This is a sound collage made with Morphagene, my kalmiba and my sons bongo drum. I made three splices of Kalimba and bongo playing on Morphagene by sitting my Azden shotgun mic on the floor and playing the drum and kalimba below my desk to avoid feedback from my monitor speakers. The sound of me setting the kalimba down on the desk is also picked up as a percussive element.
It’s been rainy here and I recorded some rain from my window today but the recording wasn’t great so I used one I made outside the house last week during a thunderstorm. The storm recording plays into my modular system from MTM Radio Music into Dual Looping Delay, into Clouds, and finally into Morphagene, which is playing back the Kalimba / Bongo recordings.
A slow offset from a 111 bpm clock is sent to Morphagene and Rene. Control voltage from Rene is sent to Morphagene’s slide input and used to modulate playback position. Splice, position and time controls are manually manipulated.
Clouds starts to catch on to chunks of the thunderstorm, stretching bits and pieces of it out while Morph turns the kalimba into a microcosmic gurgalimba thing. Things get kind of trippy sounding for a minute, before they go almost back to the normal sound of rain.
