What happens when you do everything wrong? Digital Blasphemy contains excerpts from an afternoon jam I had in Kyma. Raw and unedited, do what you like with it. Mistreated waveshapers, hyper-resonating pulses, harshly modulating synthetic spectrums run through overdriven compression, non-harmonic ring-modulated frequency controllers…. the list goes on. If it’s wrong, I think I did it.
I personally find it very useful to cut up some bits to make a glitchy (think Alva Noto) kit. Enjoy!
Arctiidae is a self-evolving arrangement built entirely with an Elektron Octatrack. My goal was to move away from the computer and program the Octatrack with extensive timing and sound modulations. Most sounds have at least 2 simultaneous LFOs morphing their assigned voices. The end result is not fixed and the arrangement sounds different each time “play” is activated. Arctiidae uses all Puremagnetik samples.
Recently, people have been asking what’s in my studio. For sound design work there’s a constant rolling in of vintage synths. But this is what I stick to for my core workout…
(from left to right)
Blue couch from Ikea Elektron Octatrack Macbook Pro - mobile production and office stuff Eurorack modular system with Doepfer, Harvestman, MFB, Livewire modules A hula doll from Hawaii Mac Pro - main production system running Live, Logic, Kyma, Max & more —- Rack —- Furman pl-8 series II Custom built Switchcraft monitor switcher RME Fireface 400 audio interface Symbolic Sound Kyma Pacarana Neutrik patchbay Lexicon PCM 80 Lexicon PCM 90 Eventide H3500 harmonizer —- /Rack —- Klien & Hummel O300 left monitor Akai MPK mini midi keyboard controller iPad 2 running touchable, soundprism, kyma control, touchosc & plants vs zombies 1 cup of coffee Klien & Hummel O300 right monitor Drumkat 3.8
Whales in Ouzo uses 2 trombone samples granularly resynthesized in Kyma and processed through 2 separate parallel delay lines each with a dual formant filter.
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Just found out Elektron put this Kamoni MD/MM jam in their “Machines in Action” Playlist. Hope to have some more DrumKat / Octatrack performances hacked out in the coming weeks!
Retrospective of some of my work with good friend and awesome animator danmeth (@therealdanmeth):
2011 Asifa-East Animation Festival It’s this Sunday at 6pm in NYC. Come and see the best cartoons on the Eastern seaboard this year. Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. FREE! This year I got to create the opening title sequence for it (above) It features music by my friend Micah Frank who’s also nailed it with the music on these other cartoons of mine:
The Dark Villosus Live Pack is a collection of 10 instruments that use a single sample of white noise in different processings. Download the Dark Villosus Live Pack
Xenogenetic is a multisample instrument for Ableton Live that morphs the frequency and amplitude envelopes of a goat “bahhh” into a female vocal. From there they are picked apart, additively resynthesized, resonated and put through a feedback loop. Then they are subjected to convolution processes from within a tweed amplifier. Well… hopefully it will never happen to you or your pets. Download Xenogenetic Live Pack
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