Adventures in Sound

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Episode 49 - more adventures with the VCS3, this time using 2 DD-20s for looping with loop lengths of 18 and 20 seconds and Wedge for reverb and delays.

This one features lots of use of the looping Envelope Shaper and Ring Modulator to get some interesting rhythms

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Episode 50!

This episode saw a lot of experimenting with live sampling, looping and cross-synthesis.

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I enjoyed this show Rob, some very nice textures

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Tonight at 6pm EDT/11pm BST, Adventures In Sound with special guests: Howard Moscovitz, Bill Fox and Mel Morley

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Episode 51 was recorded live from Chez Mosc in Allentown, Pennsylvania, featuring guest appearance from Howard Moscovitz, Bill Fox and Mel Morley

Jez played: Nord Modular, Waldorf Blofeld, Korg Monotron, Yamaha VSS-30 and ipod touch, through Repeater and delay

Howard played: Nord Modular G2 and ipad

Bill played: Guitar, effects and radio

Mel played: Softsynths, ipad and Korg Monotron

Thanks to all involved, it was great fun and even though we had some technical difficulties at the start and then lost the stream near the end, we managed to only lose about 5 minutes, covered by judicious use of long cross-fades

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Tonight is the first anniversary of AIS

as usual I have absolutely no idea what tonight's set will involve - it will be a surprise

[blue hell]

Happy aniversary Jez and Rob, looking forward again to hear it!

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Here's the recording of Episode 53 - Delicate Noise, a noisy ambient excursion with 'sequencey' finale courtesy of the Blofelds arpeggiator

This episode features the Nord G2 and Blofeld (played via Yamaha CBX-K1), through the usual filter, looping and delay

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Episode 54 - experiments in guitar tapping (which wouldn't stay in tune, perhaps because the room temp was constantly rising, perhaps because the poor thing was tuned in fifts...). The guitar was fed into kyma where I did processing and looping.

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oh no, you've put 54 up before 52, the universe will now collapse in on itself

but seriously, nice set

[robsol]

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Tonight's episode will feature the Korg microKorg, looping and delay, in an adventure into cosmic drones

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Episode 55 - The Black Hole, features Korg microKorg, Electrix Repeater and Boss DD-20

It is a spacey ambient excursion with experimental tendencies

This episode features my first use of the microKorg's vocoder and my use of it isn't exactly melodic. I found the vocoder section quite cathartic, as this episode was recorded during a rather dark period for me.

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Episode 57 will be an adventure with primitive digital frequency modulation

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I'm not able to perform my show live tonight, so Rob will be playing a pre-recorded show for me

It was recorded 'live' on Sunday night using my newly acquired Yamaha PSS-380 which is basically a cheap '80s consumer keyboard, but it has 100 FM sounds with some editability via 5 sliders, 3 to control envelope attack, decay and release and 2 to control 'spectrum' and 'modulation'. These are stepped so smooth sweeps aren't really possible, so sounds were mostly edited in between notes, but there are some fast sweeps which sound OK for noisier stuff

It was run through my Frostwave Resonator filter, into my Repeater then out to DD-20 for panning delay

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Thanks to Rob for broadcasting my show for me in my absence and thanks to anyone who listened

[blue hell]

Was a great show Jez!

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and here's the recording

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I'm sorry to inform you that tonight's AIS is cancelled. A good friend of mine died today, so I won't be around. It was not a surprise but I'll probably spend some time with his family.

[a100user]

That's very sublime Jez.


It's amazing what you can do with a cheap sound source and some expensive effects

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[blue hell]

Sorry to hear Rob.

[MusicMan11712]

I am sorry to hear the news about your close friend, Rob. May you and your friend's family be a source of comfort and support for each other.
Steve