Matthew and Pamela

Ages ago Matthew came round to the studio to meet my synths. He's the mad genius behind ALM / Busy Circuits synth modules, in particular Pamela's Workout, which is a very clever and fun-to-use trigger sequencer. Its got a great vintage LED display like on an old school calculator - SOLD! He very generously gave me a module to try out and here it is finally in my Doepfer system. It sends out eight 5V triggers, each of which can be divisions or brainy mathematical derivations of the master clock. In this patch I am using it to trigger envelopes, LPGs, and the sequencer and noise and filters

Miskow Doskow!

Telex-me-up!
(via matrixsynth)
I need that orange chair in here NOW

My Type

UPDATE: Cool! The other two arrived today as well

On my return from tour I had the pleasant surprise that the typewriter had arrived that I bought on ebay while I was away. Isn't she a beauty? I used it for the typed bit on the design for the previous post...

BYE Radio Show No.6

Here is a new selection of music for you to listen to. Its all about the algorithms today

Tracklisting:
The Maths - Pattern Puzzle
Mileece - Formations
John Adams - Light Over Water
John Elliott / Transmusic (music made using cellular automata) - Crecur0
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Fast
Benge - Electro-Orgoustic Music Track 7 (from my first album)

The BYE Radio Show 6 - "Matrices, Automata & Patterns" by Zagoba on Mixcloud

British Buildings

More tour snaps, this time a selection of buildings, good, bad, beautiful and ugly

What A Lauf

When we were in Glasgow, John and Han and I popped down to GoMA, as we like to try and check out the local artefacts if we have time in a big city. We were captivated by a showing of this wonderful 1987 film by artists Fischli/Weiss, called Der Lauf der Dinge. What a magical and wondrous piece of work - please watch it all the way through

Abstract Distractions

Series One

White Noises

I had a day off in London - and felt I needed to give my studio some love. So I set up a patch on my white synths. It consists of oscillators, filters and spring reverb from the Buchla 100, EMS VCS3 and Serge Modular going into the Serge mixer/panner module. LFOs control the pan and the sequencer controls the levels. Then I edited the video on the tour bus

Wordsearch

Life on the road. Plenty of time for pointless pastimes, such as word-spotting with the iPhone:

Concrete Poetry

Seeing that typed list in the previous post reminded me strangely of the typed work of Carl Andre, who we also saw at Tate Margate, and which led me to discover Dom Sylvester Houedard.