Exploring the realms of electronic music.

I started out using Caustic, the Android music creation tool and I still use it occasionally from time to time.  I moved onto Ableton Live Lite 8,  the 'I, Improvised 3' project inspired an album created with one take recording which can be found on my Bandcamp page.

It has limitations I thought were too crippling to create full songs but you just need to be a bit creative.  True it's a compromise but it goes to show you can still make music even with these software limitations. 

I've since moved onto using Mulab 6 and more recently Usine Hollyhock II which isn't like a traditional DAW, it's more aimed at live performance.  It is incredibly powerful with a wealth of samplers, granulators, glitch tools, groove machines and physics engines.  It's also a totally modular environment. 

As well as synthesizing sounds, field recordings or found sounds hold a particular fascination in the way they can capture a unique moment  resulting in sounds that cannot be synthesized. 

The tools in Hollyhock allow me to dissect these sounds, making them non-linear which kind of takes them outside of time to give a different perspective. 

Penned in the Margins creates publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks.

This page is for snippets and teasers. Alternate aliases include: Snekhoose, Cacero Lazo

Check out full pieces via Bandcamp below:

a rawlings is a plant, mineral, animal, person, place, or thing. Member of experimental music duos MOSS MOSS NOT MOSS (with Rebecca Bruton) and Völva (with Maja Jantar). Acoustic ecology, sound poetry, extended vocal technique, hidden folk, hockets, dissonant glissandos, and ribbing for her pleasure.

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