A springtime flavored Serge modular improv. Processed with about fifteen compressors and saturation circuits. Enjoy

Ladybugs

An exercise in long tones, provided by a cycling Smooth Generator FMing a Benjolin oscillator. The Rungler voltage sent to modulate the pitch of the former is slewed by the Voltage Controlled Slope for those lovely timbral glissandi for which the study is named. The patch is left to run entirely on its own until the five-minute mark. Valhalla FreqEcho and Logic's Space Designer provide space, while Soundtoys Little Radiator eats into those beat frequencies and Eventide EQ65 provides simple high- and low-pass filtering to clean up the spectrum.

At this point (about a week and a half into using the system) I feel myself coming down the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve, struck by how much I don't know and how much I have to wrestle with the instrument to get an interesting result. This is, of course, true of all instruments with any depth. I stopped playing the cello in high school because when I hit that point on the instrument I realized that I didn't have the finesse in my hands to push beyond it, let alone to the point of being able to play repertoire I was interested in, but with electronic instruments of that depth (e.g. Ciat-Lonbarde) I have found myself eventually pushing to the other side and being rewarded with a new sense of musicality.

Lots and Lots of Tearing Sidebands

Ducks,Waltham

Environment 1 is based on recordings of cicadas combined with electronic sounds to create an
electro-acoustic landscape. The main pitches of the quartet are chosen from spectral analyses
of these insect sounds, and undergo their own transformation mimicking ring modulation. The
goal of the piece is threefold: to act as a field recording of an imagined habitat, to showcase the
inner musicality of the world around us, and finally to blur the lines between synthetic and
acoustic sounds.

Envrionment1ForStringQuartetandTape

PIN PORTABELLA MK3 External Input

PIN PORTABELLA Melodic

EMS SYNTHI A MK1 External Input

Warty performance on the Matt Kuebrich "Roundabout" DIY synthesizer (https://github.com/MattKuebrich/roundabout)

Roundabout n.1

Knas Ekdahl Polygamist and Serge Panels patched together for lots of fun!

Sergitude and Polyamory

En 2011, lors du tsunami qui a frappé le Japon et de la catastrophe nucléaire qui en a découlé, j'ai composé イカルス
(Ikarusu), en réaction au trop plein d'émotion et parce que je ne savais pas bien que faire d'autre.
Aujourd'hui, la catastrophe nucléaire n'est pas terminée : la radioactivité est là pour longtemps et de
l'eau contaminée continue de s'échapper de la centrale.
Comme lors de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl, des villes, des maisons ont été abandonnées.
J'ai pensé cette nouvelle pièce comme un écho ou une séquelle de celle de 2011.
Nous ne sommes plus dans l'irruption du tragique : rien de spectaculaire ici, mais de la durée, de
l'omniprésence diffuse, du parasitage.
Les formes et les matériaux ont volontairement été réduits au plus simple – les seules sources
sonores ont été un EMS Synthi AKS et un récepteur en ligne d'ondes courtes radio.

Villes Fantômes (2014)

Mobile Variations explores space as a composition element. I decided to avoid using prerecorded material in this piece and to create all the sounds from scratch, employing various synthesis techniques. This allowed me to study the very nature of sound, its various shapes and colors as well as the almost endless possibilities of technology. Mobile Variations received Prix at Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques-Bourges (2007) and the Golden Euphony prize from the MISAME association and the Bourge Competition in 2010.
Krzysztof Wolek

Mobile Variations (2005) for 6 Channel Surround Tape

for sketches and sundries that don't warrant commercial releases

Lots and Lots of Tearing Sidebands

EVEN MORE MAOIST THAN CORNELIUS CARDEW

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