Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I wanted to make a composition that was more based on moving textures coming in and out of the soundscape, and this ended up being pretty meditative. I'm using an ARP-2600 tuned to a 9th chord for melody, a Buchla 208c Easel Command for bass texture, a Morphagene with a choir texture, and two channels of the Instruo CS-L oscillator to make a baseline and a pulse. This is a relatively simple setup with 5 streams of sound that don't all overlap. I hope that the annotations are educational and help you learn something that you can apply to your own electronic experiments. This is entirely live and improvised, so I put up annotations to try to teach you a little bit about what my thought process is when making these. I hope the annotations and camera angles help you learn something!
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Patch Notes:
Instruo CS-L both channels final outputs to Make Noise Optomix to Echophon (channel 2) and Make Noise Erbeverb (Channel 1)
Morphagene to Clouds clone (Monsoon).
Stillson Hammer sequencer for bass notes.
Buchla Easel Command 208c setup is:
Random to timbre, sustain, and sequencer steps
Sequential voltage to pitch
Envelope to both low pass gates
Pulser is driving the clock of the whole system
I wanted to make a composition that was more based on moving textures coming in and out of the soundscape, and this ended up being pretty meditative. I'm using an ARP-2600 tuned to a 9th chord for melody, a Buchla 208c Easel Command for bass texture, a Morphagene with a choir texture, and two channels of the Instruo CS-L oscillator to make a baseline and a pulse. This is a relatively simple setup with 5 streams of sound that don't all overlap. I hope that the annotations are educational and help you learn something that you can apply to your own electronic experiments. This is entirely live and improvised, so I put up annotations to try to teach you a little bit about what my thought process is when making these. I hope the annotations and camera angles help you learn something!
If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting my Patreon: patreon.com/ethanjamesmusic
My shorts channel: youtube.com/channel/UC_BcJob-VaouHlwAKm7mxkA
My long form channel: youtube.com/channel/UCggb6vbFk8aWDY8zqlgK47Q
Patch Notes:
Instruo CS-L both channels final outputs to Make Noise Optomix to Echophon (channel 2) and Make Noise Erbeverb (Channel 1)
Morphagene to Clouds clone (Monsoon).
Stillson Hammer sequencer for bass notes.
Buchla Easel Command 208c setup is:
Random to timbre, sustain, and sequencer steps
Sequential voltage to pitch
Envelope to both low pass gates
Pulser is driving the clock of the whole system
