This playlist is a collection of my favoured recordings.  All tracks have been created following taking Sarah Belle Reid's online Learning Sound and Synthesis course in early 2021 that cemented my interest in modular synthesis and the follow up From Patch to Polished course I took in Spring 2022.  Most tracks are performances of improvised compositions recorded in real time to two track stereo, some have been arranged and mixed in Ableton Live.  Any mastering has been done in Sound Forge.  Its up to you whether you love or hate what you hear, I make no claims to be a good musician.  But the best art should polarise your view one way or the other, the worst art is that which does nothing for you - elevator music perhaps?

Love It OR Hate It That's Up To You

Chaos Beat

New Dawn II

These tracks are various live experiments with a modular system based around either a After Later Audio Benjolin V2 or Make Noise Telharmonic as the main sound source.  They are purely demos inspired by the synth course I have taken.  I use SoundCloud so that other course participants can listen.

Ambient I

Benjolin And The Flies V

Benjolin And The Flies VII

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

In our open mic session it was suggested a 4 on the floor kick drum could underpin the composition.  So I have recorded another live composition and added a Sound Force Linn kick drum processed through a filter where the frequency is modulated periodically by a trigger pulse.  Unfortunately, whilst I think this adds to the track, it cannot be accommodated in my 84hp case!  So may be I will have to have a larger case!

Benjolin And Fracture IV

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

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.

Benjolin And Fracture IV

AGAlGonzo

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