old school electronic

Tempest at it,s best.

Heavy on the new Valhalla DSP reverb on this one.  I'll Have to learn some restraint.  The chordal 'hits' is a modular patch using the Mutable Instruments Yarns to play 2 Rubicons and 2 Dixies.

The Moon Delicately Hangs

Funk DSI Tempest Kit OS 1.4 Soundset

A little track only with the DSI Tempest multitracked i Ableton.
All Filter tweakings, Compressor and Distortion by Tempest!

DSI Tempest Fun

Created using only the analog voices other than the digital pink noise source (all DSI instruments noise sources are digital, not analog!). No presets - all sounds rolled from scratch.

 I was tired of everyone complaining that the Tempest didn't sound punchy enough, so hopefully this example will put that to rest...no external processing and the Tempest's own compression isn't used until the last 30 seconds or so. 


DSI Tempest Demo = Punchy Analog Drums

This is a first shot with the Dave Smith/Roger Linn Tempest. I did not attempt to manipulate in real time other then to mute/unmute a track or two. I spewed a bunch into Logic, chopped out a chunk, added fades, and exported. 

DSI Tempest - 1st Beat

Bit ce savrseno

From a collection that has yet to be assembled.

Fragile Gloss

Dsi Tempest Beat

Returning to my roots to produce some psychedelic, dub-delayed business with a little arabesque-miami-vice in the middle. Enjoy responsibly.

Perihelion Dub

Main elements of the piece:
Main sequence generated by Turing Machine, Pulses & Voltages, quantised by a Quantimator.
S&H’d to a Rubicon baseline, then through a QMMG.
Lead lines from a dual 258J oscillator feeding into various parts of a CGS MSU then an L-1 Microcompressor, and finally through a Modcan dual delay in stereo mode.
Doepfer Quadrature LFO modulating the filter in the Modcan dual delay.
Envelopes from a CGS QUSG controlling the QMMG and MSU filters
Drums from MFB SEQ01 and TipTop drum modules.
Pressure points used to transpose the sequence, open and close the MSU filters, change the settings in the MSU wave folder, and control the wave shaper on the 258J.
Recorded in one pass (no overdubbing).

Callisto

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John C.S. Keston is an award winning composer of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music. His work embraces the chaotic ambiguities of environmental and sensorial influences providing context within unpredictable or everyday events. His unconventional compositions convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. His compositions parallel indeterminate improvisation activating what remains immutable within traditional forms of notation driven music. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, to contribute to the work.

His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015) presented at the MNKINO Film Score Fest. He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on Unearthed Music. His latest release, Isosceles (2016) has drawn comparisons to the Stranger Things soundtrack. In 2011 he won the Minnesota Emerging Composers Award for electronic musicians. In 2013 he won the Jerome Fund for New Music for his project documenting binaural duets with the Singing Ringing Tree in the UK. 

John has performed and exhibited original work at Northern Spark, an all night arts festival with over 200,000 attendees (MN); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Montreal Jazz Festival; the Walker Art Center; the Burnet Gallery (MN); the In/Out Festival of Digital Performance (NYC); the Eyeo Festival (MN); INST-INT (MN); Echofluxx (Prague); WMC (Miami); and Moogfest (NC). In addition, Keston has worked with Atmosphere, Jon Davis, Martin Dosh, Peter Hennig, Joshua Herbst, Cody McKinney, Graham O'Brien, Adam Svec, and Nils Westdal to name a few. John resides in Minneapolis where he is a professor of creative multimedia at the University of St. Thomas and founded the widely read sound design resource  <a href="http://audiocookbook.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AudioCoobook.org</a> where he shares sounds and writes about his unique approach to composition, production, and performance.