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Galactic Serendipity

DATE
2025
STATUS
RELEASED
TYPE
Album
MEDIUM
Modular synthesis, improvisation, and live recording
ARTIST
Zhiwei Bai

Galactic Serendipity is built from modular-synthesizer improvisation and direct recording. Modular synthesis is one of Bai’s central long-term methods for making sound: exposed electronics, repatchable modules, and relationships between voltage, modulation, and feedback that cannot be fully predetermined allow drift, misalignment, and unexpected results to keep emerging. “Galactic” comes from his long-standing interest in astronomy and early mysticism; “Serendipity” names the experience of unexpectedly encountering sound while the system is running.

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