The latest piece I’ve added to my ongoing YouTube playlist of fine [“Ambient Performances”](https://disquiet.com/2016/04/30/a-youtube-playlist-of-ambient-performances/) is a six-minute video of ambient music on an instrument not largely associated with ambient music: the Korg Electribe EMX1. The EMX1’s combination of drum machine, sequencer, and synthesizer has made it a dance-music favorite. Midera, instead, does away with beats and processes the EMX1’s tones and textures significantly with another instrument, the Eventide Space, a reverb effects unit. In the video, it’s the EMX1 being handled by Midera throughout, though the Eventide, offscreen, is arguably doing much of the heavy lifting — or, in this aesthetic realm, the light lifting. “It’s all in the Eventide Space,” Midera tells one commenter on YouTube, but clarifies in response to another: “The Space is doing a lot of the work, but the simplicity of the EMX makes it fun to write tracks like this.” It’s a flowing performance, threadbare wave forms ebbing from one to another, Midera occasionally adding a bit of drama with some modulation here or a touch of glitchy flare there, all of which has rightly earned the track several comparisons to Vangelis’ *Blade Runner* score.
Track posted at the [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIpv9_Xv2PY) of Midera, aka Michael Dennis Raleigh of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Found via [synthtopia.com](http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/05/29/deep-ambient-with-a-korg-emx-1-groovebox/). More from Midera/Raleigh at [soundcloud.com/midera](https://soundcloud.com/midera), [twitter.com/acemonvw](https://twitter.com/acemonvw), [michaelraleigh.bandcamp.com](https://michaelraleigh.bandcamp.com/), and [midera.bandcamp.com](https://midera.bandcamp.com/).