About

Volume Objects / Autistici / Soft Generator / Monogoto

Volume Objects is the website of D Newman, a UK electronic music composer who is based in Sheffield (UK) who also curates Audiobulb Records. His work incorporates a wide range of sources including textural sound design, orchestration, space and fragments of found sound or field recordings. Tracks focus on representing details from both the natural and man-made world. Each detail has the potential to be preserved or lost, clarified or confused. This means that any audio element, including elements from his own body become incorporated into the composition.

This fascination on the interplay between inner and outer world embodies Volume Objects' sound. There is an intimate, intense and enmeshed sense of connection with tiny details (e.g., dust on vinyl, a door opening, heart beats, breathing, snoring). The name Volume Objects represents a fascination with amplification and the ability to magnify tiny sounds and bring the previously unheard into focus.

As well as solo works there have been great opportunities to write with others who I admire and respect as artists and people. Monogoto is a creative partnership with Ian Hawgood and Porya Hatami. Soft Generator is a partnership with the wondeful Erik Schoster/He Can Jog & guest contributors.

Please get in contact if you are interested in working with me to complete remixes, mastering, film scores, equipment reviews or other interesting projects.

Volume Objects / Autistici / Monogoto / Soft Generator has released music on a number of labels worldwide, including:

• 12k
• Audiobulb
• Carpe Sonum Records
• Dronarivm
• Eilean Records
• Hibernate
• Hippocamp
• Home Normal
• Kesh
• Kikapu
• Poverty Electronics
• Shimmering Moods Records
• Slow Tone Collages
• TruthTable
• Wandering Ear
• Whitelabrecs

Volume Objects been interviewed for a number of publications including:

• Blow Up
• Cyclic Defrost
• Ear Labs
• The Milk Factory
• Modyfier
• Now Then Magazine
• Textura
• Tokafi