New Music

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 Technology e340 Cloud Generator and later … 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 envelope generators, each of which is … 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 not the instrument that was played.  b) The … Read More

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 holds, and a frequency shifter.  No … 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 of the gates was set higher … 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 of the gates was set low.

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 I have done before, based on … 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 come up with playing techniques.  It’s … 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 M.T. morph inputs and is detected … Read More

Sensitive Dependence

This is the cocoquantus patched back to itself and left to run.  I used the configuration in which four of the five oscillators are patched in a circle. The name … Read More