music - tm

"New Shortcut" [mp3 removed -- some of this got incorporated into New Shortcut Medley, on Bandcamp]

MIDI drums and some FM percussion under live-synthesized dual leads.
One channel is an ADSR signal output used as a control voltage to sweep evenly down through a series of harmonized sine waves in a wavetable oscillator.
These sweeps themselves change pitch according to simple MIDI sequence.
The same sequence is also triggering a synth in the other channel - also a sine with slight FM modulation and heavy tremolo (almost like a "phone off the hook" sound).
The nursery room melodies of this and many other recent songs are inspired by the idea of what Carl Orff called "streetsongs" - simple figures anyone can play as an ensemble. The timbres of the electronic instruments are the main focus here.

"4 Oscs and a Kick" [mp3 removed]

...plus some percussion, and it's in 9/8 time! Woo.

"Monk 2022" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]

More synthetic jazz combo stuff, with dramatic piano chords trying diligently to stay in the approximate tonal range of a quavery '60s style modular moog (not actually a Moog but whatever), while an imagined drummer with an unfiltered cigarette hanging out of his mouth keeps the thing regimented.

"Squarewave Express" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp -- also see music video version]

Primitive techno-trance -- am biased but especially liking the sine wave "flute" that comes in at :37.
The pulse width of the square wave that runs underneath is being widened and narrowed by a slow-ish LFO sweep.

"B4 and 4fter (Bongos)" [mp3 removed]

Part one is a mangled organ sample using the Doepfer A-112 wavetable function with an offset/attenuated LFO hitting various tables (the sample is cut up and pieces of it are treated as playable waves that are arbitrarily ordered in a grid).
Part two is live FM synth and a different set of (prepackaged) wavetables played with a different module.
The beats are Reaktor Rhythmmaker.