2021 - 08 - 15 Automatica

I like lots of different musical styles but have little experience in composing/producing PsyTrance. Here we have horns that descend into sizzling acid bass lines with nitrous oxide birds. Serve with a stiff off-shore breeze. Buckle up.

JLPSC #29 - Can It Go Faster?

Swam Horns are a special treat to work with and this week I have pared back the sonic pallet to 4 horns, a pad, an arp, some carefully placed samples and a synth bass with some environmental  SFX. Dreamy and lyrical. The horn carries the rhythm. Serve with a strong, dark rum and some hard cheese.

JLPSC #35 - Meditation for Horns & Oscillators

4 horns explore memories of a bygone era. Emotion without percussion, movement through breath. Go hug a friend and tell them you love them. You won't regret it.

JLPSC #36 - Meditation for Horns & Oscillators II

Bent sounds and delay network manipulations. Horns echo and warble. Where it starts is not where it ends.

JLPSC #38 - Meditation for horns and delay network.

Further explorations of Swam Horns through my VCV Rack home rolled version of the Intellijel Sealegs Eurorack delay network. Alan Watts helps to set the tone. Enjoy with a hop forward hazy IPA.

JLPSC #39 - Meditation for a Wiggly World. (feat. Alan Watts)

Generative bassline with low pass gates (LPG) and complex oscillators accompany four French Horns on a coastal harvest of sounds all atop a brisk techno beat. The horns are run through my Sealegs inspired delay network.

JLPSC #40 - Sources of Uncertainty

Four horns explore the meditative aquatic realms.

JLPSC #41 - Meditation for Horns and Complex Oscillators

Four horns and a tuba explore the reverberations and delays of my homegrown Sealegs VCV Rack interpretation. Reason's Complex-1 provides a melodic baseline that evolves through low pass gates and filter manipulations.

Like so many things it starts with the ocean and ends with the ocean.

JLPSC #42 - Meditation For Distorted Horns and Complex Oscillators

JLPSC #42 - Meditation For Distorted Horns and Complex Oscillators - no drums

Cosmic waves reflect the mysteries of the unknown. Reverberations and stuttered ripples in magnetic currents sway and carry us along like motes on the wind. Made with @reasonstudios Reason 12.

Nocturne for Complex Oscillators and 4 Horns

The veil between the worlds becomes permeable and the ritual echo from another timeline, or a parallel universe intersects with the melody. Flow with the go. Made with @reasonstudios Reason 12.

Nocturne no. 2 for Complex Oscillators and 4 Horns

Composed for Samhain (Halloween) when the veil between the realms is thinnest and the moon is full and one can reach out and get a hint of Elsewhere through self-reflection and meditation.

Nocturne no. 3 for Complex Oscillators and Four Horns

Complex oscillators provide a winding, helical, rhythmic pulse that is complimented by the interplay of four French Horns. Accompanied by a chorus of birds, waves and gentle synths. All made with @reasonstudios Reason 12 using @marketing-audio-modeling Swam Horns.

Nocturne no. 4 for Complex Oscillators and Four Horns

I was inspired by a YT video on VCV Hacks by Jakub Ciupinski and his Smooth Sinc (sync) and applied his technique in Reason using Complex-1 where the primary oscillator ring mods itself to create a windowing function to run a complex oscillator through (wave folded & distorted). Nearly every parameter is being modulated with varying degrees of S&H randomness gives a sense of "life" to the voice.

Ciupinski Smooth Sinc Bassline

A little experiment with Reason 13 and the newly released Ripley delay network and some acid bass. Thank you to @MylarMelodies for the idea.

Reason 13: Acid Foghorn

Gated benjolin and fm bass with jumbled drums. Exploring some sonic ideas.

Funky Rungle

A short duet for two horns in space. The river of time burbles and the Benjolin tracks the passage of exotic particles.

Duet for Horns in Space.

I've been exploring improvised performances with myself using the Touche expression device. There's a lot on my mind - friends and loved ones deep in struggle. May we all rise up and have cause to celebrate.

Riperian Quartet

I was gifted with a pleasant surprise from a calligrapher in Scotland who wrote out "BonkWave" in Lapis Majuscules for me. It inspired this exploration of Blippoo Box (in VCV) which I lovingly gnawed upon with my Shermanik Filterbank Bitwig fxGrid preset for extra character. French horns and Tuba serenade along to a crunchy beat.

Lapis Majuscules

Today some #DrumNBass climbed out of my brain and into #BitwigStudio - I was inspired by #CinematicLaboratory on YouTube and his post about #MutableInstruments #Elements and I built a wee patch in #VCVRack and brought in my #AccessVirusB (Viper VST) and an easy beat with some #AcidBass. Could be #BonkWave or may #NotBonkWave - either way it was fun!

Elements & Virus Jam

Plaits Space

A little improvisation for French Horn (Swam VST) and Blippoo Box (VCV Rack). Made in Bitwig Studio.

Improvisation for Horn and Blippoo Box

A fun track that takes us on a quick journey to the realms of imagination and driving grooves.

Plaits Space v2 - The Adventure Continues

A wee remix of a ditty from many years ago using Reason with backing 'vocals' provided by a random LFO driven module that sounds like howling monkeys.

Coked World

This is a little electro piece I made in 2002 using @ReasonStudios Reason 3 and was published on the Electrode Records compilation called "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep".

Sea Voyage

Electronic music of a dreamy, travelling quality. #horns #fieldRecordings #HopePunk #SailPunk #ambient #horns @marketing-audio-modeling #SwamHorns

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