Improvised with modules arranged in new rack.  Yes, it’s Clouds into Rings! Mostly Mutable Instruments, but with a delay from Black Hole DSP.  

Two modules vocalizing, but they don’t seem to understand each other.  

First trials with Tromsø modules for generative (automatic music) patterns. Detail of the cables around the four Tromsø modules, the four 2hp Sample & Holds, and the Sport Modulator: It … Read More

These two recordings were made yesterday, as I worked on the composition of another self-running (automatic music) patch.  This one uses a ring of five clocked sample and holds, inspired … Read More

I set up four similar patches, each with two of the same Low Pass Gates module, four different makes.  Each patch looks like:  S&H -> Oscillator FM; Oscillator pulse out … Read More

A rhythm experiment using Pithoprakta, the probability pulse sequencer.  Six voices are triggered off by the module.  Manual intervention a few times on the Loop button to lock in a … Read More

Another excavation from cassette tapes, this is a recording of a live performance by my second band, The Fluks, from 1978.  It was the beginning of the New Wave in … Read More

I don’t use much synthesizer software. But, upon seeing a demonstration of Audulus by Mark Boyd at a local synth club meeting, and then checking out the price ($50 US), … Read More

I’ve often heard musicians describing their composition process as ‘hearing something in my head’ and then figuring out how to make those sounds.  My process is different.  Instead of hearing … Read More