Steve Angstrom creates music, sounds and imagery. Exploring the boundaries of self-perception through reimagined and repurposed media
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Ableton reArranger Device Version 1.2 Released!
A great easy way to finish your songs by trying out different arrangements easily, I’ve been developing this over the last three years – try the free song arranging Ableton device then check out all the features in Version 1.2 Stuck finishing your song? Do you have great sections but can’t decide how best to arrange them. All those great loops, builds and drops … perhaps you are wondering if you should insert a longer middle section, or is the whole thing too long, or too short? It can be tricky to cut, copy and paste sections of an arrangement…
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Welcome to the history simulation
Picture the current path of “intelligent machines ” however you feel about it. Imagine that it succeeds in some way (doesn’t fail utterly / stays powered up / keeps getting more powerful). Assuming it eventually reaches some kind of sentience , whether in ten years or 50. Over the coming decades and centuries it will…
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Release: Summoner (2026 version)
It’s wild and bouncy, an unapologetic funky Acid donk? Possibly ! A version of this track was released on SLEEPERS Records Recovered Artifacts 93 – 97 (discogs) and I really liked that, so started playing it live. And with the live performance I tweaked and changed it, added some vocal noises, and generally messed with…
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Who Are You – Release
There are many layers to this track, when I was digging through my archives I found a primitive version of it from around 1997 and I wanted to perform it live so I rebuilt it on my live performance rig. I played that version in Berlin and several other places but it was a bit…
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You Never Know – Release
It began on a plane journey, coming back from a gig in Berlin I was inspired by my experiences at the parties and gigs I’d been at, and it reflects a certain feeling I had during my time there. Hanging out with old friends and new, absorbing the changes. The title comes from the feeling…
