Frixtis by Martijn Comes

𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺!

While mainstream audiences will hardly ever be found at concerts by experimental contemporary electronic music artists, ever since the infancy of the genre there has been one place where people do gather in great numbers and hear these otherworldly sounds; the cinema.
This collaborative pact has helped many musicians get notoriety in the mainstream.
People like John Carpenter even managed to fill both roles at the same time, being known for both his films and his soundtracks.

But in recent years this marriage seems to have faded.
Perhaps it was the impact of Kubricks 'The Shining' but in recent decades electronic music and 'nerd culture' appear to have driven further and further apart.
Notable exceptions (such as the soundtrack for the popular Netflix series Stranger Things) rely more on nostalgia than providing a platform for new and adventurous ideas.
Electronic producers are more likely to be found within contemporary art circles these days.

-The Project-
This new collaborative effort started by composer Martijn Comes should be able to change this up a bit.
He found Dutch based artists and writers Lukas Simonis and Richard James Foster, and Greece based based illustrators Vassilis Gogtzilas and George Tourlas willing to collaborate.
Mastered by James Plotkin, the result “Frixtis” should be seen as a multimedia project combining a well written scifi comic and bizarre electronic soundscapes to take the reader / listener quite literally to another world.

Martijn Comes (1979) is a Dutch composer who has a special interest in sound character in various musical traditions, with a special gravity towards electroacoustic composition.