Synchronicité musicale : Michael Scanlon et Sequentia Legenda

Quand la musique ouvre le dialogue :
rencontre avec Michael Scanlon

La musique et l’art créent parfois des synchronicités inattendues

Chers amis et auditeurs,

Michael Scanlon, auditeur passionné et écrivain londonien inspiré par la métaphysique, a découvert ma vision musicale tout récemment… et en quelques jours seulement, toutes mes compositions ont trouvé une place entière dans son univers intérieur.

De cette rencontre est née une conversation simple et authentique. Il a d’abord partagé ses impressions avec moi, puis posé trois questions auxquelles j’ai répondu avec ce qui vit en moi : mémoire, son et vibration du vivant.

Voici le fruit de ce dialogue cœur à cœur, que je vous invite à découvrir.

Si vous aussi ressentez l’envie de partager un moment d’échange autour de la musique, n’hésitez pas à me contacter — ce sera un immense plaisir pour moi.

Avec toute ma gratitude et ma lumière,
Laurent Schieber – Sequentia Legenda

 

MIKE SCANLON :
Chaque album de Sequentia Legenda est unique et irremplaçable

Je m’appelle Michael Scanlon et je vis à Londres. Je suis marié depuis trente-six ans et j’ai deux enfants adultes. Avant ma retraite, j’ai travaillé comme bibliothécaire dans des organismes de recherche et des services gouvernementaux. 

Je suis également auteur de plusieurs livres inspirés par la métaphysique, sous le nom de plume Michael Joseph Scanlon.

J’aime beaucoup la musique et je suis ravi que Bandcamp m’ait fait découvrir Sequentia Legenda. La musique de la Berlin School occupe une place essentielle dans mes écoutes, et je suis absolument enchanté par celle de Sequentia Legenda. 


SL : Qu’est-ce qui vous inspire le plus dans ma musique et quelles sensations ou émotions vous procure-t-elle ?
MS : Le meilleur de la Berlin School est probablement la musique rock la plus évocatrice parmi tous les genres. La musique de Sequentia Legenda s’inscrit pleinement dans cette catégorie, car elle est à la fois hypnotique et éthérée. La combinaison des synthétiseurs superposés et l’usage des séquenceurs créent une atmosphère qui dépasse la somme de ses parties. Chaque album de Sequentia Legenda est unique et irremplaçable à cet égard. Ils sont tous très ambiants, et pourtant d’une beauté profondément invitante.

LE PREMIER CD DE SEQUENTIA LEGENDA 
QUE J’AI ACHETÉ : BLUE DREAM
Lorsque j’ai entendu FLY OVER ME pour la première fois,
j’ai été captivé

SL : Y a-t-il des albums ou des morceaux particuliers de ma musique qui vous ont touché particulièrement, et pourquoi ?
MS : Le premier CD de Sequentia Legenda que j’ai acheté était BLUE DREAM. Quand j’ai entendu FLY OVER ME pour la première fois, j’ai été totalement captivé. Peu de temps après, ma collection de Sequentia Legenda est passée d’un seul CD à quatorze très rapidement. Aucun ne m’a déçu. En fait, j’étais étonné de constater que l’excellente qualité de BLUE DREAM se retrouvait dans toute la discographie de Sequentia Legenda, sans répétition ni redite. 

SL : Comment ressentez-vous la connexion entre la musique et le design visuel de mes albums — cette unité influence-t-elle votre écoute et vos émotions ?
MS : Pour moi, le packaging de la musique rock fait partie intégrante de son art. En conséquence, je ne fais pas de téléchargements. Les pochettes de Sequentia Legenda font partie intégrante de l’expérience globale. Je les adore toutes.
 

L’UNIVERS EST UNE SOURCE INFINIE D’INSPIRATION
Ma musique est un moyen de s’y mettre en résonance 

MS : Les étoiles et les galaxies vous inspirent évidemment, ainsi que votre musique. Croyez-vous qu’il y ait une cause à l’Univers, ou est-ce simplement arrivé ?
LS : L’Univers est une source infinie d’inspiration — c’est le Tout, le Grand Ensemble. Je ne crois pas que nous soyons, ou ayons jamais été, seuls. Tout est vibration, et la vibration est énergie — et l’énergie est vie.

