Pulaski Skyway

Sequenced with the octatrack. Recorded live.

Main voices are:
modcan triple osc into harvestman polyvox
modcan fmvdo into twlpg
tiptop 808 kick
wavestation
some noise
drum loop going through comb filter
a few drum samples in the ot

Octatrack fx 

VLK - Palisades

Liquid Forest Music

Background music for animated installation made in collaboration with Furry Tree Studio for the Brighton Digital Festival.

House Party video game music and sound

I made the music and sounds for this excellent and funny UK Arts Council funded educational game.

http://www.housepartygame.com/

Mastering the Internet: Episode One

We've been using sophisticated technology to indiscriminately trawl the internet for data, which is intercepted and stored in a buffer. That which seems potentially relevant is analyzed further and, with the help of special software programs, arranged on a linear grid from which patterns may become easier to detect. 

Loup tchèque series - modular processing loops

65 Years of Techno (1917-1982)

Kool DJ Sigmund Jahn Mix!

65 Years of Techno (1917-1982) by Kooldjsigmundjahn on Mixcloud

Stuff regarding Freiburg & Karlsruhe shows

Shows in Freiburg and Karlsruhe have occurred, yo.

Live weirdo techno with a modular synth, octatrack sampler/looper/sequencer and various fx.

Videos from Freiburg:

Headcam video by The Dullbedsitblogger:

A video summary of festive events by dullbedsitblogger:

Downloadable audio from the Karlsruhe set:


Organized by:
http://freunde-des-guten-tons.de/sonic-noise-iii/#more-798
http://www.letschebach.de/

Animated visuals by:
http://furrytree.co.uk/

Photos and video by:
Kalle von Karl

The Modern Door Live cassette album

Now available at the Strategic Tape Reserve

March 22-23 shows in Freiburg and Karlsruhe

March 22 - Freiburg
White Rabbit Club
Sonic Noise III
http://white-rabbit-club.de/
http://freunde-des-guten-tons.de/sonic-noise-iii/#more-798

March 23 - Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Kunstverein / Durlach
More infos pending

Live modular looping jam videos

Live set practice video with s-bahn field samples

DIY modular synth panel

Hey, it's a modular synth. Very low-cost, -fi, -skill, etc. Generally low. I don't know what I'm doing (e.g. transistors were avoided, because what do they do?) but no flames so far, therefore success! I wanted something that would work with eurorack adding much needed triggers and lfos, but that could also stand alone as a 9v battery powered patchable weirdo noisebox. The circuits are all pretty simple - either CMOS or passive - so very light current draw. Quite a few homemade vactrols in there, as vactrols are expensive, but easy to make with an LED, a photoresistor, some tape and they will look kind of like molluscs, which commercial vactrols do not really - so added bonus there. It's housed in a most-reasonably-priced tool box from the home-improvement center, Bauhaus. It's made of aluminum, probably a little over 1mm thick. Cost about 9 Eurobucks.

 I drew up a plan and drilled holes in the back with a hand drill. Not the fun part.

 Filled it with the following curcuits:

• A quad-oscillator which is based on the 40106 hex-inverter chip. Each oscillator has a range switch to select between audio and control frequency and an input for voltage control via a vactrol.
• 3 input logic gates based on the MFOS Mickey Mouse Logic circuits. Switchable between AND and NAND; and Or and NOR. Wow, ridiculous sentence (but logical, maybe?).
• A pulse divider made with CMOS 4040 chip and diodes.
• A Ring Mod-ish kind of thing similar to these.
• A CGS Ring Mod because I had the pcb laying around and it's passive. It doesn't work that well with the levels this box puts out but sounds great with signals from stronger eurorack oscillators.
• 6 "low pass gates" or slews. These are passive and have voltage control via vactrols. Switchable capacitor size gives either slew or filter/vca effect.
• A 3x3 matrix mixer.
• Multiples

Components are from Tayda which is very cheap and somewhat offbrand in certain cases, but there is a recession, and this is how we must roll. Maybe cost about 50 Euros for the parts.

Here is a demo of the box making noises with a bit of reverb and synced to a kick and snare from the octatrack.

And here is a short demo of the box making noise on its own with no reverb or anything else helping out.

DIY Modular Synth Sea Life

The Modern Door Live Cassette snippets

The Modern Door Live album cassette will be released soon via hot pink audio cassette tape on Strategic Tape Reserve. All recorded live in Hanover in December 2012. Below are some samples. More infos here.