sum trax

Been doing a bunch of relatively straightforward tracks, a drum track and some live synth takes mostly. First one's quite upbeat, the rest are rather downtempo. Last one is a sentimental bit that got a bit overcooked from ping-ponging too much on the 8-track.

Jazz for your soul

Can I call this bolero?

Put together an album with some recent tracks. These represent a pretty thorough shift in workflow for me, and as such they fit together quite snugly Clocking in at 36 minutes it's a respectable mini-album or maybe just an EP.

Ambient

  On 6/13/2022 at 8:04 PM, th555 said:

Put together an album with some recent tracks. These represent a pretty thorough shift in workflow for me, and as such they fit together quite snugly Clocking in at 36 minutes it's a respectable mini-album or maybe just an EP.

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Listening to this now. Through the first few tracks, excellent sound design. The synth on Volcanic activity is BOC reminiscent ... it has a beautiful, warped wobble tone to it that tugs at some part of me. Likewise, I really like the melodies in Mirai. This is a style that feels familar but is hard to place. Possibly video game music. Videocomte is similar. I really like the sparse production.

Thanks for having a listen!

I like these songs a lot. The live playing gives a personal and 'real' feel and the ambiance reminds me of Kraftwerk. 

Thanks for the kind comments guys

glitchy and sleepy

Here's a long one, basically just two duophonic synth parts (so uh.. 4 parts) to a beat. And I guess the first time I've made an audio reactive video (instead of one where I have to mash buttons to the rhythm I want, which does have its charms too :p).

Made a video for Mirai as well:

And here's a minimal electro tune I haven't posted before, with a more conventional visualizer.

  On 12/22/2022 at 7:53 PM, Summon Dot E X E said:

What visualizer(s) did you use to make the videos?

Cobbled it together from scipy.spectrogram and matplotlib.contour (or contourf for the latter two).

Saxophone techno

Uhh, somehow uploaded to wrong yt account

Saxophone techno

Lofi thingy featuring a heavy expander that somehow sounds very vocoder-like (even though it's not even multiband).

Syntakt as a 3-voice polysynth, definitely worth the required midi trickery. Additional drums (besides syntakt) from Tanzbar Lite, and Monologue on the bass.

Another su10 track

By the way here's a stretch of tape with some melody-driven boom-tsck tracks lightly transitioning into each other, ending with some dungeon-ish stuff. The visual accompaniment is made with a CPPN which however does not get any audio or rhythmic input (but you would hardly notice ;)).

And here's a long-form (well, medium-form by IDM standards) improvisation over a melodic theme. This time the visuals are audio-driven, which does lead to some cool moments though overall I don't feel I've really tamed this CPPN stuff yet.

Here I am again with some sounds and vids.

A bit acidy, syntakt + tanzbar:

And some saxophone stuff:

Here's one from a while ago I hadn't even posted yet, which for all its crudeness has become one of my personal favourites.

  On 10/2/2023 at 4:38 PM, th555 said:

 

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Really nice. Those reeds sound phenomenal! I also like how the first 10 seconds kind of throws the listener off the scent of what the song is gonna be but then blends into the arrangement seamlessly.

Thanks!

Another one:

I listened to nimnim because I didn't realize that was on older post. I really love how odd it sounds. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like that, especially the use of what sounds like woodwind instruments.

Outremer felt repetitive to me, but that's probably just because I wasn't feeling the melody that much.

I like the progression to cave habitat, and the offputting feeling to the whole track.

I think you've got a unique sound that helps you stand out.

Thanks for having a listen!