fezmaster

Salt Lake City musician and restless builder Fezmaster (a/k/a Jon Philpott) focuses on generative ambient electronics, bamboo flute, trombone performed live and primarily improvised. Builder of the instruments he plays: custom effects pedals, synthesizers, large-scale PureData and Supercollider patches driven by cellular automata and other stochastic processes: tipping the sonic dominoes of. Impermant and empty, music for "nostalgia of something you weren't there for, a feeling of deja vu for something you don't remember experiencing."

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Colour #7
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Colour #7
An album of synthesizers, custom software accomponied by bansuri flute (one of which is 4 feet long.) This is an exploration of a mathematically derived pentatonic scale and inspired by the near vocal quality of Indian classical flute playing, against complex drones and textures.
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Taperobane
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Taperobane
60 minutes of processed field recordings captured in Sri Lanka, overdubbed with improvised trombone and synth. Each tape shell was drawn with a DIY pen plotter, and the covers feature generative line work of the island — so each one is different.
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unfezed
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unfezed
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ENSO
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ENSO
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the drum n bass tape — PureData patch
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the drum n bass tape
A 45-minute improvised DnB set — generative drum and bass built in PureData with live trombone. Recorded for a show at the International Bar just before New Years Eve 2023. PlayStation 2 drum and bass energy.
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taxable sandwiches
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taxable sandwiches
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BEANS
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BEANS
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Beats to Bone To vol. 1
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Beats to Bone To vol. 1
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bio

Based in Salt Lake City, born in the UK with dual British and Sri Lankan heritage, Fezmaster restlesly builds: syntheziers, MIDI controllers, instruments, software and visuals, all in search of that next feeling, each one acting as a domino to the next, each one impermanent and empty - an inevitable result of everything that came before it.