»Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999« marks the first public release by Larrison, the recording alias of Midwestern visual artist and musician Larrison Seidle. Composing, programming, and recording entirely on a Casio CZ-5000 during the halcyon days of early 90s homespun exploration and experimentation, Larrison inhabited a dreamworld of his invention, soundtracked by space age pop vignettes speckling with hypnotic, ebullient layered synthesizer melodies. Unfolding across 26 tracks, all newly restored and mastered from the original sources, Connecters Vol. 1 reinvents itself, song by song, transcending time and defying the fated obscurity of this brilliant, discreet music made three decades ago.

Over a few months in late 1993 and early 1994 with limited means and boundless intuition, Larrison wrote and recorded a set of songs with his CZ-5000 in a small apartment north of Austin’s downtown, hand-crafted a colorful illustrated insert where some song titles were represented by lines or arrows, and passed it along to Plunkett for review consideration in ND. This single cassette, under the title Connecters [sic], was one of 1200 submitted to ND throughout the course of the publication’s existence that Freedom To Spend co-founder Jed Bindeman acquired in 2020 and almost miraculously discovered.

The tracks maintain a considerate impressionistic variance, sometimes sounding lo-fi and at others, symphonic. Amidst the dissection and amplification of the CZ-5000’s capacities, there is also a tasteful recourse to a childlike interaction and experience of sound. It is perhaps this experiential quality that makes it so difficult to understand Larrison’s project as simply ambient or electronic. His will to transform the tools at his disposal elevates the resulting compositions to a personal level, granting the music an enchanting sense of mystique.

Connecters is a testament to an artistic vision unfettered by limitation and unafraid of informality. These recordings, magically surfacing thirty years after being documented, demonstrate how personalized means of production can expand and contract time. Larrison invites listeners to engage the wonders of auditory imagination—a bridge between visual memory, emotional resonance, and the boundless possibility of making music with whatever tools we embrace.