Emptying the Haunted Air

I saw this on Jake Newby’s blog, and it sounds exciting. A one-hour improv session featuring weird acoustic sounds, with no constraints or limits to speak of, performed in a space buzzing with artistic activity? Nifty!

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dance? Electronic? I don’t know… I bought Ableton Live recently, and haven’t been able to get enough of it. The software sits perfectly in the middle of my two other favourite pieces of production software – the delightfully modular AudioMulch and the fantastically… something Adobe Audition. Ominously, it [...]

Was playing around today, and came up with a patch that generates some pretty nice brass sounds. The reverb digital, and hides some of the inadequacies of the patch. Then again, I apply reverb or delay to pretty much everything, so it probably would have been there anyway I’d like to add some noise to [...]

I’m applying for a job as a sound integrator in the games industry, and figured I should put together a sonorous portfolio to go with my curriculum vitae (that’s the first CV!). I’m going to try to produce a more substancial ambient piece using my modest collection of (rather versatile) synths, and mixing it properly [...]

Here is another sample from my Plan B system. I’m still getting my head around all the wonderful idiosyncratic qualities of the modules, and just how important it is to be subtle and patient when trying to extract more expressive sounds out of a modular system. I’ve been reading up on the theory of sound [...]

Here’s some pictures of the synthesizer – I love it more than any man should love a machine.