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

Ladybugs

The low-pass filter design used in the Benjolin and as one half of the Twinpeak filter in the Blippoo Box and Hordijk modular systems is designed to exhibit certain chaotic properties when overdriven. By overdriving the Benjolin's line-level external audio input with the "modular level" square wave output of the first oscillator (which becomes saw-like with the addition of even harmonics from said overdrive), resonant bifurcations are created as audible subharmonics of the oscillator frequency as the filter resonance is increased and the cutoff frequency is modulated.

The control portion of the patch began as a crude attempt to imitate the Blippoo Box's sample-and-hold arrangement by using the XOR output of the Benjolin to trigger the Stepped Generator, which is sampling a mix of signals from throughout the patch; extensive cross-modulation to and from the Benjolin, the Smooth Generator, and the Voltage Controlled Slope is in play. The patch is played in real time, with numerous knob turns and manipulation of the Cycle switch on the VCS and the Loop switch on the Benjolin.

This recording is one improvised take. Eventide EQ65 provides some corrective EQ, Cherry Audio Stardust provides delay and reverb, and Martinic Colorsound Tremolo indulges my toxic boomer trait of liking a little slow auto-panning now and then.

Dedicated to Rob Hordijk shortly after the anniversary of his passing. Rungle with you on the other side, space cowboy.

Recursion and Bifurcation (for Rob Hordijk)

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

Recursion and Bifurcation (for Rob Hordijk)

EVEN MORE MAOIST THAN CORNELIUS CARDEW

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