automatic music

Fourses Automatic Patch

The patch for the previous post uses my Big Euro Box.  There are two parts:  the control patch and the audio patch.  Pardon the poor sketches. Control Patch The control … Read More

Automatic Fourses

Here’s my recently reconfigured “Big Euro Box”, designed for automatic music.  The patch uses a bunch of stuff for control, including three Tromso, the Klavis Logica Gater and Pithoprakta.  Fourses … Read More

Synthesizer – The Concept

I’ve become disaffected by the way the word ‘synthesizer’ is used in connection with electronic music. The First Synthesizer It was the RCA Mark I. Please read the article linked … Read More

Q-Relative Patch

See this discussion thread on MW.  A user posted an idea called a Q-Relative cell, by which he meant relative to a Quantussy cell.  While it is not a Quantussy … Read More

New Year’s Eve Automatic Music

Automatic music created by a free-running patch, controlled by a seven cycle quantussy ring.  Loquelic Iteritas and Fourses oscillators are heard through Warps.  These three segments followed each other without … Read More

Eurorack Quantussy Cells

This diagram shows a generic quantussy cell, as I call it. See What Is The Quantussy for more information. It’s the name of the five oscillator cluster in Peter Blasser’s … Read More

Swoop Spokes Module

In my previous post I mentioned a case idea for the Swoop Spokes PC board. I made it of two pieces of 1/8 inch clear acrylic, which were cut to … Read More

Ciat-Lonbarde Swoop Spokes

The paper circuit, shown above, is the only information that we have that pertains to the Swoop Spokes.  It was a kind of mystery circuit that no one else (that … Read More

Immediate Music

Ever since that time, in 2012, that I was captivated by the Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus oscillator cluster, which Peter Blasser called the Quantussy, a Nabra or analog brain, I have sought … Read More

Tromsø Generative Patch

First trials with Tromsø modules for generative (automatic music) patterns. Detail of the cables around the four Tromsø modules, the four 2hp Sample & Holds, and the Sport Modulator: It … Read More