I'm not happy with the mixing on this one, but I was exhausted fiddling with it. So time to move on. At some point I'll remix.
This began as a lesson for myself on the #Morphagene
https://faircamp.thurk.org/the-twelve-days/6/
Enjoy!
Recently acquired the #morphagene from #makenoise, and I can highly recommend it. This tool has proven to be a catalyst for creativity, igniting fresh ideas and sparking inspiration.
I lost my self a bit in this one but still decided to upload it. Enjoy a peaceful evening.
Metaphysical Shitposting continues to grow and evolve! Just in time for Xmas, I've added a little seasonal gem about my love for #psychedelic journeys around Christmas time. It's called "I Always Love Tripping at Xmas" and, if you were planning to chew up some blotter and stare at the twinkly lights, it's a perfect soundtrack!
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/i-always-love-tripping-at-xmas
It's an all #modular track based around mutilating a "sleigh bell" sample in the #Morphagene. It's real trippy! Enjoy!
Update: Still codes available!
Here (meaning in the following, threaded post) are a bunch o' codes for my #experimental #album The Alchemical Practice of Modular Synthesis. This one is W I L D! From the barely-harnessed chaos of the #benjolin to the #hypnotic murmurations of the human #voice filtered through the #Morphagene, these 4 tracks are weird, challenging and trrrrrippy!
Sound intriguing? Give it a listen, and if you like it, grab one of these codes! #FREE
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-alchemical-practice-of-modular-synthesis
Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.
https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/
Just exploring, recording some stuff to tape.
#4Track #Tascam #Cassette #Microcassette #ModularSynth #Moog #Mother32 #MoogerFooger #Morphagene #Synthesizers #Samples #KomaFieldKit #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #Video
https://youtu.be/YY3TVhCg4vw
Soundwise it's just #Benjolin and #reverb (possibly some delay but I honestly do not recall for sure; would have been #Morphagene). Reverb was #DesmodusVersio from #NoiseEngineering. I don't think I even did much self patching of the Benjolin, I was just playing the knobs and having fun. I love that thing.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#improv #modular #music
#MusicProduction #Workflow #HomeRecording #HowItsMade
The final key element I haven't mentioned is a #Morphagene based #ModularPatch that I used to create a performance of an old #FieldRecording I made of some kids on a tire swing. It blended in amazingly well with the wild vocal pad-meets-didgeridoo sounds that most of the track hinges on.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#MusicProduction #Workflow #HomeRecording #HowItsMade
#EtherDiver #MyAlbum
During the #Production phase this got a few #pads from the #KawaiK4r and a selection of #samples, from my #vinyl sampling in #PreProduction; some #Morphagene bits I had floating around; and a few horror movie samples to pull it together.
The reel itself was about half little kosmische loops I made with the modular specifically for this purpose; the other half was mostly drum sounds and loops from the Tymp Legio and Volca Drum; the remainder was found sound samples taken from microcassette.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#Songwriting #MakingMusic #ModularSynth #MakeNoise #Morphagene
Finally updated my #PatchOfTheWeek post with a text writeup and an image. MY technical difficulties are ... solved? They went away, in any case. I think it was something server side that was broken in hindsight. Whatever. Here's the link:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/02/27/patch-8-tape-and-microsound-my-way/
Still having Wordpress issues, but here's the video version of the #PatchOfTheWeek
Another short improvisation over a Morphagene piano loop created on the fly during a brief visit with fam down in SoCal where I had a very short window to set up and explore for a bit during the early morning.
https://youtu.be/rLZDib608j8
#piano #ExperimentalMusic #electroacoustic #SampleFodder #Morphagene #ElectronicMusic #alphastare #LeftCoastLights #drone #ambient #modularsynths #synths
There's also a collection of the weirder sounds a #Korg #VolcaDrum makes in here -- all manner of weird squidges, burbles and blaps. Those and the Alpha Juno stuff came during the production phase, on the respective #InstrumentDays. The rest of this is all samples, some treated by the #Morphagene.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#MusicProduction #Workflow #HomeRecording #HowItsMade
#EtherDiver #MyAlbum
But the final finishing touch for this one came from the #Morphagene. Well, the Morphagene run into the #QPAS and #Mimeophon, then topped off by the #DesmodusVersio #reverb. A special reel of more weird human sounds I made that played forward on one side and reverse on the other got good and Morphagened up. That got sliced into a bank's worth of samples (16) and those samples finished the track -' it's all that whooshy uncanny valley stuff.
I did have two more quasi #InstrumentDays. One day with a couple of #Morphagene patches that absolutely pushed two tracks over the finish line almost single handedly, and a #SamplingDay where I finally went through one side of the #SamplingTape I made in #PreProduction and added #samples to multiple tracks. Those samples were the finishing touch for at least one of those tracks and it was nice to know the effort had been worth it.
For #sample prep I #organized a few directories, went through old samples looking for stuff I thought I could use, and spent a night sampling #vinyl #manipluation and impacts, plus the actual content of some hilariously shitty records, onto a cassette tape for easy sampling later. I edited a couple #Morphagene reels in Audacity, moved copies of everything to the #MPC and that was it, samplewise, since my core libraries already live on the MPC.
