Guitarist-composer Fredrik Rasten joins the Berlin quartet Asterales to explore slowly shifting just-intonation harmonies in four movements where quarter-tone bass flute, synthesizer, double bass, and fretless electric guitar weave sustained microtonal textures into a resonant, deeply attentive study of modulation, timbre, and collective harmonic precision.
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Rebecca Lane-quarter tone bass flute
Leo Dupleix-synthesizer
Jon Heilbron-double bass
Fredrik Rasten-fretless electric guitar, e bow
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UPC: 7320470274835
Label: thanatosis produktion
Catalog ID: THT044
Squidco Product Code: 36263
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Sweden
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany, on October 22nd, 2023, by Adam Asnan.
"You know that surreal hush after a choir holds a chord so long you start hearing its overtones? That's Fuse Modulations, a single, spectral journey through just-intonation harmonies that sounds like Bach meets Brian Eno trying to translate the universe's secret code. Conceived by guitarist/composer Fredrik Rasten and performed with the quartet Asterales - Rebecca Lane on quarter-tone bass flute, Léo Dupleix's shimmering synth, Jon Heilbron's resonant double bass, and Rasten's fretless guitar and ebow - the music unfolds slowly, seductively, with a clarity of tone that frequently blurs into cosmic mist.
Rasten, based between Oslo and Berlin and a key voice in projects like Harmonic Space Orchestra and Pip and Oker, has long been fascinated by the physics of tone. Here, he treats harmony not as static chords, but as living entities: modulatory ecosystems that breathe, fold, and refract. The four movements move from translucent drones ("Fuse Modulations I") to warm, almost chant-like resonance, through delicate dialogue ("III") and finally to an expansive, bass-rich finale ("IV"). The cumulative effect is like watching stainedglass windows reconfigure themselves in real time, or eavesdropping on tuning forks politely arguing over supremacy.
What's fascinating is the balance between meticulous tuning and emotional spontaneity. Just intonation often sounds cerebral, but this feels anything but cold. Each performer listens achingly, their sustained tones weaving a soft tapestry where microtonal shifts produce visceral warmth. It's minimalist, yes - but also thick with the tactile presence of human breath, finger, and bow. The mix by Léo Dupleix and mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space further push the sound into an enveloping depth, conjuring a sense of both intimacy and vast resonance.
Early listeners have picked up on a kinship to Lisa Pramuk or Éliane Radigue - but what Fuse Modulations captures is not transcendence so much as communion. It doesn't wash over you; it asks you to sit inside the sound, to align your heartbeat with its shifting harmonies.
It's rare that a record this cerebral feels so alive, so tactile; rare that an exploration of tuning theory can open a door to something that hums with spiritual clarity. At 45 minutes, it asks for patience, but offers presence. And in an age of algorithmic playlists and audio wallpaper, sometimes the most radical thing is to just sit back - and truly "tune in"."-Vito Camarretta, Chain D.L.K.
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Rebecca Lane Rebecca Lane is a flute and bass flute performer from Melbourne who is currently based in Berlin. ^ Hide Bio for Rebecca Lane • Show Bio for Leo Dupleix "Léo Dupleix: Born in Paris, graduated from Brussels Royal Conservatory, Dupleix is an electronic musician, piano player, mainly working in the improvised and experimental field. He uses simple electronic devices, such as mixing board, paint, pick ups and synthesizers to create unique tones and textures. In parallel he continue to develop his own sound on the acoustic piano. He has played or collaborated with: Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Naoto Yamagishi, Pak Yan Lau, Lauri Hyvarinen, Ura Hiroyuki, Gregor Siedl, Lynn Cassiers, Yannick Dupont, Kou Katsuyoshi, Rabito Arimoto, Daisuke Takaoka, Junji Hirose, Seppe Gebruers and Akemi Nagao." ^ Hide Bio for Leo Dupleix • Show Bio for Jon Heilbron "Jon Heilbron is an Australian Double Bass player, improviser and composer, working within the areas of contemporary classical, improvised and experimental music. Jon has performed both as a soloist and with various groups in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Denmark, Israel, Russia, Norway, Austria and Singapore. As an interpreter of contemporary music, he has performed with Klangforum Wien (Austria), Apartment House (UK), Kammerensemble Neue Musik (Germany), An Assembly (UK), Ensemble Soundinitiative (France) Konzert Minimal (Germany) and Ensemble Schallfeld (Austria). He has presented music at festivals including the Darmstädter Ferienkürse (Germany), Archipel Geneva (Switzerland), Wien Modern (Austria), Manifeste Paris (France), the Impuls festival, Graz (Austria), The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), SpinaFest in St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Multiversal Festival in Copenhagen (Denmark). He is active within improvised and experimental music with his collaborative groups Ellipsis, Arches, DRUM and doubleFRAU, and is the founder of the Phonetic Orchestra, an ensemble made up of some of Melbourne's most innovative emerging Improvisers, composers and performers." ^ Hide Bio for Jon Heilbron • Show Bio for Fredrik Rasten Fredrik Rasten, guitarist / improviser / composer "I am a Norwegian guitarist (b. 1988) working in the field of experimental music, both improvised and composed. My main focuses are exploring and utilizing the acoustic possibilities of the steel string guitar, motivated by a fascination for the almost tactile experiences of acoustic phenomena. The last months I have been working extensively with intonation, with an extended concept of consonance as a point of departure, both in solo work and in duos with trumpeter Torstein Lavik Larsen and bass player Jonathan Heilbron. I have also had the lucky opportunity to take lessons in this field with composer and violist Catherine Lamb. Other music that I am inspired by includes wandelweiser music, traditional british folk and early music." "Fredrik Rasten works with acoustic guitar and in exploring the possibilities for putting this instrument in new musical contexts. With extensive use of preparations and different non-tempered tunings, he creates warm sounds in gradual development. He also includes subtle use of the voice to make interfering thick timbres and tonalities in combination with the guitar. A goal for the music is to open a room for details that invites the listener inside the musical material in an active and exploring way. He is also playing composed music, especially related to quiet / Wandelweiser music and Just Intonation music, and has performed pieces by Johan Lindvall, Antoine Beuger and Catherine Lamb." ^ Hide Bio for Fredrik Rasten
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Track Listing:
1. Fuse Modulations (I) 9:09
2. Fuse Modulations (II) 13:21
3. Fuse Modulations (III) 5:14
4. Fuse Modulations (IV) 16:59
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