Stone in Focus

All voices/sounds from the Moog Matriarch, some of which were manipulated in Logic Pro.

From The Depths

self-generating long ambient cascading drones using the Serge Modular Music System for the drones and Ableton Live for "endless" reverb. . .

Cascades

Four oscillators from two TipTop/Buchla 258t oscillators, each going their own way toward the output modules. One went through a Doepfer Wasp filter, one went through a Bastl Cinnamon filter and two ended up going into the left and right channels of a Make Noise QPAS. Each ended up in its own CV pannable channel on the TipTop /Buchla 207t mixer. Each output of the oscillator/filter combination also went back to the FM input of itself. The left and right channels out of this went through Error Instruments White Rabbit. The panning was controlled by waves TipTop/Buchal Quad Function Generator 281t. The various filters were heavily modulated by Ochd and Octosource LFOs. Yours truly was at the mixer sliders and the frequency knobs of the oscillators, "performing"!

River Styx

My first attempt at a Berlin School-style piece on the Microbrute. Arpeggios sequenced in Live 9 with tweaking recorded live. The delay is Surreal Machine's fantastic Magnetic effect. 

Watching

I read this short article (mostly an explanation for this picture) about how whales sleep and how we never knew this until recently and didn't have any picture until 2018 or something like that. I'm sure whales dream - do they dream of flight? If they did and had synthesizers would they make music like this?

240705 When Whales Dream Of Flight

Muse 1

Muse2

Muse3

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (trans. Ursula K. Le Guin)  - Sample

This is a serendipitous sketch that arose from preparing for an upcoming live concert with my friend, composer and video artist Robert Coburn.  I did a free improv by looping my small Buchla system and Robert created a video sketch -- the music and video crossed in the email and I merely laid in the music to his video. You can see/hear those results here: http://vimeo.com/57860736
more on the concert SoundImageSound here:
http://go.pacific.edu/conservatory/soundimagesound

From The Depths

SuperGlitch