Testing the possibilities of clock divider + Numberwang in VCV Rack. Instant success. Added reverb. Recorded.

Some sploshing is involved.

Where's The Snow, Lebowski?

Cleaning Supplies - Toilet Mixer

Ol' man Lucifer insisted that ketchup looked good when smeared all over me. I, however, am still 57 varieties of horrifying.

Cleaning Supplies - Sploshing Satan

I heard Siren Head is into some freaky shit.

Cleaning Supplies - Emergency Mismanagement

Generative modular goodness that I patched together. I find it fascinating what one can accomplish with a few chaotic circuits and a clock divider. I'm also pleased to report that surface-mount soldering is not as terrifying as one would expect.

Cleaning Supplies - A Black Hole Loved Me Once

Tuning VCOs by ear is way more fun than using a tuner. That's why I made a recording completely devoid of melody.

More modular ambient goodness. I hope you enjoy it.

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Cleaning Supplies - Engine Room

Soldered together a Befaco Chopping Kinky kit over the weekend. It sounds great, and is playing nicely with the Jupiter Spirits, which makes me quite content.

Cleaning Supplies - Clocks Minus Clocks

I can play my modular synth with a gong. I should have come up with this idea forever ago. I think it's overpowered.

Cleaning Supplies - A Presence Felt Without Touch

I fixed my 8bit CIpher build from a few months back that had some faulty outputs. It's sure generating some swell CV patterns. The shift register functionality is also proving to be quite fun. The trick is to get signals in the data inputs to go high and low in ways that make for interesting progressions. A bit of effort to dial it in right, but nothing that a looping EG through A*B+C can't help with.

Lots of work done in post on this one. The Jude Doyle track was a shitpost, but I tried something goofy on it that I thought might actually work well in this. Sure enough... really digging how zany antics led to a strategy that really fills out the spectrum.

Cleaning Supplies - Shifty

More voltage-controlled switches! More logic gates slammed into unity mixers! More sloths!?

This space flight thing is weird, man.

Bravo to the Contour 1 for being an effective shuffle rhythm generator. What a handy clock! I mean function generator.

Space Shuttle Shuffle

Logic gates and abuse of slew limiters. Fun for days! Original recording was 51 minutes, but I chopped it down to wherever truncation made most sense.

I may or may not have fallen asleep during audio review.

Lull

Cleaning Supplies - Lull

Original challenge:

Avantgarde Music Challenge (AMC) 008 - "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lib"

Click ANY two spoilers.
The two revealed words are your revolutionary new music genre! Please demonstrate it for us with a song.

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My selected genre: Vampire barf!

I decided Let's Splosh would be essential for this. I started with an oscillator and Delay No More. It went a bit nutty from there.

Avantgarde Music Challenge 008

Sleep It Off [Avantgarde Music Challenge 008]

Avantgarde Music Challenge (AMC) 005 - "Kirby Ate My Studio"

Make a song of at least 30 seconds' length using the accompanying sample pack.
You may edit or effect the samples as you like. OPTIONAL: Try to use every sample at least once.
You may also choose one instrument of your liking to play alongside the samples!

(The samples come from the SNES game "Kirby Super Star", and are randomly chosen.) 

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This was another effort in learning the Erica Synths Sample Drum. I'm definitely liking it quite a lot. The sounds might be mangled into incoherent nonsense, but it's _my_ incoherent nonsense, damnit!

Avantgarde Music Challenges

Kirby Found Mystery Substances In The Rainforest [Avantgarde Music Challenge 005]

A generative idea based on Todd Barton's approach to the Krell patch. Contour 1 is doing a lot of lifting in this one. Only one "voice" is present, though it uses both of my primary oscillators and is run through two parallel VCFs.

SEM filter still owns, by the way.

Sentient Brass

The dwellers of the darkest depths of the ocean have an awful lot to say about modular synths. A lot of people don't know that.

Deep Ocean Life

When your pals have food-related audio recordings, you simply HAVE to run them through VCV Rack. Various Pringle crunching samples from @Sonic_Kitchen.

Pringles Can Drum Circle

This sat here a bit longer than anticipated.

Stagnation

Simulation Terminated

I Ate The Clock Again

I'M LIKE A SECRET AGENT BUT I HAVE BAD IDEAS AND WORSE ODORS.

Stink Panther

MAKE PROFITABLE MORAL VALUES THE ONLY ONES IN YOUR LIFE. OR ELSE.

Charlie and the Consent Factory

Razma Music Challenge 004 - Saga
Make a song which contains the history of its own creation. There are two main approaches I've envisioned: ACCURATE and NATURAL.
For the most ACCURATE sound, record this entire process externally (e.g., by filming it, or by having Audacity record the Stereo Mix and your mic input) so that EVERYTHING (including your spoken comments, sounds in the room, software crashes, distractions, etc.) become part of the finished piece. This will tell the most complete history.
For the most NATURAL sound, treat the composition as a loop and allow it to play on loop while making it. We'll hear the experience of making this song as if each individual iteration of the song were itself part of a greater arrangement. This will be the most composed.
ADVICE: Work on areas the playhead has already passed by this round, or else just work quickly! Choose the song's tempo and length from the beginning and stick with them. Then each iteration can be sampled and treated as a seamless loop later on.

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When you get a dumb idea in your head, you write it down and fuckin' RUN with it.

Razma Music Challenges

RMC004 - A Song About A Song

Existing in the real world is for suckers.

Float

A chicken sandwich's favorite waveform is the slawtooth.

Shimmer

SLEEP ON IT AND THEN SLUG IT OUT TOMORROW.

Rage Sleeping

EXTERMINAGUHJGUHGUHGG LORD GOD THAT'S REALLY IN THERE

Dalek Fisting

It claws you to death as a sign of affection.

Data Center Demon

Crunch Bar

Blippy Squirk

Time to test a MIDI recorder, or something.

Mopey Alien

Smacking my plank in the face (with more planks).

Planking Fetish

I think that's about as much polyphony as I'm ever going to squeeze out of the Hydrasynth at one time.

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