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I’ve spent what free time I’ve had over the past month rapidly iterating without bringing anything to completion, so today was a planned departure from the streak. This is a rough first print of a part-generative eurorack jam in Eb major with drums from Maschine added in post.

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I’ve been spending some time with the new Mutable Instruments Plaits this afternoon & I’m absolutely smitten with this module already.

Here’s a little track I put together using the Filtered Noise mode. Delay provided by Disting & Clouds providing some modulation. Just a simple Euclidian trigger from Pamela’s New Workout & a melodic sequence from Ornament & Crime’s Sequins. I just set the above off & played around with a few of the controls as it was going. Seriously looking forward to some more studio time with this great oscillator.

https://soundcloud.com/high-towers-deep-wells/vibrate-higher

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Learning Kria, and playing with a pair of CEM3340 oscillators I put a design together for - after some unsatisfying FM and cross modulation, I used them separately, but think they came out nice. I really like how it responds to PWM.

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A minimal dark drone I made some time ago.

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<晚风>
guess what W/ do?
hq audio : https://mengqi.bandcamp.com/track/wanfeng

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I really love this. I just listened to it 4 times on loop. Your performances have an incredibly beautiful fragility. Thankyou for posting.

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Recorded this improvisation last night before I went to bed. I’ve been diving into the meta sequencing function with Ansible the last week and it is just so much fun. Most of the delays and reverb comes from Ableton, convolution reverb pro and echo (the new echo effect in Live 10). Also been using the Drum Buss to fatten up bassy tones and percussive elements. Main voice is a Tonestar 8106 from Studio Electronics through Clouds.

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omg thank you for that beauty!!!

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heres some new stuff i did in the last week




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Two track album. Let’s Go is first track, Let’s Go Somewhere Else is second track, same as first but slowed down and tweaked.

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I tried running the sound of stormy weather through my synth. This is intended more as background sounds than listening music. It gets less and less active over the course of the piece. Maybe good to fall asleep to.

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longer edit from one of the last takes before packing it all up for the west.

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words about this The video was shot about a month ago, while visiting my partner’s folks in Texas. They had finally finished building their home, after spending the better part of a year living in a camper parked inside the warehouse on their land. The build turned out beautifully — it’s a small place with a big open heart where the living room, kitchen, dining area and office share fluid borders.

Behind the house, is more land than I know how to quantify (I grew up with a parking lot for a front yard). Ed took me around on their Kabota to do “perimeter checks” and explained the intricacies of the deer feeder’s schedule. He let me help pull up painter’s tape from the warehouse floor to reveal a regulation shuffleboard court he’d built because of how much fun he and Tori had playing it on a recent vacation. He pointed out the spot where an inherited pile of wood used to sit — Ed knew it was shelter for something fierce and when he showed the buckshot-filled carcass of a fat, two-foot long snake to a friend, they were surprised he hadn’t been killed before pulling the trigger.

One of the nights, Ed and I were walking down to the warehouse for lighter fluid and he stopped us at a massive tree. Before he and Tori broke ground, the entire lot was packed with all kinds of growth. Over the year, they cut most of it down, but Ed wanted to keep this one tree because it looked like it could come to life. You know, like the trees do in movies.

Later that evening, I went out back and grabbed this footage from the base of that tree, using my phone for light. The audio is from a session a week ago, using Mannequins and monome modules processed with plugins from Soundtoys and Goodhertz.

While doing a 4500 project on my Instagram, I noticed that merging unrelated video and audio reveals different manifestations of the same impulses. There’s never music in my head when I’m filming, same with images when I’m playing — but when presented together, a choreography emerges.

It’s possible that the synchronicity is subjective, or just the result of sentimentality. But that’s interesting, too!

What does it mean to see these connections? What does it mean to force them? Is it healthy to invent a narrative or is it undisciplined? Does the music impose emotion on nature or does it simply extend invitation?

My mind was blank while filming, but as soon as it’s media I need something to think about.

I dunno. It’s good data to have, if nothing else.

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I just watched this. Very nice!

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First video with my new 128 grid.

Cheers!

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Gorgeous.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Great track, thank you for sharing.

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Oh! I love the idea of a palindromic track! Lovely idea

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a video i made last sunday. music by rbeny (not an official music video)

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