Abre Ojos

A new EP has just been put up: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

These tracks were built over a few weeks working through a new module configuration in the modular including the addition of the Intellijel Multigrain. I've been falling down the granular vocal sample rabbit hole recently and loaded one of my favourites a sample of a fellow speaking in the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid. The other fun thing that I took from ‪@CinematicLaboratory‬ and their Mutable Instruments Elements video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3Nj... was feeding things into the inputs of Elements (I have the ALA Atom). I used one of the Plaits (ALA Knit) synth models with the timbre and morph controls modulated with the Erica Synths Joystick 2 creating weird distorted feedback like tones.

Anyway - have a watch and listen and let me know your thoughts or other ways you patch Elements or Multigrain.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Abre Ojos

So here's the challenge - make a modular case with no modulation sources eek. I'm so hooked on LFOs. This makes it harder. I am the LFO, I am the modulator. The Make Noise Morphagene makes it easy to have morphing (haha, I see what you did there!) waveforms and its selection of controls make it a very playable instrument. For these tracks I made a reel from a custom made Drift patch on the Ableton Move. Having the Befaco Oneiroi as output not only allows some live looping but its output FX are stellar! Here are three tracks using this set up as a longer dystopian meditation.

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Abre Ojos

Playing the ‪@EricaSynths‬ Syntrx II feels like a game of chess. Not just because of the grid patch matrix but because everything you see is on the board and all of those elements have rules about how they can be moved around the sonic playing surface. Not everything can be patched, not everything is a modulation source so there are rules, limitations within the sonically limitless canvas. Its simple elements make for a complex riddle of sound design. My thought when starting a new patch is along the lines of - how can I make something different than I made before that has good performative options and would work as a long from piece of music with my signature noisy dark textured drones.

Here is the latest two improvised audiovisual recordings using the Syntrx II paired with the ‪@beetlecrabaudio‬ Tempera which has a couple of tracks of sampled Syntrx, a live manipulation of it and a couple of vocal samples. As usual both the audio and visuals are performed and recorded live. Two tracks, one take, warts and all. Follow the end screen link to track two Ecchymosis.

1 month ago | [YT] | 0

Abre Ojos

Hello! Here's a post! And it has a purpose as I wanted to let you know that I have just published a 3 track audiovisual EP called Attrition and here is the playlist that combines all of them www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

These tracks started with wanting to process the VHIKK-X through the Euroburo Zoia and try some granular fun. The other bit was syncing the Maschine+ to the modular while also processing the modular thru the Maschine+ while using it trigger samples.

I've had some questions about what "sound and vision for dystopian meditation" means and with a TLDR warning here it goes:

Our world for all of its beauty and beautiful people has a pretty crappy layer of humanity overlaying it. The tracks I make are designed to both reflect the shit and give us respite by giving us 10 minutes downtime by turning your TV or device into an evolving art work that isn't trying to sell you something.

Even with the visual and aural noise in the tracks, the slow evolving nature of them are designed to create a meditative space, to find that bit that balances between quieting the monkey mind while creating mental space for other voices or no voices.

Reading the stats that people spend an average of 1min 32secs on my 10 minute videos means that isn't happening and it makes me wonder if our propensity for short attention spans is being enhanced through reels and shorts. Bummer. Isn't there a recent study that shows short content is doing us damage? More so than excessive alcohol consumption? I'll beat you to saying "maybe my stuff is just crap and no one wants to listen to it" and thats why no one watches for longer. I do hope so, I do hope that our content habits aren't destroying our minds and ability to concentrate or sit longer than 30 secs.

Thank you to those who do take the time to sit in and watch it. Thank you to those who do just dip in and out of the tracks, maybe if I keep working on my art there will be something that calls to you sit and watch a bit longer.

What are your thoughts?

Here is the first track if you feel like a 10 minute AV dystopian mediation journey. If you are really keen watch track two and then track three.

AO

1 month ago | [YT] | 2