The first element was a recording of me humming which I processed in various ways. This formed the rhythmic and textural foundation on which a bell sound melody was placed. Some additional texture is added in the form of water drop sounds. The final element, I conceived of as a huge drum sound which ended up more like an explosion, demarking the transition between the two sections.

Texture Melody & Explosion

This is a collaboration with @nava-volante.

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Check out their final mix here: https://soundcloud.com/nava-volante/hope-for-a-monstrous-world

hope for a monstrous world

I was experimenting with a modular patch and wanted to make a sequence. Rather than writing one I decided to play in 'happy birthday'. I was enjoying the overall tone, but the melody was getting in the way so I tried to reverse the sequence. Overall I liked it much better.

Birthday Happy

This is an experiment making something primarily on the modular. There is no traditional sequencing present. The initial element is the first element that plays (a drone with modulation creating rhythm). This is joined by two other modular elements, the 'zap' and a sort of strange kick in the background. I originally planned to play a lead line but went for a simple riff instead: Overall it worked.

Rhythmic Drone & Riff

This is the result of me experimenting on twitch; in particular I tried to do a 'patch from scratch' performance on my modular and a couple of other synths. A slight technical difficulty meant I couldn't sequence then so I had to play two of them at once by hand. Here is the performance: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1126785864 ; this track is what happened after I restarted my controller and sequenced the parts I was playing.

Sequenced Rhythms & Synths

I've been trying to experiment more with the bitwig grid modular environment. In particular how to use the phase and time division units to keep things in time while allowing for varying amounts of control vs randomness. In this case we have two melodic parts, a drone and a kick. The result has various automations recorded to arrange it into a track.

Bitwig Grid Randomization

This is another experiment using Bitwig's Poly Grid for all parts, in particular no clips were used. There are 5 elements which are automated in volume to keep the track moving. Originally I recorded the automations live but ended up with a 9 minute track. I simplified the automation and pulled the curves in to bring it down to around 4 minutes: it worked quite well.

Generative Kicks & Claps

This was primarily an experiment in using the Bitwig Grid modular environment to make a drone patch: I managed to make a fairly broad and moving harmonic/rhythmic drone. I wanted to add another element so I used a hardware synth to create a randomized sequence. The result is me performing these two elements live on mixer and synth.

Drone & Random Plucks

Typically my live recordings from the modular are taken as a single take of all parts. Though my patch was in 3 voices, I recorded each separately such that I could modulate more freely (allowing me 6 hands). The tracks were recorded then sent to their own mixer channels for EQ and summing, then through a hardware mastering chain. Overall a little simplistic, but it worked.

Kicks, Pulses & Random Melody

Percussion plays in varying rhythms across a harmonic family yielding a hypnotic pulse with a clock like aspect.
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An experiment in both physical modelling synthesis and alternative methods to generate melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variations. The result is deterministic, but the only 'composed' material is single MIDI clip of the notes from the circle of fifths, lasting 4 bars each.

Arpeggiated Percussion

The goal hear was mostly to experiment with the ears module. In this case its set up to ping a filter with its audio output (fed by a contract mic). To provide some supporting audio, I created some percussive sounds. They use a generated rhythm and some random modulations. The result is performed in one take on synth, mixer and by tapping the contract mic.

Random Perc & Pinged Resonance

As a further exploration of my one loop track from last month I decided to expand slightly upon the technique. I created a simple modulated drone which I used alongside a simple melodic loop. The melodic line is modulated to change in tone and texture. The resulting track is a one take recording performed on synth and mixer.

Drone & Loop

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