Available as a full-resolution audio download here: https://shimsewn.bandcamp.com/track/zygorhiza
Video available to watch here: youtu.be/Jex_idp_kFo

An experiment in patching Lyra-8 with a Eurorack system. The starting point comprises a clock triggering envelopes that are in turn modulating Ornament & Crime Plus in Low-rents mode. The OCP serves as a chaotic function generator, the signals of which are attenuated by the Sweet Sixteen, the output of which is routed to a fp.STrig V-trig to S-trig converter. The S-trigs are triggering Lyra-8 via the alligator pin-to-touch-plate adapter.

The second signal path consists of samples of the Lyra-8 recorded previously into the Assimil8or, triggered and modulated by the Clank Chaos and the Vegan Squid Axon shift register.

The third signal path is routed through the ECR+ convolution reverb, modulated by a chain of LFOs that are being attenuated by a Lapsus Os.

All of the signal paths are finally mixed in the Black Stereo Mixer.

Equipment used: Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 with various Eurorack modules including Plum Audio Ornament & Crime Plus, Rossum Assimil8or, Tasty Chips ECR+, Clank Chaos, Tesseract Modular Sweet Sixteen, Poly Effects Hector, Omsonic Vegan Squid Axon, fp.STrig, Rebel Audio CLK, Blue Lantern Modules Basics Utility Module, Expert Sleepers Disting mk4, Make Noise Tempi, Circuit Abbey DLFO, Noise Engineering Lapsus Os, Erica Synths Black Stereo Mixer; recorded on Zoom Q8 in 1080 HD video at 24 bit / 96kHz.

Audio post-processing consists of normalization, light compression and equalization.

(October 9, 2022)

Zygorhiza {experimental chaos-driven Lyra-8 / Eurorack patch}

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Pic: c/o AntarikFox


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Live at Kubota Garden 8/25/2025 Seattle, WA

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In the mid 1990s, I started mixing sound collage and dark ambient sounds in the project seam pith, leading to the more dissonance-tinged, noise/ambient hybrid project called Nuisance Beacon in the late 1990s. A Nuisance Beacon CD was put out on CIP in 2000. My current project, shimsewn, encompasses and expands upon all of my previous work.
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