Coders Tit Lap - Particle Dots

Experimenting with ambient sound generating algorithms

This example created entirely with chordbot on IOS, midi scripters and retro synth in logic x, plus waves R=verb

recorded june 2 2018

photo by sylvia frost

Coders Tit Lap

Casual Alien is the recording persona of Don Boles. 
He plays and programs and writes all the sounds. In live performance he is joined by Dave Marshall Bornhoft, drummer and producer. Casual Alien was the house band for the rave company Alfadon, and did work for the Church of Body Modification. The band had a almost four year gig doing experimental electronica on the street for Mill Ave. Tempe, the university bar district. 

The early band has enjoyed many coffee-house and art gallery performances doing soft alien techno dub. The second CD release Alux is finished but not released, and most of the music here is from Alux. The word comes from the Mayan for "spirit.". There is also an all electronic version of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which was granted a copyright as a unique performance.

Background includes gigs with Black on White, was was the house band for the Kinetic Playground in Chicago in the late 60's. That included openers for Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Spirit, Iron Butterfly, Bette Midler, Jefferson Airplane, Poco and King Crimson. Don studied composition for two years at New Trier with Northwestern University, then with Dexter Morrill at Colgate 
in New York.Don studied percussion in Colombia, South America. He studied analog and early digital audio recording, as well as video while at Colgate. Recently he did recordings with help from Mark Matson (Sipping Soma) and grammy winning John Gray (Bone Thugs) as co-producers of Corporate Affair. Don learned alot from each and updated recording knowledge. 
The first self-titled CD was entirely created with MIDI on one synthesizer recorded directly to ADAT. Mark Matson mastered it at the Saltmine Studios in Arizona. The second CD is a blend of synthesizers and computers, multi-tracked and sampled without MIDI.
The most recent are improvs in one take with the Yamaha Motif and a Roland XP-50. Examples "Spanish Castle" "Max Hell" "Plutonium Freezer" Jungle.

to answer a comment: they are raw takes, not mastered.  Id like to do some DJ collaborations with the raw tracks.


Live Bands:
 Phoenix bands Outside the Line and Corporate Affair. Recently Two Shades of Blue and Cloud 9.  Previously Cold Shott and Jake the Snake.
The Youtube channel  casualalien has many of the live videos of recent bands.

Don Boles is an MD practicing Internal Medicine in Tempe Arizona.


I have two music projects - Mungo and Death Nougat.  
Mungo music usually consists of instrumental ambient/electronic/rock/etc. 
Death Nougat music usually consists of short, fast, loop-based experiments. 
If the track is not identified as part of the Death Nougat project, it's Mungo!

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