Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

Reading about Pierre Schaeffer, founder of musique concrete, and his ideas of acousmatics and the sonorous object. a) The sonorous object is not the instrument that was played.  b) The … Read More

The primary chance parameters are pitch, tempo, loudness and duration.  Modules include VCOs, VCAs, VC EGs, VC LFOs, a VC clock divider, sample and holds, and a frequency shifter.  No … Read More

The bright gates patch with the Cocoquantus added to control resonance on the gates and to provide delay/echo. For this take, the initial frequency of the gates was set higher … Read More

The bright gates patch with the Cocoquantus added to control resonance on the gates and to provide delay/echo. For this take, the initial frequency of the gates was set low.

This recording is all modular, except for the digital echos. It is also aleatoric, self-playing, using a rhythmic CV generator patch similar to some I have done before, based on … Read More

I made a video demonstrating how I made the previous post.

I’ve had the Tetrazzi Organ for about a week.  I have a pretty good understanding how it works now, and I’ve been practicing to come up with playing techniques.  It’s … Read More