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Superbooth 17 Minicase
Just some stickers from the sooper Superbooth17 on a Minicase...not more not less.
This is the first time my Synthi has made a 'musical' sound. I've connected an Arturia KeyStep to it via CV and a specially made cable. This sequence was already in the KeyStep's memory.
Tuning the VCS3 is a bit of a chore, but well worth it. The sounds that this 1972 synth can make are incredible.
strobist: YN460-II, 1/64 power, 1/4-inch grid, camera right, 5m from subject, radio-triggered with RF603-NII.
Analogs have meeting in the garden.Beginning from the left:EML-101 aka Electrocomp 101,ARP 2600C aka Grey Meanie with matching keyboard,EMS VCS3 aka The Putney with modifications done by Robin Wood from EMS UK,VCS3 also have the DK-1 monophonic keyboard for the VCS3,Moog Sonic 6.
This is a screen shot from a patch (song) I made with VCV rack, which is a free modular synthesis program. My process of using the program is based around lots of experimentation - not on having any deep understanding of the science of how the modules are interacting.
This is a very interesting way to make music. I wanted to show what it looks like to use it, in case I start using the songs in videos, so people will know how they are being made.
I have made a large number of songs with this, but I don't that any have been used in any videos yet, except for videos of me using the program itself, which will be going on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHQGgzzkAxmmmYT5LrSKAQ
- Josh
these shots are taken from a video synth jam with my new video acquaintance Rich
they were made when we met up and hooked up our video gear for the first time loads of fun! ;)
his blog is here
and mine is here
Sestrica (Moscow, 🇷🇺)
« Выделить, конечно, хочется модуляр. Он порой издает звуки, которые на компьютере не воссоздать. Это необыкновенный инструмент, поговаривают, что модуляр играет на человеке, а не человек на модуляре... В январе 2015 года я услышала лайв Ishome: тогда я увидела живое воплощение деятельности моей мечты... выступление Миры дало мне понимание, что все реально! Меня поразила изобретательность и самобытность ее музыки... »
2020 - VA - Unity [m_division]
mdivision.bandcamp.com/track/sestrica-second-chance
Sestrica - Second Chance
2020 - VA - Resistance is Futile EP
newfleshrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ssense
Sestrica - Ssense
2019 - VA - Cue
getbuzy.bandcamp.com/track/sestrica-empathy
Sestrica - Empathy
2019 - VA - 8 Gods Crossing The Sea, Each Demonstrating Their Unique Superpower
kepler-452b.bandcamp.com/track/sestrica-state-of-weightle...
Sestrica - State of Weightlessness
2018 - Sestrica - Mistakes
soundcloud.com/sestrica/mistakes/s-xS8s4
2018 - VA - Special Species vol. One
specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-beauty-and-f...
Sestrica - The Beauty and Freedom of a Flying Seagull
2018 - Sestrica - Journey IX EP
newfleshrecords.bandcamp.com/album/journey-ix-nfminilp05
1. Intro
2. Tolerance
3. Confidence
4. The Hermit
5. Mindfulness
6. Outro
2017 - Sestrica - 27 EP
sestrica.bandcamp.com/album/27
1. Temperance
2. Patience
3. Blooming
2017 - Sestrica - Unity
sestrica.bandcamp.com/album/unity
1. Portal
2. Manipulating Atom
3. Dancing Strangely
4. As The Rush Comes
5. Mysterious Humanity
6. I Find Myself
7. For The Wrong Reasons
8. Any Form Of Water (bonus track)
9. Unity Live Mix (contains unreleased tracks)
...
Женя Матвеенко [Sestrica] @ MixMag '18
— Академического образования у тебя нет и музыкантов в семье тоже. Откуда такое поразительное чувство ритма?
— Явно из бесконечного занятия танцами. Были бальные танцы — лет 6-7, затем, когда училась в международной школе под Лондоном, усилено занималась чирлидингом.
— Лондон славится клубами. Куда любила ходить?
— Я не знала о техно, ходила в посовые клубы на каблуках.
— Какие клубы успела посетить в Берлине?
