music - tm

"Two Drum Synths" [mp3 removed]

Done with the "modular" synth plus a software synth--the two take turns playing some of the same MIDI patterns, but there are complications in terms of some overtracking and added effects.

"Krolock Undubbed" [mp3 removed]

This was done with the "modular" synth in the diagram above, with some slightly sad/eerie/dorky melodies added.

"Krolock Undubbed (Beats Only)" [mp3 removed]

This was done purely with the "modular" synth. It seemed too bare bones, initially, so I did "Krolock Undubbed" with some added melodies. Having satisfied my anxiety about a "proper song" I came back to this one and liked it pretty well--it's kind of a percussion bath. The swirly Rhodes sound is actually a tom tom run through a digital chorus effect and the Mutator filter.

"Metro Blorp" [mp3 removed]

After the Mac SE stuff I wrote in the '80s the sound production world evolved, in the sense of more channels, processing power, etc., leaving those tunes in an interesting techno-temporal warp. (Thx to Travis for posting one recently--that was the very first one of those I did.) A friend in the Bush I years who had been married to an avant garde musician playing Cage, etc assured me that those Mac pieces were not good. That gives me confidence to keep plugging away in the current home computer state of the art.

"Three Times" [mp3 removed]

The beats are done with Reaktor "Rhythmaker" - an easy-to-program, all-synthesis drum machine that I find fairly hypnotic. The electro-ish melodies were done with a Reaktor User Library instrument called "3X." A sequence someone else wrote, altered slightly, then a more synthpop sequence I wrote, then both together, in the style of a canon or round.

Update: Made a few little changes for continuity and variety and reposted.