Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

I built this large Serge Modular system for a friend, Kri Samadhi. Serge is one of my favorite modular synthesizers. So when Kri started asking me for advice on what … Read More

Mutable Instruments Braids Model /|/|_|_|_ generates a sawtooth waveform, and sends it into a comb filter (tuned delay line). The frequency of the delay line tracks the frequency of the … Read More

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Dragging my feet on improvisation. Never felt I was good at it, but I realize now that it takes practice. I’ve reconfigured this case quite a few times. It seems … Read More

Buio by Brud has published a digital album of postcard recordings that I selected from 2012 to 2018. Most all of these are examples of what I’ve called ‘automatic music’, … Read More

The Mocante box got an update: a 2hp Verb stereo reverb replaces the Pico DSP, which has moved to a spot in a different case. For this improvisation we are … Read More

This is the first live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description The control part of this patch uses the six Quantussy Cells in my … Read More

This is the second live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description The patch has a control part and and audio part.  The control section … Read More

This is the third live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description Inspired by the Krell patch structure, we use three cycling, voltage-controlled attack-decay envelope … Read More

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

Todd Barton is credited with coming up with the Krell patch.  See this discussion on MuffWiggler.  I grabbed the patch diagram there for my featured image.  The heart of a … Read More