Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

I’ve been thinking about how to use controllable switches for automatic music. Being out of room in the ‘automatic music box’, I put together a 4ms RCD, the Pithoprakta, and … Read More

I had an improvisational performance set up to practice for a house concert. But the concert was cancelled, due to Covid-19. The setup, pictured above, is Ciat-lonbarde Plumbutter into Cocoquantus … Read More

A Quartussy is a set of four ‘quantussy cells’. Each cell is a VCO with a triangle wave and a pulse wave output, with the pulse wave driving the trigger … Read More

An automatic music patch incorporating the Vult Freak filter in Debriatus – Wave Destructor mode: Distortion -> Wave Folding -> Saturation. The new River Marble module is used to add … Read More

Another SynthCube sale, another DIY kit! I discovered Marble, by River Creative Technology a while back, watched the demo video on their site and kept it in mind. Then I … Read More

SynthCube was having a sale, so I picked up a DIY kit for Erica Synths DIY Swamp. It’s a version of Grant Richter’s Wogglebug circuit. I can’t believe it’s been … Read More

Back to some automatic music! I’ve added the Freak Manifold Filter from Vult. Here, the Freak is in Resonant Comb Filter mode. This patch includes six Quantussy Cells, each enhanced … Read More

I played out at a local event, Cambient Amping IV, doing an improvisation using mostly Peter Blasser instruments. Didn’t get a picture of the setup, but here’s what I used: … Read More

Live recording of an improvisation I performed on January, 13, 2020, in my studio, at a house concert. The setup consisted of my Mocante Eurorack, which includes Mr. Grassi, Unknown … Read More

In a recent post I published a recording of the Instruō athrú being used in a patch with some other modules. Here, I made a video, demonstrating the features of … Read More