

Under his own name, he released Seven Quarantine Poems this year, in which he confined himself to writing music on just one instrument: the piano.

Jordan has made music under a slew of different pseudonyms, including The Flashbulb, Human Action Network, 66x and more. Since everyone is cropping this and sharing it as their own, I may as well upload the uncropped version 😅 /5ZssT8VNLB Check out the full clip, shared by Jordan on Twitter below: The results were chaotic at first, but nothing that couldn’t be fixed without some quantisation. Benn Jordan has put this ethos to practice, getting ducks at the local pond to trigger drums on an MPC.Īrmed with an Arduino, crocodile clips and three aluminium trays filled with duck feed, Jordan managed to convert the rapid-fire bite action of feeding ducks at a local pond into triggers for samples.

One of our roles as music-makers is to make sense of the sonically vast world we live in and to be endlessly curious about the possibilities of arranged sound, no matter how random the circumstance. Music is all around us, from the rhythmic strides of people late for work to the screeching halt of a subway train as it reaches its destination.
