automatic music

More Magic

A few changes and tweaks to the Magic Wand patch, and…

Magic Wand

Theory of the Patch My method of composition begins with a control structure with feedback emerging in my mind. Then I draw a patch diagram of it. The top portion … Read More

Automatic Lullaby

Bunnoos like this for falling asleep. (I did fall asleep during this recording.)

Presenting Automatic Music

I took a lot of gear out last night to a local venue, Revolve, to present three automatic music patches. The first one is a variant of the Five Triangles … Read More

Three Minds

A Quantisise patch that evolved from the Three Body Problem. A drone with added FX.

Five Triangles

The Quantussy cluster has five triangle wave oscillators. In this patch two are used for audio (patched to the Coco delay inputs), and the other three are LFO. This patch … Read More

Three Body Problem

The Three Body Problem is a physics problem. It concerns the gravitational relationships between three bodies in space. For example, the Earth, Moon and Sun. Or a Triple Star system. … Read More

Playing With /|/|_|_|_

Mutable Instruments Braids Model /|/|_|_|_ generates a sawtooth waveform, and sends it into a comb filter (tuned delay line). The frequency of the delay line tracks the frequency of the … Read More

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Sound Postcards

Buio by Brud has published a digital album of postcard recordings that I selected from 2012 to 2018. Most all of these are examples of what I’ve called ‘automatic music’, … Read More

Live Patch #1 – Serge-Bugbrand

This is the first live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description The control part of this patch uses the six Quantussy Cells in my … Read More