Name: January 06, 2022 (field landing) by 12k
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: i think i'm still in "create an environment" mode.... befaco noise plethora, 4ms SMR, Tides and a bunch of LFOs....

without unpatching yesterday's patch... but routing the final stereo out through the Intellijel Rainmaker.... bells via Rings.. and some additional EQ and pitching in WaveLab. the Melodicer sequencer is really fun, generating endless melodies and rhythms... 10% of which are super cool! i just wish it was more than "1 measure" long....

January 05, 2022 (rain made rings)

i've gone and done it. "rings into clouds" (well, Beads, in this case).... i've always loved Rings, the ease of use without it needing a VCA and envelope and the pluck and bell sounds are fantastic. here Rings is sequenced by a Melodicer and then going through a variety of processing including Beads and Rossum Morpheus and Panharmonicon. after it was recorded i varispeeded it down 5 half steps... as i usually do. it's all a little busy and such.. but, i had endless versions and tweaks and figured i'd just post it up

January 04, 2022 (diced rings)

i think i'm still in "create an environment" mode.... befaco noise plethora, 4ms SMR, Tides and a bunch of LFOs....

January 06, 2022 (field landing)

it's late. it's almost the 8th. i almost posted a fragment of a new track i am mixing tonight for an upcoming album but decided to take a break and mess around again with the 4MS SWN.... which is featured here alongside the Make Noise QPAS and MIMEOPHON... and some post processing in WaveLab.

January 07, 2022 (resonance finding)

this is (almost) the last minute from an upcoming solo album i just finished.. and sent the final mixes to the label (not 12k) to tonight. as with anything that i do, i am beyond being able to think objectively about it anymore... but i spent the day making these final mixes so i figured it should be today's studio diary.

January 08, 2022 (the last minute piano)

i just got a torso T-1 euclidian sequencer and this is an early attempt at trying to understand it. it's 5 single-note tracks triggering an ASM Hydrasynth. just a test, but shows some potential for me, i think.

January 11, 2022 (euclidian test)

some more time spent today with the Torso T1 and Hydrasynth... starting to get the hang of it.. enjoying the happy accidents. i feel like i have a formless lump of clay that i push and pull and cut away at until something inspiring forms.

January 12, 2022 (sine finding)

just a simple sequence tonight as i was making some patches on a Moog One. it's a synth with such a rich sound, even though i try to coax the sine waves it doesn't have out of it.

January 13, 2022 (we will be forgotten)

January 16, 2022 (bygone light)

sorry for my absence for the past week. i've been rewiring my entire studio and only now am functional with the headspace to create again. i'm also super busy and, for a very very exciting potential project, had to dig into my archives to find the original sessions from my album "Northern." as it turns out, there were two songs i started, but did not finish, for the album, and that did not appear on the album.

this is an excerpt of one of those. it's completely raw, unmixed, just as i found the session, but minus a pile of plug ins that i no longer have that wouldn't load from the original session.

i found it pretty interesting, thought i can see why i didn't put it on "Northern"... but i thought i'd share it here.

January 23, 2022 (unreleased 10-28-1995)

A stochastic experiment 
on the modes of Byzantine music, 
using the Oberheim Eight Voice 
and OB-X synthesisers.

Byzantine Haven 2

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January 06, 2022 (field landing)

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