Theory of the Patch My method of composition begins with a control structure with feedback emerging in my mind. Then I draw a patch diagram of it. The top portion … Read More

Bunnoos like this for falling asleep. (I did fall asleep during this recording.)

I took a lot of gear out last night to a local venue, Revolve, to present three automatic music patches. The first one is a variant of the Five Triangles … Read More

A Quantisise patch that evolved from the Three Body Problem. A drone with added FX.

The Quantussy cluster has five triangle wave oscillators. In this patch two are used for audio (patched to the Coco delay inputs), and the other three are LFO. This patch … Read More

The Three Body Problem is a physics problem. It concerns the gravitational relationships between three bodies in space. For example, the Earth, Moon and Sun. Or a Triple Star system. … Read More

Mutable Instruments Braids Model /|/|_|_|_ generates a sawtooth waveform, and sends it into a comb filter (tuned delay line). The frequency of the delay line tracks the frequency of the … Read More

Dragging my feet on improvisation. Never felt I was good at it, but I realize now that it takes practice. I’ve reconfigured this case quite a few times. It seems … Read More

Buio by Brud has published a digital album of postcard recordings that I selected from 2012 to 2018. Most all of these are examples of what I’ve called ‘automatic music’, … Read More

The Mocante box got an update: a 2hp Verb stereo reverb replaces the Pico DSP, which has moved to a spot in a different case. For this improvisation we are … Read More