It is often said of modular synthesis that you are entering a rabbit hole, something I did not understand when I bought my first eurorack modules but most certainly do now!

So inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I wrote a short story titled Alan's Adventures in Modularland and performed it at a ModCaf meet in Aldershot in August.  This playlist comprises that performance and also three further tracks representing Alan's adventures in Modular land.

Alan's Adventures in Modularland

edited and mixed track, made with modular synthesizer, motivated by sarah belle reid and the course *from patch to polish* with sarah belle reid : *

Patience

Nice to zone out too. Recorded in 1 take and composing in real time.

Inhale Exhale

My submission to Modular World's 2nd Anniversary show. Video available on my youtube channel https://youtu.be/7On_gctkJVY

This Dark Day Shines

Lies

WhiteNoiseProject4e

Cardboard Tube 1

Some fun with the Space Station and Lyra 8 with a little HNW percussion.

Disorientation

Disorientation: 02

“Jamuary” challenge, create a jam every day during January.

Day 28’s jam – stays with Soma Laboratory but introduces their Ether product.  Ether enables you to record the electromagnetic field that emanates from our modern world.  The Ether was used as the “microphone” to record the electromagnetic field of my modular rack and studio. I then played the recording through a delay and reverb unit to create a drone like sound where the earlier parts of the recording become layered with later parts.

0125 011 OZ Rck Day 28

In today's episode, we'll be talking to Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. Mr De Schutter was appointed as the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights by the Human Rights Council at its 43rd session in March 2020. The discussion today focuses on his recent submission to the UN Human Rights Council on eradicating poverty beyond growth.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, https: //ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/ 

Executive produced by Meghan Campbell 
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith
Hosted by Francis Hand 
Music for this series is by Rosemary Allman

Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter

When I bought my first eurorack modules, I was warned that I was at risk of going down a rabbit hole.  At that time, I did not understand what this meant but I certainly do now!

So when you think of a rabbit hole you almost certainly are reminded of Lewis Carroll's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. And that is the inspiration for this track, a story based on Alan's Adventures in Modularland.  I wrote the story and recorded it as a sample that plays whilst I improvise with various eurorack modules over the top to create an electronic soundscape.

The modules used include logic and random probability as a tribute to Carroll's mathematical interest.  Central to the control of the track is After Later Audio's version of the Turing Machine aptly named Alan.

Alan's Adventures In Modularland (Part 1)

Alans Adventures In Modularland Adventure 3

Alans Adventures In Modularland Adventure 2

Alans Adventures In Modularland Adventure 1

I am a retiree who has caught the modular synthesiser bug.  The tracks I upload whether experiments or finished tracks are inspired from taking the Sarah Belle Reid "Learning Sound and Synthesis" and "From Patch To Polished" courses over 2020-2022 that have opened my ears to alternative approaches to composition, sound and music.  I am not a traditional musician but an electronic musician and describe my work as electronic sound art.

Alans Adventures In Modularland Adventure 1

AGAlGonzo

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