Musings

All MOTM Format Modules

By Richard on April 20, 2024

Want to buy this entire MOTM rig? I am thinking of selling it as a whole. Would include all the above MOTM format modules, plus a few more (pictured on … Read More

Documenting Performances

By Richard on January 2, 2022

I’ve mused before about the unreality of recording. A recording seems to be a thing, but that is illusory. I’ve called my recordings postcards, after a metaphor by John Cage … Read More

All The Euroracks

By Richard on January 10, 2021

I have a dilemma with my Eurorack cases. As I grow my collection of Eurorack modules, I have to sort them into difference cases. Currently, I have eight cases, pictured. … Read More

My Work Process

By Richard on November 5, 2019

I have no ideas in advance about how it will sound. I begin to imagine complex control structures in my mind. Complex feedback loops involving lots of LFOs and sample … Read More

Insignificant Music

By Richard on November 10, 2018

I keep thinking about what to call the automatically playing patches.  They are automatic in the sense that they continue autonomously after I make and adjust the patch.  But that … Read More

Synthesizer – The Concept

By Richard on February 12, 2018

I’ve become disaffected by the way the word ‘synthesizer’ is used in connection with electronic music. The First Synthesizer It was the RCA Mark I. Please read the article linked … Read More

Immediate Music

By Richard on September 28, 2017

Ever since that time, in 2012, that I was captivated by the Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus oscillator cluster, which Peter Blasser called the Quantussy, a Nabra or analog brain, I have sought … Read More

Evolution

By Richard on August 30, 2013

There is a sub-header for pugix.com: ‘My MOTM-style synth’.  But I wonder if I should change it.  I do have a lot of MOTM-style modules.  The main cabinets are for … Read More

Quartussy

By Richard on January 5, 2013

After I had sussed out the Cocoquantus schematic and understood the internal relationships among the five oscillators that Peter B. calls the Quantussy section, I began to wonder what it … Read More