cocoquantus

Quartussy

After I had sussed out the Cocoquantus schematic and understood the internal relationships among the five oscillators that Peter B. calls the Quantussy section, I began to wonder what it … Read More

Twenty thirteen

A strange drone produced with CGS Serge, including the SSG, BugBrand, and Cocoquantus.   I did some mixing during the recording.

Prediction

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

Doodle Shift

A patch using BugBrand, Cocoquantus, and CGS Serge.  Two quantussy oscillators are used at audio rates and brought into the BugBrand, passing through the Low Pass Gates and then through … Read More

Ludebanti

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

Improvisation with Tetrazzi and Cocoquantus

Tetrazzi into Cocoquantus, directly into the RCF powered speakers. This is a great setup for performing an improvisation. I spent hours with it. Diana shot some video. The live sound is of course much … Read More

Funky Bunnoos

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

BugBrand Plays With Cocoquantus

The BugBrand SYN2A VCO is really nice.  It has a jumper to select the variable FM input to be exponential or linear.  Since it also has a 1V/octave exponential input, … Read More

Bunnoo Wallpaper

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

Harmony of the Bunnoos

This is a pair of Bucha 258J VCOs harmonizing with the Cocoquantus.  The 258Js go through a pair of cycling Haible Trapezoid VCAs into the Cocoquantus to be recorded.  And … Read More