GRANPA

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (fka Justice Yeldham) has performed their signature instrument; amplified shards of glass for over twenty years now. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, the glass evolving from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing some kind of organic electronica.

Abela plays the glass by transmitting vibrations into the pane through their lips to control a modular patch using no traditional synthesis techniques. Instead of oscillators & envelope generators all sounds & modulations produced are derived from glass itself. The patch extracts control voltages from the dynamics & frequency of the performance.