Goose Challenge #2: Buchla Music Easel

Jen's Song

Improvisation in C minor using Moog modular and a Digitone.
Experimenting with FM and semi random modulation.
Chance on digitone notes to avoid too much repetition.

Recorded in one take + basic mastering afterwards.

Modular Studies - Study 1 - [Moog Modular, Digitone]

Polypores Multizonal Mindscramble DiN81

Release date 15th September 2023
Limited to 300 copies 180g Vinyl / 300 copies Digipak CD

Stephen James Buckley aka Polypores returns for his second full album on the DiN imprint following on from his 2022 debut “Hyperincandescent” (DiN71).

Though we’ve come to know a wide range of sounds from Polypores, it’s here on “Multizonal Mindscramble” that we get plunged into the outer reaches of the inner psyche. Flickering insectoid transmissions are laid atop slowly shifting walls of drifting oscillators, barely discernible chirps and static-encrusted filter sweeps. There are moments of undeniable melodic bliss amongst the warm, weightless transmissions though, with soaring arpeggios and covert counter-melodies emerging from the fog and coalescing into perfect harmony before fading once again into the ether. The slow intricate weaving of sounds and timbres has become a Polypores trademark, and once again the fluidity and ease with which Buckley moves between sound-worlds is evident on this new album. The organic textures morph and grow, from a syncopated glitching oscillator through to slow swells of synth and spacey, cavernous reverb. Like a languid walk through the forest, while you gradually melt through the earth and into the soil. 

A perfectly balanced textural odyssey, and a stunning example of the depth and breadth of the Polypores sound “Multizonal Mindscramble” is released both as a 180g Vinyl edition and a Digipak CD with stunning artwork from Wendy Carroll that matches the music perfectly.

01 The Dream Incubator   03:30
02 Foam   03:01
03 Machine Elves   05:58
04 Can Non-Player Characters Experience Love?   02:58
05 Diverging Reality Tunnels   03:29
06 Retrocausal   03:05
07 Hyperdata   00:59
08 Until You Observe It, It Isn’t There   04:30
09 Compute Gnosis   02:56
10 Hexagram   03:18
11 Strangels   04:04
12 The Green-Screen Beneath It All    02:09
13 Adventures In The Super-Spectrum   02:59
14 Butterflies   01:08

Total Time :  44:02

Multizonal Mindscramble

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Multizonal Mindscramble by Polypores (DiN81) Demo Mix

Composed in March 2020, sometimes referred to as my "quarantune". Special thanks to Sherrie Tappendon for lead vocal, and Joe Inkpen for invaluable long distance production assistance. Stick performance, background vocals, and main production by Solo. NOTE: Attempting to meditate to this is not advised.

Spectral Echoes

What can I say - I've always had this fixation on robots. This tune was intended as the main title theme for a sitcom pilot idea I had some time back. Sharp ears will catch motifs liberally lifted from other early TV sitcoms. This version includes a short intro titled "Stay Out Of My Dream" 
Composed/produced/performed by Solo.

Erica Replica Main Theme (With Intro)

9 track Album

1. Opening
2.The Upside
3.Run and Hide
4.The Downside
5.A Safe Place
6.The Way Out
7.The Light
8.Outro
9. Closing (Bonus Track)

Ambient Album Hope you enjoy , I have blended the tracks together to give it a continuous run . Single tracks are also available  .

Thank You for your Support ;)

UPSIDE Down Full Album

did you hear about the two racehorses that ran into each other at the track?



stupid horses

Kind Too Wild

This started out as a test of the Monome Arc sequencing the two Oscillators of the Buchla Music Easel while also sequencing Mutable Instruments Rings and Intellijel Plonk... it then turned into a pretty but sad little tune. Additional background sounds/voices from Make Noise Morphagene. Effects from Mutable Instruments Clouds (on the Eurorack Modules) and Empress Effects Echosystem (on the Buchla.) Video version can be seen here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lakMtPCK8sA

The Ever Deepening Well of Sorrow & Loss

The Ever Deepening Well of Sorrow and Loss

Ableton updated Live 8 Suite with new guitar Amp effects, thought I'd test it out; and I've been trying to get back into playing guitar anyways, after years of doing the electronic-laptop-musician thing... So I was basically just jamming for a couple of minutes and then all of a sudden, I dove into an epic 1970s style 3 minute plus ending, complete with double-layered guitars, piano and strings and even more cowbell! Don't know what the hell I was thinking... but some times you just gotta have fun! (all guitars, bass, drums, piano and synth strings by me... oh, and cowbell too!)



Untitled #5

sat_21

New tests, sketches and experiments from my film scores and various band projects (under the names of genshi, jido-genshi, Science Patrol, StarDotStar, cell:burn, Seven Summer Eyes, and a few others) as well as an archive of old songs of mine from various decades.

The Ever Deepening Well of Sorrow and Loss

genshi

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