Fine-tuning my new sequencer module. All you hear is just a single axoloti circuitboard running a self-generating patch. No samples used, all realtime synthesis.

We are poly

soundtrack for promotional video
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mastered by Jerboa

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Recorded on 4-track cassette between 14-18 august 2019 in Rotterdam. 
Hoekhuis is out now on Obus Records

https://obusrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hoekhuis

Hoekhuis

Hoekhuis IV

Shedding its skin

I want to go for it
 I want to push limits 
Let’s give it a try 
Hey, let me color it 
Can not stop this mess 
I’m feeling high 

Heedful 
Absolute eyes 
Some things fold 
Nothing dies 
Feet drown in 
Fear to settle 
Overrated 
Go stand in the rain 
You often say 
To open up
 Be brave 
Be kind 
A gun 
You hold it too high 
If you hold it high 
You’ll fire the sun 

I want to go for it
 I want to push limits 
Let’s give it a try 
Hey, let me color it 
Can not stop this mess 
I’m feeling high 

Close-up 
Trust to apply 
Some things break 
Others slide
 Feel your skin 
Love yourself 
Unlimited 
Come give it a name 
You often say 
To open up 
Be brave 
Be kind 
A gun
 You hold it too high 
If you hold it high 
You’ll fire the sun 

Remove it 
Take it out 

I want to go for it
 I want to push limits 
Let’s give it a try 
Hey, let me color it 
Can not stop this mess 
I’m feeling high 
Am I ahead of it 
I am a loving bit 
On a golden ride

Splinter

A/T/O/S, pronounced 'A Taste Of Struggle' is a project by Amos & Truenoys.

Introduced by a mutual friend, A/T/O/S started creating music together. Their first creation, 'A Taste Of Struggle' was quickly picked up by dubstep pioneer Mala, who signed them to his label DEEP MEDi. Their debut release received an early spin by BBC 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbs and impressive remixes by Skream and Commodo.

Braindamage is taken from their upcoming album: WATERMAN 30.10.20.
The 3rd on DEEP MEDi, following their self-titled debut 'A/T/O/S' and the follow-up 'Outboxed'. WATERMAN once again sees A/T/O/S exploring new territories with their formula of exciting beats and powerful vocals, accompanied by Michiel De Malsche (@MIDM) on the keys as their 'secret, not so secret' member in the studio & on stage.

Video: https://youtu.be/CLyJ3fdoqpY

Braindamage

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A/T/O/S -  waterman - braindamage (07)

Tones and rhythms of MERS, SARS, COVID-19 and mutations, represented in audible space. 

LYRICS: The molecular mechanics of the pandemic. Motion and Stillness. Vastness. An indefinitely small quantity, yet singular, and profound. While we cannot see the invisible, we can hear it, and internalize it, and explore its motion in the stillness of the moment. Vastness. Stillness. 

Using the vibrational information of the frequency modes the drum parts explore the overlaying frequencies of molecular protein vibration, scaled to the rhythmical level. The left and right channel, respectively, reproduce the patterns of the reference COVID-19 pathogen and the G614 mutant. 

This is a version of https://soundcloud.com/user-275864738/mers-sars-covid-19-and-covid-19-g614, but with added rhythmic elements.

BACKGROUND:

The pathogen of COVID-19 continues to impact the world, as the pandemic wreaks havoc and spreads arounds the world. As time goes on, mutations of the virus emerge, which can affect how infectious and how lethal the virus is.

And, there are also different forms of coronavirus diseases – like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 – all caused by viruses in the same “family”.

What is the reason why MERS is so much deadlier, but less infectious, than COVID-19, which transmits easily but has a lower lethality rate than MERS or SARS? Can we better understand how the molecular details of the viruses work, and if they may provide clues for treatments or cures?

It's in the music! In a paper published in Cell Matter, we have identified a strong direct relationship between the nature, rate and intensity of the virus spike protein vibrations and how readily the virus could penetrate the human cell, as well as an opposite relationship with the fatality rate of a given coronavirus.

The key result of our work is that both, the overall flexibility of the upward receptor-binding domain and the mobility ratio of the receptor-binding domain in different conformations, represent two significant factors that show a positive scaling with virus lethality.

The series of tones is: MERS, SARS, COVID-19, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19, SARS, MERS, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614, COVID-19 G614.

Reference: Y. Hu, M.J. Buehler, Matter, 2020, 10.1016/j.matt.2020.10.032

MIT News: news.mit.edu/2020/vibrations-co…irus-proteins-1119

The Molecular Mechanics of the Pandemic: Motion and Stillness, MERS, SARS, COVID-19 and Mutations

Aftermath ft. AMOS

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This track is just a demonstration of a wavetable generator to be used for the 4ms "SWN" (sperical wavetable navigator) eurorack 6-voice wavetable oscillator module.
Using an axoloti circuitboard, I created a module that creates 6 parallel spheres where each harmonic of the 27 waveform spectra is allocated to only one of these 6 spheres. 
So if all voices are playing at the same pitch, same morphing position in the sphere, mixed equally, panned in the middle and the main waveform is the same for all 27 positions in the sphere, you just get this main waveform, no matter where you are in the sphere.
But changing any of these will provide a perfect independent filtering of all partials, suddenly making the whole sound alive and swirling all over the place.
The parallel spherical wavetable generator has several parameters that influence the creation of waveform spectra, allowing for instant creation of new spheres with a tap on the randomise button. Dampening higher frequencies to adjust for a natural decay in amplitude over frequency can be done as a combination of exponential and linear decay with a randomisable offset of this decay rate per waveform. Next to this, a randomisation can be added to randomly remove an amount of the main decay amplitude for each harmonic, creating gaps in the spectrum and creating formant like waveforms.

SirSickSik - Spherical  Parallel Wavetable Morphing

from the record 'Bolo Saba' by the trio Barà, released in November 2020 on Homerecords, with:

Baba Sissoko: vocals, ngonis guitars, tama, tar
Afra Mussawisade: percussion, electronics
Jozef Dumoulin: fender rhodes & effects, synths, mbira

All compositions by Baba Sissoko
Produced and arranged by Afra Mussawisade

Shahab

New wavetable generator, table-oscillator and modified MI rings reverb for the axoloti circuitboard

Fftable

Antwerp based musician/producer.
selected tracks, albums and live recordings. 

Thank you for listening!!!

mailto: andrewclaes@gmail.com  

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Andrew 'Chi' Claes