Name: Nicola Ratti | Streengs (track five) by Buzzin' Around in 026. #fi2u # Noise On The Objects /28.09.2015
Duration: 4 min 35 s
Description: track five from Streengs album, released on Senufo Editions.

026. #fi2u # Noise On The Objects /28.09.2015

Taken from the album 'Toxic Cosmopolitanism' released as LP / Download

Kassel Jaeger 'Exposure Scales — Sunlight' (eMEGO 183)

sometimes i just want to have fun and experiment on the modular with well-known themes. today i wanted to do a bit of the classic "buchla bongo"... at least use my make noise optomix to create some wood-like percussion.

the main sound is an intellijel shapeshifter being FM'd by a dixie sine wave. it goes into the make noise optomix which is being struck by a function trigger. various LFOs modulate the rate.

i decided to throw in another sound on the 2nd channel of the optomix and went for the e350 oscillator and threw an LFO on the pitch.

i really like the percussive and wooden textures you can get out of FM sounds and the optomix. how i'd use them in my own productions, i don't know yet... but it's fun to play around.

i find with modular synthesis that i need to have a rough idea going in of what i want to do. sure, it can change from there, drastically, but at least having an idea.. because you are, after all, building something from the ground up.

it's quite the opposite of a standard subtractive synthesizer where there's already a sound there to start.

part of the goal of this studio diary is to simply explore ideas.. to see if i can do them and maybe later figure out how, if ever, they'd fit into my compositions.

oct 23, 2014 (woody modular)

The A side of free jazz monster MATS GUSTAFSSON's new solo  7" for iDEAL, ltd to 200 copies on tasty transparent vinyl. Recorded live at a table in front of an audience of five at Stockholm's Bar Brooklyn a few years ago. There were some people at the bar too. True free jazz lap dance, man.

MATS GUSTAFSSON - LAP DANCE (iDEAL119 7")

Murcof's debut album, "Martes". This is the original tracklist that was edited on the Mexican release by Static Discos on Frebruary 14th 2002.

track five from Streengs album, released on Senufo Editions.