https://nyms.love/2020/05/31/patchable-0016/

When I was just a little kid, I was in complete awe when Luke, C3PO and R2D2 walked into Chalmun’s Spaceport Cantina (Mos Eisley Cantina). Not yet having experienced a club atmosphere everything happening was unfamiliar and new. I was drawn to this smoky, alien filled remote watering hole where shady deals, boisterous gurgling laughter and the danger of a bar fight were all intertwined. The jaunty music seemed to glue everything together.

As I got older, and learned that dixieland music was not that alien at all, I found it more and more difficult to believe this was the sort of music that would be played here, in this raucous, dark and mysterious hangout. I often wonder, what would music sound like in an alien club?

THE CHALLENGE
For this Patchable, you are to create an original piece of music for what you think the Cantina Band should be playing. This challenge is fairly open to creative interpretation and execution. Just ensure that you are using modular synths as part of your process.

Patchable-0016

[NYMS Patchable 0016]
it's very simple — e352+LxD and 208r are the only sound sources, er-301 ("Sloop" bespoke unit by tomf) and norns shield (excellent pools reverb) are processing. seq — er101/102 and 208's 5 step.

patchable 0016 [alien club]

My entry for the #NYMS patchable challenge 0016, reimagining the music from the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Three shift registers running in parallel, two outputting gates, and one quantized CV for 31-limit just intonation scale (but with only four notes). Two melodic lines (high voice) in a tight canon (just a few clicks apart), accompanied by three-voice chords in utonal inversions of the melody (because alines OBVIOUSLY prefer rational tunings). 

All voices are actually generated by MI Tides, with the "root" fed to the two channels of the 4ms DLD in wet-only mode (to "decouple" them temporally from the chords); the three chord voices are mixed into a single LPG, with some timbral variation to imitate the alien's polymorphic instrumentation.

A randomly-triggered smeared drone acts as a kind of heterophonic accompaniment, sometimes noticed, sometimes not. It grabs and transposes single notes from the melodic line.

Utonal Spaceport Patchable-0016

The lament of a Lonely Ronto in deep desert, made specially for the Mos Isley Cantina, late night. Kick back with a Bespin Fizz and enjoy!

This patch sources CV from an Ornament and Crime in Low-Rents mode, and flows though a Make Noise Qpas, and a Monsoon. Much self patching.

Patchable-0016

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