Hyphae release and album launch
08 May '26
Hyphae, my latest release with Andromeda is Coming, is streaming today on all services, and releases on Bandcamp on 1 June 2026. We’re launching the album on 3 June at smcclablive #2 at ANU.
Andromeda is Coming is the improvised music project I run with Dr Alexander Hunter. Hyphae is four long-form improvisations recorded in December 2024 at the Big Band Room, ANU School of Music, using our IMPSYpi-powered intelligent instruments. Kimmo Vennonen mixed and mastered the record at KV Productions in March 2026.
You can stream it now in your music app of choice (link list), or on our Collected Resonances Bandcamp page below. The Bandcamp release lands on 1 June.
Hyphae
Four tracks, named for stages of fungal growth: Spore, Hyphal Growth, Networked Body, and Release. These sessions were a focussed chance to record the intelligent musical instrument practice we had been developing live throughout 2024 (see Andromeda is Coming and Artificially Intelligent Friends and my earlier post on recording Hyphae).
Both Alexander and I perform with IMPSYpi, an AI musical instrument I built on my IMPSY platform. IMPSYpi listens to our MIDI controllers and continues performing on the synth parameters when we stop. It is deliberately a small-data system, trained on roughly an hour of my own improvisation and running on a Raspberry Pi. In the room, it pushes our synths into states neither of us would have reached on our own.
Full liner notes and track-by-track descriptions are on the Hyphae project page.
Launch event: SMCClablive #2
We will launch Hyphae live at SMCClablive #2, 7:30pm on Wednesday 3 June 2026, in the Big Band Room, Peter Karmel Building, ANU School of Music. Tickets are free, with registration via smcclab.au. The event is also listed on the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences page.
SMCClablive is the end-of-semester research performance series I run with the ANU Sound, Music, and Creative Computing Lab. Sharing the bill with us are students and staff from the lab presenting new work.
If you are in Canberra, come along. If not, stream the record and tell me you did!