easy -..- sampler

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Korg iMS20, Synthmaster KV331, Loopoperator, Hammerhead, uKORG, Logic Pro X.

Samples: Modulated waveforms: Found TV audio snippets and themes, band rehearsal in the Royal Military Chapel -
 London, Illinois school band.

Cover Art: Detail from "Black Chapel" (2022) by Theater Gates. Constructed at the Serpentine Gallery.

Watch this Space (excerpt)

Kit: kV331 SynthMasterOne, Drumcomputer, iFretless  bass, volca fm, Fluss, uKORG, Logic Pro X.

Acknowledgements:
Audio: 1) Excerpt from an “Imprint” Sunday service, St Edmund’s Church, London. 2) Excerpt from worshipping in Yuk Hui Temple, Hong Kong, 3)Ambience and drums from Che Kung Temple, Hong Kong.

The Second Coming

Kit: uKORG, Animoog, Fugue, Volca FM & nubass, Audulus, Mono/Poly, ODYSSEi, Hammerhead, Logic Pro X.

Acknowledgments:
1) SackJo - modified vocal stems from
 a) "The Haunted Hotel" [2013].
 b) "White Out (Shade of the Moon Mix)" [2009].
Both a) & b) - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license (CC-BY).
2) Josh Woodward, "Follow the Road" [2014] - modulated samples, mostly vocals. 
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) license (CC-BY).
3) Rukmani Devi {1923-1978}, "Dushmantha Aho" taken from a 2017 compilation of single tracks - Public Domain from the Free Music Archive website.

Summer of '23

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

Acknowledgements :
Kit: uKorg, Fluss, Sampletank for piano and cello, Drumcomputer, Minimoog D, Logic Pro X.
Audio Samples:
1) "Debris on the Scioto River" (2014) by Kelly Latimore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 : CC-BY.
2) Modulated and mashed samples from the Choral Matins service at the Royal Military Chapel, London, February 2024.

Cover art: Detail from "Dream – Spontaneous Combustion" (2008) by Olaf Brzeski

Debris, filtered and mutated (ft. Kelly Latimore)

Kit: CS2x, PO-33, iMono/Poly, uKORG, iMini, Launchpad, Aparillo, Sonar X1...
Vocals: SpinningMerkaba, SackJo22
Cover Art: “Cave” by Antony Gormley

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- Hope Is (Like A River) by spinningmerkaba (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/28031

- Lamadio Tiado Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/33441

- Indelible Choices -- Background Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/32703

- Untethered (BG Vox) by SackJo22 (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/27512

Hope is like a river (ft. SpinningMerkaba and SackJo22)

Kit: CS2x, Minimoog Model D, Launchpad, Third Coast Percussion: Music of Steve Reich, Logic Pro X...
Vocals: Orrisroot (clean and treated)

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- Morning Star by Orrisroot(c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

Morning Star (ft. Orrisroot)

a.k.a.  -..-
Pre-releases and Experiments
- Final releases via https://linktr.ee/dashdotdotdash (Apple Music, Spotify)
Support creativity through Bandcamp.

- Artists: 
  (1) -..- , xperimental 
  (2) XLab3 , xperimental
  (3) Ding Dong , vintage electronica

- xmachines: Logic Korg Yamaha Orchid Moog Teenage Engineering iApps ccMixter freemusicarchive field recordings radio
- Header Image Acknowledgement: (my silhouette in front of) an excerpt from the video, 'Plato's Alley' by Charles Atlas (2008)
- Profile Image Acknowledgement: 'Switching Marys' by Mike Kelley (2004-2005)

- History: 
1980s - Casio VL-tone, Wasp synth, Moog Concertmate MG-1, 2 track compact cassette recordings: tape to tape mixing ... emergence of Ding Dong. Revelled in the limitations in lo-fi sonic pallette and student budget...
1990s - Upgraded to 4-track compact cassette recordings... Casio CZ1000.
2000s - finally onto DAWs & xmachines & budget soft/hard synthesis & quirkiness in the Hikari Monos......Cakewalk>Sonar>Logic