My Wave recently arrived here in Nashville, two days after it was shipped from Andertons in London. (DHL rocks!) I pre-ordered it on December 10th and have been eagerly awaiting its arrival.
Many years ago I owned a complete PPG system with Wave 2.2 & 2.3, EVU, PRK and Waveterm A. I’m very familiar with the PPG sound and it …
A ten minute Trance track inspired by the recent addition of Moog Subharmonicon and DFAM modules added into the new upper case of my Eurorack system. I haven’t owned a Moog product since I sold my MiniMoog around 1984 (one of my two great music gear regrets). I also almost owned a complete Moog System 55 in the late 90’s …
I have finished the final track for the Excursions in Time release, entitled “Destination Rue de Verneuil”. Last night I finally recorded a performance that felt right for this closing track on my album. The track is 11:32 long which brings the total time for the release up to 62mins. For me it’s just right for this type of music. …
This is my most complex patch so far, and I’ve been working on it for a week. I incorporated a few new things this time, such as recording the chordal pads in Tim Exile’s Endlesss app. I played them by hand in the app on my iPhone and recorded them into the Morphagene, which was clocked so that I could …
I added a few new modules to my system recently which inspired me to record a new track utilizing them. The track begins with a bass line generated from a Poly-D analog synth, patched in and controlled by the modular system. I built a custom interface to bring the Poly-D’s back panel ports onto a panel in the modular synth.…
This is a remix project that I made a while ago and decided to add visuals now for submitting the track to YouTube.
In late 2008 Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson announced a remix competition for the song “Abandoner”, from his debut solo release – Insurgentes. I was pleased to find that my remix was chosen as one of the …
Something wonderful happened a few nights ago. I was working with the modular synth and I began to tweak a patch I had just put together. I did a little of this and a little of that and things began to fall into place. It was becoming interestingly rhythmic with nice variations. I let it continue to play while getting …
Tonight I took my first steps in creating generative music with the modular synth. After studying the manuals to several of the modules I’m beginning to explore a little more deeply into their complex inner workings.
From Wikipedia; “Generative music is a term popularized by Brian Eno to describe music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by …
January 2000, Robert Fripp held a four hour Q&A session at our studio that also included a listening party playing tracks from the then-unreleased King Crimson album “The ConstruKction of Light”. I admire Robert not only for his musicianship and musical vision, but also for his teachings and philosophies regarding life and work.
Roughly 70 people attended the Nashville event …
Recently the components for my new modular synthesizer began to arrive.
I’ve wanted a modular for quite a while. My very first synth was a modular, a Paia that I built from a kit. I couldn’t afford a Minimoog at the time, which I wanted very much. But it was completely out of my budget at $1500 in 1975, so …