tribal patterns interact on 4 ambient time planes - like a snow covered mountain in the andes. 

done with my modular: melody by gamma wave source filtered by mico hadron collider. euclidian patterns out of my pure data machine. envelopes by quadra and STG .vca voicing. reverb and delay by tc electronics M3000 ... all analog with digital control.



Mount Aconcagua

this is for one of my favourite characters behind drums. my drum programming goes through four different time signatures just like ginger has at least four souls. this is the akai S3000xl sampler and 3 linn drum samples through a few modular filters, an 8 bit waveshaper and an analog compressor. again everything including the filter movements is programmed in pure data and no daw or sequencer is used. drum machines have no soul after all!

here is the genetic code that recreated ginger baker: https://googledrive.com/host/0B1beo8lTIeKlOVlESHpWbkpIR2c/gingerbaker.png

My Drum Machine Is Ginger Baker

sequencing my modular with a Pure Data patch through Expert Sleepers ES-3. this is analog fm so all im using is 2 sinewave oscillators, one lowpass filter, one VCA and 3 cv streams, (two pitch voltages and one digital ADR). the trick here is that i can precisely reproduce all these sounds by using numbers in PD and am finally able to sequence chaos. no samples involved!

Nohmansland

track made with the wonderful makenoise DPO and QMMG, one tr606 bassdrum sample and lots of primary numbers. all these wonderful melodies and possible permutations! 9 minutes unfortunately is not long enough so i had to cut it short ;-)

the Dual Pulse Orchestra

another dark funky house track, again sequenced with a lot of numbers, polyrhythms and intricate meshing of simple rhythmical elements. sounds by vintage sampler through my eurorack filters, all edits and tweaks are done live. 

this is a hommage to one of the most poetic places ive ever been to, cape finisterre in spain. in the old days this was the most western point known in europe and was literally believed to be the end of the world, where the sun dies every night. its also the spiritual end of the camino santiago a pilgrims path founded in the 4th century ad.

check it out:

http://www.costameiga.com/sites/default/files/styles/watermark-vivebarbanza/public/cabo01_1.jpg?itok=aH8d60s5

another excellent night train is by my fellow synth explorer norman and his initial gain project. also home to one of my favourite synth music releases:

http://www.initial-gain.de/releases/?artist=Initial%20Gain&release=Future%20Remnant

The Night Train to Finisterra

this friend of mine told how much he loved the music of the egyptian lover. i had no idea what he is talking about but a few days ago we go through berlin and we meet THE EGYPTIAN LOVER in person. i still havent heard his music but i made a track that sounds like i would think an egyptian lover should sound like. 808 + oberheim sem, improvised with patterns again and mixed and mastered with a tascam 644 cassette deck. sounds great and 80s to me!

The Egyptian Lover

helike is an ancient greek city that disappeared in a tsunami in the 4th century. its also the name of one of the 67 moons that orbit jupiter.

this track is based around a frequency modulation synth that i just programmed in pure data. its inspired by the ancient fm chip OPL2 by yamaha that was used in gaming consoles in the 90s. it produces complex audio spectren by 2-operator frequency and phase modulation. 

the track is part of a series im working on at the moment called "planetary systems". planets revolve around a central core, the sun but follow their own mathematical rules of orbiting. in this track the core is a grid in 24/8 but the changes of the different voices revolve around 10/8. 

all audio is run through analog filters of my modular and mixed and mastered on a tascam 644 multitrack cassette recorder.

here is the pure data patch that generated the track:
https://googledrive.com/host/0B1beo8lTIeKlOVlESHpWbkpIR2c/helike.png

helike-23

the name is the program: classic 16th sequencing with  8 steps in 132 bpm. 4 tracks, one reverb, one delay. simplicity vs. complexity wins 8:16 ... if you know what i mean. done with cwejman vco-6 and strings by kawai k1. the tape style delay is the outstanding NastyDLA by http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com.

8x16=132

i rediscovered this track and really like the sound of it, its mixed to cassette and then analog compressed which makes it soft and huge.

betelgeuse is a red giant star only 640 light years away from earth which will supernova soon. its also the name of the last cargo ship of the us navy which was finally mothballed into another soft and huge object.

this track is based on a strange swing rhythm: 3232323231 = 24 and other interlocking number orbits. sequenced in pure data with no edits straight to tape. sounds by tr-808, tr-909 and oberheim sem.

inspired by the music of aaron funk aka venetian snares as last_step: simple analog complexity

BetelgeuseAK260

analogue sine waves arranged in polyrhythmic melodies, framed in campfire crackles. EL SENO ROJO ... red sine waves.

El Seno Rojo

another alternative soundtrack for bladerunner 2.0. this one is for J. F. Sebastian, the puppetmaster. 

all done with my organic timing sequencer, a rhodes chroma polaris analog polysynth from 1984, an urei 1176 transistor compressor and an english church reverb impulse. 

you can hear the cold drafts lift the dust from the floor! john carpenter would have approved. this is recorded as a loop so you can download it, put it on autoloop and watch the scene forever.

