serge explorations

i'm slowly getting back into some of my Serge modules and wanted to share this little exploration into randomness. for video of this patch: http://youtu.be/n3sP3ZZKjr0


Serge Random Fun

The Dual Universal Slope Generator (DSG) is the Swiss Army Knife of the Serge system!  It has aspects of being an oscillator, lfo, vca, filter and cv processor.
Today I’m exploring just some of its filtering capabilities.  For video of this exploration go to http://youtu.be/9pAvymVpLi0



Serge DSG Filter Fun

play at low volume. . . just some fun sonic wallpaper to burble along underneath the daily grind... or possibly for a quite place in the Mos Eisley Cantina. . .

serge sonic wallpaper

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

Cascades

a simple beat demonstration which is a variation on the demo video:
http://youtu.be/2Oil6sITtu8
I've added a couple of oscillators for FM and a bass pulse from a DSG

Serge pulse sequence beat

serendipity dumped this cool patch in my lap -- just a Serge synth with very minimal knob tweaking.  To see the knob tweaking: http://youtu.be/YGt_yDEWdMc


Boogie Serge Blues Guitar

This audio file is a demo and makes more sense with its accompanying video: http://youtu.be/cchwgqKNYWo
This answers the question, “What happens when you methodically explore each input of a Serge patch of chained Dual Universal Slope Generators?”


Serge DSGs Round Robin

all Serge analog synth: self-generating patch

Serge Steppin'

This was a live practice run in the studio with the Serge modular patch I developed my performance at the Serge 40th Reunion in San Francisco.  Dedicated to the genius synthesizer designer, Serge Tcherepnin.

For Serge

I just stumbled onto this amazing Serge feedback patch by Rastko Lazic:
https://vimeo.com/53348028
It is extremely volatile, expressive and wonderous.  This is my humble homage to Rastko's genius -- recorded in a single pass in real time just using three knobs and Rastko's patch

feedback for rastko

another variation on a different Serge patch morphed via the granular synth in Metasynth.  See the other meta-serge chamber music track for more details.

Meta-serge chamber music ii

a very short sequence with Serge DUSG:DTG:2-PVCOs:UEPAP & TKS.  fun accent shifts with manual wiggling of the DTG vc knob. for a video go to: http://vimeo.com/47750809

metal & glass

This is a vintage recording of an interactive/self-generating patch I created back in the early 1980's. The units are: Serge, JP-8 & Effectron II. I would put the JP-8 arpeggiator in hold mode then play 5 notes which then would cycle randomly.  The Serge controlled the arpeggiator triggering, the JP-8 controlled the varying delays on the Effectron, etc.  It was always fun to enter notes in the morning and see what it sounded like when I came home from work.

exponential space

Taken from my vintage vault...this is the soundtrack/backing-track to a staged reading of science fiction author, C. L. Moore's first short story, Shambleau written in 1933.  This track was composed for a 1982 performance for four readers and electronics.  It is mainly created on a Serge modular and a Jupiter-8 synthesizer.  You can read the short story online at: http://archive.org/details/Shambleau19331948
The story has been playfully described as "space cowboy-vampire-medusa on mars."

Shambleau

Fired up an old Serge panel today. Only one half of a vintage Dual Random Generator was working but it was making some pretty diverse choices as to length and density.
Just a little experiment using 2 PCOs, WAD and DUSG, oh yeah, and DRG.

serge random generation

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serge explorations

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