This is an abstract experimental piece featuring Kelly Ricks on processed trumpet. Kelly is a multi talented musician, composer, artist and scientist. Kelly found the NASA photo of the sunset on Mars that accompanies this track. She also did the cover for the Twelve Full Moons album. You can see her art and astronomy musings here…
http://www.kellyricks.blogspot.com

The other tracks are a combination of modular synthesizer, Ensoniq SD-1, sine wave generators, and tape loop manipulations processed with various effects.

Last Light From A Distant Sun

This is a track that was made using the Scape iPad app by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. The track is made up of three recordings. The parameters were manipulated in real time during recording. The recordings were edited and manipulated in various ways for the sake of the composition. For example, some parts were slowed down, others were reversed. Some outboard effects were used in post production. 

Scape Demo

This was a piece that I planned to perform at KnobCon. During the show I thought better of it because it was too dark to see all of my controls. Working live with tape left too many things to chance. This is the mixer recording of my last rehearsal before leaving for Chicago. The rhythmic element is a processed recording of a broken fan. Random walkie talkie chatter from long ago and far away. The piece is rounded out by the inevitable signal generators, plus effects. Performed in real time.

Polar Nazi Community

A little Halloween piece featuring V-Drums, DotCom modular w/ STG Sea Devil's filter (bass), Moog Theremini, Strymon El Capistan, Wolfgang Palm's Plex and more. 

The Halloween Incident

This track was composed entirely from sounds generated by the RF Nomad module from Evaton Technologies. EQ, reverb and delay were added during mixing. The RF Nomad is a voltage controlled shortwave radio module. The tuning frequency can be swept with an LFO or other voltage sources to produce unique textures. Many thanks to Russ Hoffman for agreeing to produce this (so far), one of a kind, MU sized version.

RF Nomad Testing 1,2,3...

This track was made using only the KingKorg synthesizer. Two of the patches make use of combinations of inharmonic DWGS waves and X-mod/ring mod waves respectively. Various wave combinations were made on the fly during recording, as were LFO amounts and effect settings. This synthesizer shines at real time control.

Black Sun

This is a short demo track of the Hexaglyphics app from phantomdevices.org. From the website...
"Hexaglyphics is a 13-bit noise generator with an interface based on an original alphabet for hexadecimal values. It can turn gestures into a wide range of noise sweeps, zaps/clicks, squarish oscillations and abstract sounds." 
It also excels at fart noises.

The piece is made up of 3 tracks. I find that the app works wonderfully well with spring reverb, so I put some PSP Audio Spring Box on the mix. Apart from that, all of the sounds came directly from the app. I have enjoyed paying with this app very much.

Check out the demo video at the website or phantom devices.org's FaceBook page.


Hexaglyphics

A brief excerpt from the title track from the album Shortwave Robot Pants. The album will be out soon-ish on Auricular Records. The track was inspired by the prototype RF Nomad, shortwave radio module that was sent my way by Russ at Evaton Technologies. I love sounds that hiss, crackle, and hum. The Nomad is everything I hoped it would be. I decided to put up this excerpt ahead of the official release of the RF Nomad MU edition. If you use the large format modular stuff, this one is a must have. Aside from picking up broadcast signals you can produce oscillator like tones, bursts of static, use it as a noise source and more. 

Excerpt - Shortwave Robot Pants

Sonic sculpture for the Museum of Science remix contest, assembled from the original Oram tracks. The piece took second place and received some nice comments from the judges. Two parts were added to the original stems. One used vintage sine wave generators and effects pedals, recorded in real time. The second took one of the stems and ran it through a tape echo pedal where the sound was "played" by changing the feedback and other controls in real time. The other parts were reversed, slowed down, chopped up and pitched and arranged just as they did in the days of tape recorders and scissors. Despite the advantage of doing the editing with a computer it still took about two weeks to get the composition in order.

This track is a demo of Litote, by Inear Display. Litote is a granular effect with 4 engines, controlled with the XY pad. Super simple controls with very interesting results. For the demo I took pieces of found sound recordings and then ran them through the effect. Different sounds going in may yield wildly varying results coming out. On the demo you first hear the unprocessed sound followed by the same sample with the effect. More info at... https://ineardisplay.com/plugins/litote/

Litote Demo

This track was assembled from several minutes of field recordings that were made in a building renovation project. Sections of the recordings were reversed and the speed of playback was manipulated.

From there the elements were heavily processed to create the final arrangement. 

This composition will most likely appear on the next album that has been under construction for a little over a year now.

The Innovation Lab

This is a track that I made with the additive drone synth, Lancinantes from Inear Display. Everything is directly recorded from the software including delay and reverb. No post processing.

This instrument is like an electronic music lab. It's made up of three additive sine oscillators with adjustable harmonics. You have a noise generator, filter, delay, reverb, volume controls and a handy randomizer section. Under the randomizer you can click to change pitch, harmonics, filter and mixer settings. Or all of those at once.

I think this software sounds great and the bang per buck factor is high.

Musique Lancinantes

This is a demo track for the first official Atomic Shadow instrument for the Kontakt sampler, the Panoramic Wave Generator. All sounds and effects are the instrument. No other processing was used. Details about the PWG may be found at http://www.atomicshadow.com/atomic-instruments-for-kontakt.html

Atomic Shadow

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