Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

I set up four similar patches, each with two of the same Low Pass Gates module, four different makes.  Each patch looks like:  S&H -> Oscillator FM; Oscillator pulse out … Read More

Peter Blasser’s paper circuits are made by printing out a graphic, such as the above, at the right scale to match up with the physical sizes of the actual components, … Read More

A rhythm experiment using Pithoprakta, the probability pulse sequencer.  Six voices are triggered off by the module.  Manual intervention a few times on the Loop button to lock in a … Read More

The world of Eurorack modular cases and power supplies is wild and woolly.  I put together a motley collection of six different cases, five of them small, and the larger … Read More

Another excavation from cassette tapes, this is a recording of a live performance by my second band, The Fluks, from 1978.  It was the beginning of the New Wave in … Read More

Quantussy is the name Peter Blasser gave to the cluster of five oscillators in his Cocoquantus.  He says, The Quantussy is a five (5) petaled flower, each petal with oscirator, … Read More

I don’t use much synthesizer software. But, upon seeing a demonstration of Audulus by Mark Boyd at a local synth club meeting, and then checking out the price ($50 US), … Read More

This 2hp module is a random stepped voltage and gate generator.  I’m making a special post about it, because I think it has a unique design.  More needs to be … Read More

I’ve often heard musicians describing their composition process as ‘hearing something in my head’ and then figuring out how to make those sounds.  My process is different.  Instead of hearing … Read More