JFSebastian

a track we did a while ago with okydoky rocking the roland sh-101 bass monster. i added white noise waves and the reverb out of an early digital dynacord hardware device and ran it twice through my vintage dynacord mixer, twisting the frequencies around. waves within waves within waves ...

the original can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/rutlinbey

A Deeper Blue

The Zombie Necromancer King's tears dropped like black rain from the sky ...

just like the title says this reminds me of the music of keith jarrett, searching for the perfect phrase in waves of tones. for a larger sequencing project in the making i was looking for an electronic chamber sound. the modular is recorded through a microphone with room ambience and uses various analog saturation and feedback loops. 

Keith Jarrett is hearing Voices

triangle waves are my favourite sound components ... so here is a track in 17/17th triangles composed around an accidental bee sound at 00:34 = 2 x 00:17

the notes are the first 7 overtones of 108 hz so the "tuning" is in 432 hz ... which is a lot better than the standard 440, pure number wise!

Springtime Bee Accident at 00:34

a minimal hardware experiment for sounds in the VOID. you are listening to 11:11:13:11:17 X 300 ms. 

sounds by:

- dsi evolver
- makenoise dpo fm
- alesis quadraverb delay
- dynaccord mc2116 80s mixer

11 - 11 - 13 - 11 - 17

3 more numbers for the VOID. as it is winter in berlin these are supernova snowflake sounds. hardware used:

- access virus b
- frequensteiner the best diode ladder filter
- 80s dynacord mixer

Villa Drusilla

seasons greetings! ... from a homemade wavetable synth, loaded with vintage 12 bit data from 1985 from the sequential circuits prophet vs synth. these sounds are honestly digital und use a synthesis method called harmonic aliasing. jingle along!

A Balinese Christmas Carol

more sounds from the lab, featuring my prophet 3003 pure data prototype with waves from the sequential circuits prophet 2000 ... this time in pure structural sequencing mode. 

infinite complexity with a few integer numbers, just like real life!

here is the patch: https://imgur.com/XpxKxA3

in 3003 AD the Prophet will become the Mountain

just me, late at night at the keys of my new waldorf micro q synth, which sounds splendid. this synth covers the illusive golden ground between analog and digital  nicely with some careful tweaking.

the title of course is a take on a song from the 70s by the stranglers called "golden brown", which was a slang word for chinese heroin. go figure!

Golden Yellow

this is the best bass synth of all time and its not an sh-101! 

the title is a take on a real character from a book im reading at the moment, King Baldur IV of Jerusalem. the book is Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore. if you only read one book in your life, read this.

this is done with pattern interference sequencing which is a simple mechanical software device that overlays 3 integer patterns: the note sequence, the note changes and the actual notes being played. 

like with anything in music, three elements is all you need to create infinite complexity.

this track is a remix of "In Trance 95 - Wave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72YrXxMGjDE

The Walking Leper King

this track is based on a strange swing timing algorithm i just developed, its all about linear sound patterns and shifting time relationships between the different elements. 

its an 80s kawai drummachine and casio synth that dance around a minimoog bassline. it reminds me of the music of yamaneko so i named it after him. it could be instrumental grime or a vintage game soundtrack - but its not, its a coded timing experiment from another planet ;-)

the music of yamaneko: https://soundcloud.com/yamaneko
graphics by santiago ortiz: http://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

clock drift

yamaneko

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most fascinating characters of the 18th/19th century. mostly asexual and probably a closet gay he made his maiden voyage with his suspected lover aime bonpland to expore latin america from June 5, 1799 to August 3, 1804. 

a particularly spectacular trip was up the orinoco river which lasted four months and covered 1,725 miles (2,776 km) of wild and largely uninhabited country. 

this track was done with a roland sh-09 for the bass and a casio cz-1 for everything else. also used were a looper with integrated effects, a bitcrusher and the enormous spaces of valhallas vroom reverb.

organic dreamscapes all played by hand. follow the river upstream in a canoe, go round bends  and discover something wonderous every day. fLOAT IN sCienCe!

van humboldts exploration of the orinoco river

more modular action, this time focused on saturation and distortion. what sounds like an electric guitar is NoT. sequenced with my alien logic sequencer code so lots of heay polyrhythmic action. distortion done mostly with the plaguebearer by flight of harmony.

Alien Logic 01

lilak monoke is an experimental electronic music producer from berlin and can be reached at lilakmonokeättgmaildötcom ... 

lilak monoke produces music that is related to techno, funk, ambient music and game and movie soundtracks ... 

for the last years lilak monoke has been working on organic microtiming code and mathematical sequencing tools that are based on pattern language and prime numbers ... 

lilak monoke works mostly without DAW  and analog synths, vintage samplers and first take recordings ... 

lilak monoke is part of a larger place called the UNIVERSE, which is generally a good place but need lots of exploration because of its sheer size ...

lilakmonoke

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