Ploughshares by John Christian

Ploughshares is a long sequencer driven track created for the Modcaf summer 2022 event. The performance was half an hour long, but this release extends it to almost an hour by combining a rehearsal take.

Key instrumentation was the Nord Modular G2 and Eurorack modular, giving half a dozen hands-on playable sequencer lines. Percussion came from the Elektron Model:Samples and trusty Korg Electribe R (the original Fischer Price model).

With an audience that's used to pattern based music (there's a strong techno/EDM strand present) it seemed like a good event to explore the all-sequenced approach. The patterns glance towards Berlin of course

John Christian is a UK based electronic musician. Since 1995 he has been a member of airsculpture who play improvised electronica broadly in the "Berlin School" style.

As a solo artist, John's music presents more composed, structured soundscapes, often featuring his signature of carefully crafted, shifting sequencer layers.