automatic music

First Mimeophon Take

The Make Noise soundhack Mimeophon arrived! This is a first take, with a simple patch. A VCO is stepped with random voltage, while the sine wave is passed through the … Read More

Happy Mistake

I came up with another extended Quantussy Cell. The diagram is below. There are three LFOs, each triggering three Sample & Holds, with their ramped outputs being sampled and then … Read More

Switched Quantussy Cells

I’ve been thinking about how to use controllable switches for automatic music. Being out of room in the ‘automatic music box’, I put together a 4ms RCD, the Pithoprakta, and … Read More

Quartussy As VCO

A Quartussy is a set of four ‘quantussy cells’. Each cell is a VCO with a triangle wave and a pulse wave output, with the pulse wave driving the trigger … Read More

Wave Destructor

An automatic music patch incorporating the Vult Freak filter in Debriatus – Wave Destructor mode: Distortion -> Wave Folding -> Saturation. The new River Marble module is used to add … Read More

Automatic Freak

Back to some automatic music! I’ve added the Freak Manifold Filter from Vult. Here, the Freak is in Resonant Comb Filter mode. This patch includes six Quantussy Cells, each enhanced … Read More

Presenting at Revolve Now

To the Asheville Art Museum betook me a box of modules for to present an automatic music hearing at Revolve Now. The following video segment is proof that you can … Read More

Clip Clop

Automatic music patch comprised of six Quantussy Cells and six voltage-controlled envelope generators (Mutable Instruments Stages). Two of the LFOs are cycling envelope generators from Starling Via META modules. Sound … Read More

May The Fourses Be With You

My first automatic music patch using the Tesseract 8X8 Matrix switch (which is hidden under patch cords on the left). Oscillator: I.F.M. Fourses. And a track recorded off the mixing … Read More

Nasty and Nice

The other night I presented a patch that I called Nasty and Nice. You can listen to that on Soundcloud. Nasty and Nice is two different sound patches that share … Read More