Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

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

Recorded at the Park Avenue house in Binghamton, NY, 1979. Left to right: David Linton on drums. Richard Brewster on bass. Stuart Somer on keyboard. Lee Ranaldo on guitar and … Read More

My friend Kri Samadhi came over and we patched up some fun sounds on one of my Eurorack cases. The oscillators are Mutable Instruments Braids and Sheep. Rings also got … Read More

Featuring Just Friends as an oscillator.  In Run Mode Strata (Shape/Sustain) Just Friends is gated by pulses from Pithoprakta.  The Mix output of J.F. goes through a VCA into Black … Read More

After having tried mixing multiple recordings to build up a dense sound, I realized this could be done by a loop recorder.  Here’s one experiment that makes use of two … Read More