I decided to undertake a sound experiment, to very closely replicate my tinnitus with modular synthesizer. Turn it down so that you can barely hear the various elements. The tones should settle in just about where they are in my head when the room is very quiet. The dominant drone is a cluster of sine waves modulating about a whole-tone between a flat G and A (around ±A430 or so.) There is a chattering noise that slightly resembles AM radio voices, a very high cloud of pitches (about 10 kHz) and a few sine waves just slightly out of tune at octaves in the upper midrange (1.1 and 2.3 kHz.) I did this as an exercise, but also as an example for people who wonder what it would sound like if you could actually record someone's inner perceptions.

Tinnitus

It’s nesting season for our new crow friends, whom I call Bruce and Spruce. Spruce is sitting on the nest I think, and Bruce comes to visit me to ask for treats rather often. Occasionally she joins him. I am puzzled by a strange sound she is making, sometimes for hours repeatedly. It’s an odd plaintive sort of honking sound, like a goose. I made a recording that I will try to link here. At first I thought she was mourning a loss, perhaps nest predation from the red shoulder hawk that hangs out here. Now I am not sure. I believe I can hear her accept food from Bruce toward the end of this recording. Has anyone else heard crows make a sound like this, or have any guesses to the meaning? (Please note, the little birds are louder than the crow call in this, as the nest is in the distance. She stops making the sound when I get too close.)

Crow Nest Call

Putting a prototype Synthtech E950 through its paces, trying to get as unrecognizable as I can.

E950 BlatherBox RRich

A short edit with a guitar solo by my father Richard Rich (one of the two guitarists here)who  passed away on April 12, 2019.

San Juan Jazz Quintet - Solo with Richard Rich

Live recording from around 2007. Not sure of the song, but it might be an original by the drummer Dennis Willows. My father Richard Rich (one of the two guitarists here) passed away on April 12, 2019.

SJ Jazz live, 2007, with Richard Rich

A patch on the MOTM modular, used on my album, "Bestiary" in 2000. Two 300 VCOs in SoftSync, cross-FM modulated, one of their sine wave outputs into a 410 triple-rez filter. A bit of random noise to bump the chaos out of any strange attractors.

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