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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A patch using BugBrand, Cocoquantus, and CGS Serge.  Two quantussy oscillators are used at audio rates and brought into the BugBrand, passing through the Low Pass Gates and then through … Read More