This is a demo of the Intellijel/Cylonix Shapeshifter digital oscillator. Here, I am using it alone (no other modules!), patched into itself. I have oscillator 2 in LFO mode, modulating the Ratio, MOD B, and Shape 2 inputs. The Shapeshifter is set to "Perc Mode," and the Pulse output is plugged into the Sync input. I ended up recording about 40 minutes worth of sounds, so here are some of my favorite sections. I tried to make the crossfades obvious, so that you can hear the separate sections.

Shapeshifter Self-Patched Solo Granulator

ON TAPE
https://fullbodymassagerecords1.bandcamp.com/album/nils-quak-item

airborne metaphor

Sometimes in September 2014, Mathias Van Eecloo who runs Eilean Rec. asked me to make a track for the label’s end-of-the-year compilation. He wanted something quite different than the album I had just released on his label, something more “ethereal” and “softer” than the harsher textures that I had explored with this album. He sent me a few photos to help me finding the right tone for the track and i was so inspired by one of them that I made this music in nearly one sitting in October. The compilation was released in December 2014 and it’s called Eilean 53. It features the 12 artists who released an album on Eilean Rec. in 2014.

Artists involved in alphabetical order :

Aaron Martin
Bmrn (Boomruin)
Danny Clay
HolyKindOf
Leigh Toro (Flotel)
Miguel Isaza
Nathan McLaughlin (& Joe Houpert)
Pascal Savy
Sublamp
Twincities
Vhr - 1.7
Xu (Nicola Fornasari)

All music composed, performed & mixed by the music artists involved between July 2014 & November 2014 on various locations (Colombia, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Usa)

Mastered by Mathias Van eecloo in Brittany between October & November 2014.

Art Cover by Marco Cadioli
Inside Photo by Mathias Van eecloo​
Design by Rémi Verdier

All right reserved to the music artists involved & eilean rec.

Nightfall - Pascal Savy (Eilean Rec.)

From the album "Fragmente des Verschwindens" // out on Sacred Phrases July 28th on cassette and digital. 

-SP

Nils Quak 'Longitude'

Had some hard days and it won't be better soon! So this is how I feel! These noises are from the Industrialectric RM1n reverb pedal with no input at all!

60 Seconds of Noise

schlienz/floyd/zukunft

Just a test drive with the Ciat Lonbarde Mobenthey modules.
This is the system running on its own.
Additional modules used: 
Make Noise Maths
Make Noise Wogglebug
Make Noise Optomix
4ms PEG
SSF URA
Toppobrillo Sport Modulator

IFM Spaghetti

NILS QUAK - in girum imus nocte et cinsumimur igni - 
Sonne Ohne Licht

Having released on illustrious labels like SicSic, J&C, Cosmic Winnetou and Sacred Phrases lately, Cologne-based Nils Quak returns to Cologne for another damn fine collection of modular synth-music. Simple as that. „In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni“ - Nils Quak on SPAM. Period. 

tracklist:
I Can See Through Your Eyes 
Dream Almost While Still Awake
Litmus
Plätze In Städten
Zurückbleiben Bitte (Zwischen Wirklichkeit)
Sonne Ohne Licht
Teething
Und jetzt auch noch du
Return to Sender

Received 2014 in stolen moments of mid-life angst
Danke Ronnie!
nils@nilsquak.com


spam 14, 2015
lim. 40
out soon!

IFM Spaghetti

Nils Quak

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