Berlin 01 - #Jamuary 2024 1 Jan

Vernon - 2 Jan 2024 #jamuary

Recorded in 1994 on 4 track.
Samples from a Network First TV documentary on The Rendalsham Forest Incident near RAF Woodbridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident

For a while the video was available on YouTube but not anymore.  
What are they trying to hide?  WaKe uP sHeEpLe!

The Incident At Woodbridge (remastered)

Thursday 7 January 2021 #jamuary

I made a thing yesterday that does strumming.  I finished it off this evening.  So less of a jam today and more of a bit of sound design.
After messing about with a Clouds granular synth (or at least a MiRack implementation of it) a couple of days ago I read the manual and watched a couple of YouTube videos.  It seems that “Rings into Clouds” is something of a cliché in modular circles so I though I’d have a go at that, throwing in Marbles to drive it.
I think I understand the Clouds (texture synth) to an extent now and i think I know that Rings is some sort of resonator that will take a signal and turn it into resonating strings (amongst other things).  And Marbles puts out some pulses in a controlled random way so is kind of doing the sequencing here.
I noticed a strum input on Rings and I wanted to play with that.
I fed a square wave LFO into it which is effectively switching it on and off at the frequency of the LFO to give a tremolo picking effect. And then I fed a sawtooth LFO into that modifying the rate of the picking from very fast and the slowing down.
There’s an oscilloscope that shows the strum pattern in red.

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Friday 8th January 2021 #jamuary

During the last few months of lockdown I got involved with a small group of people making music together.  None of us knew each other before and they are from all over the world.  Somebody starts a track, then we take it in turns to add a part.  It was my turn to add a part to somebody else’s percussion track.

So I took the strumming machine I made in MiRack and modified it slightly.  The timing of when it plays is driven by the audio from the percussion track.  The tones it plays are driven by a sequencer.  It’s only changing notes every couple of bars and even then not by much to give others in the group space to add their parts.
It starts off mostly doing the strings thing from Rings and as it progresses I blend in a bit more of the Clouds granular synth.

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Sunday 10 January 2021 #jamuary

A slight departure into somestockastic outsider beatz.  A collaboration with one of the other bands based in this household - the Clementines.
They’re four years old and work mostly in BeatHawk.  They took care of these sick beats.  I just hit record at the right time.
I should be putting this up on beatstars.  I reckon we could make a fortune getting into that modern music.

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Saturday 9th January 2021 #jamuary

A bit of ambient noodling with Rings and Clouds.  This was while working out what Marbles did.  Watched a couple of YouTubes. Still haven’t read the manual.
I need to get out of this groove now.

https://fb.watch/2YAitxd4tq/

#jamuary Saturday 9th January 2021

Sunday 17th January 2021 #jamuary

I really like this one.  I hope you do too.
I missed a couple of days posting.  Even though I’ve still been creating, some of it has been for a project for my other band to hopefully release at the end of the month.  I did re-use some of that in a post last night and when there was no response this morning I thought you all hated it.  To be honest I didn’t really like it in this context so when I discovered that it hadn’t actually posted, I wasn’t too upset.
This one is something else I started on a couple of nights ago, revisited this evening and ripped apart replacing pretty much all the samples.
Samples are from the Reel Feels pack by Jogging House. (https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/reel-feels-sound-pack ) It was available on Bandcamp for a pay whutchyalike.
Many of them are straight up, running as asynchronous loops and some are looped further through Gauss which I’m loving.  I’m especially pleased with the single sample bass note that turned into the beautiful organ string sounds, which is running into Eventide Blackhole reverb which is so (unsurprisingly)spacious.
I shall be returning to this one to improve it, especially as there is an annoying buffer glitch in the middle.  You’ll hear a click.

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#jamuary Sunday 17th January 2021

A sampling tape sold by Dixon’s sometime in the mid 80s.

Dixon’s Sampler Tape

An old cassette produced by Hal Leonard of samples aimed at the Casio SK series. 
100 samples
I’ve also included the B side which seems to contain instrumentals of hits of the day including
Sara
Every Breath You Take
When The Going Gets Tough
Neutron Dance
Miami Vice

Casio SK Sampler 101 Sampling Sounds

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