Computerchemist

computerchemist is the ongoing solo project of Dave Pearson, a British-Hungarian musician who lives in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

Biography Pearson's love of electronic music started as a teenager when he first heard Tangerine Dream's Cloudburst Flight.

During the early 1980s he played synthesiser in a number of rock bands, including Lichfield UK-based Monteagle with founder Mark Thwaite, invoking comparisons to electronic artists Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, and the progressive sounds of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour solo work, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hackett, Brian Eno and King Crimson.

2000s

During April 2008, SynGate started producing re-issues of the first two albums atmospheric (2006) and icon one(2007), however the agreement was short-lived and SynGate ceased production of the SynGate re-issues in June 2009. The original Terrainflight editions are still available.

Guest musician Robin Hayes played cello on the third release landform(2008), the first time a guest musician had appeared on a computerchemist solo album.

Uwe Cremer, otherwise known as Level Pi, was the guest musician on the fourth album, aqual measure(2009), and played guitar on the title track.

2010s A collaboration project started in July 2010 between Computerchemist and "Nemesis", ex-Hawkwind dancer and singer has produced several tracks, some of which were initially released for free under Creative Commons licensing which had been available on the computerchemist website for free download, with a full album promised at a later date entitled Chronicles of Future Present. The link as of August 2011 to this project is no longer active. The single and first track Sky Turned Black, a rework of Mirage from Aqual Measure, was however released on a charity compilation in October 2012 entitled Space Rock: The Compilation on bandcamp on the "Sound for Good" label.

Computerchemist was featured through the month of August 2010 on WDIY's Galactic Travels show with Bill Fox, as the "Special Focus", where each album was consecutively played back-to-back each week.

A different approach was taken for his fifth album, Music for Earthquakes(2011), involving the conversion of seismograph readings into musical form. It was inspired by the 4.8 richter scale earthquake in Hungary in early 2011, and featured on the national Hungarian news channel Hir24 and Hungarian English Language news site pestiside.hu shortly afterwards.

His sixth double release album, and second collaboration, launched January 2013, Signatures I. and Signatures II. feature the Hungarian drummer Zsolt Galántai, formerly of the Hungarian metal band Ossian.

A single track was specially composed for the "Sound for Good" charity release The Human Condition – Dedications to Philip K. Dick entitled The Pink Beams of Light, He Said, published in March 2013.

The collaboration project "Audio Cologne Project" again with Uwe Cremer and Zsolt Galántai featuring on drums was released in summer 2013.

Since 2013, Pearson has been producing several one-off tracks for compilations and collaborations, notably with artists such as Cousin Silas and Altocirrus.

In 2018, he compiled a series of six CD albums (for which he appeared or produced tracks in various guises on each album) for the radio Spreaker show Aquarian Moons.

In 2019, he produced his first analogue-only synth album for over twenty years, Volcan Dreams, using exclusively Korg Volca analogue sound modules and external guitar effects. Zsolt Galántai guested on drums for one track, and Chris Gill from Band Of Rain played guitar on the opening track Volcan Plain.

2020s In January 2020, That Which Prevails was released, followed shortly afterwards by three retrospective album compilations Origins I-III which were compiled from surviving tapes from Pearson's output between 1980 and 2003.

Motion picture soundtrack and awards Pearson's first motion picture soundtrack for the feature film The Fort was released as an album in January 2021. It won an award at the Berlin Indie Film Festival in March 2022 for 'Best Original Score'. A further award followed for 'Best Music Score Feature Film' at the Kiez Berlin Film Festival 2022 has also been shown on the artwork.

RadioRay collaborations 2021 also introduced a new collaboration partnership with RadioRay, a singer/songwriter who has notably played in Alan Davey's post-Hawkwind band The Psychedelic Warlords. This has led to two albums being released in 2021 and 2022 under the titles Masks and Underneath the Soul.

Alongside the collaborations, a further two solo albums Parallel Thought Experiment and Where the Clouds Touch the Sky were also released in 2021-2022.

Discography Studio albums Date Title Format Label Catalog number 2006 Atmospheric bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF001; 2008 SynGate CD-R 2090 reissue; now withdrawn 2007 Icon One bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF002; 2008 SynGate CD-R 2091 reissue; now withdrawn 2008 Landform bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF003 2009 Aqual Measure bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF004 2010 The Scheming Machine ft. Nemesis CD EP terrainflight TF005 (no longer available) 2011 Music for Earthquakes bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF006 2013 Signatures I. ft. Zsolt Galántai bandcamp download terrainflight TF007 2013 Signatures II. ft. Zsolt Galántai bandcamp download terrainflight TF008 2019 Volcan Dreams bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF010 2020 That Which Prevails bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF011 2020 Origins I. bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF012 2020 Origins II. bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF013 2020 Origins III. bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF014 2021 The Fort: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF015 2021 Masks ft. RadioRay bandcamp download terrainflight TF016 2021 Parallel Thought Experiment bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF017 2022 Underneath the Soul ft. RadioRay bandcamp download terrainflight TF018 2022 Where the Clouds Touch the Sky bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF019 2023 Mysterious Cave of Eternal Theta bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF020 2023 Origins IV. bandcamp download terrainflight TF021 2023 Green Twilight bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF022 2023 New Formulas for Electric Guitar bandcamp download, CD terrainflight TF023

Compilations and collaborations Date Title Track Collaborator(s) Format Country Label Catalog number 2009 Schwingungen auf CD No. 164 Atmospheric CD Germany Cue Records 164 2009 Schwingungen auf CD No. 165 Timethorns CD Germany Cue Records 165 2010 Musiczeit Sampler CD No. 12 Mirage CD United Kingdom Musiczeit Sampler 12 2012 Space Rock: The Compilation Sky Turned Black ft. Nemesis Nemesis Bandcamp Download United States Sound for Good 2013 Audio Cologne Project: 2911. -- Uwe Cremer, Zsolt Galántai CD Hungary Terrainflight TF009 2013 The Human Condition - Dedications to Philip K. Dick The Pink Beams of Light, He Said Bandcamp Download United States Sound for Good 2017 Silas and Friends vi part i Expansion ( For Jaki ) Cousin Silas Bandcamp Download United Kingdom We Are All Ghosts waag rel101 2018 The Emporium Project - 1point2 Dronium Cousin Silas Bandcamp Download United Kingdom We Are All Ghosts waag rel124 2018 Intergalactic Moonloonies Invade Mushroom Hill vol. 1 La Fungo Arpeggiato Zsolt Galántai CD United States Aquarian Moons AMP001 2018 Intergalactic Moonloonies Invade Mushroom Hill vol. 3 Morcellas Dance Altocirrus CD United States Aquarian Moons AMP003 2018 Intergalactic Moonloonies Invade Mushroom Hill vol. 3 Low Tide on Mushroom Hill Etherfysh CD United States Aquarian Moons AMP003 2020 Cousin Silas & Friends volume 8 part 2 Goodbye, Home Service Cousin Silas Bandcamp Download United Kingdom We Are All Ghosts waag rel140 2022 Heads Together That Which Prevails CD United Kingdom Fruits de Mer Records Strange Fish 23 2022 COORDINATES volume 04 You Can Never Have Too Much Mellotron Eagle (Arend Westra) Bandcamp Download Italy EM Force records 04 2022 Sound Clouds 1 Mellotron Blues CD United Kingdom Fruits de Mer Records Friends of the Fish CD16 2022 Skullduggery That Which Prevails CD United Kingdom Fruits de Mer Records Promo 30 2023 Crab Nebula Moonfloating CD United Kingdom Fruits de Mer Records Friends of the Fish CD20