This is an answering machine message tape with a couple of odd things. Mainly, I do not recall using it to record stuff in the room. Henry was just learning to talk, so this is 1985 or so. We lived in Denver. Then some recorded calls somehow, and then the big question of who the hell was getting circumcised and why did Kathy travel to Michigan (?) to be there.

Pure freakin' gold.

Answering Machine Tape 01

Here's another answering message tape. Vickey is invited to dinner, Becky wonders when Kathy will be back and if Lynette got a bag, Jim has a computer problem, Robin wants to know how the trip went, Teresa Mershman gets her phone number wrong, Rita wishes Kathy a happy birthday, Ginger is looking for a bike.

Answering Machine Tape 02

This is the first thing I've spent any time on designing and tweaking in months.

Thing in Db minor for Vector + Launchpad + Keystep

This is a sequencer-based piece. I use a Five12 Vector sequencer, controlled by a Novation Launchpad. 5 musical sequencer lines accompany 4 drum tracks and a keyboard voice. The Vector is a truly amazing and versatile sequencer. I use the Chance and Modulation channels a lot.

This is the most voices I've used at one time. I'm all about the melody and the harmonies and the counterpoints. This was played in one take, live to computer. I've been dorking with this thing for more than a month and thought it was time to lay it down, again.

For you synth nerds, the 6 voices are:
1) Braids mixed with a Synthtech E350 Morphing Terrarium into an E440 filter, velocity modulating low-pass cutoff
2) A Plaits with ADSR and Batumi modulating stuff
3) Rings, velocity modulates damping a little bit
4) Doepfer pulse wave mixed with Disting MK3 VCO into a 2HP MMF filter
5) Disting MK4 playing tuned xylophone samples
6) Keystep playing a Z3000 mixed with Braids into a Korgasmatron filter
The four drum sounds were an LDB-1, a Plonk and a Tiptop One.

Lenska Rev3

Eric on Novation Peak with a Launchpad Pro, Henry on Euro with a Vector sequencer. We just made this up as went along... obviously.

020622 - Another Eric and Henry Sunday

First output of a piece I've working on using my Vector sequencer.
6 parts: four melodic, plus one voice for drums on a Disting, and a drum voice. One take with post mixing and a little bit of reverb in Reaper.

GettingThere

This is not intended to be a copyright violation, but simply sharing a valuable and interesting bit of synthesizer lore. If requested to take it down, I'll do it.

When I was a teenager, I had a rabid interest in all things modular synthesizer. I wrote to all known makers of these things, and the R. A. Moog company sent me this record. The Flip side is a reissue of the Brandenburg Concerto from S. O. B.

12- R.A. Moog Demo Record

The New One

Erik Satie - GnossienneNo4

Still needs some work, but I thought I'd lay something down. One pass, one take, mixed after.

Newer Again

PersonWomanMan

This is a segment from Joo Won Park's installation at the Light Box performance space in Detroit. For safety from Covid, one person at a time entered the space and found a pattern of wires tapes to the floor. The audience members were given a small portable amplifier and a wand, essentially a magnet, through which amplified interference could be heard.

No two experiences could be the same as the person with the wand "searched for ghosts" within the space by placing the device close to the lines and coils of wires and changed parameters on the portable amp... reverb, flanging among them.

Magnets And Ghosts - 101720

Still learning the ins and outs of the Launchpad X with the Vector, so today I assigned myself the task of making something up only using the Launchpad to create the sequences and play them out in one take.

dibcadbu

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