In the song "A Flying Messenger thru Mist, P II", the lead melodic music section was produced by a program the artist made in Holland which involves the conversion of moving images into sound (motion2sound). http://youtu.be/yrq8kGPI9XE
Abstruse was created in 2002. Substant and Veiler were the duo on the first unreleased demo ''Neuronal Paths'' (2003) and ''Transgression''. They began this project as a vehicle with which to materialize obscure, mysterious or eerie as they term it, musical ideas; the project unfolded in a suburb of Athens.
Abstruse was created in 2002. Substant and Veiler were the duo on the first unreleased demo ''Neuronal Paths'' (2003) and ''Transgression''. They began this project as a vehicle with which to materialize obscure, mysterious or eerie as they term it, musical ideas; the project unfolded in a suburb of Athens.
Helped by drummers with a specialization to different styles of music: Kostas Daskalias (Jazz-swing), Bill (Prog-rock, metal) and Shapeshifter (Extreme metal), Veiler is no longer involved in the project and it became a one man band.
The solo Substant (also known as Vincent Van Der Bosch) will visit New York City this August, and his publicist has plans to apply
for him to perform at various New York City venues; among them, ISSUE Project Room , a pioneering center for the performing arts," dedicated to providing artists with a dynamic environment in which to create and perform new and challenging work according to their vision". ( In 2012, ISSUE moved all programs to its theater space at 110 Livingston to present 100 pre-construction concerts while working with NYC Department of Design and Construction to complete final designs for architecture and engineering. The space will host 200 performances,
attracting 40,000 International arts patrons to Downtown Brooklyn.)
The Athenian plans to continue exploring and expanding the order-based system he utilizes, and to work on the analogical relationships between different senses such as visual to sound combinations to odour-producing smokes, lights e.t.c. This holistic approach is a part of Abstruse's philosophy; bringing to mind the early 20th century works of Kandinsky. Additionally, the gestalt theory gives some hints about how does this 'work', fueling Substant's hope to rejuvenate these relationships by improving on a program he designed in 2007 which decodes motion properties into sound properties.
From a 2007 interview with AvantGarde Metal web magazine:
"Basically we are autodidacts. Although I am very interested in studying the 20th century and contemporary music. Thus a minor in music back in the university along with some good courses and ''extracurricular'' books really helped. For the visual part now Veiler founded his own forms in digital art and he is still studying graphic design . My specialization back in the university was film studies with two senior projects in Video Art. Now for the secret order part...It speaks about..uhm..orders! These are patterns of intervals or motifs that are used in Abstruse's music and represent different musical characters to give a short description. Order also is a musical language that counts intervals as digits (such as semitones) thus departing from conventional scores. The most important thing about them is that you can see very clearly the numerical relationships of the intervals with the characters produced and thus construct new ones by combining their properties. Also the patterns have an identity on their own without the need to refer to modes or scales.
Majestic scale is the order of [1-3-2-1-3-2] series (counting in semitones from the root note and then from the next one). In a way it's Abstruse' invention though to tell everything it can be derived from the diminished scale (half-tone, tone...), but there is an effort for a 'tonal majestic' system that uses hierarchical relationships between the notes such as in major or minor systems."
