Darren's posts with tag: filterbank ii
|  | These are pictures taken whilst I compose and design for the play "Everything But The Brain" for Action Theatre. Now showing at the Esplanade Theatre. Here's the demo of three songs which I've picked out to upload (click on the title of the songs to listen):
EVER AFTER
This track, by approach was really simple. I mic'ed up a Hungarian Zither (CITERA) using a contact microphone and it's being fed into the KORG Radias audio in. Using a vocoder preset, I have made it to trigger a synth note (D flat) with a moderate attack and a long release. So everytime I plug a note, it will trigger the synth note. The signal is also routed through it's internal effects with delay and reverb. Another contact microphone was employed to sample the Citera with a BOSS RC-20 and the playback is reversed... This track was recorded live with me improvising on the Citera. (I have no idea how to play it so I just did what I think sound right) You can find a picture of the Citera below...
BEDTIME STORIES
A Plogue Bidule composition using a patch I've designed. The group has a couple of sequencers that triggers the risset bells and sine tones, which was passed through a rebuilder and some effects. Crytal Synths were employed for the generation of the glassy ambient. KORG Radias was used for a base drone...
EINSTEIN'S BRAIN
An abstract of the 10 minute long piece. The piano was from KORG Triton ST88. An improvisation based on the scenic mood was recorded and then reversed and picthed down to underlay the original recording. Another Plogue Bidule patch was designed to sound scape subtley underneath this track...
DISCLAIMER: There are pictures of other synths which was employed for the composition and design of other songs and sounds but I did not include the demo here... It's sad to see the way they treated my music in production... director's call, so what to do :/ |
| | THE VOTING HAS STARTED! Yes, voting will run till this Tuesday 12pm our time here in Singapore. I have provided the voting link so if you like what you hear here, do vote for me :D. THANKS! Stiff competition!
Okies, so here are the entries I submitted into the Cyndustries BUG OFF! aleatoric music contest:
d-DAY|h-HOUR
mo12seCODE
The theme of the contest is "WAR & PEACE"and we are suppose to use any kind of synthesis be it software or hardware based, digital or analogue. If you like it do go HERE to vote for me as your top three picks. Look for the titles. I will be really grateful! :P
NOTE: No looped samples were used and they are all original creations, played live, sequenced or programmed. No matter how aleatoric it is supposed to be, it can still fall under a familiar format of music. There are more aleatoric elements in mo12seCODE than d-DAY|h-HOUR. The random bleeps and glitches of the oscillating and filtering Sherman Filterbank II and also alot of "chance" music involved in this piece (eg. the transistor radio reacting with the MF105, etc). For d-DAY|h-HOUR, it's set to a more typical music track with the filtering algorithms random on the arpeggiating synths. Just because it says aleatorical doesn't mean it must sound weird and out of this world in my opinion.
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This album was taken post of recording the tracks. Here's the description of each piece:
d-DAY|h-HOUR
GEARS:KORG Triton ST88, KORG EM-1, KORG KP3, Sherman Filterbank II, MOOG MF105 Murf, MOOG Etherwave Theremin and ROLAND SH101.
DESCRIPTION: No software synthesis were used except for general effects during mixdown. Majority of the synthesis was from KORG Triton and composed on the fly. Drums were preprogrammed though on the EM1. The piano is from Triton and it was improvised on the spot. Not sequenced.
CONCEPT: I was pondering about war and peace and thought they are pretty dichotomous. The existence of one entails the existence of another. The meaning of peace would not be possible without the precedence of war or vice versa. Inspired by this notion, d-DAY|h-HOUR depicts the attack that ends war... with that, peace entails, but at much cost. Like my other entry, this song was cut in a about 4 hours. Hope you'll enjoy it. Cheers...
mo12seCODE
GEARS: Alesis ION, KORG EM-1, KORG KP3, KORG Triton ST88, Sherman Filterbank II, MOOG MF105 Murf and a small handhelf transistor radio.
DESCRIPTION: Composed and mixed on the fly with general effects passed post. Again this was done in about 4 hours as well. Special Notes: The Sherman Filterbank II was used as a self oscillating modular instead of processing sounds... it was patched for feedbacking itself. The transistor radio was used for creating the sweeping sounds (like wind)... achieved by feeding through MF105. Reaktor 5 was used for some sound designs as well as a simple drum sequence. Most drum sounds from EM1. Gun sounds were designed on Triton.
