various sketches, studies, études, evening jam sessions

presented in chronological order, not that that really matters unless you're my own self mythologizing

VCV Rack

mostly free-running self-generating vcv rack patch based on analog vosim synthesis implementation ideas from doug slocum and dakota melín + neural computing ideas from andrew fitch + ancient tape delay ideas from pauline oliveros and terry riley

vcv rack vosim étude

Messed around with recursive sequencing techniques using nonlinear analog* shift register feedback and microtonal scale quantization (here Archytas' diatonic scale on C for all you fellow Harry Partch fans, though the way the chips fell I ended up hearing it as quasi-Lydian with more or less D-flat as the root) in VCV Rack and accidentally ended up making something that sounded very similar to one of the redoubtable Doug Lynner's classic Paperface Serge tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5kD0rh37w). Documented here as an homage, and cause Canons Pretty.

Audio path is two Plaits in wavetable mode through Frozen Wasteland Just a Phase(r) and Alright Devices Chronoblob 2. Control path is far too complicated to untangle, but the Nysthi SOUtils (x2) and Poly Scala Quantizer are doing the heavy lifting of turning the clustercirclejerk into pitch and timbre control data, and an Erica Octasource is providing amplitude control data for even more pretty stereo swirlies.

*can it be an "analog shift register" in a software environment? why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food? has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Study After Doug Lynner's "Arabesque Performance Patch"

Rings into Clouds. A venerable dead horse of a punchline. But what about Rings and Clouds in a feedback loop, an ouroboros where "into" is a meaningless signifier? I had to investigate. And add a phaser.

Francis Dhomont Cosplay

VCV Rack sketch with Plaits model modulation, knockoff Hordijk Twinpeak filters, and a Boltzmann brain that begs only for the end of its suffering

Y2K-PROOF BEANIE BABIES DO THE MACARENA DURING THE FINAL SCENE OF THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (for Joel Chadabe)

Maudlin VCV Rack ambient chord patch driven by Vult Caudal's fish tank model, played extensively with secondhand cheapo Korg USB MIDI controller faders because somehow it took me this long to get something to knobbify all this damn software. Recording clips at a few points but I don't give a damn.

A-flat major is the saddest key. You can fight me.

a fish tank that can only be accessed in the swampy outskirts of your dreams

RCA Mark II Tribute Act

for sketches and sundries that don't warrant commercial releases

RCA Mark II Tribute Act

EVEN MORE MAOIST THAN CORNELIUS CARDEW