since 2018, viktor benev has undertaken a consistent journey of exploring the endless horizons of electroacoustic
music created in a controlled environment, that of a recording studio. an introverted dialogue with sound itself, rather than
scoring in the traditional classical way. this approach, combined with a personal manifesto on music creation he wrote back
in 2020, has given birth to aeon, architextures and five dreams, all three being works of
exploratory nature, which were not conceived to be performed live. instead, like a still-life or sculpture, they capture
extended artistic work periods to display the constant need of the musician to go deeper into the unknown nature of music
and how it manifests itself to us. this process seems to preoccupy many composers and songwriters and up to this day,
remains a total mystery.
benev's fourth artistic output cross origin affair draws on this process of trial and error. there's a certain interconnection between
past and future as most of the works are palimpsests – the original ideas and themes have been erased or recorded over
to accommodate fresh new material in order to accomplish the final versions of the tracks. the album compiles
sketches dating from the years 2021-2025 and presents an entity in which influences from eastern and bulgarian
traditional music, ambient, detroit techno, house music culture, pure electronica, trip hop, drum'n'bass heritage,
musique concrète (in terms of sampling and working with sound objects) all intermingle in a carefully orchestrated
narrative presented in the form of 13 music pieces.