Could I get a picture of your modular system? Thank you!

If I have Rings, is Elements worth getting? They seem similar

one big slow extended trippy good mood <3

はいはいはいきもちよかです〜

From the album Youth available here: https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/youth

Youth

MIXED SIGNALS II represents the next chapter of Fax and Braulio Lam’s collaboration, which started with their first EP in 2020. Across four tracks, they navigate creative exploration, and wander among the textures, colors, and sizes that sound can possess. 
  
Much like its predecessor MIXED SIGNALS, the sequel EP delivers a meditative ambient swirl, dedicated to finding balance while still moving. And yet, if the first album was to be considered grounded and earthy, MIXED SIGNALS II is determined to challenge gravity—it creates spacious cinematic landscapes that stretch out and up.  

The four tracks are distinctive in their progression: The airy subtleties of the field recordings in ”Fragmented” take off and open up into an expanse of drone, with echoes of feedback further off in the distance. “Porta” twinkles in a dark sky; it wavers slightly in a liminal space of gradual transformation. In “Visions”, there is a hypnotic revelation, with an underlying heartbeat that gently draws one into its ascent. Finishing with the title track, “Mixed Signals II” is a docking; it rotates as it revolves, slowly considering what lies beyond its own orbit. 

This meditative soundtrack is like a hazy black and white image, captured by a telescope or transmitted by a satellite, hinting at what lies far beyond our own limits of perception. The arrangement of acoustic instruments and electric guitars layer with field recordings and synthesizers to create a hypnotic reflection on sound—how it reaches out in the space around it, how it rises, how it looks, and how it feels.  

MIXED SIGNALS II was recorded between Tijuana and Mexicali, in Mexico by musicians Braulio Lam and Ruben Tamayo (a.k.a. Fax). Together, the artists built upon their first collaboration to pass beyond the horizon of instrumental music.

Mixed Signals II

Fax + Braulio Lam —  Visions

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music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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All music Ian Hawgood & Craig tattersall

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

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artist : Tomas Knoflicek
 album : Serendipity
duration : 41.09 mn
 date : August 31th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / black LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Music by Tomáš Knoflíček
Guests: Emiko – vocal (2, 3), Hanabi – vocal (2, 5, 6)
Lyrics by Hanabi
Recorded in Ostrava, Cheb and Les Království

Mastered by Ondřej Ježek@jaMor
Artwork by Mickael Zermati
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
Thanks to Ondřej Lasák, Tomáš Slunský, Ondřej Ježek, Martin Režný and Haco

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Serendipity

Tomas Knoflicek - Otranto

Aloud

The trajectory of Alex Cobb’s music over the course of the last decade could be viewed as a distillation of tone and atmosphere to arrive at Chantepleure, his most optimistic and sanguine musical statement to date. The album, however, was created at a time of heartache, isolation and emotional upheaval and acts as a balm of tender tones where abstract guitar lines circle and suspend in a kind of refined elegance. Noise, once a hallmark of Cobb’s music, has not been entirely removed, but manifests here in a different form. A delicate dissonance shades the edges of the these four tracks, providing textural color and gorgeously offsetting the lush nature of the music. Even in short spans, this approach yields substantial results. At three and a half minutes, “Disporting with a Shadow” pulls back the curtain just enough to let flecks of natural guitar notes and traces of alluring melody seep into the mix. The album closes with the side-long “Path of Appearance,” a cathartic composition that is best described as a poem of overtones which, like the rest of the album, is sourced from electric guitar and minimal effects but feels more akin to the sun stretching to fill all corners of a darkened room. A testament to sonic refinement, a way of coping, an exciting step forward for an established artist—the minimalist Chantepleure is all of these things. LP releases on 4/28/15. Available to preorder via studentsofdecay.com

Disporting with a Shadow

Going to do some basic patch notes for this one for anyone interested..

This track is a recording of a stereo mix of 4 inputs coming from my eurorack modular synth going into a mixer, being played live as it recorded.

There are 3 voices:

~One stereo voice which is Rings, the resonator module going into the Dual Looping Delay by 4ms. The DLD left and right outputs are going to the mixer.  Rings is being fed a white noise source on the 2nd polyphony setting and in the Modulated/inharmonic strings setting.  Rings is being sequenced by Rene with the quantized voltage output. This is making the main melodic flute/string sounds, as well as the occasional jitters, stereo spreading, and plucks.

~The second voice is a Mangrove oscillator running on a 4 step sequence by Pressure Points.  It is un-quantized and playing 3 notes very low in the mix, and the occasional detuning sounds are from those notes.

~The third voice is the bass, a Verbos Harmonic Oscillator, with the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th harmonics being modulated by Just Friends.  This creates the pulsing drone effect.  That is going through the Three Sisters filter, which I start to open wide and make self oscillate towards the end of the piece.

At the end of the piece I am mainly interacting with the Three SIsters,  the DLD (to loop the glitchy static like sounds), and giving the Mangrove some FM from one band of the 4ms SMR.

I'm Calm Are You Calm?

Dimitar Dodovski / Predeli (Snippets)

from the album 'equivalents' available aug16

equivalents

loscil 'equivalent 5'

Summer Clouds#3

Modular synthesizer compositions and sound design.

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I'm Calm Are You Calm?

Emily A. Sprague

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