Spunarounds is an independent avant-garde record label founded to support a single ongoing project: The Synthesist. Both are the work of the same artist.
The Synthesist is a digital audio project that recontextualizes Modernist philosophical prose as music. Its first two releases—issued in December 2025—are albums synthetically created from selected writings of Clement Greenberg and Arthur Schopenhauer (the latter in English translation). ‘The word ‘synthetically‘ is used here in its proper sense: composition through combination.
Aesthetically, the project is grounded in Modernist thought. The position is simple and unsentimental: “art is a matter strictly of experience, not principles.”
Spunarounds and The Synthesist are based in Edmonton, Alberta: once a hotbed of Modernist activity. This project considers that lineage as a still-viable critical framework, capable of pointing the way forward through our increasingly Dim Age of aesthetical and ethical confusion.
“… two of the most brilliant albums I’ve heard in a long time…“
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