Quick one that turned into maybe a keeper!

v1:

nobody knows

what to believe

we've all been keeping secrets

go overboard

all day long

getting sinking deeper

ch1:


climbing up

rung by rung

you’ve got to believe

that ladder’s long

life is young

you’ve got to believe

v2:

coming down

it’s so hard to see

all alone (blah blah)

the world is keeping secrets

ch2:


climbing up

rung by rung

you’ve got to believe

ladder’s long

life is young

you’ve got to believe

:believe:

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A song about being a crap person, but only sometimes. Recorded directly into the sp-404 + a vocal pass that was unintentionally circuit bent.

v1

right or wrong

come on

i'm gonna get you back?

too long gone?

ch1

:walking back to me is the hardest thing you'll ever have to do:

v2

waking hell

oh God

pt. 2

Georgie Burns

ch2

:walking back to me was the hardest thing you ever had to do:

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I really do feel like I'm in a Month of Modular©.

In a kind-of continuation of yesterday's jam, which was built around a Behringer Crave (horrible name/ great synth) into the finally-built tape and microsound music machine, today I brought in the teenage engineering PO 400. Did some semi-random patching on it this morning and got a cool square wave repeating oscillator from the lfo. And immediately jumped up, put it into the tape and microsound music machine, recorded a short reel. The piece starts out fully right on the Morphagene then goes to about 60/40.

Some pretty interesting sounds here.

Finally finished cobbling together a tape and microsounds make noise rack. Here is: acoustic guitar thru said system and over a drone I made with the same acoustic guitar, live to "tape." A fella could work this set-up for a lifetime and never come up with the same thing twice.

Used the same modular system for yesterday which is morphagene, qpas, and mimeophon + a behringer crave. I think a lot of people look down on the crave (horrible name), but it's wonderful. Oddly the crave sits better on the desk than a Moog mother 32. Like a cascade down from my skiff case. So anyway, I went with the basic patch that the crave comes with backed by a reel which started as an acoustic guitar. Same reel from yesterday just went a little deeper smudge-wise.

trying to do something not so sleep-inducing for am meditations. the idea here is to have enough interesting things to listen to with just enough going on. + occasional harshness really centers (aka wakes your a$$ up). wrapped up listening to the music-this' all that's going on for 12 minutes. acoustic guitar > morphagene > qpass > mimeophon

random Wednesday night studio jam stretching the legs of push 3, sting2 and dyad. this may be the set up for a while. nice and easy.

Op1f, 4 tracks ableton note, and an old tonic drum machine, all thru the zoom l6 mixer, which is just as handy as possible

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chill loop jam. all op1

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another all op1 track ©2025 jd torian