Bitter Day
2000
Your festivals will turn into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
It will be like a time of mourning for an only daughter,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
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Chaos Patch
2000
A chaos patch is formed by taking three oscilators and plugging the output of one into the FM input of the next, so as to create an FM loop. Then one of the sound outputs goes to modulate a low pass filter, another a high pass filter and the last one is audio input to the filter chain. The results are unpredicatable and chaotic.
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Choral No. 1
2000
My thesis advisor told me that to create music, I would need to know counterpoint.
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December
2000
This contains sounds from a MOTM Modular Synth, a Moog Tarus II, an Evenfall Minimodular and a “guitar” made out of some wood and a fiberglass lampshade. The guitar was contact miced and run through an Alesis Midiverb II, which also processed some synth sounds.
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Monopoly Capitalism
2000
I was at the world’s largest chain of copy mats when the guy standing next to me was busily copying an article called “Monkeys and Monopoly Capitalism.” I got to thinking about how monkeys follow supply and demand. And about religion and the Wall Street Journal. But mostly about a neglected MAX patch that wanted to be recorded.
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