Andy.digitonal
@digitonal.bsky.social
Electronica with notes since 1997. Recording as Digitonal, Alphabox, Of the Night Sky. Also, creative technologist, digital artist and designer of theme parks. Suffolk, England.
"I won't be humiliated by nobodies". But, reader, he was.
Shout out to the general behaviour of the sky today and tonight. No notes.
Bob and Englebert in a rare moment of treat based brotherhood.
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.It is international cat day show cats
youtu.be/l3Vxd3L-gqE Really into looping at the moment. No messing about with arrangements and mixing, just playing.
Constellation 5: An Improvisation for looped Rhodes, Clarinet and fx.
YouTube video by Digitonal
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Was the year 2000 the single worst year for pop music in history? #totp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2_... Overshadowed by the Barber remix, but this was a huge influence on me.
William Orbit - Ogive Number 1 (Erik Satie)
YouTube video by Edensounds - Music For Plants
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I've known a handful of musicians in my time who are genuine polymaths, turning any approach to music making into gold. Polypores is one of them. This is insanely good and really makes me want to make an 'acoustic' album next.
Polypores@polypores.bsky.social · 2w agoMy new album, Wildlife, is out NOW via @auralcanyon.bsky.social , and features no synthesizers whatsoever. Tenor recorder, piano, guitar, bamboo flute, drums, and homemade percussion. polypores.bandcamp.com/album/wildlife
Oh man, what a shocker. I had given Strange Cargo III a deep listen on the train just three weeks ago for the first time in a long time. A forever classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBd... RIP.
Water From A Vine Leaf
YouTube video by William Orbit - Topic
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Happy #BandcampFriday. Nothing more joyous than refreshing your life with new music. Anyway, as you're likely well aware by now (although I've been trying to limit over-promo), The Night Album is, clearly, out. digitonal.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
And massive thanks to the Graphical Fuzzbull himself for the welcome last minute help on the graphic design, typography and production prep for the Vinyl artwork. Strong recommendation when you need solid prep on your artwork: graphicalfuzzball.co.uk
Graphical Fuzzball
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'(] • ___ • [)'@megaheadphoneboy.bsky.social · last wk.One recommendation for your hard earned this Friday is the wonderful The Night Album by @digitonal.bsky.social. I've just unwrapped my copy and am looking forward to giving it a spin once I'm done with the post holiday dadmin.
The Night Album originally had an extra 9min long track. mastered and all. I made a conscious decision to remove it from all versions of the album so that I could keep the sound quality high on a single vinyl record. It's not compromise, it's curation. Made for a better listening experience.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoA pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?
This review from a young lad that caught my set in Chelmsford last month and evidently made an impression. Most thoughtful writeup of the album yet I feel. nothing like a truly organic discovery is there? evenbutterfliesmakeasound.com/2026/08/03/d...
Digitonal’s journey to the end of the night LP - Even Butterflies Make A Sound
Digitonal recently released a new LP The Night Album. Reuben McCulloch reports from a live show and reviews the new LP.
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Michael Nyman is the best of the minimalists.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 2w agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
First pasta sauce made with home garden grown tomatoes and it honestly tasted like the finest food you could possibly imagine. Still savoring it half an hour later. We are sold such a lie aren't we.
Beyond distraught at the Dunwich Heath fire. It's one of my most important mental health reset places. I go to that stretch of coast two or three times a month on average and it has some of the richest biodiversity in the region.
Enjoying this young fella's tunes a lot. Getting Lewis Taylor vibes which is a button I really need pushing every now and then. One cannot live on bleepy bloops alone. music.apple.com/gb/album/rec...
reckless and arranged - day 56 by Ethan French on Apple Music
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Massive thank you to my favourite radio show for playing this album cut. What a privilege to have two radio 3 plays from this record on two completely different genre shows. I'm never completely sure what I am, but that's the charm I hope.
BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 3w agoBBC Radio 3 Night Tracks Now Playing Digitonal & Digitonal dotdotdot
I've been talking a bit about using generative techniques in my album. By which I mean Turing machines and randomisation etc. And have now had two messages accusing me of using AI. This is the most tedious technology since nfts.
I have reached the "wood cheeks" phase of studio based midlife crisis consumerism. Next step, deck savers.
Lovely review that. Interesting note on the name: really tried to shed it post pandemic. Did an ep as Alphabox and another as Of the Night Sky. But it just would not let go. If I was starting tomorrow I wouldn't choose it, but it's so tied into the identity of this music that it just can't not be.
Pop In The Real World@popintherealworld.bsky.social · 4w ago🎧 popintherealworld.co.uk/l/taking-selfies-not-pictures-of-you/ The football may be over but fill the gap with treats from the gorgeous @digitonal.bsky.social, the intense @loneydear.bsky.social, the rewarding GUM, the eternal Rolling Stones and the Summer indie of The Davenports. Cheers!
Is there a word to describe the feeling of hearing a preset you've used in the background music of location location location?
Have had a fairly robust message via facebook accusing me of using AI on the last album because I said I used 'generative techniques'. Which of course means turing machines, probability trigs and controlled random modulation. But it seems like 'generative' is about to be a dirty word too.
Oh this had passed me by, amazing. Love Floex. He was quite instrumental in pushing me more into using the clarinet as a texture as much as a melody line.
g ♒︎ ♪♫@esem.name · last mo.simply timeless music, and it's almost impossible to fake the textures - tape, pedals, acoustic recordings, done with actual intent, like in the old times.
The amount of times I've tried to get somewhere close to the bass sound in Massive Attack's Angel. They're not even playing the same sport.