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American Army

Synthesizer arrangement of Happy Birthday for @otologist-1 's 40th birthday

Ache Bee Dee

In memory of Paul T. Schreiber of Synthesis Technology, this was composed using four of his modules in two voices:
e350 Morphing Terrarium, processed with the e440 Discrete OTA Filter and the e352 Cloud Terrarium processed with the e430 Morphing SVF. For additional color, the Make Noise Echophon was included, out of nostalgia for my early modular compositions, which made heavy use of both the e350 and Echophon together. The Echophon's feedback loop was run through a Mannequins Three Sisters filter.

The composition was generated, and parameters modulated by cascaded shift registers from the Antumbra Cara (Marbles clone), the Doepfer A-149-1 (Source of Uncertainty) and Ornament and Crime Quantermain, which also quantized the values into tones that mostly make sense together.

Envelopes by the Verbos Multienvelope and Mutable Instruments Veils V2, further modulation by Xaoc Batumi. 

Valhalla Vintageverb and a little "mastering sauce" from Logic Pro

e350 Infinity

Stereo mix-down of some quadraphonic experiments using Max and Logic used for my 3/15 performance at Compound Yellow.

JRD Quad Excursions stereo

little ambient duet between Moog Grandmother (sequence) and Access Virus KC (chords/wavetables)

Grandmother + Virus

colundi_pads_long

morphing terrarium -> pitchfactor, op-1 -> moogerfoogers -> delay, analog 4

Airships

Liskov Clocks

Shure SM-57 microphone routed through a Mackie 1604 to a Roland Chorus Echo and Electro-Harmonix Memory Man. Sony ECM-MS907 microphone into Teenage Engineering OP-1, itself routed back into the Mackie and through the Chorus Echo and Memory Man. The track starts off with a loop on the Memory Man, then I took a sample of one of the glasses on the OP-1 and used the onboard sequencer to create the electronic melodies. All the samples and sequences were constructed in real-time during the recording.

Glassline [disquiet0003-glass]

One year old birthday party

Around the end of the last Millennium, my roommate J.R. and I had a weekly block of time on Radio Free West Town, a pirate station run guerrilla style out of an office in the Coyote building in Wicker Park. My alias was DJ Master Control. I don't remember if this tape was played on the air, or recorded during a show or what, but the bumper for The Master Control Program leads off the 2nd side. It's a fun trip back to where my head was at in 1999, and ample demonstration that my tastes haven't really progressed much since then.

Side 1
Nele - Kit Clayton
Untitled - Richard Divine
Expo 2000 - Kraftwerk
Bloopalong - String Theory
June 9th - Boards of Canada
Twift Shoeblade - Mouse on Mars
Rewind - Cylob
Generation Shit - Chaos AD
Suzy Pulled a Pistol on Henry - Company Flow
I Own America - Slick Rick
Oval - dok (truncated)

Side 2
Master Control Bumper
Ded Zaurus - Metic
Pink Beanie - Dunderhead
Odd Job Remix - Push Button Objects
Simon Says - Pharaoh Monch
Happy Cycling - Boards of Canada
Tevatron - String Theory
Blue - Lexaunculpt
A remix (?) - Funkstörung
Blinded By Science - Thomas Dolby
On the Romance Tip - Caustic Window
Elvism - Burger/Ink (Brutally truncated)

Joshua Davison

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