Hey, thanks much, Phil! Been well, thanks. Yeah, I can't live or create without deadlines. Sometimes they're tighter than I'd like, but I'll take them, and other constraints, over having none at all!

I just released the first of two volumes of a podcast soundtrack that I did in 2020, in a couple of volumes, and I wrote up production notes on how I used Eurorack to tackle the challenge of generating a ton of music in a short amount of time for someone else's project. https://noisejockey.net/music...

Thanks, folks!

Original post updated, but here are the full production notes for how this whole project went down, from concept to the album release.

https://noisejockey.net/music/2021/01/2 ... -volume-1/

Thanks, @cpr2323. The whole show is about using issues of OMNI Magazine between 1979 and 1984, so being inspired by that area was definitely a big part of the brief.

Hi everyone, long time no see! I scored a podcast in 2020 with a Eurorack rig (for the most part) using mostly generative or semi-self-playing patches (with some traditionally played and composed pieces). Out of ten hours (!!) of music, I made a continuously-mixed soundtrack album of just the highli...

Hainbach was very kind to not only ask me to master his latest album ( more about my mastering services ), but he also asked me for some information on my process and rationale (he's vlogging his whole start-to-finish creation process). Vinyl is coming, but it's out now, and he made this lovely litt...

Austin Wintory
Jason Graves
Sarah Schachner
Jon Everist
Lena Raine
Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace)
Martin Stig Anderson
Mick Gordon
The Fat Bard
Ben Prunty

DivKid and I discuss my live setup with mostly Ciat Lonbarde instruments, intercut with a quick jam.



Full performance at Velocity, Seattle USA 2019.

A sequel of sorts to my Études I: Blue Box record from three years ago. But this time, longer, slower, more intense, and two to three layers of parallel distortion at once. Otherwise, the instrument has been unchanged. Out now on Modularfield.

Three years later, a sequel, of sorts.

Yeah that's really good! Looks like a video for the indie game Machinarium . Are you involved in game design? Thank you. I've done sound design and music for films and games (most recently, I wrote the theme to The Blackout Club ). While Machinarium wasn't a direct influence, the general idea of a ...

electricanada wrote: Very nice track, great textures. How many layers of Lyra are there?

Thank you. Just checked the session file: Three layers, each through an Eventide Space. Layer two is in full force around 28 seconds, layer three starts firmly at 01:36. No effects in the box besides EQ and compression.

100% Lyra-8, music and animation by me:
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I also recently mastered J Bowman's all-Lyra-8 album, which I'd recommend:
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bitSmasher , as Astrolabe23 points out, the space you record in is a big part of the process and the promise. A battery powered speaker, a battery powered playback device, and a battery powered recorder is a supremely creative re-amping (or "worldizing," as Walter Murch called it) toolkit that can ...

This technique is nothing new, but I finally decided to try re-amping my own work through guitar amps. I was going for that sense of moving air pressure and tension more than distortion (but having both, of course is tasty). I wanted to share how quick and easy this was to do on a budget and in a ho...

Hi folks, it's been a while. Been busy with the wooden bits and had some things to share. First, I did a series of C-L focused improvised jams (with all manner of fun guest instruments) over on YouTube. Here's a playlist of the 14 sessions. Here's one example: [video]http://youtu.be/2xHUX_PtnHI[/vid...

Thanks for taking a listen, and for the extremely kind words! Go Team Buchla!

Just dropped a new album that's 95% Buchla 200 series clone, only exceptions are a Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax and a Qu-Bit Octone in a Buchla Blade. :-) Music easel plus some extras. Thanks to Steve Sommers, Sascha Haber, and Adam Scramstad for helping to build such an inspiring system. Album: [bandcamp w...

Definitely cut the lows on tracks that are not contributing to the bass or kick duties, good advice. If you can't afford a subwoofer, monitor through a frequency analyzer, like the free Voxengo SPAN. You'll be able to see the energies you may not actually hear.

After an all-Buchla album and an all-acoustic album, I'm back with an all-Eurorack EP, mixing generative composition with live performance on top, all about the intersection of human experience and the open ocean. [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=28101328 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 ...

Well into my second month of weekly CL jams on my YouTube channel. Here's the unified playlist, and the latest:

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Hey, folks. Here are four sessions from the recording sessions for my album, "Études I: Blue Box," which didn't make the album cut, but were interesting in their own right. Free downloads:

http://soundcloud.com/noisejockey/sets/ ... t-sessions

I was having a discussion with a friend with a graduate degree in music composition about how we each start pieces, and to my surprise, we did the same thing: Noodle, find a riff or progression, decide that's the direction. Then "back it into a key." Sometimes that means changing a note in the origi...

Yep. Thanks for posting this, Taylor. Though I don't think Beatport's got the memo yet. ;-) Nothing makes me madder than spending my own money on albums that are so idiotically loud that the digital files clip when played back. anyone after volume for volume's sake.. or smashed waveforms should firs...

Besides character preamps outboard, I have an unreasonable love for the ugly and brutal DevilLoc Deluxe by SoundToys. I never imagined I'd use as much as I do. The key is parallel mixing of its effect, but it's a harmonic enhancer, distortion box, compressor, even a tilt EQ. I certainly don't put it...