Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

I added a banana jack for ground to my Cocoquantus to more easily ground it to the modular.  I connect together the grounds of the power supplies in my six … Read More

I’ve ordered a Plumbutter from Ciat-Lonbarde.  The photo to the left was posted by Peter Blasser on his blog.  It’s a picture of his shop, where he hand-builds his unique … Read More

On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, BCC America reports.  A Cocoquantus seems to have intervened.  Recorded in a mini-studio, consisting of a Tivoli Audio PAL radio and the … Read More

In a 1958 lecture, published in Silence in 1961, John Cage said, This is a lecture on composition which is indeterminate with respect to its performance.  That composition is necessarily … Read More

This was made with the Modular Tetrazzi amplitude-modulating itself and going through a pair of MOTM-490 filters being swept by LFOs.  Tetrazzi is controlled by the Wogglebug.

Uses the Modular Tetrazzi as a linear FM modulation source for the Zeroscillator in “no bias” mode.  A thick drone arrives from the Synthesis Technology e340 Cloud Generator and later … Read More

Example use of the Modular Tetrazzi as a sound generator, driven by other modules. In this patch a simple pattern generator drives four MOTM-800 envelope generators, each of which is … Read More

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