CONCEPT: "Morse code is the only digital modulation mode designed to be easily read by humans without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels, as well as making it ideal for emergency signaling..." This piece is a stipulation of morse codes being sent amongst artificial intelligence during wars in the future... Resulting in a cacophony of electronic communication. Inspired by visuals of actual morse codes, I've derived patterns from some to enter it as sequenced patterns, repeating them and countering them against each other... and the outcome is rather musical, naturally...
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PHOTO DESCRIPTION
Well, these were taken during the session. The first few LED displays are from the Sherman Filterbank II. Playing around with movements and it's actually quite magical in my opinion. The rest are just straight forward gear slutting.
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| | Thingamagoops... never really had a chance to take proper mug shots of them so here we go... cute little fellas with a life of their own :) |
| | Right, so I am supposed to be working on the Museum project... but seeing my gears lying around and being neglected, I decided to spend some fun time with them, to make up for my negligence :P... There's a recording of the improvisation attached... hope you like it...
Here's the demo of the improv session:
SynthMantra I
Here's the url just in case it doesn't work again:
http://media.twango.com/m1/original/0019/87bb0d8e2fda49e1bdb96b0534c7acf2.mp3
Real fun...
NOTICE:I have solved the hickup in links, thanks to Matrixsynth who suggested Twango. So all links work now! :) ... I have uploaded the music on my music page anyway, do visit, TRACK I: InNeReAr
Apologies to all who were frustrated trying to load it...
Here's a basic run down of the set up for this improvisation session: Roland RS-09; Roland SH101; Sherman Filterbank II; Moogerfooger MF105; Zebranalogic VCF; Casio SA-5; and a Yamaha mixer; rather simple set up... SO, the RS09 left o/p runs through Sherman Filterbank II (SFB) and right o/p runs to mono channel on mixer; Send through Aux 1 (pre) to ZebraVCF; it's Headphone outs to MF105 i/p... The MF105 LFO patched to evelope, and left o/p to mono channel on mixer; send thru Aux 1 (pre) to ZebraVCF; and the right o/p to (SFB)... The ZebraVCF was sent to mono channel on mixer and Aux 1 (pre) sent randomly during improvisation; SFB was sent to stereo channel on mixer, sent through Aux 1 (pre) to ZebraVCF; SH101 was sent to mono channel on mixer, Aux 1 (pre) to ZebraVCF; Casio SA-5 o/p to Roland RS09 i/p; ... (I will not explain why and also how the SFB was being patched).
Right, so it's hit record and never looked back... fun improvisation for me. No multi-tracking, just stereo out to my recorder. All sweeping ambient and quirk squirking filter is sherman and MF105, and the ringing pulses and bird-like sounds were the effects of Zebra VCF, RS09 plays the organ & string tones and filtered nuts by filterbank and Zebra and MF105; Same thing for the bellish notes from Casio SA-5... Note to mention is the use of a Tibetan Singing Bowl, using a Rode NT3 condenser, the mic channel was sent to ZebraVCF slightly thru Aux 1 (pre) as well. The recording was done one take, no stopping and post editing done except to master the final volume and also pass a slight reverb through the entire track... track is AS IS. Some of the filtering may hurt your ears if you are not atuned to such music... All knobbing and manipulations of efx and filters done live...
Again, not a great track, but loads of fun for me :) More like having fun with analogue stuffs to see what I can churn out in real time, filtering, cross filtering and keeping as anlogue as I can (well arguments of SFB as not purely analogue still stands)... but anyway, I am just sharing the outcome of my noodling fun...
UPDATES: If you follow the patchings, you will realize everthing passes through the ZebraVCF... it's a wicked gear everyone should own. There's loads more on ZEBRANALOGIC, do visit to look it up! Everything is affordable and fairly priced. Looks great, sounds amazing and works wicked... If you do order, give the man some time... he is hand making, hand crafting the art out... and I believe he has many orders internationally. So wait it out... it's worth it! :)
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| | Some shots of my Sherman Filterbank II... wicked addictive analogue duo filter...
You can listen to how a Sherman Filterbank II can screw up your sound HERE with descriptions... or go directly to listen to the DEMO. :) |
| | I've decided to keep a photo update of my studio state... to see how it grows over time (or diminish)... so here's some photos of my current studio. I will be upgrading it soon so keeping it for visual posterity...
I have also categorized synths collections in my photo index page... I am a little lazy and see it unnecessary to take out Korg Prophecy, Korg padKONTROL, Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Marion... :S so I have to keep them here...
UPDATES: New stuffs that are way over-due. Doepfer A100 Modular System with all other analogous processors, Radias, etc. |
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