Music

Aleatoric Style

I am interested in the aleatoric style in which the composer chooses patterns with randomized elements and applies sonic colorings. Most of these example works are experiments of discovery. I will work with a patch for hours until I get something interesting. I don't claim to be a composer, so much as a dabbler in sounds.

Wavering Drone

This was made with the Modular Tetrazzi amplitude-modulating itself and going through a pair of MOTM-490 filters being swept by LFOs.  Tetrazzi is controlled … —Read more

Before Tsunami

Uses the Modular Tetrazzi as a linear FM modulation source for the Zeroscillator in “no bias” mode.  A thick drone arrives from the Synthesis … —Read more

Tetrazzi Ditti

Example use of the Modular Tetrazzi as a sound generator, driven by other modules. In this patch a simple pattern generator drives four MOTM-800 … —Read more

Untitled A

Reading about Pierre Schaeffer, founder of musique concrete, and his ideas of acousmatics and the sonorous object.

a) The sonorous object is

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Broken Silence

The primary chance parameters are pitch, tempo, loudness and duration.  Modules include VCOs, VCAs, VC EGs, VC LFOs, a VC clock divider, sample and … —Read more

Gates with Cocoquantus Take One

The bright gates patch with the Cocoquantus added to control resonance on the gates and to provide delay/echo. For this take, the initial frequency … —Read more

Gates with Cocoquantus Take Two

The bright gates patch with the Cocoquantus added to control resonance on the gates and to provide delay/echo. For this take, the initial frequency … —Read more

Bright Gates

This recording is all modular, except for the digital echos. It is also aleatoric, self-playing, using a rhythmic CV generator patch similar to some … —Read more

Tetrazzi Dark Drone

I’ve had the Tetrazzi Organ for about a week.  I have a pretty good understanding how it works now, and I’ve been practicing to … —Read more

Party Horns

It was a small party.  Cocoquantus + Morphing Terrarium, some envelopes and VCAs, S&H with glide for pitch.  The coco quantussy petal controls the … —Read more