SynthoElectro a Electronic bio by Almark

I began experimenting with Electronic music during the summer of 1999 with a computer program in DOS called Fast tracker II. This impulse for creating music with computer made me anxious to try new things. I was already a guitarist since 1992. In 2000 I purchased keyboard, drum machine and used my computer to create music, by recording in Cooledit Pro, then later more advanced software. The experimental process has always been the way I create, and the music is me breaking down walls of the imagination, never wanting to stay the same or sound like another person. This music is 'Electronic' in nature but actually (many things) in that area, just take a listen. Some of my newest work is more electronic avant-garde, cutup, abstract, even weird. I began with Industrial ideas in mind but later found I was doing my own style instead, then in 2010 I released my works to the net on facebook, twitter etc. While this music isn't 'known' it wishes to be, thank you, I hope you enjoy.

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The decision to leave big tech entirely

It’s not hard to understand why things happen, especially when they happen as an artist.We are eased into norms of society and we use what we can in order to achieve success. As a musician releasing music with or without anyone listening is all that matters to me. Finding a place for others to discover the music is only part of it, however I am not fully concerned about being discovered either.…

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Expecting nothing from strangers and friends is the key to happiness.

I only wish I had realized this sooner.

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Time to reflect - time to rest.

It takes time to sit down and write and become inspired once more to create what I once did. After the loss of my Father in 2018 I was still working on my album Opposite end of the Poles. It was being written between two hard events. One a relationship gone bad in 2017, then one year later my Father passing. I never really thought I would difficulty writing or longing to do it. I should have kept…

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When I stopped being the road

that traffic would travel on, my life returned back to me. My music was whole again, and my soul, while never fully lost, returned to me.

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Music is part of who I am

Being a musician has always been with me, it’s simply who I am, but my love for music was long before I realized I was one. During the early days of my life I was listening and hearing music I heard on the radio, tv, tapes and records. But music in my blood due to my Father and Mother both being musicians. There is certainly music and talent in my family, but what I have never had was success in…

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To return to this blog, it is my echo from wordpress as it is.

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I'm done fighting the past

Carrying the bag for strangers who do nothing to contribute in my music, (as I must produce), has become, draining. 12 years was a long time to devote to others – I have given all I can give. I haven’t anything left. Where I go now is my own place and while the past remains, and those doors remain open for them, I cannot continue to wait for this endeavor #WEATNU to grow or flourish, my last…

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I took my own advice

Long ago in the early 90’s before all this, when you had mentality of a scene and friends to share your music with, or those at a young age you create music with, the band. I was even slowly pulling away from others finding my work. It’s a slow process, it could go for years, mine took 25 years after losing my electric guitar in 99, the one I grew up, lost to a pawn shop. But making music solo…

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Going back to the beginning

It’s not like me to write something like this but we find ourselves coming back around to the beginning once we have seen all we need. As a musician I’ve always kept to myself and make friends along the way, but in those days it was a lot quieter. The scene was stilled and you had to go looking for something, whether it was a group of artists to jam with or something online, maybe a chatroom. As…

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I loathe the burden of releasing music now

There was once a time where I felt pure excitement in releasing music to unknown people, but since the internet has become locked down, and not to mention the requirement put on us to perform and release in other places, it’s harder to want to release music at all. This isn’t burn out, this is the engine burned up, with all its pistons and gaskets broken down. It’s become a competition, not a…

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I didn't walk away

‘ from our friendship, I found freedom by letting you leave’

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An uncertain future

They say if you do something you should keep at it, so being a musician I decided to help artists, and have do so for 2014. There was a time in life online where musicians needed your help but now … I’m not sure. The endeavor which I push appears to be slowing to a halt. Honestly I’m glad, also I can’t make artists join the efforts, no one wants to be pushed. When rest comes, take it.I don’t see…

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Back to life

When you’ve done something for over a decade, and that thing becomes a question, it’s time to ponder on why should I keep going? By helping artists I believed I would in turn help myself because we are all going up the ladder together – not so when they don’t participate in your efforts, so you are letting them weight you down. Indeed with each effort of the music gathering I have allowed myself…

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There is more than heartbreak - avoidance.

As the days move forward so does my habit of tolerating certain things. There was a time when I had the patience to keep allowing such abuse to be done to my heart. But we learn that people are sometimes cruel in their unknowing intentions. I find myself holding onto a person for up to a decade, they make plans, online and someone I knew her well at one time, then they drop them, only to find…

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Substack has become a sport

In the most articulate way I can speak – a problem needs to be addressed. For the sake of sanity, I speak of it. A place that I need, not want has been invaded, that personal space writers use as a scratch pad. Substack has become that place that was once a get-a-way of thoughts, ideas and passion, turned into a sport. It never seems to fail me that something I hold dear is always turned into a…

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The burden in releasing music

What is this fixation with needing to release music online? Why does it burden me so? There is this requirement to perform, to expect oneself to put out, or lose the battle. People on websites, and YouTube, manipulate to get you to move, when the only person expected to move is you. Why the peer pressure, we don’t know these people, in all honesty they should mind their own. As a musician I’ve…

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circle

After years of trying, I’m tired of fighting. I’ve put my weapons down… It’s of no use, I’m fine in this regard No one can cause me to think otherwise In any respect, I have found what I seek. Running laps around a circle. leads to nowhere but collapse. There are better things to life than an endless circle A circle of changes, As I grow older, my circle closes until I no longer want to…