A selection of tracks, sound design and noises, generated on a modular synthesizer, exploring sources of uncertainty to bring about happy musical accidents

Serendipitous

A gentle improvisation with a resonator and a granulator

April Cloud

A generative patch, using a modal resonator and a delay, with lots and lots of modulation sources. Self-generating random processes are kept in check by attenuation and quantisation.

Sit And Watch What Happens

Playing around with Allen Strange's "Dream Machine", as so often the starting point for a patch. Most sound generated by the Behringer 2600, but also a lot of heavily modulated and wrangled delay from elsewhere. Just enough of the "something to hold on to factor" to make it musical, but you can dip in and out of this at any point.

2600 Dreaming

Very much like the previous track, but much much slower, and some selective delay holding. I actually much prefer this one!

Playing around with Allen Strange's "Dream Machine", as so often the starting point for a patch. Most sound generated by the Behringer 2600, but also a lot of heavily modulated and wrangled delay from elsewhere. Just enough of the "something to hold on to factor" to make it musical, but you can dip in and out of this at any point.

2600 Dreaming Slowly

Crwydro

From Another Island

Silence And Small Golden Moments

The Truth Remains Unspoken

Shades Of Sunday

Never Quite The Same

Progressions

Dream Machine

Combining the Dream Machine with pentatonic scales and some field recording.

Rain, Late

Started on the winter solstice and completed Christmas eve.

Turn

A cheerful little track, made on my last day as a fourtysomething

Fourtysomething

Very loosely inspired by an example in the excellent "Patch & Tweak" book, this is an exceedingly West Coast little fantasy. More modulation sources than you can shake a stick at, lots of generative and self-composing stuff, with yours truly just riding the levels.

All Points But Three

A very abstract industrial-ish track. All the sound sources are the AJH MiniMod modules....just listen to those filters sing! 90% of the modulation from the MakeNoise Maths

Back To It....

Entirely self-composing setup, playing around with morphology....

Ganbatte Kudasai

Explores spectral feedback loops and sound design with granular synthesis. Multitrack montage.

Strung Out On The Wires

A very gentle self-generative patch on the modular synthesizer, mainly exploring resonators.

Serendipitous

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