"Semi-Aleatoric" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
A young man walks through midtown Manhattan, listening to a "glitch" loop on his personal stereo while cars and street musicians come and go in his audio cognition zone.
music - tm
"Photon Lingerie"
"Photon Lingerie" [mp3 removed]
More sampling groovebox performance with bits and pieces of old tunes and "handmade" drumkits arranged in twelve patterns and played by the sequencer.
A riff from "Logan's Fast Walk" loops here at the midpoint; the main permutational tune is done with "Deadly Hiphop Kick Squad" kicks; the slightly plangent cymbals and coughing snares are sampled from the Vermona analogue drum synth; the arpeggiated-sounding riff that runs throughout is Sidstation noise percussion filter-swept by a triangle-wave LFO.
"Spring Forward," "Sidbeats 4," "Hacker Fashion II (Hardware Version)"
"Spring Forward" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
"Sidbeats 4" [mp3 removed]
"Hacker Fashion II (Hardware Version)" [mp3 removed]
These are all one minute songs made with the new [as yet unadvertised] sampler/sequencer/groovebox. No later edits, just recorded the patterns I programmed in the machine. For sampled raw material I used "rompler" kits I've made previously, such as a collection of Sidstation beats or Vermona drum machine sounds, or recycled .wav files from earlier songs. "Spring Forward" uses mostly one-shot notes and loops done with Reaktor instruments in the last year or so.
"Congas of Doom I," "Congas of Doom II"
"Congas of Doom I" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
"Congas of Doom II" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
Was learning my way around Electribes reasonably well (as a writer if not a live player) but this new (as yet unidentified) beatbox has many more capabilities. Am using the pre-loaded samples to write new riffs, stripping out some of the demo mode FX bells and whistles and leaving others. Also, am "cheating" by recording and overdubbing riffs. You won't see my disembodied hands demo-ing these on YT any time soon. Am fairly proud of the backwards-sounding break on "II" - it almost sounds like real hiphop that I have an affinity for. post edited for tone
"Moon Monitor"
"Moon Monitor" [mp3 removed]
All sounds made with a hardware sampler/sequencer (am not going to advertise the brand just yet). Several recorded "sessions" were combined and overtracked to make this minimal techno suite.