ØLSTEN
The organization
Miro's independent music practice, active since 2013 on Bandcamp with a parallel Spotify catalog and a 272-video YouTube channel. Twelve full projects, 141 public tracks, and roughly six and a quarter hours of released music, alongside Unity-built interactive work.
The challenge
Sustain a serious independent creative practice: writing, producing, mixing, mastering, releasing, and promoting, with no label, on the same clock as full-time delivery work.
What I delivered
- 01EVERYTHING AFTER
- 02here comes the feeling
- 03EVERYTHING BEFORE
- 04JOZ EP
- 05ELENΛ
- 06KΛREN
- 07GHOST
- 08WAVES
- 09THE GREAT SHADOWSEA
- 10MODERN RUIN EP
- 11DELTA EP
- 12BORN IN WINTER
- 13Music visual & video catalog
- 14Remix & reinterpretation catalog
- 15Mixing & mastering for other artists
- 16ELENΛ: spherical album experience
- 17Space Ocean
- 18Gold Ocean
- 19Alien Storm
- 20Egypt
- 21Want
- 22ØLSTEN identity system
A 20-track companion album that begins with 'Where Do You Come From?' and ends with 'Everything Before', answering the previous album's closing question.
A two-track release featuring lvminvs. and petya, offered as a free 24-bit/44.1 kHz download.
A 21-track long-form album, the largest single project in the catalog and the first half of a two-album arc.
A four-track collaborative EP, entirely produced by ØLSTEN with all lyrics written by Joz.
A twelve-track album with a wide collaborator list including Koukla, Maeve, Rachel Fridkin, Khadi Dako, Sarah Jouheri, and Le Rãnce, later extended into a spherical video world.
A twelve-track album featuring Maeve, Zencali, and Somos, with artwork by Rinatto L'Bank. Includes 'Space Ocean' and 'Into The Mountains', both of which became Unity environments.
A ten-track album written and produced entirely by ØLSTEN, opening with 'Mask', a title later reused for the Unity interactive experience.
A twenty-track album written and produced entirely by ØLSTEN, with artwork by Jabari Phillips.
A twenty-track album with guitar contributions from Somos and artwork by Jabari Phillips.
A six-track EP featuring Sola Reign, Somos, Avi, Maeve, and C.
A six-track EP built around collaborations with Somos and C.
The first public release: eight tracks written and produced by ØLSTEN, with guitar and additional production from Somos and self-designed artwork.
An Official Artist Channel carrying 272 videos organized into a 236-video anthology, 192 instrumentals, 39 features, 35 remixes, and four mixtapes.
A body of remix work reinterpreting other artists' material, several pieces of which are the catalog's most-played public works.
Production, mixing, and mastering work for other artists alongside the personal catalog, across a claimed body of more than 1,800 tracks.
The 1,800+ track figure is drawn from Miro's supplied portfolio materials. The publicly verifiable subset is the 141-track Bandcamp catalog.
A 29-minute spherical video experience turning the ELENΛ album into a world you look around inside, premiered a day after the album and showing over 22,000 views.
- Built a 360° environment to house the album's visual world.
- Produced and scored the album that the experience is built around.
- Published as a spherical YouTube video tagged for virtual-reality playback.
YouTube verifies the spherical format, 29:05 runtime, and view count. The Unity attribution comes from Miro's supplied materials rather than the public page.
A Unity environment built around a track of the same name from KΛREN: an obelisk field standing in still water under a low horizon.
A Unity environment exploring the same oceanic world in a different palette and light.
A Unity interactive environment from the independent experiments archive.
A Unity environment built as part of the ongoing interactive-experiments practice.
A Unity interactive piece sharing its name with a track in the catalog.
The artist mark and its variants, carrying the project across releases, video, merchandise, and platform presence.