Computerchemist

computerchemist is the ongoing solo project of Dave Pearson, (born March 1964), an English musician who lives in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, after moving from the UK in 2008.

Biography

Pearson's love of electronic music started as a teenager when he first heard Tangerine Dream's Cloudburst Flight.[1]

During the early 1980s he played synthesiser in a number of rock bands, including Lichfield UK-based Monteagle with founder Mark Thwaite,[1] as well as simultaneously composing his own solo music.

In 2003 he had sold all of his synthesisers and had moved over almost completely to a virtual instrument environment using Cubase SX3, only using the guitar as a "real" instrument.[1]

Since 2006 he has issued a number of albums on his own label "Terrainflight".

His music has been likened to "Berliner Schule/Berlin School style jazz-rock".

Bruce Gall of ARFMs "Sunday Synth" has remarked on the crossover style of his playing,[2] invoking comparisons to electronic artists Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, and the progressive sounds of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour solo work, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hackett, Brian Eno and King Crimson.

During April 2008, SynGate started producing re-issues of the first two albums atmospheric (2006) and icon one(2007), however the agreement was short-lived and SynGate ceased production of the SynGate re-issues in June 2009. The original terrainflight editions are still available.

Guest musician Robin Hayes played cello on the third release landform(2008), the first time a guest musician had appeared on a computerchemist solo album.

Uwe Cremer, otherwise known as Level Pi, was the guest musician on the fourth album, aqual measure(2009), and played guitar on the title track.

A collaboration project started in July 2010 between Computerchemist and "Nemesis", ex-Hawkwind dancer and singer has produced several tracks, some of which were initially released for free under Creative Commons licensing which had been available on the computerchemist website for free download, with a full album promised at a later date entitled Chronicles of Future Present. The link as of August 2011 to this project is no longer active. The single and first track Sky Turned Black, a rework of Mirage from Aqual Measure, was however released on a charity compilation in October 2012 entitled Space Rock: The Compilation on bandcamp on the "Sound for Good" label.[3]

Computerchemist was featured through the month of August 2010 on WDIY's Galactic Travels show with Bill Fox, as the "Special Focus", where each album was consecutively played back-to-back each week.[4]

A different approach was taken for his fifth album, Music for Earthquakes(2011), involving the conversion of seismograph readings into musical form. It was inspired by the 4.8 richter scale earthquake in Hungary in early 2011, and featured on the national Hungarian news channel Hir24[5][6] and Hungarian English Language news site pestiside.hu[7][7] shortly afterwards.

His sixth double release album, and second collaboration, launched January 2013, Signatures I. and Signatures II. feature the Hungarian drummer Zsolt Galántai, formerly of the Hungarian metal band Ossian.[8]

A single track was specially composed for the "Sound for Good" charity release The Human Condition – Dedications to Philip K. Dick entitled The Pink Beams of Light, He Said, published in March 2013.[9]

The work-in-progress collaboration "Audio Cologne Project" with Uwe Cremer of Level Pi (and Zsolt Galántai featuring again on drums) will be released some time in summer 2013.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

Germany

United Kingdom

United States

References

  1. 1 2 3 "TDFZ interview 17th jan 2009 " computerchemist". Computerchemist.com. 17 January 2009. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  2. ↑ "Aqual Measure (2009) " computerchemist". Computerchemist.com. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  3. ↑ "Space Rock: The Compilation | Sound For Good – Good Music for a Good Cause". Sound4good.bandcamp.com. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  4. ↑ "Programs A-Z". WDIY. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  5. ↑ Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "A földrengés hangjai". Webcitation.org. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  7. 1 2 "Hungarian Earthquake Update, Countryside Expat Disco Chillout Edition". Webcitation.org. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  8. ↑ "Zsolt Galántai – Encyclopaedia Metallum". The Metal Archives. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  9. ↑ "The Pink Beams of Light, He Said | Sound For Good – Good Music for a Good Cause". Sound4good.bandcamp.com. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-05.

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