Pour moi, l’Univers n’a pas “simplement apparu”. Il est l’expression d’une vaste intelligence, d’une conscience vivante dotée d’un amour inconditionnel, reliant tous les êtres et tous les mondes. Ma musique est un moyen d’entrer en résonance avec ce souffle cosmique, de traduire quelque chose qui nous dépasse, mais qui vibre et vit en chacun de nous.

MS : Utilisez-vous des synthés anciens dans votre musique ou préférez-vous les modernes ?
LS : Quand j’avais 16 ans, mon studio était installé dans le sous-sol de mes parents, et pour moi, c’était comme la caverne d’Ali Baba. Au cœur se trouvait le magnifique Korg PS-3200 modulaire, entouré du MS-20 et de son petit frère, le SQ-10. À ma gauche, j’avais l’Oberheim Duo Two Voice, et à ma droite le Multiman S et l’ARP Odyssey.

Avec l’arrivée du MIDI, les synthés numériques ont progressivement remplacé ces belles machines analogiques — des instruments comme le Roland JD800, le Waldorf Microwave ou le Korg DSS1.

Depuis plus de dix ans maintenant, je travaille exclusivement avec des synthés virtuels, comme la collection Arturia. Je m’y sens totalement à l’aise. Ils me permettent de redécouvrir des sensations que j’avais autrefois, tout en offrant liberté et fluidité dans le processus créatif.

Pour moi, le cœur passe toujours avant la technologie. La musique reste, par-dessus tout, un partage de cœur à cœur.

MS : Comment avez-vous trouvé le nom Sequentia Legenda ?
LS : J’avais initialement une longue liste de noms possibles, et au final, Sequentia Legenda est apparu comme une fusion de deux d’entre eux. Il y a aussi eu une belle synchronicité dans le fait que les initiales S et L sont les miennes.

Pour moi, ce nom reflète parfaitement l’esprit de ma vision musicale. Comme le séquenceur reste mon outil de composition préféré, “Sequentia” me semblait naturel. “Legenda” évoque la mémoire, le mystère et l’intemporalité.

Et peut-être que les légendes sont, en vérité, simplement des formes voilées de la réalité ?

À la fin de notre échange, Michael a formulé une demande très spécifique :
« Laurent, pourriez-vous un jour établir une chronologie claire de votre discographie ? Je crois que cela serait précieux pour nous, auditeurs, afin de suivre l’évolution de votre univers. »

J’ai trouvé cette suggestion à la fois attentionnée et pertinente, et je l’en remercie. Que ces repères servent de guide pour ceux qui souhaitent voyager à travers mes sons — pas à pas, album après album.

Chronologie de la discographie de Sequentia Legenda :

2025 — A RAY OF LIGHT (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2024 — DECEM (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)
2024 — Echo of Vibrations (Digital Version, name your price)
2024 — GALACTIC CRYSTALS (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2023 — Extended Intuition Into the Unknown (Version numérique)
2023 — Departure for a Celestial Voyage (Version numérique, fixez votre prix)
2023 — ALCYONE (CD Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2022 — The 432 Hz Berlin School Box (Double CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)
2022 — ANNO 1880 - Variations on the finale of ELEVATION (Version numérique)
2022 — RESONANCES (CD Digipack, Version numérique)
2022 — ELEVATION [Portal Version 2022] (Version numérique)

2021 — Luminosa Veritas [Xmas 2021 Version] (Version numérique, fixez votre prix)
2021 — HEAVENLY RESONANCE (Happy Birthday Version) (Version numérique, fixez votre prix)
2021 — CELESTIAL (CDr Digipack, Version numérique)
2021 — THE RETURN (Long Version) (Version numérique)
2021 — Around the Second Moon – Floating Days Edition (Version numérique)
2021 — Deep Sequences [Grenzwellen Version] (Version numérique)
2021 — Five Minutes Around the Second Moon (Version numérique, fixez votre prix)

2020 — VOICES 55 [EXCLUSIVE Version] (Version numérique)
2020 — BEYOND THE STARS (CD Digipack, Version numérique)
2020 — CIRCUMNAVIGATION [Study Version] (Version numérique)
2020 — Valentins Traum Exclusive Version (Version numérique)

