Back to the portable lunchbox eurorack modular synth. I wanted to use the Roland CR-78 drum machine for some percussions, but that is not exactly portable. So I captured a few loops from it using a Ditto+ looping pedal and used that instead. It is not a substitute, especially as I couldn't transition one loop to the next in a smooth way, so I stuck with one loop and filtered it. The Ditto+ also doesn't have a way to sync in or out, so I had to get the clock rate of the Pachinko roughly aligned with the loop. Was recorded on 3.14, hence the title (and also the randomness as part of the composition and performance process, just like the sequence of digits in Pi)

Apple Pi a la Mode

These recordings are all demos.

Interested in the dark side, the quirky side, but mainly in that buttery biscuit bass.

Bassist and composer from Belfast.

Fancy a collaboration? Drop me a line.

Canadian Polyglot and polymath living in North Carolina, Francois is Head of Dion Research by day, & artist, maker of instruments & effects, musician, photographer & sound engineer by night.

His interest in music started at a very young age when he studied classical piano and electronics, both of these things would be quite influential on his future work.

He started composing electronic music as a kid in the early 80s and experimenting with sampling on an Apple //e, and would later use the Amiga, Apple IIgs and on the PC, the Gravis Ultrasound wavetable soundcard, and would publish soundbanks for it. Today, most of his music is done without computers, on modular synths and effects built by him, along with some commercial synths and effects.

From 1988 to 1997, he hosted a show on electronic music from its beginning in the early 20th century all the way to modern electronica, and the history of it and the technology that enabled it. He also did a stint at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Videoway / Videotron in Montreal.

In parallel with that, he would continue releasing music through various media, including digital media before MP3 files (through MP2 and ADPCM WAV files on Hyperreal, IUMA etc). In those 30 years to now, he has produced an average of ~1 album (EP or full) a year

A math person making and modifying sounds with custom code, Csound, homemade electronics.

Apple Pi a la Mode

Francois Dion