automatic music

North Slope

First in the Modules in a Hat series.  To break out of limiting habits a bit, I wrote the names of 79 physical modules on little pieces of paper and … Read More

Chaotic Harmony

I recently built a self-oscillating autonomous chaos circuit by Ian Fritz, called the Jerkster. The Jerkster Chaos Circuit I’ll soon publish photos of this module.   The first interesting patch I’ve … Read More

Undersea

This is my first patch with the Tellun Dual Lag.  It starts with two MOTM-310 Micro VCOs, one of them driving a Wiard-Blacet Miniwave (Socket Rocket ROM).  Two Oakley Sample … Read More

Shimmering

An aleatoric drone. This uses some newer modules. The Cynthia ZerOscillator with linear through-zero FM, modulated by a MOTM-300 VCO, provides the pitch source in this patch. Passed through a … Read More

Chimes

Two groups of three VCOs each are driven by control voltages originating in the CGS Infinite Melody, quantized by two Blacet Miniwaves and analog shifted by two CGS ASRs. Each … Read More

Lydian

This is a slightly different version of my entry to the “Singing Robots” aleatoric contest, winter 2005. It is a totally aleatoric piece with no-hands-on during the recording.