"Prelude to a Buzzsaw" [mp3 removed]
Approx. 6 min dubby minimal techno. Reaktor's Monoliner step sequencer triggers analog patches modulated with slow and fast LFO sweeps. About ten "sessions" were recorded, then cut up and multi-tracked. The kick notes and weird percussion are from Reaktor's GoBox, also cut up and matched* to the analog beats. A riff I like comes in about 3:20 (channeling the sound of refrigerators).
*by hand (no algorithms) but not that complicated
"Triangle Wave Modulation" [mp3 removed]
This is an electronic music piece, or sketch. Some combination of exponential FM, LFOs, and envelope generators is making what sounds like an arpeggiated sequence that is fairly musical (this is all hardware). Previously have used MIDI notes from the computer to "impose" a tune on hardware-generated glop but here the reverse is happening: the MIDI makes the musical sequence go all wonky and atonal. You can hear when those notes come in and leave. Some knob-turning is happening while all this is going on but mostly it's just letting the machines do the work.
"Accidental Scales" [mp3 removed]
The beats are all from Reaktor's GoBox sampler/sequencer (which I've used a few times lately) and those chromatic (?) scale blorts that come in at :45 are made with the modular synth -- FM patches that I'll probably never duplicate once I unplug the cables.
"Shaker Dinette" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
Because the world can never have enough minimal techno.
My use of some pre-digital percussion by other musicians (about 2 seconds' worth extended to two minutes via creative editing) in the previous posts prompted one listener to comment that my musicianship was improving. This is not good, so back to the certifiably machinelike.
"Percussion Reassembly" [mp3 revised and moved to Bandcamp]
This is kind of work in process. A short, bare bones tune made from the components of the previous post's percussion experiment.
The next step will either be (i) leave it alone (unlikely) or (ii) start adding bass, synth, and/or piano parts.
