ancestral circuits – inherited noise emerges from an exploration of the Serge modular synthesizer—two interconnected systems held in a fragile equilibrium of feedback and resonance. Their continuously self-generating textures become the raw material for a broader investigation of sonic ancestry and transformation.

Recorded at the unstable edges of analog circuitry, these sounds are intertwined with processes of spectral treatment, spatial motion, and resynthesis. Within this complex network, the relationship between cause and effect remains fluid: minute adjustments can produce far-reaching transformations, while broad, hand-controlled gestures may result in only subtle changes. The system’s emergent behavior continually shifts the boundary between deliberate intervention and autonomous evolution.

Through successive layers of transformation, the sounds nevertheless retain the imprint of their origin—an inherited noise that persists beneath each new manifestation. Within the multichannel space, they unfold as shifting fields of energy and memory: traces of voltage and breath, reconfigured into new acoustic identities.