Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

An aleatoric drone. This uses some newer modules. The Cynthia ZerOscillator with linear through-zero FM, modulated by a MOTM-300 VCO, provides the pitch source in this patch. Passed through a … Read More

Two groups of three VCOs each are driven by control voltages originating in the CGS Infinite Melody, quantized by two Blacet Miniwaves and analog shifted by two CGS ASRs. Each … Read More

This is a slightly different version of my entry to the “Singing Robots” aleatoric contest, winter 2005. It is a totally aleatoric piece with no-hands-on during the recording.

I really like this little excerpt from a long-running patch. The idea is to take a random melody created by some sample and hold sequence. This result is passed through … Read More

I love the sound of the 490. It is so classic. This demo features my two 490s playing a random melody.

The Steiner has a distinctive sound. Here is a demo of my dual Synthacon filters.

This is different from my usual style. I hand-mixed two different live patches. There is a frenetic sample and hold melody, backed by a bass drone courtesy of the MOTM-310 … Read More

This relatively long MP3 (10 minutes) is titled ‘cross product’ in reference to the cross product mode of the MOTM-120 module. The audio path is straight-forward. Two MOTM-310 VCOs drive … Read More

This short composition was mixed in real time. It features the formant effects of one of the Electronotes filters, creating a vocal-like quality.

My foray into live performance. I set up a patch with the Generalized Resonator and controlled the VCO pitch and other tracking parameters with the keyboard. I’m playing the monophonic … Read More