There’s so much great stuff here… what a productive forum!
I’ll throw my latest release into the mix:
This was recorded in August while at a two-week stint at the Lazuli Residency in Vermont.
I lugged my rack, some small korg buddies, effects pedals, a small mixer, and some recording equipment out there, set up in the barn, and worked on a song a day (taking breaks on weekends). I would finish composing a piece and then improvise a performance, recording stereo into a tascam dp-008ex. Track 11 is the only one with overdubs, using the kaossilator to “solo” on top of the second half of the composition. Everything else was recorded live, usually on the first take. (The field recordings were futzed with after I had gotten home, but were all recorded on the property.) I had extremely limited experience using modular synthesis prior to the residency, but a lifetime of playing music, so I wanted to use the residency as an opportunity to just dive into this world, and spend each day in deep concentration on a piece, and then pull out the cables and start over the next day. It was satisfying to not be too precious about what I was making, and instead just trusting each moment and decision. To have that much free time dedicated to music making was a really, really lucky experience for me.
I didn’t take patch notes, but here’s a photo of the rack I used, and a bonus shot of the incredible barn workspace I was in with a view overlooking the 120+ acres of Vermont countryside.
Another nice thing that happened at the residency was the fiber artist Lauren Sinner was working in the barn alongside me, creating an incredible quilt made from natural dye scraps. We accidentally collaborated, and her quilt is such a nice visual representation of the music on the album. Her piece can be seen here: https://www.laurensinner.com/collaborations/#/lazuli-quilt/
