Last night was one of those nights. Jenny and I watched the season finale to Project Runway and afterwards had a long discussion that turned for the worst and ended with both of us feeling a little hurt. Nevertheless, Jenny and I have a rule to never allow each other go to bed upset and we kept to that rule last night. I’m a very lucky man.
But alas, having to then lift my energy up to do something creative is a bit of a challenge. I thought maybe I could do something amorphous with charcoal, perhaps harnessing my mood. Instead, I felt aimless. So, I decided to take refuge in front of the modular.
No real inspiration for the patches. Just kind of randomly experimenting. I started by messing around with some cross-modulation. Then I pulled the cables and played around with the A137 Wave Multiplier, that one turned out the best. Finally, I finished off the night with a half patch. Just messing around with a clicky-slow saw wave through a lowpass filter, creating some watery drops.
Charlie,
I have no idea what you do to create these, but I love them. I would very much like to learn how to do this.
TB
With your inspiration, I created a contact mic. I found a couple of excellent tutorials online on how to do this cheaply. Then, with garageband, I turned my acoustic guitar and musicbox into a rock band! So fun. Thank you for the inspiration.
That’s awesome Todd! I’d love to take a look at that tutorial. I never thought about making my own. Have you posted the audio from your experiments? I’ll have to check your blog.