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

Grayscale microcell DIY

microcell is a miniature version of the Supercell module by Grayscale, which is an expanded version of Clouds by Mutable Instruments. Clouds by Mutable Instruments is one of the more … Read More

Legacy Butoh – Speak

Legacy Butoh perform Speak at Art Rat Studios during AfterMAF 2019 in Roanoke, VA. Julie Becton Gillum – movement Geo Lynx – video Richard Brewster – audio This was the … Read More

Presenting Automatic Music

I took a lot of gear out last night to a local venue, Revolve, to present three automatic music patches. The first one is a variant of the Five Triangles … Read More