Adrian Oproiu – Glimpses over a lonely planet

This composition is, at its core, an improvisation for electric guitar and modular synth that evolves into a noise rãga (Ana Brnardić), unfolding across a landscape that is similar yet constantly shifting. As the music circles through overlapping diatonic and microtonal elements, the landscape reveals itself both from above (meditative) and from within (visceral). Melancholy is tamed through repetition; glimpses of light emerge from the crust of destruction and lifelessness. This world is lost, yet still moving, breathing, shaking—telling its stories. It could be ours.

Created using a semi-modular synthesizer (a self-generating, unquantized patch), electric guitar with e-bow, keys, and virtual instruments, alongside a handful of samples.

Adrian Oproiu is a writer, translator, and musician born in Romania and based in Zagreb, Croatia. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest and a diploma from the MPA School of Music Production in Zagreb. A self-taught musician and sound experimentalist, he moves between studies of Renaissance lute, guitar, piano, and modular synthesis.