Memory

We need our own memory to appreciate music at all. We like hearing repeated patterns. That’s just what long delays with feedback do. This uses another complicated control patch that … Read More

Random Chords and Envelopes

This patch was a simple experiment made while exploring the Qu-Bit Cascade Ratcheting Envelope Generator. A fixed rate clock triggers the Cascade in ratcheting mode and takes a new pitch … Read More

Chlorine Genes

All sounds produced by MOTM synth, controlled by DIY Quantussy. The first recording has the effects going in parallel. The second has them in series, first Mimeophon, then into FX-Aid … Read More

LDO Voltage Regulators

In a previous post about the Test Bench Rack I received helpful comments from John Loffink, who had also refurbished the same Pittsburgh Modular power supply board. He educated me … Read More

Muttering

Hear the E950 Circuit Bent VCO from Synthesis Technology muttering away with pseudo-random voltage controls and some reverb.

Test Bench Rack

I had a pair of rack end pieces left over from a previous rack project. And I also had a power supply left over from that same project. All I … Read More

Hemispheres Redux

The Two Hemispheres Two Quantussy Cell rings, one with four cells representing the Left and one with five cells representing the Right, are patched together such that each one can … Read More

Documenting Performances

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