The result of some of the many random experiments with sound in The Lab over the years...

All recordings copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

Random Experiments With Sound in The Lab...

My studio archives are littered with long forgotten test recordings I made of vintage studio gear that has been through the workshop for clients. Sometimes I have fun throwing a few of them together and seeing what comes out. In this case its a couple of test recordings from back when I custom modified a number of Adrian Utley's wonders a few years back to be sync'able including his Bentley FR-6, TR-808 and a rackmount Oberheim Two-Voice (TVS-1).

Composition  & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2015.

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Nilotpal Das also known as Bios Contrast presents 20 minutes of released and upcoming music and is interested in the process of making music and what to make. 
 
Nilotpal Das was born on 27th September 2001 in Kolkata, India. At the age of 16, he started listening to various records and got into learning electronic music production through Youtube tutorials and improvisation. By 2016 he had begun making electronic music and started doing unpaid DJ performances with his childhood friend Rohan Thakuri. Not long after the venture through electronic music, his music shifted towards instrumental and performance-oriented. In 2020 he started his solo project Bios Contrast to seek how he can experiment with storytelling through sonic pieces, real events, and physical objects.

- - - - - - - Meltwater Pulse 1B - - - - - - - 
 
Hello, My name is Nilotpal Das I live in Kolkata and started making dubstep around late 2016 and later got into improvising, experimenting and composing with traditional and live instruments while also building prototypes for my own instruments. I'm currently working on two project one is called 'Bios Contrast' and another one under my own name where I will release a 12 hour Harmonium Drone album. The track you're about to hear is from the sequel to my previous album 'Dragon Rising' and was made using a prototype woodwind instrument together with guitar and effects  
 
- - - - - -  A City Painted With Red - - - - - -  
 
My main works revolve around exploring the past and discovering thier languages, how they lived and what were the events that led to thier destruction I find these concepts really facinating though I have a certain way of doing things, I'm sometimes not quite sure what I'm doing with my music I feel like I have too many ideas and I'm too strict on what I want to work on, part of the reason I think is because I don't recieve any kind of constructive criticism or feedback on my work in short I'm looking for bad reviews because that way I will atleast have a different point of view on my music other than my own. 
 
This next track is called 'The Fog Of War' which is coming out as a part of a compilation Ambient Layers Vol.II on 7K  
 
- - - - - -  The Fog Of War - - - - - -  
 
I always wanted to play my Harmonium with my two hands so a few weeks earlier an idea very spontaniously came down that if I could install my spare 8000 rpm cpu fan at the back of my harmonium I could play it with both my hands without having to vello it. 
 
Wrapping this up mix or whatever you may call this, another unreleased track called 'Forgotten Waters' it was composed only using the harmonium and running the cpu through very high resitance wires and will be out via another compilation on Swiss noise label Czarnagora I don't know how it's pronouced pardon my language. 
 
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links: 

linktree – https://linktr.ee/bios.contrast
instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brahmancore/
instagram (bios.contrast) – https://www.instagram.com/bios.contrast/

061 – Bios Contrast – Nilotpal Das presents 20 minutes of released and upcoming music

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'Aright, Then... Yeah, You... Yeah E's 'Aright........

krank

Compilation of festival EPs ripped from cassette by ponkachonka and processed (noise reduction etc) by me. All content owned by Richard D. James / Aphex Twin / Warp Records. plz dont sue

Bristol 02.09.23

dgitne tst1e

Bolinmgo

october

Little house tune featuring my little lad

MaCko - Childsplay

An 1969 Solartron Pseudo Random Generator modulating  a lab oscillator in a 5 level probability distribution of pitches mixed with three drones slightly modulated with the bandwidth filter set to 3.5Hz producing something a little more musical than I was expecting from an old piece of lab test gear!

Original Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2019

1969 Solartron Pseudo Random Generator: JM1861 Bagpipes

Porb Bomb II

This thing is just plain nuts when you start injecting LFO signals onto the pins of the ADC MUX chip for the front panel control CV channels!!

All segments of this were made with a simple one note sequence whilst the pitch, sample, decay and repeat parameter CV channels were modulated by an LFO with a roughly time related period to the tempo thus causing all manner of evolving natural patterns - this includes the entire section at the end of the recording which was made the same way!..

I feel some serious circuit-bending coming on as none of these parameters are available via midi or CV in stock form...

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

1986 Simmons MTX9: Messin' With Its 'Nsides!...

Having just invested in a crazy number of never used, still in their boxes, JAN (GE) ECF82 Triode-Pentode tubes I spent the afternoon determining whether I'd got myself something worthwhile or a useless pile of glassware..

- the answer?  Well I managed to lash up a working pre-amp, VCA, ring-mod and superhet mixer and then proceeded to have great fun going a bit nuts with it all...  yup - I think there are some interesting projects to come out of all these tubes!

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

ECF82: SuperHet Soup

Testing a 1964 Mk 2 Watkins tube Copicat during initial wakeup and assessment on the bench on the isolated variac following essential repairs to free up a seized capstan motor...

Made with two overdubs - one with a lab sinewave generator through the Copicat and one with some drums from the little Alesis Micron in the workshop also being munged to great effect by this lovely sounding all tube tape echo!

Some people say they prefer the sound of the solid-state Copicats but having owned and worked on both I'd say I prefer the tube units for their mojo.

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

1964 Watkins Mk2 Tube Copicat Awakens: Drum & Sines...

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

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