Name: SpaceBound (Beat) by Flawless(of Bad Habitat)
Duration: 4 min 18 s
Description: This is called spacebound for one reason and you prob already know.

on ur TV

I've lately been making a lot of field recordings, mostly of what people might think of as noise: urban and rural, interior and exterior, and various realms in between. Among those recordings are occasional snippets of other people: speaking, singing, making music, doing things. Recording people feels, to me, a bit like taking photos of people, which is to say I'm not entirely comfortable with it. In particular, I'm not sure I'd share field recordings of musicians overheard on the street. What I've done here, in contrast, is to take two field recordings and combine them, the source material pushed past the point of recognizability. In VCV Rack I then placed those two quite different recordings into a pair of sample modules, and then set four markers in each, the positions determined by sample and hold of a noise source. I then put those through respective switches so they rotated through, and those outputs through switches that went back and forth between the two different sources. Then I slowly ratcheted up the speed at which that back and forth occurred, faster and faster, manually, until I finally jumped back to a slower pace, which brought it all to a conclusion. 

Source audio recordings made on an iPhone 13 Pro and an iPhone 17 Pro sometime in 2024 or 2025.

Ives Talkin'

Philogelos

This is a step forward from yesterday. Rather than two source field recordings, there are three. The beat, per se, is a pair of white noise equivalents (interior drone of a refrigerator and a fan in a bathroom) cut up and swapped back and forth. The third element is the same street musician as last time, pitched differently and brought more to the foreground. As the track proceeds, the speed at which the sampling of that third element occurs gets faster, which alters the way it sounds in playback (a little more cut-up, even jittery). And then, as with yesterday's track, at the end it goes back to the original speed, which is a shortcut to a kind of closure. This was a lot of fun to put together, and especially interesting was trying to locate patterns that surfaced the most musically interesting elements of the source audio.

Recorded around the end of 2025 or start of 2026, depending on the audio, in San Francisco. 

Traveller Feller

Continuing to push the same patch forward, the Patch of Theseus, switching one after another module as I move ahead. Tried to apply some automation to the pitch of all three samples. It's rudimentary, but turned out kinda fun.

Monk Chip

Individuum

This might be a good mode: Making a patch at the start of a week, and nudging it a bit forward each day, and then starting over for the next week. In any case, the differences between today and yesterday are two. First, this is now a public domain field recording of a street musician, a trumpeter, in the "lead" spot. Second, that same "lead" recording appears twice: once using the same treatment as earlier, and the other using a granular module.

Trumpet Tantrum

Wilfy D & Katy B  - Dreamstate (Clip)

This is called spacebound for one reason and you prob already know.

SpaceBound (Beat)

Flawless(of Bad Habitat)

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