A Pattern Language of Phasing Turntables is Formen’s current live project. It is based on an analogue setup: three turntables, a mixing console, and a tape machine.

Each performance uses self-made lathe cuts prepared in Formen’s studio. Minimal musical fragments and stems are cut onto dubplates and recombined live. The records are neither locked nor synchronised. Small differences in timing, pitch, and frequency bandwidth accumulate, producing slowly shifting structures. The tape machine functions as an analogue delay, folding fragments back into the system and extending their interaction.

Working entirely in analogue, Formen previously presented individual aspects of his practice in isolation—most notably in his live drone concerts, later compiled as Noise Around Our Homes. With A Pattern Language of Phasing Turntables, this approach expands to combine experimental sound design, turntablism as performance practice, and lathe cutting as technical process within a single live format.

The performances rely on emergent pattern formation. Dubplates are combined at arbitrary points, allowing material to drift and interfere. Perceived structures arise through repetition and coincidence rather than control. Each iteration is shaped by the selection of dubplates and decisions made in real time.

The project premiered in Basel in autumn 2025 as part of the exhibition übenübenüben — Darstellungsformen für die Gegenwart.