of rhythms. John recognized a "power" in this genre to evoke altered consciousness.
In 2002 he began experimenting with various software-based synths and sound editing programs, while reviewing music. In this deep sea of blissful inspiration he was destined to "give back" his own twisted echoes of the genre. CodeX Hypnos is the result of decades of listening and a few months of learning the
right software.
From November 2003, to January 2004, John created his first SourceCodeX project named: `Codex Hypnos.' No external hardware was used. The music's origin is 99% from the silicon cities of a very basic, outdated, personal computer. After positive brief e-discussions with synth composer James Johnson and recording software authority Scott Garrigus, further inspiration and drive helped finish the recording. All the eight tracks were written in isolation from, unrelated to any theme and then upon listening to them, John discovered a theme was clearly evident. Tracks 1 through 8 are arranged now as a "journey" by an introspective voyager
into unknown outer and inner realms of consciousness. This "psyche-naut" encounters regions of placid lightscapes, formless voids, ominous darker and threatening regions, and then a final wasteland where the death of Time and a time of Death is experienced.
In the beginning in December 2006, John returned to his uniquely styled cinematic ambience and created his latest recording- Primordial Lands Arise, a perfect name (and discription) for this CD. Utilizing dark textures of sounds, the album attains the core of what could simply put as- primordial.
John's press kit mentions:
The theme or mood this time in Primordial Lands Arise is linked to descriptions and/or visions of places we don't like to think about. We may call these after-life lands by older names like Sheol, the Underworld, Hell, Gehenna, outer darkness or the Abyss. SourceCodeX is very sensitive to things of the Spirit of living Light, as well as being wary of an ancient darkness that prowls this world. In his ambient creations, one can sense a tension, a struggle, and an undercurrent of unseen powers being considered sonically. Titles of his pieces give hint.
"DroneMass", "HellDreamVimana", "HiddenThingsBetweenThings", "GnostixLabyrinth", "VainTraditionsAbyss", and so forth, give clues to what one may encounter. But I venture to say this -- unless you heard his CodeX Hypnos release when it came out -- you are in for one big surprise. It is dark ambience like you have never heard before!
I would love to see (and of course hear), what John will do next. It might be very interesting to fuse his guitarist sensibilities with his dark cinematic soundscapes.
