soundtrack for my december Group 312 Films submission. 
film topic: defective

defective 

deefive

Legiac_Mantikythera Echanism

Stories of death, sadness and redemption through acceptance and gratitude.
Words:

Oh so long ago it seems
I used to sleep with my watch on &
Then one by one 8 friends of mine passed

I became anxious over time
Until the day that I awoke
Everything was so quiet here
No one else was at home with me

I heard a ticking sound
I became anxious overtime I can’t
listen for too long to
This tock and ticking song
If i know its from a clock I become anxious overtime
Ahh aha, sweet time

I remember faces and smiles
And the wisdom that they taught 
Something in their eyes is miles
And then it snaps and I am caught
I hear and tock and ticking song and I know it’s been far too long

To Be
Anxious Over Time

The tock and ticking song
Wakes me up to how long
I’ve been dreaming
Only seeming to be 
Actually living my life
Anxious Overtime

23 Anxious Overtime

Link to the video of the patch, recorded in one take here: https://vimeo.com/136165676

download to the .wav file :-)

Patch Notes:

Harmonic patch using the new MakeNoise tELHARMONIC is a Multi-Voice, Multi-Algorithm synthesizer, and 4ms Spectral Multiband Resonator. The master clock is the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms. Clock output running into the Modcan Touch Sequencer. Channel output one running into one intellijel Dixie (V1) for the bassline. Dixie output running into a Mutable instruments Ripples filter (LP4), triangle waveform. Second channel output sequencing quantized 8 note sequence to the telharmonic oscillator, creating the first lead sequence in the patch (major scale set). One Mult output taken and sent to the Strymon BigSky reverb pedal to create the delicate swarm pads that rise in and out at the builds. Amplitude control of the slow rises via the intellijel HexVCA, slow rate control from one Modcan Quad LFO. The other output is then taken and sent to the Qu-bit RT-60 reverb. Third output from the Modcan TS sending quantized CV to the MakeNoise STO oscillator variable SHAPE output then sent through lower section of the MakeNoise Optomix. The forth output from the Modcan TS is sending a 4 chord pattern (min9) to the intellijel shapeshifter module in chord mode. This output is then sent to another Qu-Bit RT-60 reverb algorithm. MakeNoise Mysteron plucking guitar like effect being triggered by a 4ms RCD, 5th trigger out. The Mysterson then is running out into a Strymon BlueSky pedal, reverb.

Drum sequencing from TipTop CR, channel one kick drum going to the Nord Drum 2. Second channel number 2 triggering a custom snare drum made on the Nord Drum 2. Channel 6 from the CR triggering a low bass drum, in the key of "C". Clock output from CR into the 4ms SCM being rotated by a intellijel dixie sine wave output running at a slow rate shifting the 16th's hi hat pattern. Noise source for hi-hats are the SSF quantum rainbow 2, purple output running into the MakeNoise Optomix. The high end snare clap sound is by the Synthrotek's DS-M drum module, then being lightly processed by the Synthrotek DLY, slowly CV controlled by a Modcan Quad LFO in random mode creating more glitchy effects. This is then being sequenced by channel number 2 from the tiptop CR. The first lower left side 4ms Spectral Multi-band Resonator processing 72 custom DSP samples, which are being played by one addac wave player. The output is then being sent to a intellijel uVCF filter (hi pass), for the light subtle glitch textures. The second 4ms Spectral Multi-band Resonator, processing another set of 32 samples (noise washes/slow rises/falls) via channel number 4 from the CR tiptop. From here the output is being processed by a Mutable Instruments Clouds (granular mode), being controlled by the Pittsburgh Modular Game System running "Meteor Shower" mode in which the explosion based gates and random control voltages are then being sent to 3rd Dixie, controlling the CV rate time then from there its sent to the "Freeze" input on clouds, processing small bits of audio coming from the second addac waveplayer, The second output coming from the gamesystem is going into the "position" input on Clouds, which is doing some additional glitching to the signal.Main output from a intellijel Mutagen mixer then ran through the Eventide space pedal for extra spatial atmosphere. :-)

Harmonic Symmetry - Modular Patch

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heron drift

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For the next entry in the Sorted Series we are very pleased to release a mix from Chicago's Chris Widman. Chris, as some of you know, played for Sorted way back at Sorted 3 with Hodge, Call Super & Dean Grenier. Chris, in addition to being a Smart Bar resident, also hosts the weekly WLUW radio show @abstractscience , going strong since 1997. 

