Flux Oersted is like two sides of a coin. On one hand, impetuous and improvisational, on the other hand he is a cold, calculating, programmer, rendering sounds that never existed into songs that sound like no others. Flux Oersted makes a strange brand of synthpop with rock and industrial overtones. But Flux Oersted is experimental, and improvisational.
We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams
- (Willy Wonka)
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For some time now, the way I write new music is to sit down with my computer, plug in a MIDI controller keyboard, and start flipping through banks of virtual synths - looking for new sounds. Recently, I've started spending more time playing my hardware synths, improvising and trying to remember when something nice comes along. That is similar to my first writing experiments when I would do that on a piano. I guess the benefit of writing with synthesizers is that they come closer to the sounds that I would eventually use to record the songs.
Our latest release, Ernst Blofeld Society, by N=108, is available in multiple formats at BandCamp. Get the October EP at CD from Amazon.com. Find N=108 on iTunes and other online music retailers.
Flux Oersted began in 1988 as a recording project. Their first live performance was a triple bill at the Cedartown Auditorium which opened with The Crackers, Flux Oersted, followed by Uncle Daddy, a Nashville band featuring Clay Broome and Rex Garner. Around 1992, Bassist Tommy Roberson joined for live performances in Rome, Georgia. Then back into a recording project for many years, producing melodic lyrical music from the Georgia Appalachian highlands. Many of the early solo recordings by Robby Garner were produced at Machine Sounds Studio, after rehearsals by bands, Uno Ya and Kada kada. Flux Oersted remains electronic, digital, computational, sound out of nowhere with a heart.