Synæsthesia is an incarnation of Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

 (FLA) members Bill Leeb

Bill Leeb

Bill Leeb is an electronic musician.He moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 13...

 and Rhys Fulber

Rhys Fulber

Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He was a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb, and now records on his own under the name Conjure One.- Biography :...

. It is one of several including: Pro>Tech, Equinox

Equinox (electro-industrial band)

Equinox is the name of an electro-industrial/drum'n'bass musical project, featuring Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson of Front Line Assembly.Equinox released one album, Holon, in 1998.-External links:*...

, Intermix

Intermix (band)

Intermix was a musical band in the 1990s, made of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber.Unlike their other projects , Intermix showed somewhat more of a techno music influence, while Delerium was more mellow like ambient music, and FLA had a very industrial music style.On the first two albums Intermix sounded...

, and Delerium

Delerium

Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

 in addition to FLA. Synæsthesia is probably the most strictly ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 of all these groups. The music consists almost entirely of long minimalist

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

 instrumental stretches. Its closest comparison to other Leeb/Fulber projects would likely be Spiritual Archives

Spiritual Archives

Spiritual Archives is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Track listing:#"Drama" – 7:37#"Rise Above" – 6:46#"Aftermath" – 7:34#"Ephemeral Passage" – 6:28#"Barren Ground" – 7:30...

or Stone Tower

Stone Tower (album)

Stone Tower is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Track listing:# "Lost Passion"# "Bleeding"# "Stone Tower"# "Aftermath" # "Tundra"# "Spirit"# "Embryo"# "Red Hill"# "Sphere"...

 by Delerium. Stylistically this incarnation appears to be a continuation of the Delerium sound from these albums, as Delerium itself became more dancy and incorporated vocals. The monks chanting in catacombs remained with Delerium, but most of that group's ambiance seems to have moved into Synæsthesia.

Due to contractual entanglements Leeb and Fulber were not originally able to admit they were behind the music. The first two albums list them as producers and credit the music to 'R. Deckard

Rick Deckard

Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,and also the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott...

', (an allusion to the main character in the film Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

). By their third album Leeb was credited with the music. Fulber, who had recently left to pursue solo projects, was credited with programming.

Discography

• Embody (1995)
• Desideratum
  Desideratum
  Desideratum is the second album of ambient band Synæsthesia which was released in 1995.-Disc one:# "Andromedia" – 8:00# "Orion Nebulua" – 11:30# "Consciousness" – 6:56# "Umbra" – 9:00# "Barred Spirals" – 9:48# "DNA Barcode" – 10:42...
  
  (1995)
• Ephemeral (1997)
• The Collection (2001)