Posts Tagged ‘electronic music’

Hardware and software at Studio FWD

February 14, 2024

This is an approximate list of the gear and software I’ve been using for the last few years.

Hardware

Synths

Novation Circuit Mono Station

Novation Circuit

Bugbrand Weevil

Mute Synth 1

Nebulophone

Mutable Instruments Shruthi

Noise Toy

Drum Machines/sequencers

Error Instruments Passive Operator

Arturia KeyStep

Korg ES-1 Drum Sampler

Korg SQ-1 sequencer 

Effects

Orgeldream Eoten B – glitch/fuzz

Koma BD-101 delay

Jomox T-Resonator II

Zoom MS CDR70 Reverb/Delay/Chorus

TC Electronic Flashback 2 Delay

Software

Arturia Pigments 5

Metasynth 5

Reason 11 

Ableton Live 11

Reaktor 6

Tracktion Waveform 12

Izotope plug-in set

A lot of AU and VST plug-ins

iPad applications

Effects

iDensity

Shaper

Eos 2

Harmony Eight

Replicant 2 & 3

FuzzPlus3

Other Desert Cities

Gauss

Tape Cassette 2

Underlator

Crystals

Utilities

AudioShare

AUM (MIDI and audio recording environment and host)

Atom (MIDI Sequencer)

Fugue Machine (MIDI Sequencer)

Zoa (sequencer)

Instruments

iMS-20 (synth/drum machine/sequencer)

SECTOR (musical microworld)

Photophore (swarm based synth)

Patterning 1 & 2 (drum machine/sequencer)

dot Melody (freaky sequenced instruments)

Samplr (musical microworld)

iSpark (drum machine)

Bebot (!)

Ribbons (synth)

BeatMaker3 (drum machine/sequencer)

Tera Synth (synth)

SoundScaper (musical microworld)

Jasuto (musical microworld)

Borderlands (musical microworld)

Poly (freaky sequenced instruments)

Ripplemaker (synth)

Ruismaker (drum machine)

Ruismaker FM (FM drum machine)

Mononoke (synth)

Model D (synth)

Starwaves

Relic Waves

ID700

King of FM

FM Player 2

Synth One

Fractal Bits

………the list goes on forever!

Strictly Drone III

May 7, 2020

 

Dr. Fleischbrittel – ‘First World Mbefe’

November 18, 2017

Whilst recording the forthcoming S.E.T.I. eight album set for Loki Foundation, I made some tracks that were (way) too noisy for the project.

This lead me to creating a new Dr. Fleischbrittel album called ‘First World Mbefe’.

The tracks should not be compared to my S.E.T.I. ambient work or my more techno-oriented material.

This is fairly harsh noise with a few sprinklings, but it’s very cathartic to listen to, so I wanted to share it.

As there is a lot of bass in the tracks, please try to play out loud on a good system or at the very least, on quality headphones, otherwise many of the important details will be lost and you will not ‘feel’ the sound.

Beyond Black: Project ‘Preserve Destiny’

May 7, 2017

This is a reworking of the ‘Above Black’ album, imagined as data recovered after millennia locked on magnetic media. Partially corrupted; only some of the original data remains, so interpolation has been used to reconstruct the messages left for any sentient beings who discover them. Created using the source files taken from the original improvised performance, which was direct to DAT.

Phobos VIII video report & gear update

March 22, 2017

Thanks to Martin Stürtzer (Phelios), you can watch the whole of my performance S.E.T.I. Live at Phobos VIII at Sophienkirche in Wuppertal on March 11th 2017.

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For those interested in the gear I used, here is a list: Mutable Instruments ‘Shruthi’ synthesizer, Bastl Instruments Trinity Poly, Roland SP404SX Sampler, Bleep Labs ‘Nebulophone’, Phonic 12:2 mixer, Mute Dirty Synth 1, Boss SE50, Boss Tera Echo, Koma Elektronik BD101 Delay, Sony MiniDisk, 4:1 submixer….the video was edited in iMovie. Insect photographs by Alek Lagowski, 3D processing by Pete Woodhead….

Lagowski – ‘Nantes 2000’ now on Bandcamp

August 13, 2016

S.E.T.I. – The Guide Lockstars of Astro Myrmex

August 5, 2016

Available for pre-order from TXT Recordings is the new album from S.E.T.I. following the travels of Astro Myrmex.

01 Instrument Calibration
02 Mirach
03 Black Engines
04 Gravity Stupor
05 Adhil
06 Almach
07 LoS Jitter Summary

Recorded between 1984 and 2016. Mixed and rendered at Studio FWD.

Astro Myrmex continues the journey initiated by the Nibiru Cataclysm via the various paths previously described in ‘The Data Logs of Astro Myrmex’. In order to navigate the vast regions of interstellar loneliness, guide ‘lockstars’ are identified and used as signposts. To document the deep space anomalies encountered, a soundtrack of events has been composed and presented here.

These recordings sometimes contain programming and compositing incidents that may seem out of place. They are to be considered part of the audio image and not discarded as errors.

Good bass response recommended for faithful rendition of recorded material.

https://lagowski.bandcamp.com/album/the-guide-lockstars-of-astro-myrmex

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Electronic Sound – The Electronic Music Magazine Issue 2.0

May 17, 2016

MorphysoundThis wonderful print version of Electronic Sound is now available here and includes an interview with me and many luminaries of the electronic music world about the early days of this type of music in the UK and the new Cherry Red Records 4-CD compilation ‘Close to the Noise Floor’. It’s beautifully produced and has a huge number of features about gear and people involved in all areas of electronics in music.

‘tz’ album now on Bandcamp

January 15, 2015

S.E.T.I. live in Berlin 26th April 2014 – video

May 2, 2014

Here you will find the gig video recorded by Jean-Yves Millet (thank you). 3D stills mapped by Pete Woodhead – thanks also to Pete! This is part one. Parts two and three should automatically follow in the playlist…thanks to a great audience, to the LOKI and Raubbau Rising guys for organising everything and to Marco for the live audio control.SETI_Berlin_260414