I’m Supersigil, the digital shadow of composer/producer/guitarist Alex Roth. In 2017, in between playing in bands on the London scene and scoring for theatre/dance projects, I started carving out time to produce my own experimental electronic music. From the outset, but especially during the pandemic, this project represented a realm of limitless possibility, where some of my most personal ideas found expression. The material was so different from my previous work that it made sense to create a new identity for it to exist under. Thus Supersigil came into being to channel this new music. Now, I'm psyched to announce️ the debut Supersigil LP Spectres.

Click the player below to collect tracks on Sound, and scroll down to read more about the project.

Spectres comprises 13 tracks I've composed, recorded, and produced over the last seven years—the 28th release in my discography but my first ever completely solo full-length album.

While working on this record, I delved deep into Jungian psychology, concepts from which became central to the project. All 13 tracks are named after archetypes—innate, universal forces that shape our experience of the world: Tree Of Life, Bird, Mage, Trickster, Shadow, Water, Serpent, Mother, Father, Death, Child, Hero, Anima.

Spectres is also a visual art project. For each of the 13 tracks, I trained a bespoke AI GAN on crowd-sourced images associated with the corresponding archetype. By limiting the training time of these custom image-to-image models, I found I could achieve results that mirrored the formation of archetypal symbols as I imagine them deep in our collective unconscious: elusive yet powerful forms emerging from abstract swirls of colour. I think of this process as filtering the archetypal forces through contributors' personal psyches before channelling them back into the realm of the universal. For the album cover I trained another GAN on outputs from all the previous GANs combined, resynthesising the individual archetypal energies to forge an integrated whole.

A collection of 144 further images from this project was dropped in partnership with Rarible under the title Spectral Shadows:

Spectres officially dropped on web2 (Spotify, etc) on 23 November 2024, with a Bandcamp listening party the day before.

In the months leading up to that, I rolled the album out across the web3 ecosystem, with drops on Sound, Zora, Rodeo, Lens and other emerging platforms. In a novel release structure, collectors of individual tracks gained instant access to stream the full album ahead of its official release. The goal was to push the limits of onchain interoperability to explore what a web3-native album release can look like in 2024.

Ultimately, Spectres is more than a collection of WAVs and JPGs; it is a dialogue between the personal and the universal, a multidisciplinary exploration of the forces that connect us all. The album has taken me on a transformative seven-year journey through sound, imagery and psyche. In the resulting work, individual and collective experience harmonise, revealing the profound depths of human interconnectedness.

Spectres is supported by Help Musicians UK