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

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

This is the second live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description The patch has a control part and and audio part.  The control section … Read More

This is the third live piece played at our House Concert on November 12, 2018. Patch Description Inspired by the Krell patch structure, we use three cycling, voltage-controlled attack-decay envelope … Read More

Todd Barton is credited with coming up with the Krell patch.  See this discussion on MuffWiggler.  I grabbed the patch diagram there for my featured image.  The heart of a … Read More

Featuring Just Friends as an oscillator.  In Run Mode Strata (Shape/Sustain) Just Friends is gated by pulses from Pithoprakta.  The Mix output of J.F. goes through a VCA into Black … Read More

A manual mixing of eight tracks.  

Today’s automatic music patch.  This is an entirely new control patch that runs all events off random pulses, which might explain its more random sound than some of my other … Read More

Upon reading more about John Cage, one of my great influences for reasons I don’t really fathom, I came across a quote where he talked about mixing many tracks together.  … Read More

My work process often involves visualizing and then drawing out a patch diagram for complex control with feedback.  The patch shown uses all of the modules from the patch of … Read More