This is the second track on the Crude Essence LP on Bandcamp.
There are many tunes called "Gatecrasher" but this one actually has a crashing gate. The use of string samples (reversed and otherwise modified) is kind of a new thing for me.
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Am pleased to announce a new Bandcamp release titled Crude Essence.
Liner notes:
Noisy samples from field recordings, made in and out of the studio, are the heart of this release. Street voices, slamming gates, plastic bag dispensers at the deli, crackly vinyl "ghosts of the past," "sounds of the internet," old songs of mine cut up and granularized. Several voltage-controlled low res samplers were used. The songs are very short and structured. Strings also figure prominently -- synthesized and found.
Your support in the form of buying the LPs or songs is very encouraging, but all the material can be streamed. A cassette version is available!
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This is the 10th track on the Curbed Convolution LP on Bandcamp.
Mostly done on modular synth, with Expert Sleepers' ES-3 module translating sequences in Cubase into control voltages for pitch, gate, and LFOs.
The jazz drums are from a Steinberg product called "Groove Agent" -- that name is so dumb it needed a semi-retired version.
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Am pleased to announce a new Bandcamp release titled Curbed Convolution.
Liner notes by "Ralph Frisson, Unfrozen Jazz Critic":
The redacted particles of modern music ... No vocals (this is not Phil Collins) ... Puns, applied repetition ...Cultivated noise blasts and fragments of rave dreams ... Arithmetical organization, no hidden tricks, every track and decision is audible ... Groovebox paradiddles ... Bass so deep it can't be heard on your phone or laptop ... Punk atavism ... Synth modules, default beats from pricy hobby kaffeeklatches ... Concise, no elaboration or indulgent jamming ... This is ... Curbed Convolution.
Your support in the form of buying the LPs or songs is very encouraging, but all the material can be streamed. A cassette version is available!
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This is the 6th track on the Meta Dance Classic LP. A previous version of the song had the same beats (Vermona drum synth -- the "bass" is a tuned tom) and 303-ish Doepfer module. In this version the original oil-drum percussion (Reaktor Steampipe) was changed to a sort of robotic bouzouki that is carrying most of the melody. I ended up having to do a few scale and/or mode shifts to make the repetition of notes less obvious, and this got more interesting as I went along. After the notes were all in place I sped up the track by 16%, making the plucking more "dexterous."
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