Name: Climbing by Jarn Wood
Duration: 4 min 28 s
Description: This is based on a large generative patch I made in The Grid. I split all the individual voices and put them on separate tracks and added a load of programmed stuff

I hope you enjoy some buzz. This track is created for 343Labs sample challenge. Drums from #bitwig and the 'lead' from my trusted TD-3. Other sounds created from the sample given for the sample challenge.

Space Frogs From Tellus

Notes are the seeds. Sounds are the blossoms. This sound package is the fertile soil.

Notes in Bloom is a new sound package available now that contains presets for combinations of Bitwig's Note FX devices, like Bend, Dribble, Humanize, Multi-Note, Note Repeat, Randomize, Ricochet and Strum. They'll make your played and held notes repeat, dance, bounce and create interesting rhythms in real time, so you can use them while playing live.

"Pool Dancehall" - Notes In Bloom Demo

Solemnity is a future robot sent on a mission to clean up the remains of the first attempted settlement on Mars.



Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Solemnity

A selection from Jet Jaguar's 9th album 'Room Tones', released 1 July 2022 on Shimmering Moods.

Room Tones

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Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

This is based on a large generative patch I made in The Grid. I split all the individual voices and put them on separate tracks and added a load of programmed stuff

Climbing

Free download.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdRAN7TTqLc&t=3s&ab_channel=Concretism

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

Pork

Gear: Make Noise Mimeophon, Maths, Wogglebug; Expert Sleepers Disting Ex; Instruo Scion; NLC Squid Axon; After Later Pachinko; Mutable Instruments Beads; Busy Circuits Pam's New Workout; Synthfox Sledgehammer; Erika Pico Mix; Intellijel 62HP Pallette (buff mult).

Elektrosquid 1: Olympus Mons Amour

taken from Small Blue Micro Textured, the forthcoming collaborative album between Jet Jaguar and Adrien75

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/small-blue-micro-textured

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 50.

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

I don't remember who first suggested we put an album together, but as a long time Jet Jaguar fan (as in since the 90s) and someone who was lucky enough to appear on one of Michael's Angry Rabbit releases, I jumped at the chance. We had just recently finished our trio collaboration with Tim Koch (Takamu) when Michael's health forced him into a series of weekly hospital visits. To keep him engaged while waiting around in the hospital, I sent him files of recordings I had made of guitars or synths played through experimental effects pedals. Michael took these amorphous and chaotic sounds and used his laptop DAW to put them in a sequence that made sense. He also kept noticing that the boxes of rubber gloves in the hospital were labeled “small blue micro textured”. - Adrien

I’d also been into Adrien’s music since the 90s, when I picked up this mysterious compilation Highways Over Gardens in a record shop in Australia. I’ve always been the type of electronic music maker who stitches things together on screens and Adrien’s playing brings out ideas I’d never have. So it was a great and welcome diversion to take his starting points and focus on details and textures. And yes, with the hospital setting, there were bad jokes about “sick beats” in the online chat. Listening back now I don't connect the sounds with that time and if anything I find it mostly very peaceful and chilled. The title phrase made me smile, it seemed a weird combo of things out of context. Can you have a small shade of blue? Are we talking about something both small and micro? Each of the words suited the music and something about the slightly wonky combination seemed right as well. - Michael

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Shimmering Moods Records 2023

Jet Jaguar & Adrien75 - Walnut Catsup

Cate Brooks – Easel Studies

Release Date: 28th July 2023

Coloured Vinyl LP/ CD / Digital

Cate Brooks is back with her 7th release for Clay Pipe Music, never one to stand still, ‘Easel Studies’ finds Cate pushing the boundaries of sound synthesis on the Buchla Music Easel.

On this day in 2015, at exactly Midday, I took delivery of a wildly exotic musical instrument. To call it a synthesizer would be a misrepresentation; it’s really more of a tactile, living, breathing entity than anything else.

It had originally supposed to have been delivered on the day before, but had somehow been mislaid in the labyrinths of the Royal Mail sorting office at Elephant and Castle.

I sat patiently and quietly all morning, waiting for its imminent arrival. I had already read through the ‘manual’, which is more of a concept / design for living, written by synthesis legend Allen Strange.

With Noon approaching, I became a little anxious- my local postie, Barrie, was usually here by about 10:30am and there was no sign of him.

At 11:58, Barrie walked past, completely ignoring my house. Obviously concerned, I stood at the door and waited for him to walk back toward his van. As he came back, he smiled and I called out, quizzically “Barrie?”. His reply was “Yes I have!” and walked back to his van, collecting a large box and bringing it to my door. I remember the weather was muggy and my neighbour was attending to her rose bushes, as the cheery and helpful postie deftly navigated around her busy secateurs.

I took the box inside, opened the top and just looked at the inner box for a while. I took a photo of it, which I still have. It felt like quite a momentous occasion, because I felt that this instrument would take me to different sonic spaces than I was used to. It wasn’t my first experience with Don Buchla’s instruments by any means, as I’d learned to use his 200e system. But this was quite a different beast.

My cat Brillo came to inspect the box and I set the Music Easel up on the floor and plugged it in. The result of that very first experiment became “Pendula”.

In the following days and weeks of that summer, I created many more experiments on the Easel, quite often with Brillo either sat on me as I played, or trying to climb up on the instrument itself, attempting to move the faders and switches himself.

By the end of August, I had amassed some thirty-something pieces, which I put aside for future reference. I had learned a lot about this instrument, its idiosyncrasies, subtleties and ways of working.

Sadly, Brillo died in September of 2015. I like to think that his last summer with me was a comforting experience, curling up and listening to the sonic experiments taking place, as he regularly did for the sixteen years he was with me. The first track on the album, “Con Brillo” is my little tribute to him.

Fast forward to 2021 and I rediscovered all of these experiments. Some were almost unlistenable, but some had a beguiling charm about them- perhaps the sound of someone not really knowing what they’re getting into. They needed mixing and balancing, so I set to work. I also wrote a new piece, with exactly the same recording chain, in the same way, in the same room. This became the suitably titled final track “Hindsight”. 

The Music Easel has remained a constant source of sonic worlds for me to explore. It because the main instrument on the album Agri Montana, for example and has cropped up on many other records I’ve made since.

I would especially like to thank David at Postmodular for selling the Music Easel to me, after phoning him and disturbing his Sunday afternoon outing to Hyde Park (sorry about that David). I always promised I would send him a copy of something I had produced on it, so hopefully he will enjoy Easel Studies.

As I finish writing this, I notice that it is, once more, exactly Midday. 

I hope you enjoy Easel Studies too.

Cate Brooks (21st of May, 2023).

06 Log On Log

03 Flowstate

Made from samples provided by Marcus Fischer for Disquiet Junto 0600. This is my first time participating in Disquiet Junto.

I processed the samples in a few different ways. Some I just looped small parts from, tuned, and made them playable. I made a generative patch in Bitwig's note grid for one of them, and recorded a few minutes of it. I ran one sample through the Mutable Instruments Beads. Another one was played with a random LFO controlling the transport of the Bitwig sampler. For percussion I used the PSU_stairs recording processed in different ways; a booming bass drum created by pinging the Joranalogue Filter-8, a snare-like sound created by doubling it with the tree monster effect in Bitwig, and finally, I cut the entire recording to pieces and rearranged it.

Climbing

Jarn Wood

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