tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14417897656682752082009-11-04T15:24:34.182-08:00Celebrating distortion in all its earthly formsWavedeformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08341157122141290094noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441789765668275208.post-76228730309068818962009-10-22T15:29:00.000-07:002009-10-22T15:33:14.197-07:00

SwampRacket is a couple passes of rhythmic racket, one pass of bassy drone, one fretless guitar track, and one fretted guitar track. It's been a long time since I posted anything here. Sorry. I've been busy.File found here

Wavedeformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08341157122141290094noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441789765668275208.post-37784115225136232962008-12-23T01:51:00.000-08:002008-12-23T01:54:18.968-08:00

Matrixsynth asked for contributions of synth-oriented holiday music, and my sister was in town and wanted to go to the Charles M. Schulz museum, so this Vince Guaraldi song was buzzing through my head, anyway. I grabbbed a MIDI file off the web and tweaked it just a little. I couldn't decide if this was a good thing to do to this poor song, but it was sort of fun.Link to file

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This one is pretty much a one-trick pony, but I think it's a pretty good trick. It was almost called "The Nightly News with Roger Shepard", but I think fewer people would have gotten the reference.Link to file

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Grace Against Gravity is a more-or-less rhythmic piece that consists of one thwacky pass played straight through, with a bunch of little mini drones that were added later to fill holes I left in the first pass. I've never worked this way before, and I have to say it's pretty fun.File found here

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Burble is the combination of two little improvs that were done a few days apart. After I had recorded the less rhythmic, droney, layer I wondered if that rhythmic thing I had recorded a couple days earlier was in the same key and tempo enough to fit on top. It wasn't, but I glued them together anyway. For this one, my system was augmented with a borrowed 259e waveform generator, which I used

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Yet another 200e improv. I play with note density a lot in this one, leaving holes. Link to file

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Finally, something with something that almost resembles a beat. This one consists of three passes: a drum pass, a pass of a bass sound through a glorpy sample hold filter, and a shimmery bubble-filter pass.Link to file

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A tribute to the diversity of the insect world. This is mostly the Buchla, but there is also one sound that comes from a simple synth that I made in Max/MSP. Link to file

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I flipped a coin to decide whether to put these here, or on the B-Sides page. These are three parts out of a long improv. I've tried not to get too atomic with the editing (read: I'm too lazy to do a proper job of editing these down. In particular, the middle part should be much shorter). The Uncertianty involved here is split between the 266e Source of Uncertainty module and various random

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Done on my current three waveform generator system. Link to file

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This one is done on my older, two waveform generator configuration. Link to file

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Another one that is on on the too long side, but has a couple of nice moods, I think. Done on my older, two waveform generator configuration.Link to file

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Yet Another Drone. Switching between three presets, for fun and profit. Well, fun anyway. Done on my older, two waveform generator configuration.Link to file

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The titular gong (which isn't really all that gong-like, I suppose) is mostly the 291e Triple morphing Filter with the modulation oscillators of my 261e Waveform Generators feeding it. The rhythmic clicks and bumps are the principal oscillators of the 261e's. Link to file

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This is a reworking of something called TableThing, that I wrote for the first commercial release of Max, too long ago to remember a specific year. TableThing is a scanning sequencer. and I put an updated version of it, renamed ScanSeq, into the Gyre program I'm working on (see Gyre page for a short description of Gyre.) By scanning sequencer, I mean that it scans a Window of notes, some number

Wavedeformhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08341157122141290094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441789765668275208.post-60263545563449785322007-03-15T23:29:00.000-07:002007-05-21T01:00:47.105-07:00

This is a long (25 minute) improv on the 200e with a piece of software I'm writing in Max, called Gyre. This one is quite long, and fairly tedious in places, but I wanted to put it up intact to show some of the real-time changes possible with the 200e driven with Gyre. It's unedited, with no external processing used, other than a light dusting of compression. Given how long this one is, perhaps

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There was a recent thread on Matrixsynth which started out being about a NAMM video of Yasi Perera showing some of the new Buchla 200e modules, but it quickly devolved into what is starting to be a common series of rants about the 200e demos. There were a few postings talking about how the 200e demos were un-musical. I asked what musical/unmusical meant in this context, and discovered it's much

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This is my entry into the 2006 BugMusic contest. VictoryGarden consists of four "passes" of Buchla 200e: two drone passes, a noisy/growly pass, and a plucky pass in 5/4. Each pass was recorded in quad, but is presented here in stereo. ShapePlayer, a custom Max/MSP patch was used as the note generator. There was editing involved to bring it in under the three minute barrier. Apparently, I can't

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I switch back and forth between a couple of almost-the-same presets. I also prove that I'm a crappy keyboard player with the lead voice. Link to file

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Naming drones can be hard.Link to file

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The 249e and 266e get workouts on this one. No human note-generation. Link to file

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One with some over-delayed guitar wanking. The Prophecy's arpeggiator provides the note sequence. Link to file

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