recordings made circa 1995-1998 at 350 bowery in nyc featuring daniel raffel, adrien capozzi and doron gura

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Zahl am1  live track 1

01. SSSlP, Beton Brut – Transit Limb  
02. The Mover – Stealth  
03. Hunee – Crossroads  
04. X or Size – Aether Ore  
05. Djrum – Obsession  
06. Daisuke Kondo – Fallen Star  
07. Phil Moffa – Cent’anni  
08. Karizma – H!t Bottom  
09. Hanne & Lore – Be Good (Andhim Remix)  
10. S Olbricht – IIX1  
11. Quince – Space Pilot 3000  
12. Saudade – O Samba  
13. 2 Lanes – Baby’s Born to Fish  
14. Adam Jay – Remember What Is Important  
15. Darryn Jones – The Revolution  
16. Marvin Jupiter – The Line (feat. D’Angelo)  
17. Pariah – Caterpillar  
18. 23 Skidoo – Kundalini  
19. Afefe Iku & Osunlade – Bodydrumin  
20. Theo Parrish – When I’m Gone

Swarm Of Bees– Topologies-Vol.1-20251127

First free running patch with rings.
Rings is the only sound source on this patch.
But there are two asynchrones sources of CV and trig wich modulate it.

Rings1

ARP sequence featuring the glorious Cwejman MMF-1s filter in 12db/oct mode.

A Yarns is in ARP mode and feeding pitch to a Cwejman VCO-2RM. This is routed into a Cwejman MMF-1s in 12dB/oct low pass mode. I play the chords live via MIDI keyboard. 
The MMF-1s is modulated by the ADSR-VC2 (CV1) and gets subtle modulation on CV2 and Q-peak via a D-LFO in random mode.
The attacks of the ADSR-VC2 are also modulated a bit via the Modcan Quad LFO. 
The MMF-1s is set to subtle saturation and 2nd harm distortion.
Last part of the signal route: VCA-MX4 -> MX-4S -> AI-2 -> Prism AD -> Protools. Bit of Adaptiverb and EchoBoy added. 

Loving the MMF-1s in this mode, so warm and nostalgic sounding!

Nostalgic ARP

Party Talk (Silent Guests)

Revisited an old track that I was never happy with the mix of. Sounds better now. I wish I remembered what exotica album I sampled!
You can hear the original version here: https://archive.org/details/TheoFishHoleSpawnSore/

Beyond the Rainbow (2017 VIP)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)"

Here’s a patch with at it’s heart the Cwejman MBC-3, it is used for compression, colouring and sound design. 

There are two layers:

1. The rhythmical source is a RG-6 clocking a PH-8. The 0 and 270 degrees Saw/Square outputs of the PH-8 are routed to two FSH-1’s. The outputs of the FSH-1’s are routed to a MX-4S which is panned by a PH-4. The RG-6 modulates the two FSH-1’s via the CV1 inputs, and also modulates the PWM input and FM1 input of the PH-8. 

2. The gate output of the RG-6 triggers a CTG-VC, which pings a MMF-1S. This creates the percussive layer and bell-type sounds. The VCA/Mix output of the MMF-1S is routed to the MBC-3. Two of its compressor bands are routed to the audio inputs (no2) of the FSH-1s and are mixed with layer 1. The third (upper) band of the MBC-3 is used to FM the PH-8 via FM input2. The RG-6 also triggers a Turing Machine that is locked into loops. The Seq output of the Turing Machine modulates the frequency of both the MMF-1 and PH-8. This creates the repeating motives.

I wiggle the two frequency knobs of the FSH-1s and the frequency knob of the PH-8. The PH-8 is used in audio rate as well as LFO mode. The latter creates the clicky percussion sounds. 

Recorded in one long take into ProTools via a RND 5059 and Prism AD. Then cut up to make it slightly less boring. Bit of reverb and limiting added on the master fader.

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