For this track I wanted to try using the Korg Volca Keys as a sequencer for my Juno-106. “How is that possible?!?,” you might ask. Well I’ll tell you how. I have modded the Volca Keys to include a MIDI out port. Using this mod I sent the MIDI out from the Volca Keys to the Juno-106. Both synths played the same sequence, but because the Volca Keys is polyphonic the Juno-106 consistently played chords, while I switched modes on the Volca Keys between poly, unison, and fifths, etc. I fleshed out the piece by adding an arp provided by the Bass Station II and a bass line from the Tempest.

Wall of Synth Part 1

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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.

Artists include Keston and Westdal, Ostraka, Ten72, and Ostracon.

Synthesizer scientist // sound explorer // pulsewidth manipulator

Synthesizers, Sequencers and Bass Guitars….the sonic me! Some pieces are available for download now ...for you to keep and listen to. Please respect my rights. 

You will find that since i have started to repost tunes the list of tracks gets longer and longer...
You still can access my work quickly by clicking on "tracks" right above.
But treat yourself to the tracks reposted as well!

You might want to check out MacroDX for his amazing synth sounds....a true space cadet. I just hope we get to jam again and .... don't touch those mushrooms! 
And speaking of drums.....go and check out Joerg Huenninghaus!
You will find links to both musicians below!
Peace, Reinhard!

Update 06.05.19 - Due to being out of Order, a broken shoulder that is, i won’t be online for some Time. Thank you for your awesome Love and Support! I’ll Be back, promised! 
Update 01.07.19 - Got a metal plate and a couple of screws in my shoulder and can move my arm somewhat now. Thank you for your patience and Support!

Candented is JS. ~ https://linktr.ee/candented

This project is partly funded by the South Carolina Arts Commission, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

This project is also funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial 
Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina.

Now on Spotify and most streaming services.

I will never allow a song purely AI on my profile - no offense to those who express themselves through that interface. There is something to learning the art of a practice rather than just the practice itself. Its a mindset of creativity that I hope the AI interface leads everyone to learn more about.
I have begun to work with a single engineer who has shown me their production workflow and is transparent in their use of AI. I will be noting that the song has used the producer. The producer I will work with is named "A[REDACTED]I". 
I like this name for their studio which I feel clearly indicates in their name that they use AI for some mastering and final works.

Love synths and synth music. Current equipment: Korg Kronos / Yamaha MODX / Roland Fantom 06 / Arturia Pigments.

Member of Jarremix - Jean-Michel Jarre tribute