abstract ambient 12k etc.

from the 12" Lithops "Sequenced Twinset / Fi" (sonig 08, 1999). Also on the CD compilation "Queries" (sonig 52CD, 2006)

Lithops - Sequenced Twinset

on the release date of mine and marcus fischer's "twine" album... which was all created with reel to reel tape loops i thought i'd play around with some tape myself.

this is a cassette loop of, i believe, a hohner pianet, but maybe something else... it's going through a red panda particle pedal with some reverb by a bricasti M7.

october 30, 2015 (a tape for autumn)

starting to prepare some sounds and patching ideas for my upcoming tour in japan this month. my sets will be mostly modular along with some pedals, tapes and probably and OP1.

here i have loaded some sounds from the new album i'm working on into a few Radio Music modules, and am employing a verbos harmonic oscillator for additional sounds. most of this is controlled by a Batumi LFO and there's supporting processing from things like Clouds, an intellijel spring reverb and the 4ms SMR.

the whole thing is going through a bricasti M7 reverb on recording.

november 03, 2015 (japan tour prep)

more experiments and preparations as i hone my live rig and come up with ideas....

modular sample manipulations and live looping with a kaleidoloop.

looking forward to being back in japan....

november 05, 2015 (more preparations for japan)

wow.. it's been a while since i've posted here... the year just got away from me.. not nearly as many postings as last year, but i'm really happy with all of them... been some great exploring and i finally feel like i've come to grips with my modular system.

it never stops growing, though.. and today i received a ZDSP modular with the Grain De Folie and Time Fabric cards...

this is my first attempt, a VERY simple patch with the SIX GRAINS algorithm from Grain De Folie... looping and granulating a simple piano sample from a Nebulae.

very inspirational sound for me.. i can see this is going to really be fun to explore.. and this is a dead simple patch with no modulation or any filtering or any other modules..

just a first experiment.

december 04, 2015 (zdsp 1st experiment)

sounds to me like sitting on a beach, in the winter.

december 15, 2015 (ocean winter)

Fenton is the guitar-based side project of Shuttle358 (California-based Dan Abrams). In 2005, he released the debut Pup on the Japanese imprint Plop. Mythic Failures is a download-only release to celebrate the digital re-release of Pup.

Mythic Failures follows shortly after the creation of Shuttle358's latest Can You Prove I Was Born. On Mythic, Dan takes his performances and processing techniques deeper with personal themes of mystery, dissonance, imperfection, and surrender. The guitar, while the main source of sound, is subject to his refined electronic manipulations that leave the ghost of the instrument afloat in a sea of new textures.

Mythic Failures

Osos

Wolf

Also known as the critically acclaimed artist Shuttle358 on the ny based label 12k and of Germany's Mille Plateaux fame, Dan Abrams created quite a stir in the minimal electronic scene with his releases like Frame, Understanding Wildlife, and Chessa.

Fenton turns a page for Dan, adding acoustic and processed electric guitars to his signature microsound aesthetic. This yields a familiar sound, perhaps even more accessible than his earlier work.

Forever Awkward

Ballet

Valse

Carmine sync 2

Double

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

Leaden Sky

Will Samson - Lua

july 27, 2016

Will Samson - You Are An Ocean (feat. Benoit Pioulard)

qu-bit Chord... october garden

maybe election night jitters... but i found a really nice technique on the modular synth and creating this, rather meandering, peaceful scape. repeating motifs that come and go and it all starts to break apart a little by the end.

abstract ambient 12k etc.

SDVT