beautiful like all your posts... what (vast) reverb did you use here?   sounds familiar somehow..

Beautiful use of space, texture, resonance, and nuanced stereo movement that just massages the brain in headphones. Just beautiful.🖤🎧🫠

@societys-realization: Thank you so much Vincent! You grok it!

beautiful stuff i run into on muffwigglers or just browsing soundcloud looking for module demos etc.

modular synth pieces

demo of Synthesis Tech E340/E350 polar opposites

E340/E350 experiment

furthering some exploring and getting closer to a project for the weekend..... if we can keep power during a brutal wind and snow storm that's bearing down.... big winter.

January 28, 2022 (further)

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Once again, we’re excited to unveil another Polaroid Notes release, the fourth album by this Germany based artist in our discography. Alongside his side-project as Kraut Sounds, editions have also appeared on labels such as Büro Für Erdrotation, Weber & Alcantu and his own label Drone Works International.

In this latest edition ‘Cloud Anthems’, the music takes influence from the packaging photography, which was taken by the artist one sunny January at the Riegsee, a small lake in front of the Bavarian Alps. The entire lake had frozen over due to low temperatures in the weeks before. Later that afternoon fog rolled in and together with the sun, the frozen lake and leafless trees made a wonderful contrast. The whole scenario lasted only a few minutes before everything disappeared into the clouds of dense fog. As beautiful as the whole day was, those few moments were something very special to behold.

Polaroid Notes enjoys these contrasts, both in nature and in music too. ‘Cloud Anthems’ is a series of unique contrasts that harmonise perfectly, remaining in mind for a while after they have passed. Piano sounds and loops interact with flashes of harsh energy and strange experimental sounds from old analog synthesizers. A particular focus for this record is the VCS3 synthesiser, a portable synth from the late 60s; whilst a digital replica was used here, the artist found this to be the perfect way to express the themes for this record. Sounds and melodies flow into each other spontaneously like colours of an abstract painting, layer by layer.

Credits:
Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Polaroid Notes
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Cloud Anthems

wlr123 Polaroid Notes - Cloud Anthems

from the album Little Pink Fluffy Clouds A
released August 11, 2022
Mixed/Produced by Karen Vogt
Mastered by Mark Beazley/Trace Recordings
Artwork by Caro Mikalef (Cabina)
Physical and digital items can be purchased from my Bandcamp: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/little-pink-fluffy-clouds-a

cloud one Karen Vogt

SenSen - Hueso

2 Track live. I boiled my system down to 1 6u case to play with a Qunexus.  Besides a little reverb, all the ambience is provided by the Wow and Flutter, which is on the "lead".  The envelope follower seems to push the delays slower into nearly inaudible range while the line is playing and then springs back in the gaps. Also, the WET output feeds an LPG to create the "tuned percussion".  The lead line itself is e350 played through an SOB.  Qunexus pitch straight into the 1v/oct, gate into the SOB vactrol input.
I used the PTG to "pluck" the Verbos filter (verbos vactrol response very fast by itself) The extra control and life the PTG brings makes me wish SSF would just make a damn LPG. Pressure points/brains combo plays with the snare pitch and fm amount. SSF mix mode saturation is all over the place..the Verbos also saturates nice too.

Clock - Noisering
Triggers - Triggerman
HiHats - TipTop808
Low end - Subcon M15 Fm'd by the morph output of 2nd M15 through Verbos amplitude and tone controller.  
Snare/Rim - subcon m37 fm'd a bit, optomix.
Tuned Percussion - WET output of Wow and Flutter through optomix. 
Main Line - e350 morphed by slew'd Noisering.  Filtered by SOB. Run through Wow and Flutter.

Disarray

"II" is the first track we're revealing from "Lachrymorph", a collaborative full-length album by Petar Petkov and Bartosz Borzeszkowski. To be released on tape & digital on November 25 at http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

To create their first collaborative full-length “Lachrymorph”, guitarist Petar Petkov and drummer Bartosz Borzeszkowski embarked on a journey to the Unknown – both physically and creatively. Having successfully collaborated in the studio (check out “Scape I", released in "Vanishing Standards II"), the artists felt the need to dig deeper in their mutual audial explorations, which curiously enough stem from their quite different musical backgrounds with Petkov coming from the world of classical guitar and Borzeszkowski - from the field of jazz.

In “Lachrymorph”, Petkov and Borzeszkowski don’t hold preliminary discussions to lead the music the desired way, they do not map their explorations but rely on intuition. Creating in a small cottage in the deep forests of Cassubia, Poland, they seem to have not only opened their own worlds to one another's contributions, but have left the door wide open for all that lurked around to further nuance and deepen their sound. Scattered across the pieces are field recordings, captured during the duo’s walks in the surrounding areas, that further flesh out the world surrounding Petkov and Borzeszkowski's creative process.

