The Spies of Zeus were an idisoyncratic band from South Prague, Ohio, famous for not quite sounding like a few other famous bands. Fans of their particular blend of health-goth disco (or fans of blends of any kind) would do well to explore that inclination.

"The influence of The Spies is subtle, but pervasive..." –– Kylex Mire, bassist, https://soundcloud.com/camadoon

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THE SPIES OF ZEUS
ARE EVERYWHERE
THOUGH NONE CAN SEE THEM

'Desfixiateur' by The Spies of Zeus

ModalShift

Siniaalto

Examples of various processes available in the free and very powerful Composers Desktop Project software package.

you can find 4 volumes of additional examples here https://icrdistribution.bandcamp.com/album/audible-design-1

the software itself is available for free here
https://www.composersdesktop.com/cdpsystem.html 


here's what's in this track

Dry file (a short clip recorded from my modular synth, from the track "Vespers")

Granulated
  ---and time stretched
Linear stretching of the audio spectrum, and blur, and trace
   ---and timestep

New dry source file (to demonstrate processes that need to spectrally analyzed source files)
Interleaved with first source file
Averaged with first source file

Scrubbing the play head over the first source file
Shredding the first source file once, then 4 times, then 17 times
Ringmodding the first source file

Ringmodding the first source file while automating the ringmod freq using a breakpoint file (powerful and easy to do for any parameter in CDP)

Interpolating between the 2 source files

Cross modulating the first source file with a third source file that sounds like tiny bells

Stretching that 2x in my DAW
---2x more
---2x more
---And lowering it by an octave


All of the above with a bit of compression and reverb in my DAW

All of the above took me a couple of hours; I ran about 50 different processes; all of the processes have default values but many parameters that can be varied in many ways, and automated over time as the processes run

CDP Process Demos

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Cello open strings and harmonics looped through delay.

Andy

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Modular LiveACT snippets LogicNOT. Performed live, single track recording.

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Gotharman Tiny Little Deformer, Gecho Loopsynth, Ellitone Multisynth, Aalto, Kaivo, Prism, Reason.

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