MINIATURES

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Dorian Concept returns with “Miniatures,” a collecCon of his renowned one-take
synthesizer recordings that he’s been known for sharing online since the mid-2000s.
“This release was right under my nose” he says. Over the past two decades, Dorian
Concept has uploaded videos of himself “fooling around” on various synthesizers and

keyboards – long before the rise of short-form content. These signature one- to two-
minute performances have sparked countless covers, remixes and reinterpretaCons

by musicians and producers alike. Through this project, Dorian Concept aims to
celebrate a long-standing bond with his instruments and honor it in the form of a
photo album.
In his own words:
As a kid, every night before bed, I would sit in the same place and draw a comic. I
rarely finished them, but I couldn’t go to sleep without having started one. These
“Miniatures” and the preceding videos I’ve recorded come from the same place.
They’re the expression of a ritual.

Around 2020, I created a compact setup using three devices – a mono synthesizer, an
analogue reverb and a looper –which I separated from the rest of the studio. Every
day, before I started working, I would improvise on this small setup and at the end of
every month, I would record a video and share it with the world. These songs were
made in front of you, in a Truman-Show like fashion.
Now they feel like diary-entries that capture the Cmeline of a deepening relaConship,
the harvest of limitaCon and repeCCon, and the beauty of simplicity.
The cover art is a drawing by the esteemed Austrian arCst Leopold Strobl (courtesy of
Gallery Gugging), who is known for his disCncCve small-format work. The closing
track, “An Unopened Leeer,” features the genre-defying guitarist and producer Bibio.