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In the last week or so I have made the first addition to my hardware collection in quite some time, finally pulling the trigger on a Torso Electronics S-4 after keeping my eye on it since before release and through the various software updates. I've been having quite a bit of fun with it, and it is ideal for making these sort of soundscaping pieces that this is an example of. I'm still getting stuck in and won't claim to have mastered the instrument yet. Once I do, I'll be figuring out how to include it into my live performances. Enjoy this excursion and more coming soon.
What happens when you feed the stems from a reclusive tropical techno artist's music into the Radio Free Arcadia transmission device? You get a deeply psychedelic and ambient journey into spaces unknown, that's what.
I have spent 4 of the last 6 weeks travelling, which has made it somewhat difficult to put myself into a more creative mental space, but I have been occasionally tinkering with my Max devices and creating things I can feed back into the broadcaster - iteration after iteration.
This episode collects a few of my first recordings with the second iteration of the Sinewives concept. Unlike the first, which moves largely of its own accord, this iteration is intended for more direct interaction, ultimately for live use. It is rudimentary at this point - 8 sinewave oscillators with pitches generated randomly based on scale, root, range and harmonicity - but with fully flexible fm routing between the 8 voices. My plan is to build some triggerability to allow for long evolving sequences, as well as parameters driven by location, weather, and - perhaps most importantly - curre
A collection of recordings made by my newest Max/MSP patch Sinewives, combined and mutated by my other patch, the Free Arcadia Transmitter. The world is burning, but we are aware of the emptiness inherent in all things. This too, shall pass. May all beings find and achieve happiness.
I first heard Éliane Radigue's work sometime shortly after I started my own journey into Tibetan Buddhism. I stumbled upon a reference to her "Songs of Milarepa" and suddenly was captivated by her music. Shortly after, I found a cassette copy of Jetsun Mila that doubled that captivation. It is a sublime, slowly moving piece, and was everything I loved about Coil's Time Machines but seemingly tilted specifically in my direction. I started slowly accumulating a few of her recordings, each more compelling to me than the last. She has become an enormous influence on my music, which I think is obvi
After what must be more than two decades of attempting to properly learn Max/MSP, this holiday season I took some time out and made one more attempt. I'm very pleased to say that this time it appears to have clicked for me, and I've actually got a proper device I've been thinking about for some time. I'll go into details about the device as it continues to take shape, but it is beginning to fulfill my desires to have a machine that crawls my library of bits and pieces and re-contrextualizes and re-assembles them, creating a shifting stream of sound that can be guided or left to its own to cont
The year ends with a final episode of collected explorations. We will draw a close on this ‘Season’ of the podcast and with for you all to have as good of a closing of 2025 as possible, and a hope that 2026 sees some rays of light through the gloom. My sincerest thanks to all of you who have listened.
On Tuesday I will be releasing the new Logickal album, entitled Theories of the Heavens. It is a colletion of ambient drone works of a darker variety, and should be thought of as a series of meditations upon vast distances that arise between us - whether physical, psychic, temporal or magickal. This episode is comprised of reconfigurations and reprocesses of the tracks from the album, but keeping with the spirit of the originals. I hope you enjoy these, and please do check out the release at https://logickal.bandcamp.com.
Back from a holiday in the United Kingdom - 9 days away from music making, which might be the longest I have abstained from any kind of creation in a decade, at least. While I had a wonderful time, I definitely had the need to get back to work once I returned. This episode is made of bits from three different rehearsal takes, all bent and modified in some way of their own. I’ve been on the fence about retaining the Polyend Synth, but it does hold its own as another option for my Ambient sets. It’s still not quite earned a place in the more rhythmic material yet, but it’s right at home helping
Slightly late due to illness and Internet issues, here is a live improvisation made using the hardware rig of Elektron Octatrack, Syntakt and Digitone, sequenced by the Torso T-1. It's been a bit since I've had my rig set up, but an upcoming show made me work through some of a late summer cold to get things up and running. This is definitely a longer, slower burn of a piece, and a bit of a change of pace to some of my usual sequencing - I have the T-1 tracks focused on a single note of a single sound on the Digitone, each with a different sequence length, leading to our favorite asynchronous l
Recently I was going through some recent generations looking for tracks to polish to send off to a compilation, and found a series of drones where I was experimenting with alternate tonalities and microtuning. "These will suit my needs nicely!" thought I, but then the inevitable tinkering occurred, starting with a series of overdubbed parts. Experiments in the time domain followed, along with additional experiments with triggered envelopes, band-specific effects, and of course additional overdubs. The final (?) phase of these tracks are now presented here as a mix for the latest episode of the
This is a Patron subscriber episode mixing together the tracks from a new collection of hardware-based ambient improvisations that I just released for subscribers to my Bandcamp Telemetry Feed and I will be uploading to Patreon shortly. I hope you enjoy! Tracks: alienwave2c / mondayloops / feedback, again / postfree
A collection of explorations using Alexandernaut’s excellent Fugue Machine Rubato device. Also, feel free to check out my recent hands-on walkthrough of the device on YouTube!
May 24 was International Drone Day, and while I wasn't able to participate with a live stream as I have in years past, I was able to spend some time this weekend creating this episode of the podcast for you all. May all beings be happy!
