music - tm

Thanks to Aron Namenwirth for this photo of yours truly assaulting the groovebox at Apex Art last night.
The mock-retail background elements are from Apex's current show celebrating fictional products and brands.

from the Disquiet Junto performances at Apex Art last night, in mp3 form:

"Ladies' Paradise I" [mp3 rmoved to Bandcamp]*

"Who Let Him Out? (Ladies' Paradise II)" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]*

"Semi-Aleatoric" (mp3 moved to Bandcamp)

"Spring Forward" (mp3 moved to Bandcamp)

"New Wavs" [mp3 removed -- tune is now on Bandcamp]

"Fork It Over (Remix)" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]

Many thanks to event organizer Marc Weidenbaum and Apex for a well-planned, fun evening.
*I told Marc I would post on Soundcloud the two "Ladies' Paradise" remixes above, based on samples I made from the Disquiet Junto retail store field recordings, but I lied. Just realized Soundcloud requires a Facebook login, and you know what that means around here. For the time being I hope I can be classed as a Junto Adjunct - if that's OK with Marc.

Update: Am told I "don't need Facebook to make a Soundcloud account" but this sign-up screen has Zuckerprints all over it!

Update 2:

woodfloors: that's just a button.. the form below requires no such zuckery

tommoody: if that's the case they need to work on their layout - "sign up with facebook" probably shouldn't be the first thing you see when you come to the login screen

melipone: fb wants and is close to being the single login

tommoody: it's just - it's just - evil

"I Said Fork It Over" [mp3 removed]

A short, sort of drone metal chamber music piece for modular synth and PC. The slightly skewed harmonies at the middle and end were done by physically dialing among waveforms in a wavetable oscillator.
The occasional background crackles are a feature rather than a bug of the sampler module used to make the drone sounds, one I'm not entirely wild about but don't care enough to try to filter out. There are plug-ins that give you that kind of lo-fi texture!

These one minute songs are coming fast and heavy so I'm just going to combine the last four in a single post and use the word "including" like King Crimson used to do.

"BS Cascade (Suite)"
including
i. Trance (Generator Powered Groovebox) [mp3 removed]
ii. BS Cascade I [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
iii. BS Cascade II [mp3 removed]
iv. Trance (Generator Power) [mp3 removed]

All were done with various combinations of modular synths and sampled sounds, using both the computer and hardware. The lumbering rhythm of the BS Cascades is made using the Doepfer Quad ADSR module as a pseudo-delay triggering the start times of four VCOs.
The groovebox version of "Trance" takes the same raw material as the non-groovebox and homogenizes it somewhat. I accidently saved one riff at the wrong rate and it made some interesting sounds.

"Eat Your Greens (Suite)" [mp3 removed -- music video version can be found here]

Spent several days working on this "classical" composition. The idea was to write something for four modular synth voices controlled in real time by polyphonic MIDI notes. The reality was that, once the basic quartet was worked out, the voices had to be individually recorded and tweaked and some effects added. It was done in three sections, and changes in one part sometimes necessitated changes in others. So it was work.