Dark Matters EP

colloquium cum machina (conversation with the machine) was created by interacting with algorithms that produce pseudo-random musical material (pitches, timing, modulations, etc.). I would establish the parameters of an algorithm, let it run, see what it produced, tweak it, run it again... rinse, repeat until something I liked (enough) emerged.

colloquium cum machina

Diamonds In The Trees

On the morning of December 23, 2021, feeling inspired by SIlver Bowls in Reaktor Prism.

Blue Winter Light

Saturday In The Studio

Slow Formation

Dark Matters - We Know Almost Nothing

Dark Matters - Gravitations

Dark Matters - Living In The Halo

Streams in the Wasteland

Creative Manifest

This piece was created from a set of recordings made as part of the Second Breakfast service at St. Croix Vineyard on Sunday, September 8, 2019. Six inter-generational groups used various objects, such as Duplo, plus their own voices to spontaneously create six unique "sound bites" that were sampled, remixed and combined into this piece using VCV Rack. Featured modules include the NYSTHI Simpliciter sampler oscillator and several instances of the VCV Host module running the NI Form sample transformation synth.

Second Breakfast

Another VCV experiment, featuring Prism Rainbow and Vult Dopamine.

Lighted Stones

A rainy Saturday afternoon improv featuring the Volca Modular and my recent birthday present, the Circuit Mono Station, with LOTS of Valhalla Shimmer and some Valhalla Delay.

Rick Coates

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