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mix by samsungshaewty

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Enner Madness
1: Introducing
2: Shall I?
3: After-Glow
4: Relief
5: Meditation
6: Return

Dates:
28-Sep-2025 (inception), 01-Oct-2025 (finalised), 02-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
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Description:
No, I am not going mad! More like an energetic use and interpretation of the Soma Enner instrument.

An orchestration of multiple granular synthesis banks through my custom programmed granular synthesiser, Granie (Release 04, 28-Sep-2025).

For full write-up, see my BandCamp or FaceBook Page.

Enner Madness records audio from external synthesisers or electronic instruments, feeds this into the Soma COSMOS memory station to loop over parts of the performance, giving me a small window to record this into small snippets of audio 30 seconds each, the grains into the Granie. The grains are modulated in time and space, left right audio channel modulations, position modulations, position offsets between grains and small changes in playback frequency amongst the cloud of grains. All of this can be varied by adjusting the rotary encoders of the Push2, not through low frequency oscillators, but through human controls of the rotary encoder knobs and then record those movements as automations to replay. All this is done live. I wanted to keep the performance organic.

The Granie also comes with a dual delay+gain+feedback section, one for the left audio channel and another for the right audio channel. Just as with the granular control, delay times and feedback were controlled dynamically on the Push2 live during the performance.

The Soma COSMOS was put into the Rhythmic Firmware mode, using the #09 Fractal mode and the #6 1/5 dominant mode. So the looping in the COSMOS was not your ordinary looper, rather it embraced improvisation and an ever changing play back.

The album consists of six tracks:

Track 1, Introducing: opens with the Soma Enner as the front end instrument. An energetic use of both the Enner and the granular synthesis of it.

Track 2, Shall I?: develops the ideas presented on track 1, but a bit like, shall I press this button and hear what happens? Again the Enner as the front end, blending this in with granular synthesis grains recorded from the Enner performance.

Track 3, After-Glow: takes the grain banks from track 2 and plays them alone, further exploring what can be done with them.

Track 4, Relief: Puts my electric violin at the front end, an NS Design Wav4. This was feed into the LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI (pre-amp), then feed into the Soma Pipe, then into the Soma COSMS and finally into the Granie. A slow moving, calm violin section was performed and simultaneously some short grains recorded. The grains were then mixed in, providing texture and mystery.

Track 5, Meditation: My (human) voice was sung into the Soma Pipe, through to the Soma Cosmos in fractal mode having fun adjusting live the Blur and Drift settings, with the Granie at the end of the signal chain. As with the other tracks, 30 second grains were recorded, played back whilst adjusting grain parameters, some of which were recorded as automations, leaving my hands free to adjust other grains and so forth. Soma Pipe modes here were alternating between the Harcho (best described as a thick stew soup) and the Filterra (band-pass filter with resonance control).

Track 6, Return: Track 6 returns to a similar style of track 1, playing the Soma Enner to the Soma COSMOS and back to the Granie. The Enner parts used a combination of a drum brush played through the face-plate piezo pickup, finger drum tapping and the touch plate oscillators. Then recording 30 second grains into Granie and experimenting live, with the granular synthesis parameters and feed back controls.


EnnerMadness 05: Meditation

Waterfall Training Montage

From "Say Uncle" (Crossover with Uncle Grandpa)

Uncle Like You

Music that plays as Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven go around gathering the gem shards from Rose's bubble in the episode "Secret Team".  Composed by Aivi Tran and Steven "Surasshu" Velema.  

Steven Universe Soundtrack - Secret Team!

From the episode "Future Vision."  Some of this isn't heard in the show.  Composed by Aivi Tran and Steven "Surasshu" Velema.  

Steven Universe Soundtrack - Death Rag

This is the demo for Mr. Greg from the Steven Universe episode, Mr. Greg!

I love old timey, vaudeville-y schtick.  And Greg spending big bucks at a fancy big city hotel had old timey schtick written all over it.  While writing the outline for Mr. Greg, I came up with the first half of this tune and pitched it a cappella to the group.  It felt very silly, but it must have amused everyone enough to stay in the picture.

We started making a demo.  I had the beginnings of a bass line and the percussion, and Jeff came in and made it an actual song with some great jazzy chords and an insane guitar solo, which I'm pretty sure he just improvised.

Like I said before, the song was originally only the first verse and the instrumental.  In the outline, Greg, gets so caught up in the spirit of the music that he asks Pearl to dance, and that's when she pulls away - showing that Greg and Pearl have a long way to go.

We showed the demo to Joe, and I believe he was the one who said this needs a second verse.  And together we wrote a second verse, with Pearl singing, that incorporated those story beats into the lyrics.  

So have a listen!

Guitar & Steven Vox: Jeff Liu
Bass, Butlers & Greg: Ben Levin
Pearl Vox: Joe Johnston

Lyrics by Joe Johnston, Ben Levin and Jeff Liu
Music by Ben Levin and Jeff Liu
Image by Joe Johnston from the episode Mr. Greg

Steven Universe Soundtrack ♫ - Collusion

♪I Exist♪