Insipred by red clouds over North Devon on a winteres evening.

Gear used
Intellijel ShapeShifter oscilator
Mutable Instruments Blades dual filter
MI Tides as LFO 
ALM Pamela's New Workout
DivCid 0chd
MI Peaks
MI Veils
MiClouds
MakeNoise Erbeverbe
MakeNoise  Mimeophon
NonLinear Circuits Sloth
Mi Kinks
4ms PEG
Tiptop Z3000 oscilator
Fonitronik Thomas Henry 555 VCO
Manhattan Analouge SVVCF
MA VCA
Frequency Central System X Envelope
MI Rings
Horstronic Arcade Button

Cwmwl Coch

Experimentation combining Ableton Live with Eurorack Synth.

Ableton sample clips played through a heavily  randlomly modulated MakeNoise Mimeophone.

Modules Used
Makenois Mimeophone
MakeNoise Wogglebug
ALM Pamelas New Workout
Intellijel 1U Noisetools
NLC Sloth

Disporia

Swampy

Best listend to with headphones or a good sounds system with good bass response.


Track create using Eurorack modular.
modules used
4MS Spectral Multi Band Resonator
MakeNoise Mimephone
MakeNoise Wogglebug
Intellijel Steppy trigger sequencer
ALM Pamelas New Workout
Mutable Instruments Tides.

Divergence

Everyone emerges at some time.


Created on Eurorack Synth

Modules Used
Intellijel Shapeshifter Oscillator
Intellijel 1u Noise Tools
Intellijel Morgasmatron dual filter
4ms Ensemble Oscillator
Tiptop Audia Z3000 VCO
Fonitronic Thomas Henry 555 VCO
Mutable instruments Clouds
Mi Veils VCA (x2)
MI Peaks as ADSR (x 2)
MI Warps
MI Kinks
Manhattan Analog Discrete SVVCF filter.
Make Noise Mimeophone
MN Wogglebug
MN Maths
ALM Pamela's New Workout LFO
NLC Sloth Chaos


Track image by composer. Airbrushed acrylic ink on black card.

Emergence

Chalkydri

Made with several overdubs of white noise and a lab pulse generator fed through a gorgeous 1968 Brüel & Kjær type 2107 all-tube regenerative swept band pass filter during final testing following the resurrection/restoration of yet another of these unique and wonderful units with modifications for creative use in the studio.

The 2107 pass frequency is hand cranked to reveal harmonic content at up to a 50dB per octave crest. At this sort of resonance little that comes out of the beast sounds even remotely similar to what goes in so its to fun to catch the harmonics on way whilst cranking that huge tuning dial.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2022.

1968 Brüel & Kjaer type 2107: Grasslands of Kjær

Entities of impure thought

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This is something I was experimenting with recently - I used a Tascam device to record a single strike on a Coolicon metal lampshade (the same type that Delia Derbyshire used on several of her tracks), and changed the speed to make three different notes. 

I then added a ton of reverb, before processing the audio with Paul Stretch in Audacity, and Spectral DroneMaker in Garageband. The latter gave it more of a swirling, watery effect. The results went on for far too long though(over 15 minutes!), so I've cut this down to around 4 mins for the upload. Just a fun experiment on my part - I'm not musically trained at all, but have been inspired by listening to Delia Derbyshire's music recently. And by all the celebrations marking what would have been her 80th birthday today, 5.5.2017.

Coolicon Ambience (PaulStretched drones)

With some intrepidation I decided to have a go firing up Novachord 346 for the first time in what turns out to be 8 years since I resurrected and partially restored this 1/4 ton behemoth!...

To my great relief, this now 88 year old quarter ton 163 tube beast came out of slumber with all 12 of her master oscillators in action and pretty much in the same order she was in last time I hooked this monster to the power!...

After some initial tests I made this recording consisting of one overdub of a plucked Attack setting over a slow sustained Attack setting whilst occasionally moving some of her triple L/C formant resonator controls, the Bright/Mellow control and the Vibrato Depth.  

The source is 100% Novachord and the recording was made directly from the line output of the pre-amplifier into basic delay and reverb but with no form of added modulation processing such as chorus/ensemble/flanger.  Any natural chorusing you hear is due to the Novachord's 6 free-running vibratos acting on pairs of her 12 master-oscillators.

It still truly astounds me that an all electronic instrument originally on the drawing board in the mid 1930s can sound like this.. and even moreso 85 years after she left the factory!!

We are so used to hearing muffled scratchy recordings from the 1930s – but that is not to say its what it sounded like on the day of the recording – the HF the NC produces is amazing for its era.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1938 Novachord #346: The Beast Doth Gently Awaken (88 Year Old Tube Polysynth!)

GUITAR TONE IS ROCKET SCIENCE!—Vintage, high voltage, vacuum tube technology harnessed to create radical guitar effects pedals!

Swampy

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