— Я приехала на фестиваль CTM и так получилось, что побывала только в Berghain 4 или 5 раз за неделю. Изначально это был воскресный рейв, который впечатлил ощущением свободы.
— Если не музыка, то что?
— Я раньше любила писать. Даже отучилась на драматургии кино во ВГИКе. К концу учебы убедилась в том, что музыка все же для меня намного интереснее, чем письмо. Теперь я так же рассказываю истории, только не словами, а звуками.
— Cетап для лайва?
— В основном это компьютер, контроллер APC 40 MK II и звуковая карта. Иногда в лайвах использую модуляр, но чаще обхожусь без него, так как я все равно все партии с него записываю и сохраняю.
— Cетап для записи?
— Mopho Dave Smith, Micro Korg, модуляр ( 0-coast, Rene, Erbe Verb, Morphogene — все от Make Noise + Sputnik Four tap delay), vst плагины от Arturia. Всё пишу дома.
— Где же тот самый критерий совершенства?
— Для меня самое важное, чтобы задевало что-то внутри, чтобы были вызваны глубинные эмоции, будь то эмоции грусти, страха, радости и так далее. Каждый раз я — свой первый слушатель, ориентируюсь естественно на себя. Если мне самой хочется переслушивать композицию, если был вызван интерес, слезы, мурашки, значит работа хороша.
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#sestrica #electro #synthwave #modular #binaural #rave #techno #futuresound #russia
This is a preview of a longer video that I made that you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4BU_hUAMg
The visual effect seen in this video is comprehensively explained in a tutorial video I made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xilA-bCgmw
This song is my own original creation that I made in VCV Rack, a free modular synthesis software program. The bakground video is also my own original creation.
Modular synthesis is based on patching cables to create sounds, and what you are seeing in this video may
be called a VCV Rack patch.
I think that this is the biggest RSF Modular 11 system in the world.Not seen many of these since the 15 years i'm playing synthesizers/modulars.Also notice the RSF Polyclavier,wich gives you 8x cv-gate,sequencer,arpeggiator.The best known product by RSF was the Kobol Expander,wich was also available in a monophonic keyboard,and there was also the bigger Polykobol,but these have been built in low quantitys.
Leisure: Modular Synth Edition
Curated by Philip White
Produced by 319 Scholes
Image Copyright: Phillip Stearns
Please Contact for Permission to Use
This is a preview of a longer video I made that you can see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KWGdiUlEc
The visual effect in the video is explained in detail in a video I made here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xilA-bCgmw
The video and the music in it are my own original creations.
- Josh
these shots are taken from a video synth jam with my new video acquaintance Rich
they were made when we met up and hooked up our video gear for the first time loads of fun! ;)
his blog is here
and mine is here
these shots are taken from a video synth jam with my new video acquaintance Rich
they were made when we met up and hooked up our video gear for the first time loads of fun! ;)
his blog is here
and mine is here
Super simple cardboard enclosure for synth modules. In this case, the module only needs +12v/GND, so can be powered by any 12v adaptor (most modules also need -12v, which makes things much more complicated)
Works fine!
Front view on a blue face EML 200.Also has the original front lid to protect the front from being damaged during moving/touring with the instrument.
Contents1 Finding inspiration2 Constraints3 Here’s what it does4 Examples5 Does it work?6 Try it
Finding inspiration
Sometimes I feel so creative that I rush to get the music in my head out and into a recorder, a computer, or onto some paper. There have been many times I created an entire album of music in a week or less. Other times, trying to get inspiration to flow feels like pumping a dried-up well.
Lately has been those other times, and it’s been a struggle to get that “creative mode” switch to flip. Reading back through articles I’d saved on the subject (in my journal, of course), I saw one from a few years ago that tickled my fancy.
The title reads “How I recorded an album in an evening with a lunchbox modular and a python script”. Right off the bat, it checks a lot boxes for me: music creation done very quickly, modular synth, computers, coding, music from algorithms.
As I re-read Tom Whitwell’s adventure writing a simple python script to randomly (algorithmically?) generate a set of musical constraints, I decided this might be what I needed to get back into creative mode.
