This is an unreleased live improvisation by Toshinori Kondo 近藤等則 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshinori_Kondo) in collaboration with Andrew Lagowski. There was to be an album of Kondo-san’s work with various artists, which was sadly never released as Kondo-san passed away in October 2020. RIP Kondo-san.
I sent him several tracks and he sent back three mixes in September 2020 with his excellent trumpet playing overdubbed onto them.
In this experiment the Korg SQ-1 sends CV sequences to the Decadebridge ‘Sn’ synth and Matrix Mixer. The audio from Sn goes into the Orgeldream ‘Eoten B’ for destructive filtering, then on to the Jomox T-Resonator II and Zoom MS-70CDR for modulation and reverb. My Eoten B has a custom filter which was added a few years after the main build – it has various modes and reacts very well when a good/hot signal is fed to the device.
In a move away from computer generated music and software synthesizers in general, I have adopted some new methods, or perhaps more accurately returned to methods I used back in the early 1980’s.
Live processing of tape based source recordings, CV control of the Passive Operator and much left to chance, as opposed to pre-programming.
I’m looking forward to many happy and unrepeatable accidents in sound.
Feel free to download the 24 bit audio (click the three dots next to the player) and image for your own playback system.
This was created with multiple stems of audio, each from a different mini synth, such as the Bugbrand Postcard Weevil, Mute Synth 1 etc. The stems were looped and arranged so that they played back in random order as each one finished. They were then fed into a series of repeaters, delays, modulators, filters and gates in order to create a semi-generative piece. The repeaters and gates were adjusted in realtime to try to disturb the flow.
Lagowski.com 