Chris has been our friend & fellow traveler for nearly 25 years, and this mix demonstrates the depth of his immersion in dance music culture with skill & aplomb, guiding the listener on a trip across a landscape that Sorted fans know well: from house to techno to dubstep to the broken beats of Bristol, it goes deep and hard and, like a Sorted party, ends with a proper rinse-out.
This is an absolutely killer mix, from a true selector who has lived & breathed this music for decades. We are proud to release it, and we are proud to call Chris our friend.

Track List: 

Barker & Baumecker “Senden” (Ostgut Ton, 2016) 
—consciousness intro—
Bruce “Baychimo” (Hessle Audio, 2018)
Pev & Kowton “Raw Code” (Hessle Audio, 2013)
Lurka “Heat Mover” (Timedance, 2018)
Shalt “Resistant” (Astral Plane, 2016)
Slikback “Ascension” (Hakuna Kulala, 2018)
Otik “Latex” (Keysound, 2018)
Low Steppa “On The One” (Food Music, 2016)
Breach & Dark Sky “The Click” (Naked Naked, 2013)
Lone “Crush Mood” (R&S, 2017) 
Martyn “Cutting Tone” (Osgut Ton, 2018) 
A Made Up Sound “All Out” (Delsin, 2016)
Addison Groove “Bad Seed” (50 Weapons, 2014)
Hodge “Swing for the Fences” (Hemlock, 2017)
Happa “Beat Of The Drum” (Church, 2012)
Salva & Grenier	“Wake the Dead” (Frite Nite, 2012)
L-VIS 1990 “United_Groove” (Mad Decent, 2009)	
Batu “Bleeper Feed” (Timedance, 2016)
Ipman “Ghostrunner” (Tectonic, 2015) 
Loom “Dog In The Fight” (Gobstopper, 2017)
Skee Mask “Dial 274” (Ilian Tape, 2018)
Kamikaze Space Programme “Half Life A” (Mord, 2018)
Killawatt “Crackerjack Cacophany” (47, 2017)
Detboi “Groovedigger” (Metalheadz, 2018) 
YAK “Wide Eye” (R&S, 2019)
Soundbwoy Killah “The Bounce” (Body Jack, 2015)
Solid Blake “Warp Room” (Seilscheibenpfeiler, 2018)
Andrea “Future Atmo” (Ilian Tape, 2018)
British Murder Boys “Splinter” (Downwards, 2004)
Special Request ”Redrum” (Houndtooth, 2017) 
Untold “Palamino” (Hemlock, 2009)
Struction “Kreen” (R&S, 2016)
Headhunter “Prototype (Modeselektor's Broken Handbrake remix)” (Tempa, 2009) 
Dexorcist “Sunstorm” (Yello Machines, 2013)
The Tuss “Synthacon 9” (Rephlex, 2007)
Stenny “Fail Better (Bent Mix)” (Ilian Tape, 2019)
X-Altera “Check Out The Bass” (Ghostly Intl., 2018)
—universal language epilogue—
DJ Flash “Pulp Fiction” (Urban Gorilla, 1995)
Run Tings & Liftin’ Spirits “Come Easy” (Suburban Base, 1995)
Danny Breaks “Step Off” (Dropping Science, 1995)
Photek “The Rain (Remix)” (Razors Edge, 1996)
Boymerang “Urban Space” (Prototype Recordings, 1996)

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