“Lachrymorph” is a varied listen, more of a collection of musical snapshots than a narrative-driven experience. Some tracks (“I”, “IV”, “VII”) are deep and captivating soundscape works that make you lose a sense of the actual instruments that went into their creation. Others(“V” and “VI”) are more straightforward and act as a sort of wake-up call, not letting you disintegrate entirely in the hazy musical territories of the record. Most of the music, however, inhabits the intriguing zone between these two polarities, neither direct nor surreal, like glimpses from one world to another. 

Music by Petar Petkov and Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Recorded and mixed by Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Mastered by Michał Jan Ciesielski
Design and artwork by Kamil Frąkewicz (@szklanymózg)

Petkov/Borzeszkowski - II

Tracklist

01. Lullatone - Like pebbles in a stream
02. Monogoto - Lamella (deletion 78)
03. Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Denn_Repp
04. Simon McCorry - Bearing Witness
05. Fields We Found - Walk
06. Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 4)
07. Jeannine Schulz - The Wind Blows Over The Earth
08. Darren McClure - Look At The Light
09. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Transmitter

311. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Sonoris is a broad representation of the main trends in modern ambient music.

Pleq (Poland)
https://pleq.bandcamp.com

Dionisaf (USA)
https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com

Alessandro Barbanera (Italy) 
https://alessandrobarbanera.bandcamp.com

Sebby Kowal (USA) 
https://soundcloud.com/sebbykowalmusic

Michele Andreotti (Italy) 
https://soundcloud.com/michele-andreotti

Soloi Sounds (Japan)
https://soundcloud.com/monotone-orchestra

Chelidon Frame (Italy)
https://chelidonframe.bandcamp.com

Henrik Meierkord (Sweden) 
https://soundbread.se

NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] (Ukraine) 
https://nkxmusic.bandcamp.com

Kenji Katayose (Japan)
https://kenji-katayose.bandcamp.com

Merkaida (Russia)
https://soundcloud.com/merkaida

Adrian Lane (UK)
https://adrianlane.bandcamp.com

July in January (Russia)
https://julyinjanuary.bandcamp.com

CosmoMoose (UK)
https://cosmomoose.com

Sonidos Precarios (Chile)
https://sonidosprecarios-fs.bandcamp.com

Toni Dimitrov (Macedonia)
https://soundcloud.com/sound_00

Mastering by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Photo by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

https://www.chitrarecords.com

Sonoris

Góðr

Generative patch with lead voice created by wave folding a filtered oscillator.

Bark Lee Bug Face By Dcramer

Fields

A pensive semi-ambient track, based on an 8-bar mostly generative sequence that changes slightly with each repetition.

The sequencer is generated by using a Doepfer A189-1 in XOR mode (mode 4) to transform the Verbos Voltage Multistage's Ref output into a more complex pattern, which is then quantised to form a melody. The VM's two CV outputs drive the A189-1's BC CV and a VCA between the Ref output and the A189-1's signal in. This means that each step of the VM has a different variation of the main melody, creating an 8-bar motif with common elements. The Ref out also pings a PEG channel, which is used as a clock multiplier to get 8th notes to trigger the A156 quantiser.

Further variation comes from the fact that the CV driving the VCA that attenuates the Ref output ALSO goes through a VCA! This is modulated by an A149-1's 2^n output, which is clocked every 8 bars to introduce slight random variation into the range of the melody.

The main melody is played by a Braids in WTBL mode, using its internal envelope to drive its own VCA as well as Timbre, into Erbe Verb. The Color is modulated by the A149-1's bottom half, clocked so that each bar is played using a different wavetable.

There's also a sort of bassline sequence that chugs away (Rubicon saw, double saw and sub into Pitts Filter), using Klasmata to vary its rhythmic sequence (with Klasmata's Fill CV driven by VM's CVb). Finally, there's a dirty kick drum (Pitts Generator into Optomix, opened by Maths) and hi-hats (white noise through resonant HPF into Optomix). The rhythms of those come from a combination of clock dividers, logic and Turing Machine.

Sun 189

Experimental meditation oscillation song. TEOP1 Field keyboard, started with a layer of mid-level digital organ with some weird timber effect in it, then added an almost walking jazz bass accompaniment, then went back and added a higher layer of some more ethereal stuff.  The point of this song is drone background for some thinking/working.

Preoccupied Oscillation

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

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