2019 — FIVE (CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)
2019 — CODEX ON THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS (Version numérique)
2019 — THE LUNAR TRILOGY (Version numérique)
2019 — OVER THERE (CD Digipack & livret de 8 pages XL, Version numérique)

2018 — SOLITUDES LUNAIRES [XMas 2018 Version] (Version numérique)
2018 — RENAISSANCE (CD Digipack, Version numérique)
2018 — MIND LAKE [experimental version] (Version numérique)

2017 — THE RETURN experimental version (Version numérique)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Collaboration version (Version numérique)
2017 — ETHEREAL (CDr Digipack, Version numérique)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Exclusive version (Version numérique)

2016 — EXTENDED (Double CDr Digipack & livret de 8 pages, Version numérique)

2015 — AMIRA (CDr Digifile, Version numérique)
2015 — AU REVOIR (Version numérique)
2015 — VIBRATIONS - Blood Moon exclusive version (Version numérique)

2014 — BLUE DREAM (CDr Digipack 3 volets, Version numérique)

 

 

            

Musical Synchronicity: Michael Scanlon and Sequentia Legenda

When music opens dialogue: 
meeting with Michael Scanlon

Music and art sometimes create unexpected synchronicities

Dear friends-listeners,

Michael Scanlon, a passionate listener and London-based writer inspired by metaphysics, discovered my musical vision only recently… and within a few days, all of my compositions had found a full place in his inner world.

From this encounter, a simple and authentic conversation was born. He first shared his impressions with me, then asked three questions to which I responded with what lives within me: memory, sound, and the vibration of the living.

Here is the fruit of this heart-to-heart dialogue, which I invite you to discover.

If you too feel the desire to share a moment of exchange centered around music, please do not hesitate to contact me — it will be my great pleasure.

With all my gratitude and light,
Laurent Schieber – Sequentia Legenda

 

MIKE SCANLON :
Every Sequentia Legenda album is unique 
and irreplaceable

My name is Michael Scanlon and I live in London. I have been married thirty six years and have two grown up children. Before I retired I worked as a librarian in research bodies and Government departments. 

I am also the author of several books inspired by metaphysics. My pen name is Michael Joseph Scanlon. 

I love music a lot and am so happy with Bandcamp for telling me about the music of Sequentia Legenda. Berlin School music is an essential part of my music listening and I am absolutely delighted to hear the music of Sequentia Legenda. 


SL: What inspires you most in my music, and what feelings or sensations does it evoke for you?
MS: The best of the Berlin School is probably the most evocative rock music of all the different genres. Sequentia Legenda’s music scores heavily in this regard, as it so mesmerising and ethereal. The combination of the layered synthesisers and the use of sequencers create an atmosphere that is greater than the sum of its parts. Every Sequentia Legenda album is unique and irreplaceable in this regard. They are all so ambient, yet so invitingly beautiful.

THE FIRST SEQUENTIA LEGENDA CD
I EVER BOUGHT WAS BLUE DREAM
When I heard FLY OVER ME for the first time I was transfixed 

SL: Are there albums or specific pieces of mine that have touched you particularly deeply, and why?
MS: The first Sequentia Legenda cd I ever bought was BLUE DREAM. When I heard FLY OVER ME for the first time I was transfixed. Indeed, not long after, my Sequentia Legenda collection went from one cd to fourteen very quickly. I was disappointed by none of them. In fact, I was astonished that the excellent quality of BLUE DREAM was matched by all of the rest of Sequentia Legenda’s discography, without repetition or rehashing. 

SL: How do you experience the connection between the music and the visual design of my albums—does this unity affect how you listen and feel the music?
MS: For me, the packaging of rock music is an essential part of its art. Accordingly, I don’t do downloads. Sequentia Legenda’s covers are an integral part of the whole Sequentia Legenda experience. I love them all.

 

THE UNIVERSE IS AN INFINITE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
My music is a way of coming into resonance 

MS: Stars and galaxies obviously inspire you and your music. Do you believe that there is a cause to the Universe, or did it just happen?
LS: The Universe is an infinite source of inspiration — it is the All, the Great Whole. I do not believe that we are, or have ever been, alone. Everything is vibration, and vibration is energy — and energy is life.

