automatic music

More Generative Experiments

By Richard on August 1, 2017

These two recordings were made yesterday, as I worked on the composition of another self-running (automatic music) patch.  This one uses a ring of five clocked sample and holds, inspired … Read More

What is the Quantussy?

By Richard on March 13, 2017

Quantussy is the name Peter Blasser gave to the cluster of five oscillators in his Cocoquantus.  He says, The Quantussy is a five (5) petaled flower, each petal with oscirator, … Read More

Audulus Quantussy

By Richard on March 6, 2017

I don’t use much synthesizer software. But, upon seeing a demonstration of Audulus by Mark Boyd at a local synth club meeting, and then checking out the price ($50 US), … Read More

First Quantisise Recording

By Richard on September 29, 2013

A third of the Quantisise is assembled.  That’s two VCO sections.  Photos will be forthcoming after it’s all done.  I made this recording of it, patched with Cocoquantus.  Castle outputs … Read More

Drone with PB BB and Serge

By Richard on February 2, 2013

Plumbutter, BugBrand, and CGS Serge all use banana jacks.  I did some serious cross-patching among the three for this little drone that uses two BugBrand VCOs, each processed with a … Read More

Prediction

By Richard on December 25, 2012

At the end of David Byrne’s book, How Music Works, he says, “Why not let music play itself?  The composer, in the traditional sense, might no longer be necessary.”   A … Read More

Ludebanti

By Richard on October 28, 2012

A self-running patch using BugBrand with Cocoquantus and also Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer.

Funky Bunnoos

By Richard on September 1, 2012

A patch using Bugbrand, Plumbutter, Cocoquantus.  Lot’s of cross-patching.  The Bugbrand VCOs go through the Plumbutter AVDogs, which act as envelope shapers.  Nice eerie sound of the Bugbrand PT Delay, … Read More

Bunnoo Wallpaper

By Richard on August 20, 2012

Same audio patch as the previous post.  Two Buchla 258J VCOs with the Cocoquantus.  This one uses different control routing in the Cocoquantus.  If you were wondering about Bunnoos, they … Read More