New Music

Old Fashioned Drone

Just an old fashioned drone, made with modular Tetrazzi, Zeroscillator, an LFO, a sample and hold, and some envelope generators.

Cross Mutterings

This was made by Plumbutter with the AVDog FM inputs modulated by two of the castle outs on the Cocoquantus.  Plumbutter also goes through Cocoquantus and receives AM on the … Read More

Planet 0130

I patched up a conventional drone, which I recorded while improvising.  The featured oscillators:  Synthesis Technology Cloud Generator (E340) and Modcan VCDO.  Each passes through a Mattson VCA with an … Read More

Drone with PB BB and Serge

Plumbutter, BugBrand, and CGS Serge all use banana jacks.  I did some serious cross-patching among the three for this little drone that uses two BugBrand VCOs, each processed with a … Read More

Tetrazzi Frequency Shifted

I moved the Modular Tetrazzi into the same cabinet as the BugBrand and CGS Serge modules.  Here’s a patch using the BugBrand frequency shifter to process Tetrazzi.  BugBrand Dual LPG … Read More

Comb Filter Bank Demo

I have a complicated patch with two VCOs and four sample and holds, a meager attempt to simulate some Cocoquantus behavior, a ‘duotussy’.  It includes a pair of Clee LPGs … Read More

Soundmagic Spectral Dronemaker

Sometimes I play with DSP plugins.  I was trying out the SoundMagic Spectral Beta 6 by Michael Norris and patched the Cocoquantus, self-modulating, into the stereo Spectral Dronemaker.  This was … Read More

Twenty thirteen

A strange drone produced with CGS Serge, including the SSG, BugBrand, and Cocoquantus.   I did some mixing during the recording.

Prediction

At the end of David Byrne’s book, How Music Works, he says, “Why not let music play itself?  The composer, in the traditional sense, might no longer be necessary.”   A … Read More