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‘awaken’

made using the norns awake script (x2), digitakt, a moog minitaur and resonances from the wingie 2

this was a live performance recorded straight to the DAW.

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Mostly been doing drone pieces on the modular lately, so it was nice to get back to something with more melody and rhythm. Sequences all generated via Pam’s here.

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expansions on a vamp, solo on joystick and minilogue in far-away key

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Here is an album I’ve been lately working on :slight_smile:

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This is utterly, beautifully compelling. Wonderful stuff.

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Thank you for listening and the lovely words!

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Solo 2600 improvisation with no effects, just internal spring reverb.

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Guitar, Norns (Molly and Passersby), some fx in Ableton

3 one take tracks improvised and then slightly edited

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Liking this a lot so far.

Can you tell us anything about your process?

Also do you have an English version of the Bandcamp notes?

Thanks!

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after getting over this embarrassing hurdle, I dusted off cheat codes for my first proper jam with a new eurorack setup. My focus, in addition to using cheat codes for both sequencing and processing audio from the rack through the live buffer, was on experimenting with a couple different voltage-controlled envelope generators for both occasional timbral modulation of one of the synth voices and naturalistic percussion with filtered noise. I found that, for the latter, a vca worked quite a bit better than an lpg, even though the latter was my first impulse. I also got to use the new norns screenshot workflow for the first time for this, and it’s great! What a nice little QOL improvement. Thanks to everyone who made that possible

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Just a heads up to anyone interested, one of the out of print albums by one of the original “post-rock” bands, Cul de Sac album is up on the bandcamp site.

This was their 1999 album Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall. In my opinion, one of the best “night time” albums ever. More to come soon including their collaboration with John Fahey. Please follow the bandcamp page. I’m trying to spread the word

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I was only somewhat familiar with this music growing up but this quote from Glenn Jones of CdS recalled some good early 90s show memories,

I enjoyed myself very much. It was an outdoor show, and consisted mostly of waiting around in the rain for several hours while Faust made last minute repairs to the stage. Due to this delay we only got to play an abbreviated set. Keiji Haino followed with his assault on the eardrums; Gate (with Lee Renaldo) I thought were more interesting, playing with varying levels of noise and sound textures in a thoughtful manner. The Thurston Moore Band, with guitarist Tim Foljahn and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, was perplexing. (I remember these lyrics: “Kick out the jacks, and I’ll buy the snacks. . . .Superchrist!” Is he trying to sound Japanese?) But, what the hell – the kids seemed to like it.

It was dark by the time Faust took the stage. I enjoyed their mix of sonic mayhem, involving as it did televisions being smashed, industrial percussion (jack hammers and such), explosions, etc., which was contrasted by some very attractive fingerpicked nylon-string guitar, a quiet little song sung to a goldfish in a bowl – you get the idea! The night, the weirdly lit stage, the roar of trains passing just 200 feet away – contributed to the sense that this was something special.

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Cul de Sac to me were a quintessential post rock band. I’ve been lucky that they’ve given me access to every note that have recorded. I’ve been working with them to get this stuff back out there, including stuff that was never available, like concerts, rehearsals, unreleased tracks, etc. I’ve been approaching this as a fan, thinking, what would I find cool and interesting?

They are definitely a bridge between the post rock of the 90’s, and the for lack of a better term, American Primitivism guitar of now.

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If anyone is following, Just put up the Cul de Sac albums ‘China Gate’ and ‘I don’t want to go to bed’ on the bandcamp page.

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• Moved to the NTS-1 thread

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A little Chase Bliss Habit into the OP-1 Field. When these guys hook up, situation’s just out of control -

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I presented a short set for a small but very select(!) audience at an after-work social event. It was a pre-programmed/pre-recorded set of ambient music soundscapes made using a small Eurorack modular synth.

It was my first time playing out as a solo maker of electronic music and, although I played it safe - there was no ‘patching from scratch’, for example - I think it went pretty well.

The setlist was drawn primarily from my ‘singing the earth’ album (available here: singing the earth (there is no planet b) | helen_g) and makes a nice complement to it.

The Earth as My Co-Writer: Although this album is free to download (type 0 into the ‘Amount’ box), I will donate 10% of any sales to the Earth/Percent charity, which provides a way for the music industry to support the most impactful organisations addressing the climate emergency.

Find out more about Earth/Percent at earthpercent.org and And on drums… Earth! Musicians to credit planet as collaborator to raise funds for activism | Music | The Guardian

Earth/Percent is also here on Bandcamp at earthpercent.bandcamp.com

setlist:
-i think so (live modular synth edit)
-intro collage
-pod song (coldwater reef mix) - from ‘singing the earth’
-ready to launch (the weightless mix) - a remix for emily
-flight (grounded mix) - from ‘singing the earth’
-enoesque (bel air mix)
-hunger stone (brittle mix) - from ‘singing the earth’
-the great undoing (the jackpot mix) - from ‘singing the earth’
-outro collage

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One of my favorite bands!

My first release was a cassette with Jon Williams, who recorded all their records (as far as I know). I saw them a number of times in Boston, where I live.

Their guitar player, Glenn Jones, is still very active as an American Primitive style acoustic player, in the vein of John Fahey, with whom Cul de Sac made the brilliant “The Epiphany of Glenn Jones.”

Their synth player, Ronin Amos, was wonderfully nuts, reminiscent a bit of Pere Ubu’s Allen Ravenstine…

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