automatic music

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

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