Posts Tagged ‘music’

S.E.T.I. ‘Other Planet People’ Promo 2

June 21, 2024

Simple slow tones – an iPad Pro musical interlude

February 20, 2024

Things that I have come to realise and believe (some more obvious than others)

February 18, 2024
  • Nobody is interested in my opinion, so I must try to keep it to myself as much as possible (apart from this list).
  • Very few people are interested in purchasing my music. The ratio of Bandcamp listens to purchases, for example, is 100:1
  • Restricting equipment/software = more creative ideas.
  • More equipment/software = pain.
  • Joy comes from total immersion in the creative process, regardless of the outcome.
  • Joy is much harder to experience when producing sounds on machines or software with pre-programmed boundaries. No, that does not mean I will be selling my car and buying Eurorack gear. And yes, I will continue to use such machines and software when Mr Hyde returns.
  • Spending hours working on how one drum sound or sequence fits in with the others is exhausting and a waste of energy. Also, nobody cares.
  • Nobody on this entire planet needs another set of Amen breaks, 303, 808 or 909 sounds, however they’re packaged. 
  • The cube filter from the EMU Morpheus should have been sold as a separate box 25 years ago.
  • Laptop music, however good to listen to, does not make interesting live entertainment to watch – why do you think Autechre turn the lights out?!
  • I’m not doing anything for a reaction: if you like it, that’s great and I am truly grateful. If you don’t – I don’t care anymore.
  • People you thought were good friends can disappear, sometimes without a word, overnight. Don’t think you know anyone – it’s dangerous and will only lead to sadness.
  • Don’t try to recreate the sound you had 30+ years ago because that’s what people want now. It’s too exhausting and is not the real you.
  • Social and mass media exist to generate anxiety, spread lies and encourage turmoil. Avoid at all costs. Do not let propaganda determine your path in life.
  • People in positions of power will do anything to keep themselves there.

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!

Live improv on iPad Pro in AUM (720P)

October 31, 2023
Using MIDI CC’s to control audio effects in AUM.

S.E.T.I. – Haunted Directive

October 19, 2023

‘2525’ streaming options

September 25, 2023

Lagowski ‘2525’ – 10 track album coming in 9/23

August 9, 2023

In the year 2525, beat data is assembled from numerous long-extinct computer systems, to entertain the last surviving digital nomads.

Physical media is long gone, having been replaced by subcutaneous brain interfaces that receive airborne entertainment transmissions.

However, even these are prone to malfunction as the human hosts are naturally organic and leak when under stress. This leads to momentary audio glitches, often perceived as part of the entertainment programmes but actually indicative of the oncoming demise of the host transmission/reception infrastructure.

credits

Mastered by Dave Campbell at Dave’s Pad, August 2023. Check his projects here yozmaz.bandcamp.com/artists

With thanks to Tomoroh Hidari for his remixes. Check his projects here linktr.ee/tomorohhidari

Lagowski ‘2525’ album promo video

Artificial Intelligence cannot produce art, or can it?

July 18, 2023

I will continue to use AI generated images and text as foundations for my projects. Can they be considered ‘ready-mades’ by the art world? How did the art world react to the Dadaists’ ready-mades? Who cares? I believe part of the artistic process is in knowing what prompts to use to get the results you’re after. The same as programming a synth sound or manipulating a sample. The image or text are generated by the synthetic organism, based on my selection of certain criteria (the prompt) and I go ahead and manipulate them further to produce the desired effect. Or trash them and start again.

#pretentiouscrap #antiart #art #AI #dada #readymade #music #image #noskill

‘Secrets of Numbers’ now streaming

July 15, 2023

Still waiting for Apple Music, iTunes etc. to be added but here are the streaming versions of ‘Secrets of Numbers’ https://ditto.fm/secrets-of-numbers – play loud and entertain your friends and neighbours 😉