T3CH N01R: Synthwave Function

Conjuring images of wet blacktop highways, neon signs and twinkling city lights, this series focuses on synthwave: a once emergent, now ascendent microgenre of electronic music, one with a multitude of stylistic variations, distinct visual attitude, and a devoted online following.

Across four episodes, this series seeks to explore the conceptual contours behind this immensely popular microgenre, diving deep into synthwave’s hauntological impulses and fascination for 80s/90s cultural ephemera, to catalogue the aesthetic and affective registers of distant horizons and forlorn moments.