something quite simple here… but seeds for many more explorations.

i'm playing a Braids oscillator with a CV/Gate equipped keyboard. I've captured a loop of playing in the Phonogene, which churns along in the background and another loop captured on the Mungo g0. The g0 is receiving CV from various LFOs that's constantly changing the loop around and the combination of both loops is being fed into an Intellijel Corgasmatron filter.

Mar 13, 2014 (a slow play)

As always - no laptop, no midi, no set, no preparation… just me and my modular, making it up as I go… warts and all.  Enjoy  :)  x

Live at Throne Of Blood, London  14-11-14 

Live @ Throne Of Blood   14 - 11 - 14

A short ambient arrangement using a piano and my modular system. Not overly complicated, just nice...

Piano + Modular Jam

Kazak - Denis Kaznacheev Remix

MMH live at the Freerotation dome, July 2015

Magic Mountain High @ Freerotation 2015

Live modular jam. Drums from Basimilus Iteritas, resampled and played from a Korg Volca Sample. Bassline from Mutable Instruments Braids being triggered from an Arturia Beatstep. Acid synth is aPGH Waveforms triggered by an Intellijel Metropolis. "Guitar" synth is a Clyonix Shapehifter triggered from a Make Noise Rene. Choir patch is a Vengeance trance vocal sample stretched using Paulstretch and being played by a QuBit Nebulae.

Modular Electro Jam at 112.02bpm

Live modular jam using all but 3 of the modules I own. The musical elements are based on an ambient lullaby I wrote for somebody incredibly important to me...

Drums : Korg Volca Sample playing through an Eventide Space reverb pedal.

Bass: Intellijel/Cylonix Shapeshifter triggered from an Arturia Beatstep into a Sputnik Modular Quad VCA/VCF. Filter Trigger is from an Intellijel Metropolis triggering an exponentially curved envelope from channel 4 of the Make Noise Maths.

Backing Synth: Mutable Instruments Braids in Meta Mode being triggered from the Intellijel Metropolis, into the Mutable Instruments Ripples filter [BP2] then into the Sputnik Modular Quad VCA/VCF and finally into the Make Noise Erbe-Verb. Timbre is being modulated by an Intellijel Duet II [Triangle Curve]. Meta Trigger is also from the pitch CV on the Intellijel Metropolis. VCA + Filter Trigger are from the Intellijel Metropolis triggering an exponentially curved envelope from channel 1 of the Make Noise Maths.

Lead Synth: PGH Waveforms triggered from a Make Noise Rene. The XCLK on the Rene is being clocked from output 4 of the PGH Game System running in Asteroids Mode 1. The YCLK is being clocked from output 3 and the YCV mod is being fed from output 1's random CV. The Waveforms is being fed into the Sputnik Modular Quad VCA/VCF which is being triggered from a PGH Envelope, being fed the CLKX trigger out on the Make Noise Rene. From there the signal is fed into an Audio Damage Dub JR Delay and then an Audio Damage AEVerb.

Glitches: The glitches are 8 separate samples on a QuBit Nebulae [in one shot mode] being triggered from the 4ms Shuffling Clock Multiplier [and SCM Breakout] fed into the HPF on the PGH Filter.



Lullaby [Live Modular Jam - 105bpm]

Puzzle Symphony  DEBUT Full Album

-LEVEL INCREASES THROUGHOUT DEMO, WATCH YOUR LEVELS-
Sequenced square wave from Mutable Instruments Braids is fed into the TG3 Filter. The Frequency of the Filter is stepped using a random waveform.
Frequency and Register are set to 5 initially, whilst firstly, the Resonance is swept from 0 to 10. The Drive is then increased to maximum, then the Resonance backed off a little. The Register is then swept downwards to 0, and then upwards to 10.

The Gristleizer

TG3 Filter, stepped Frequency, square input

75th release on Visionquest records courtesy of Ryan Crosson

I Hope You Will

VQ075 - B2. Favogo  PM

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