Name: William Parks Elliott - Undertow by William Elliott
Duration: 8 min 27 s
Description: Melody played on the Moog Mavis, surf-like sounds produced on the Korg Arp 2600m.

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‘fortuna’
Modular Eudemonism.
Track created in 2023.

Kairos is an ancient Greek philosophical concept. Unlike Chronos, which is linear time, Kairos can only be indicated by feeling: it is the ‘time of the opportune moment’. Kairos tells us, for example, when the artist should stop and let his work live its own life.

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles, SIG, Varigate.
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > Beads.
- Pluck > DSP (reverb).
- Drum2.
- Loquelic Iteritas Percido > Desmodus Versio.
- Morphagene (vocal sample) > Synchronyne > Sisters.
Sinc Defero, Ochd.
StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Kairos [modular eudemonism]

‘omnes stulti, et deliberationes non utentes, omnia tentant’
Modular Hedonism.
Track created in 2023.

A minimalist piece inspired by the film Les Tontons Flingueurs (directed by Georges Lautner, dialogue by Michel Audiard, co-produced with Germany and Italy - Mein Onkel, der Gangster / In Famiglia si Spara - 1963).

Kitchen scene, dialogue between Fernand Naudin (Lino Ventura) and Raoul Volfoni (Bernard Blier) enjoying their glass of whisky ‘the three Kings’:

- Raoul Volfoni : “Tu sais pas ce qu'il me rappelle ? C't'espèce de drôlerie qu'on buvait dans une petite taule de Biên Hòa, pas tellement loin de Saïgon. Les volets rouges… et la taulière, une blonde comac… Comment qu'elle s'appelait, nom de Dieu ?”
- Fernand Naudin : “Lulu la Nantaise”.

(Dialogue in slang French, difficult to translate without betraying its flavour, about a woman met in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City - nicknamed Lulu la Nantaise).

Tools :
Pam’s, Varigate, SIG.
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > A-138s.
- Pluck > A-138s.
A-138s > FX Aid (reverb room stereo).
- Rings > DSP (stereo delay).
- One (personal perc sample).
- Drum2 (space snare).
Diode Chaos, Buff Mult, Mutes.
Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Lulu la Nantaise [modular hedonism]

what color are your sunsets? (original—mixed & mastered)

‘ex luna, terra’
Travel Stories.
Track created in 2023.

"The vast loneliness up here of the Moon is awe inspiring, and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from here is a grand oasis to the big vastness of space" (Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell).
 
Tools :
Pam’s.
- Basimilus, Drum2, Morphagene.
- Plaits, Rings.
- Polygogo > StMix.
- Nebulae (voice sample) > Disting mk4 (C-4 clockable ping pong delay) > StMix.
StMix > Desmodus Versio.
A-180-2, Mutes, Sinc Defero.
Ochd, Batumi (saw out), Zadar.
A-138s, Quad Vca, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro X.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Houston, We Have an Oasis [travel stories]

The ARP 2600

Melody played on the Moog Mavis, surf-like sounds produced on the Korg Arp 2600m. 

William Parks Elliott - Undertow

download this track for free https://wandertalk.bandcamp.com/track/arp2600-dark-ambient-1

arp2600 dark ambient 1

William Elliott makes experimental synthesizer-based music under a number of aliases, including Phantom Oscillator, GASGIANTS, Interferenzmaschine, and Occam's Raygun. His uncompromising improvisational style has led him to embrace hardware synths such as the iconic Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 and Eurorack modular synths among others.

William Parks Elliott - Undertow

William Elliott

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