Something's Outside the Ship

An experiment in getting back to my electronic roots.

Mars_ Orbital Approach

Snapdragon

Cover Anyone

My cover of Welcome to the Machine. A thing to do that I always said I would do is cover a song soup to nuts. I did not plan on singing, infact that is the clean vocal feed from vocoder. Nothing really is very clean as I did no preplanning and just played after memorizing the progression and then making it my own. This was only for my own amusement. I hope it amuses you. Basically all done with a mellotron micro and a lot of OB6.

WTTM V2DM

This track uses the Synthesis Technology chord table to simulate a 3 voice analog shift register or ASR. As you can see in the pattern below, each note enters thru the first column & with each trigger is pushed to the next, followed by a new note behind (fuller explaination: https://learningmodular.com/glossary/asr/). Playing all these notes at once (i.e. polyphonically) produces a sequence of chords reminiscent of the Tangerine Dream sound. For distinction, each voice uses a different ROM bank/wave table but all the modulation inputs are slaved to osc1's X and Y parameters, respectively, to sweep thru the oscillators' wavetables in a parallel movement. To enrich the mix, I also did a second pass of the pattern, transposed up an octave, and layered it later in the track. 
    The ASR pattern (first audible around 1:30) is based on the first line, slightly transposed and translated into offsets, of a notation by Stephen Drake that I downloaded (from Muffwigglers.com ?) You can cut and paste the pattern directly into a TAB file for your own experiments - I used a root note of C2 for osc1. All sounds from E70 except one part from a Xaoc Kamieniec in self-generating mode. 


0 12 24 0
19 0 12 0
36 19 0 0
31 36 19 0
12 31 36 0
17 12 31 0
36 17 12 0
12 36 17 0
3 12 36 0
22 3 12 0
24 22 3 0
19 24 22 0
2 19 24 0
29 2 19 0
24 29 2 0
12 24 29 0

A S R (E370)

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GUZO

E520 Hyperion Spectral Vocoder "triple-tracked" with different number of bands/sibilants, to create a mild chorusing effect.

Simple to Think About

Preview of my album "Phoenix" released on Tehnofonika in Nov19

This album is a very personal one. It reflects a long time of upheaval and reinvention, which is now over with the release of this relatively emotional work. The rebirth of something that has always existed and has now rearranged itself. Tabula Rasa.

Phoenix

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Fulton/Reaves Project
Dweller at the Treshold
Milwaukee 3
Møtrik
Defective AI

WTTM V2DM

Dave Fulton