So during one of my daughter’s naps, I sat down and wrote my own version of Tom’s script. Like his, it’s in python – and I borrowed a function or two – but for the most part it’s a new piece of code. Like most of the code I write, it’s not very sophisticated, but it works. I’ve been tweaking it the past few days, adding features, and – yes, using it as a starting point for creating new music.
Constraints
I am especially inspired by limitations. When faced with a fairly well-stocked music studio and a generous sample library, I can be overwhelmed with choices, frozen in place. Looking back on my musical output, almost everything I do is created through limitation. “I want to create a funk album and use mostly physical instruments that I play, make it short, EP-length, with distortion and tape hiss,” or “I want to make an album (or series of 9 albums, so far) of holiday music played in very weird styles,” or “I want to make a hip-hop album, but the subject matter is fishing, and I am the rapper, and the samples should come from weird sources,” or “I want to make an album where each track is just a single color (via my synesthesia).”
Those are just some examples.
In grad school I studied film scoring, and my favorite part was getting new assignments with unusual instrumentation requirements, unusual style requirements, and other limitations. Like “Score this really uncomfortable love scene with one harp, three flutes, and sound effects.”
I eat that stuff up! That really gets my brain going. I always enjoy seeing how far I can get within the limitations. Sometimes I go beyond the artificial or prescribed limitations, but it’s a place to start.
This code does the same thing: it generates a composition assignment for me with weird limitations, and it really gets my creativity going.
Here’s what it does
The code contains a range of options – musical and otherwise – and when the script is run, the python interpreter (the thing that reads the code) chooses various options and presents them to the user as a “score.” Naturally I use the word “score” very, very loosely here. Here is a list of some things and choices the script generates:
Name of the piece, randomly generated from the English alphabet, between 5 and 15 characters long, including spaces
beats per minute (tempo)
beats per bar (time signature) or “no pulse”
the number of tracks to use to create this piece
the function of each track (melody/ambience/pad/harmony/rhythm/etc.)
a small piece of generated ascii art
one or more audio files from my sample collection to use in this new piece
a short rhythmic motif written in “graphical notation”, extremely open to interpretation
what instruments to use (I basically list everything in my studio and the script decides which ones I use)
what radio frequency to use if “radio” is one of the instruments selected
between 1 and 3 words, chosen from a word list that includes a wide variety of terms, phrases, places, and things, with a large focus on words that describe visual art
I run the code and a new text file is generated, and in this text file are basic instructions for creating a new piece of music.
Examples
Here’s an example:
[crayon-5b87170d0ce14472732490/]
…and here’s another:
[crayon-5b87170d0ce20883812385/]
Weird, right? But also mentally stimulating!
Each new generated piece is a puzzle to solve. Some are outright ridiculous, others show potential. Sometimes the name alone is inspiring. Some of my favorites so far are “Tocuxan Dos” and “Ipaqaho.”
Each little suggestion/requirement is an opportunity to get creative. What does the random song title make me think of? What does the random ascii art look like? What sort of music would those random words describe? What the hell does > O + sound like?
That’s up to the composer. This code doesn’t really compose music, even though I named the script cbcompose.py. Really it just assembles a collection of prompts and invites me to make some sense of it all and create something new.
Does it work?
Yes. I’m currently working on my third new track since I wrote the script. At this rate, I’ll have a new album in a week or so. I’m using techniques, instruments, and sounds that I probably would not have chosen myself, and the challenge of making them work together is invigorating. The music that I am creating based on these constraints is still my music, I just got some creative help from a little computer program.
Try it
I wrote this script to be specific to my own pool of choices, instruments, modular synth modules, etc. but it could easily be adapted to fit yours. I fill my code with comments so that anybody looking at it should be able to make sense of what everything is doing.
If you want to give it a shot, you can download it here: chrisbeckstrom.com/stream/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cbco... or look at the code in its current state here. Once you download the file, called cbcompose.py, you most likely can run it in a terminal by typing python cbcompose.py (if you saved the file to your home folder). The internet is full of info on using python, so if you get stuck, the answer is a search a way! Of course I can also help too; if you’re interested, let me know!
Stay tuned for some of the audio results of this experiment.
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(original: chrisbeckstrom.com/2018/08/29/limitations-creativity-a-py...)