Simple.Normal is an experimental project of electronic sound construction* created by Cleber Gazana, in 2004, after years of experiences with other musical styles.

His work emphasizes the compositional processes which interact with the new technological means almost always processed in virtual environment, by using different creative processes in every new work.

Based on contemporary digital culture, modulators, sequencers, filters and other virtual softwares are used in its musical creations, besides MIDI controllers, keyboards, synthesizers and, still, iron bars sounds and unusual musical instruments recorded in studio for the perform of compositions which explores the diverse sonority aesthetics.

Simple.Normal has the objective of work with new possibilities of music creation based in sound software, synthesizers and sequencers, its objective is not to make music, but work with frequences, sounds, noises, textures, without limits in its construction.

Focused, this way, in the aesthetic ways and contemporary musicals, the project is not restricted to any pre-determined style, for that, it is only known as experimental. His music is free from any style, it could be minimal, random, concrete, anarchic, ambient, electronic, according to the theme of work in progress.

The work based on the digital world and in the electronic circuit systems designed by engineering and computer scientists, being it high or low definition, resolution or fidelity, enable the ideal conditions for the production and the experimentation development, creating a compositions sometimes mechanic, other times abstracts.

In these cases the softwares synthesizers are very much useful to stimulate our musical perception and its unlimited experimentations.

In this way, by creating a continuous flow of musical cycles, of simple scales, sometimes even wrong, is created Simple.Normal’s experimental music, immersing us in constellations of electronic/digital signals.

As its own name shows, the simplicity is the key for sound aesthetics produced by Simple.Normal. It is important to note that all sounds are manipulated and their creation is set up and sequenced, because the songs, most of the time, are not written, but randomly created.

Simple.Normal uses:

Edirol MIDI keyboard controller - Numark headphone - JVC speakers - Samsung 22” lcd monitor Philips handheld mic - Native Instruments softwares - Korg softwares and effects - Arturia softwares - Novation softwares - Steinberg softwares - Image line software - Rob papen / Linplug virtual instruments - reFX software - Izotope softwares - Antares softwares - Prosoniq products software - E-MU audio interface - Sony vaio - AKG headphone - Mackie headphone amplifier - Alesis studio monitor - Behringer mic - Audio technica mic - Art mic preamps - Yamaha effects processors - Yamaha drum machines - Belkin cables - Behringer compressors / dynamics processors and other plugins…

Some of Simple.Normal´s labels:
Electronic experimental music, ambient music,
electronic music, minimal music, abstract music.

*One of the interpretations
of experimental music:
It is a kind of music which challenges all the normal conceptions of how a song should be and transcends popular boundaries. In this way, there is no arrangement about how experimental music can be, before it is considered only as noise. Experimental artists usually have little known instruments, modified, or used in innovative ways with strange effects applied in a non-conventional way. Besides musical instruments, the experimental music can also use sounds of objects and diverse effects according to the composer’s intention, experimenting the sounds like the name says. Mixtures among musical styles are also common, creating nondescript compositions in a unique tendency.

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