Fifty Spielsachen: Personal Picks
“Spielsachen” has been going on for quite some time (more than two years), and resulted in fifty videos to date.
Here’s my personal picks from that pool of modular thing performances – what are yours?
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That thing that makes the world go round…mine, as well as others’
Music Thoughts: Canons
This is about a canon (the musical form) which doesn’t sound like one, but more like a chorale. To make things more interesting, it does modulate. There’s also a video.
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In the last post, we pretty much talked only about rhythm in the context of polymetres (and polyrhythms). And that is pretty much the focus in any introductory text on the topic. However, the things that happen if we use pitched sounds in repetitive, polymetric patterns are also interesting. So today we’ll look at pitched […]
Read more "Music Thoughts: Polymetres and Stuff (Part 2 – Melody and Harmony)"Music Thoughts: Polymetres and Stuff (Part 1 – Introduction)
The first in a series of posts (probably) about polymetres, polyrhythms and similar stuff. Including modular synths, and looks at music history.
Read more "Music Thoughts: Polymetres and Stuff (Part 1 – Introduction)"” A House with two Rooms” – Album Release
It took me ten years to get this done. Back in 2010, I extended my vacation by one week. The reason: do daily video-streaming concerts, using all of my music gear, connected in a hideously complex fashion. This experiment ended up in a little more than seven hours of recorded music, which was rather diverse. […]
Read more "” A House with two Rooms” – Album Release"“An Ambient Manifold” – there’s a release date!
First things first: the release date for the album with the working title An Ambient Manifold has been set to be January 16th of 2020. About This is the last projected album to remain from the loads of MoinSound Studio Sessions recordings. It will be an album comprised of recordings from one full week of […]
Read more "“An Ambient Manifold” – there’s a release date!"Spielsachen: Is More Less?
The Spielsachen setup has grown and become more complex. Strangely, the last few setups I did with it became more simple, if anything.
Read more "Spielsachen: Is More Less?"“Würm Bank” – it’s here! (album release)
One day before the deadline I did release it. It turned out quite nice. So feel free to grab it!
Read more "“Würm Bank” – it’s here! (album release)"Würm Bank: done. Well, almost.
I opted not to let a nasty tonsilitis get in the way of my album roadmap. Which worked, in a way.
Interestingly, I did even include that one track (aka “Patch Five”) that I had already decided against.
“Würm Bank”: 17th of 28 Days
I could have done more these last two weeks. Fortunately, I didn’t need to. And what I accomplished wasn’t that bad. In fact, it included another three patches, and another video. And photos.
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