‘ante mare undae’
Modular Hedonism.
Track created in 2022.

'Ante Mare Undae' is the motto of the House of Rochechouart (Latin contraction of 'Avant que la mer fût au monde, Rochechouart portait les ondes' / 'Before the sea was in the world, Rochechouart carried the waves').

Madame de Montespan, the Sun King's great love and mistress, belonged to this very old French family. They regularly met up at the former ‘Porcelain Trianon’ located in the royal estate of Versailles, a place renowned for its marvellous gardens.
 
Tools :
Marbles, A-160-2, Arp.
- Rings (odd & even outs) > Desmodus Versio.
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Vco2 (pulse out) > modDemix > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Basimilus.
- Drum2 > Dsp (reverb mode).
Zadar, Batumi (saw outs), Ochd.
Mutes, Buff Mult, Sinc Defero.
Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Dans les Jardins de Trianon [modular hedonism]

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Höstpromenad

Remix of RUFUS's hit track Lately by Venturam.

Had to do some dodgy pitch edits on this track to beat the algorithm so :\ :\ dont tell anyoneee

RUFUS - Lately (Venturam Remix)

Like Water

Quicksand

breaking the awkward silence

Lunar Mirage

Moon Clouds

frozen happiness

Lead voice patch notes:
I dialed in a 16 step sequence on my NLC Bindubba, made it a 32 step sequence working the direction inputs with clocked gates. The sequence is fed through Beers ADC into Beers Melakarta making it a sudo pitch quantizer. Pitch-CV is sent to Befaco Even VCO. Even VCO feeds into a modulated Erica Synths BBD Delay/Flanger and then into Erica Synths Polivoks filter. Melakarta's gate outs are fed through Beers Edge Detector, into Sin Phi Miasma (envelope generator) to open the Polivoks filter, at the same time the other Miasma channel is feeding a ducking envelope closing the filter with every kick drum hit. A copy of this voice is fed into XAOC Sarajewo BBD delay. Aside from this last module, all other modules used are self-built DIY versions.

Console

Noise Floor

Headroom

A collection of 5 DnB tracks, recorded live using hardware units.
https://stefantorto.bandcamp.com/album/dnb-archives
All tracks recorded, composed and performed live by Stefanos Tortopoglou.



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Stefan Torto - Dnb Archives (Full EP)

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Kenny Werner: "If you make music out of the world of thought, you miss the whole wonder of music."

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