Audio example of a #bitwig patch I created. The important characteristic of a #Kobol #Expander is its two VCOs with morphing waveshapes (i.e. analog #wavetable). I implemented this with two phase-shifted LFOs.

Never mind the "music"

Cloning a Kobol Expander in Bitwig's Poly Grid

Algorithm

Perplexe

Found an old Easel Program Card I had soldered up years ago, popped it in the Buchla Music Easel then took its audio output into some Tiptop Buchla modules for processing.

Tiptop Processed Easel

Exploration with some Morphagene samples and generated sonics from Creature From the ID software by Giorgio Sancristoforo.

Xpressionist

I had a few hours to spare so I grabbed a table at a hotel downtown where I passed, far too easily, as a participant of the ongoing professional conference. The wifi required a room number and a corresponding name, but my phone worked fine as a modem. Quite suddenly, an hour and a half into my stint, myriad doors opened and the hallway was packed with actual conference participants, marked by shiny lanyards and purpose-built smiles. The chatter was like rainfall, like a rushing stream, like a flock of chatty birds — dense, rapid, and unintelligible. I recorded 45 seconds. This isn’t white noise (too slow) or brown noise (too shrill). It’s flesh noise. 

Humorously, both my laptop and my phone recognized the presence of human speech in the recording, and the Voice Memos app registered this with the little speech bubble icon, which signals that a transcription is available. I wondered what marvel might await, as I went to click on the button. Perhaps the processing power of my five-year-old laptop would be able to discern multiple individual streams of conversation from the tightly packed, overlapping speech. I was disappointed if not surprised. The transcription yielded merely “…..” — an extended ellipsis.

Flesh Noise

Improvisation 01.mp3

The Sea & the Sun

No One No Good

Here's a  little something to ease you into 2019...

VeryRecords is proud to present ‘Cello and No Buchla’, a piece composed and performed by Reed Hays from VeryRecords artists Reed & Caroline. 

The track features cello, Organelle and Mutable Instrument Modules controlled by the Verbos Touchplate Keyboard… we hope you like it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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REED HAYS - Cello and No Buchla

“Seeing Clearly“ is one of the first songs Crystin Fawn and Thomas Kessler worked on together… Crystin wrote the original version 10 year ago and played it to Thomas - not only because they are friends - but also because they were simultaneously working on several other tracks together at that time. The outcome of sharing the song with Thomas resulted in 2 very special remixes - „seeming to come from another planet“. 
Nevertheless the remixes had to lie dormant for quite some time and now have been refreshed and released for the first time… 
Contentually the song deals with the search for mutual understanding - for being as close as possible „in thoughts“ with eachother… So it definitively depicts a utopia - which probably is an eternal dream of mankind.

Crystin w/Thomas Kessler - Seeing Clearly (4am Mix De Plugged)

Jeunesse Dorée

Jeunesse dorée

Soundcloud is my accoustic notebook: I don't post finished songs, but little bits and pieces, representing ideas and experiments.
Since 2017, I am using a modular synthesizer system (Eurorack) for its analogue qualities both sonically and conceptually (West Coast). In 2023, I started integrating analogue modular with digital modular (Bitwig). Musically, I am very much inspired by modern classical music of the 20th century, especially minimalism. At the same time, I have a soft spot for 80s synth pop and atonal ambient soundscapes.
I am currently working on live performances. Contact me for bookings.
I am also interested in collaborating with female singers. Contact me for more details.

Cloning a Kobol Expander in Bitwig's Poly Grid

Andreas Steiner

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