My Work Process

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

New Helper Modules for Mescaline

I swapped a number of modules in my Folktek Mescaline eurorack case. The new helper module set: Mutable Instruments Sheep Make Noise Function Bastl Instruments Tea Kick Mutable Instruments Shades … Read More

Clip Clop

Automatic music patch comprised of six Quantussy Cells and six voltage-controlled envelope generators (Mutable Instruments Stages). Two of the LFOs are cycling envelope generators from Starling Via META modules. Sound … Read More

May The Fourses Be With You

My first automatic music patch using the Tesseract 8X8 Matrix switch (which is hidden under patch cords on the left). Oscillator: I.F.M. Fourses. And a track recorded off the mixing … Read More

Tesseract 8X8 Buffered Matrix

This is the Tesseract Modular 8X8 Buffered Matrix. It’s a simple, manual module. Every output has a rotary switch to select an input. A bi-color LED next to every switch … Read More

Nasty and Nice

The other night I presented a patch that I called Nasty and Nice. You can listen to that on Soundcloud. Nasty and Nice is two different sound patches that share … Read More

More Magic

A few changes and tweaks to the Magic Wand patch, and…

Magic Wand

Theory of the Patch My method of composition begins with a control structure with feedback emerging in my mind. Then I draw a patch diagram of it. The top portion … Read More

Automatic Lullaby

Bunnoos like this for falling asleep. (I did fall asleep during this recording.)

Starling Via META

Starling Via is a platform for modular synthesis that consists of a single hardware platform which can be flash programmed for several different modules, each having a different faceplate. The … Read More