For me, the Universe did not “simply appear.” It is the expression of a vast intelligence, a living consciousness endowed with unconditional love, connecting all beings and all worlds. My music is a way of coming into resonance with that cosmic breath, of translating something that goes beyond us, yet vibrates and lives within each of us. 

MS: Do you use old synths in your music or do you prefer the modern ones?
LS: When I was 16, my studio was set up in my parents’ basement, and to me it felt like Ali Baba’s cave. At the heart of it stood the magnificent Korg PS-3200 modular, surrounded by the MS-20 and its little brother, the SQ-10. On my left I had the Oberheim Duo Two Voice, and on my right the Multiman S and the ARP Odyssey.

With the arrival of MIDI, digital synthesizers gradually replaced those beautiful analog machines — instruments such as the Roland JD800, the Waldorf Microwave or the Korg DSS1.

For more than ten years now, I have been working exclusively with virtual synthesizers, like the Arturia collection. I feel totally at ease with them. They allow me to rediscover sensations I once had, while offering freedom and fluidity in the creative process.

For me, the heart always comes before the technology. Music remains, above all else, a sharing from heart to heart. 

MS: How did you come up with the name Sequentia Legenda?
LS: I initially had a long list of possible names, and in the end Sequentia Legenda emerged as a blend of two of them. There was also a beautiful synchronicity in the fact that the initials S and L are my own.

To me, the name perfectly reflects the spirit of my musical vision. Since the sequencer is still my preferred tool for composition, “Sequentia” felt natural to me. “Legenda” evokes memory, mystery and timelessness.

And perhaps legends are, in truth, simply veiled forms of reality? 

At the end of our exchange, Michael made a very specific request:
“Laurent, could you one day put together a clear chronology of your discography? I believe it would be valuable for us listeners, to follow the evolution of your universe.”

I found this suggestion both thoughtful and relevant, and I am grateful for it. May these milestones serve as a guide for those who wish to journey through my sounds — step by step, album after album.

Chronology of Sequentia Legenda’s Discography:

2025 — A RAY OF LIGHT (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2024 — DECEM (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2024 — Echo of Vibrations (Digital Version, name your price)
2024 — GALACTIC CRYSTALS (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2023 — Extended Intuition Into the Unknown (Digital Version)
2023 — Departure for a Celestial Voyage (Digital Version, name your price)
2023 — ALCYONE (CD Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2022 — The 432 Hz Berlin School Box (Double CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2022 — ANNO 1880 - Variations on the finale of ELEVATION (Digital Version)
2022 — RESONANCES (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2022 — ELEVATION [Portal Version 2022] (Digital Version)

2021 — Luminosa Veritas [Xmas 2021 Version] (Digital Version, name your price)
2021 — HEAVENLY RESONANCE (Happy Birthday Version) (Digital Version, name your price)
2021 — CELESTIAL (CDr Digipack, Digital Version)
2021 — THE RETURN (Long Version) (Digital Version)
2021 — Around the Second Moon – Floating Days Edition (Digital Version)
2021 — Deep Sequences [Grenzwellen Version] (Digital Version)
2021 — Five Minutes Around the Second Moon (Digital Version, name your price)

2020 — VOICES 55 [EXCLUSIVE Version] (Digital Version)
2020 — BEYOND THE STARS (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2020 — CIRCUMNAVIGATION [Study Version] (Digital Version)
2020 — Valentins Traum Exclusive Version (Digital Version)

2019 — FIVE (CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)
2019 — CODEX ON THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS (Digital Version)
2019 — THE LUNAR TRILOGY (Digital Version)
2019 — OVER THERE (CD Digipack & 8 page XL Booklet, Digital Version)

2018 — SOLITUDES LUNAIRES [XMas 2018 Version] (Digital Version)
2018 — RENAISSANCE (CD Digipack, Digital Version)
2018 — MIND LAKE [experimental version] (Digital Version)

2017 — THE RETURN experimental version (Digital Version)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Collaboration version (Digital Version)
2017 — ETHEREAL (CDr Digipack, Digital Version)
2017 — Out of the Silence - Exclusive version (Digital Version)

2016 — EXTENDED (Double CDr Digipack & 8 page Booklet, Digital Version)

2015 — AMIRA (CDr Digifile, Digital Version)
2015 — AU REVOIR (Digital Version)
2015 — VIBRATIONS - Blood Moon exclusive version (Digital Version)

