Light sensing algorithmic music - watch the video http://youtu.be/qTvE0NqpAiE

Get under the skin of this patch here http://leafcutterjohn.com/?p=1865


Algorithmic Max/MSP experiment based on the Price Of Gold 1957-2013

A simple song for my friends and their new baby boy. 

Brand New Baby Boy

A rhythmic Max/MSP patch trough a really cheap ebay reverb that arrived this morning.

£40 trashy Ebay Delay Experiment

Recorded in the forest 2015, amazing reverb, recorded on an iPhone.

Fireworks in the forest NYE 2015

Mutable Instruments doing a dirty Kalimba sound with the help of the Plague Bearer Distortion.

MI Elements does a Dirty Kalimba

I still can't quite believe it's possible to make a contact microphone using: Baking Soda and  cream of tartar, but here is the proof. A tiny crystal held in a small clamp, connected to a battery powered guitar amp and held against a music box. 

FULL INSTRUCTIONS here: http://leafcutterjohn.com/?p=1518

First recording using Rochelle Salt piezo crystal made from baking soda and  cream of tartar

Bach's Goldberg Variatio 2. a 1 Clav. On modular synth. Cheesy but fun.

Goldberg Variatio 2. a 1 Clav. On Modular.

Elements Chord Mode

A demo of the contact mic I've developed. Now on sale at http://leafcutterjohn.com

Leafcutter John Contact Mic Demo

Example of recording a Rhythm using layers of live contact mic'd objects. Featuring, Drying Stand, Windup Radio, Metal bowl, Hand Drum, Hand cranked torch.

Using contact mics I've been making here: http://leafcutterjohn.com/?p=1992

Contact Mic Rhythm

Essmaa

Street Scene

Tunis

Ohm Ymy

Melimelon

Introduction in the Wrong Place

Polysomnogram

Palm Reader

Interference

A Slowly Growing Beautiful

Raw Bird call recording followed by a filtered version, then two layers slowed down, then 8 re-pitched layers.

London sounds Beautiful - Dawn Chorus Montage

2 processed guitar voices and one voice of processed bells


Leafcutter John SWEEPSTAKE

Track one from the new Leafcutter John Live album. Out NOW on Tsuku Boshi Records.


Track Five from a the Leafcutter John Live album. Out NOW on Tsuku Boshi Records.

Yes! Come Parade With Us

Doing The Beeston Bump

This Way Out

Stepper Motor

Pillar

Elephant Bones

Dunes

Output from a software patch i'm working on to make music out of user input. The input in this case is any number. All the patterns are generated from this number, there is no randomness used in the software, so if you enter the number twice you get the same output. These examples also use one source sample which i was changing throughout. Still lot's I want to do with this, the melodic parts could do with a lot of work for example...

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