Hydrographer by Max Duret

No microphones, no recordings. Just a blank digital canvas and a single intention: to translate into sound what an emotional hydrograph might trace.

Each track on this EP draws its own curve: unpredictable flows, sudden surges, deceptive calms. Oscillators stretch, shatter, recombine; rhythms emerge like waves, then dissipate. The experimentation is total digital tools are pushed to their breaking point, teetering on the edge of implosion.

In this process, Ableton is no longer a sequencer but an electronic river.
A shifting bed where sound flows, stagnates, and overflows. No sound was captured: everything was synthesized, processed, distorted, sculpted from pure digital abstraction. And yet, in every modulation, one can sense an artificial breath, an attempt at life.

Listening to this EP means following these invisible hydrographs: feeling the peaks, the troughs, the drifts, surrendering to instability. Because here, nothing is stable and it is within this very instability that emotion is born.

Artwork : Swann Jeusse
Mastering : In Aeternam Vale

Tracklist