2014 — BLUE DREAM (CDr Digipack 3 flaps, Digital Version)

 

 

            

🎼 The sequencer my favorite tool 📶

My vision of sequencing: loops in perpetual evolution

My first sequencer was the Korg SQ-10

I had made its acquisition during a trip to Paris may be some time after I bought the
Korg MS-20. The two "brothers" lived together for my greatest happiness in my home studio in my parents' basement. Together with the tape echo chamber RE201 Roland, I made my debut by developing my sequences. The setting up of the loops with the SQ-10 was really complete and intuitive. For example, it was interesting to modulate filters and envelopes by generating three different voltages at the same time. The 3 channels, the 12 steps and the 6 modes were for the time a beautiful technical prowess that I could enjoy.

Oberheim's mini sequencer

Another instrument, the Oberheim Two Voice had a mini sequencer. Despite its eight programming steps available, the mini sequencer was convenient and pleasant for a fast search of small sequential lines.

TVS1, the official model name of the 1974/75 Oberheim 2 voice or OB2 / ob-2 (obie two)

Here too, the association of the Oberheim with the echo chamber RE201 Roland made the result convincing and interesting.

Today, I work with virtual instruments

VST's allow me to express myself completely and freely. Sometimes I use various sources to create my loops, such for example as the Moog Modular sequencer from Arturia.

The sequences come to life

In addition to the search for tones, I attach great importance to the symbiosis of the different sequential loops. I particularly like to make them live and grow all along a track to make them sometimes even "organic". The complementarity of the sequences is also an element that is particularly close to my heart.

The sequences can be used as a structure and/or as the main and/or secondary
melodic line.

As far as the creation itself is concerned, it can do this by working on the parameters and potentiometers of a sequencer, or after having plated some pads chords that evoke my creativity and thus favour the realization of a loop, the reverse is also possible. I have also created note by note a sequence.

👦 I remember an anecdote when I was 16-17 years old and a sequence came to mind. I had phoned home, my youngest sister took the handset and asked her to take our tape recorder to record me. I then sang the loop of notes to save it on the cassette so that I could in the evening work on my analogue instruments of the time. 📼

  

The sequences can be fast or slow, shiny or deep, come and go, random, pizzicato or legato. They can also metamorphose, literally play the role of drums and be percussive. They are the fundamentals of my music. Whether it is with the instruments of yesteryear or today, I still have so much pleasure in sculpting and modelling loops. For me, the synthesizer and sequencer are inseparable.

  My vision of sequencing: loops in perpetual evolution

Berlin School pioneers Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream

In terms of reference, I would like to quote the Berlin School pioneers Klaus Schulze and the mythical band Tangerine Dream. I keep in mind my first listenings of the Mirage album with absolutely remarkable and timeless sequences. Crystal Lake obviously will remain for me a key moment in my musical approach, however I would like to point out that in the title Velvet Voyage, which is in my eyes more aerial, more cosmic, hides one of the most sumptuous sequences, so simple and so strong in terms of emotion. Congratulations!

For Tangerine Dream are the Rubycon and Ricochet albums that had marked me with their sequences with their characteristic timbre.

Testimonial Yves Blanc (La Planète Bleue)

«Most of the spacey music is made of three components : synth pads, sequencer loops and (sometimes annoying) solos. Sequentia Legenda is intelligent and sensitive enough to create his - strictly instrumental - music with the first two components only:
the pads and the loops.»
 

Laurent Schieber (Sequentia Legenda) and Yves Blanc (La Planète Bleue)

«In his spacey compositions, where light meets minimalism, and fitted to dream and meditation, there is no room for flashy solo, no room for protruding showing-off,
instead the space is filled with highly sophisticated pads, perpetually changing and loops, themselves shaped in ever-changing patterns, sometimes highly complex,
even if they often seem obvious.»

Yves Blanc (La Planète Bleue)

👍ETHEREAL in the Top Ten at the Schallwelle Awards

It is an honour for me to be able to appear alongside Tangerine Dream,
Johannes Schmoelling and Mike Oldfield in this ranking.
I am delighted to know that my music is appreciated and recognized in Germany,
the country of the Berliner Schule.
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www.sequentia-legenda.com