David Svrjcek#drumbruteimpact #refacedx #arturiaminifreak #zoomlivetrak
Hardware Jams (HWJ) entry for September 4, 2023
This week’s challenge was to use six steps on our sequencers vs 16/32, etc.. I started with a six step sequence on the Drumbrute Impact and created a 48-step sequence on the MiniFreak (8x6). Then i just tried to imply some more triplet type rhythms to sync.. As an aside, my lovely cousins lost their Mom (Janice) so the melancholy feel is in respect to their loss. She was also a kind person that loved her family and i can definitely appreciate those simple but powerful qualities in any human. 🙏
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
This week’s challenge was to use six steps on our sequencers vs 16/32, etc.. I started with a six step sequence on the Drumbrute Impact and created a 48-step sequence on the MiniFreak (8x6). Then i just tried to imply some more triplet type rhythms to sync.. As an aside, my lovely cousins lost their Mom (Janice) so the melancholy feel is in respect to their loss. She was also a kind person that loved her family and i can definitely appreciate those simple but powerful qualities in any human. 🙏
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Drums: Arturia Drumbrute Impact Boss RC-500 Vongon Paragraphs
#electronicmusic #hardwarejams #darkelectronic #acefstripe #dawlessjamAcef Stripe - The Stuffies are Not Sleeping #winsormccayDavid Svrjcek2025-09-27 | Video is Gertie The Dinosaur (1914) A short animation film by Winsor McCay.
#electronicmusic #acefstripe #winsormccay #gertiethedinosaurRed Spells Red - 35 Minute Extended Slumber Mix #darkambient #surrealismDavid Svrjcek2025-09-21 | This is probably closer to the idea of ambient music as it’s more designed for passive listening.
Another Red Spells Red song played at varying speeds with a mix of ambient noise blended in. I have been exploring this idea of surrealism with noise music and enjoying the results. I guess a nice counterbalance to the rational and mysticism we are experiencing as many try to understand what is best left to the imagination. With surrealism, our emotional worlds play a larger part. We believe that our fears and desires hidden latent drive us more than we understand. ☮️🌻💜Acef Stripe - Making Sense of the Carnage #darkambientDavid Svrjcek2025-09-16 | from the first Acef Stripe release
#darkambient #darkelectro #darkelectronic #kosmikos #acefstripe #noiseart #noiseAcef Stripe - Our Neighborhood has Changed (featuring Kosmikos) #darkelectroDavid Svrjcek2025-09-14 | A mix of the Triplicate Records release of the song “Our Neighborhood has Changed” with the help of my friend Kosmikos. It’s kinda swirly and psychedelic and I dig it.
#darkambient #darkelectro #darkelectronic #kosmikos #acefstripe #psychambientRed Spells Red - The Universe is Growing Colder #darkambientDavid Svrjcek2025-09-10 | Film from Internet Archives:
pixabay.com/users/iffany-6128830Acef Stripe - Thou Art an Amateur (Frogland Jerry Mix) #electronicmusicDavid Svrjcek2025-09-06 | No. 8 and final one of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s. This is definitely one of my favorites.
#darkambient #acefstripe #silentfilms #electronicmusic #acefstriperecordingsRed Spells Red - Brindle #guitarambientDavid Svrjcek2025-09-05 | This is Red Spells Red, an old collaboration with a good friend. The particular song was made during a quick visit to DC. We recorded everything live with no plan. Dennis is playing the guitar..Acef Stripe - Fuzzy Black KittensDavid Svrjcek2025-08-30 | No credits for the video as there was none provided and that is a shame as it’s quite colorful and humorous. We know it dates to 1906 which I suspect rules all living creatures out as the authors. Nonetheless, more Internet Archives wonder.
Music is from Foxy and I played the drums and recorded them with little concern to audio quality but with a lot of concern for locking down the groove. I believe I nailed it in the first take. Years of playing live helped…. Anyways I always wanted a surf guitar over the top but those are luxuries for another era when we sat together and played and plenty of musicians were readily available. Now we have an abundance of producers and I have much to say on that subject. ; )
#acefstripe #nostalgia #electronicmusicRed Spells Red - Venusian Swamp Rats #experimentalmusic #vintagefilmDavid Svrjcek2025-08-23 | Film is from Rick Prelinger's A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1905)
Music is Red Spells Red (Dennis Kane and David Svrjcek) circa 2011
#darkambient #dark-experimental #moogclusterflux #redspellsred #acefstriperecordings #electronicmusic #earlyfilms #analogsynthsAcef Stripe - I Present This to Thee (Insect Mix)David Svrjcek2025-08-23 | No. 7 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
ASR organized a special prompt challenge on Discord to make a track inspired by an acrylic painting my father (Benjamin Svrjcek, Jr.) made many years ago. The work is placed on the wall near the entrance to my home so it’s an image I see regularly and always admire.
We were happy that some took on the offer to make a track. It really meant a lot. The variety of music is wonderfully expressive and I am sure my father would have been delighted. So thank you fellow musicians below:
#darkambient #DarkAmbient #acefstriperecordings #newmusic #experimentalmusicAcef Stripe - A Second Person Singular #darkelectro #vintagefilmDavid Svrjcek2025-08-15 | No. 6 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
"In Life's Cycle" (1910) director D. W. Griffith cinematographer Billy Bitzer
"In Life's Cycle" is a short drama. The film is included in our program to illustrate the work of Billy Bitzer, a star of Silent Hall of Fame
A widower, whose only comfort are his two children, gets heartbroken when his daughter runs away from home.
#darkambient #acefstripe #silentfilms #nostalgia #acefstriperecordingsASR release - Armaggedon Speaking - she’s like the blue roseDavid Svrjcek2025-08-11 | ...Acef Stripe - ImperfectionsDavid Svrjcek2025-08-03 | No. 5 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
Video from Ladislas Starevich The Ant And The Grasshopper ( 1911)
Vladislav Starevich (August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965), was a Russian and French stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e. The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.
Vladislav Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia to Polish parents(father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near K?dainiai and mother Antonina Leg?cka from Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire. The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then the capital of Kaunas Governorate. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia).
#darkambient #acefstripe #silentfilmsAcef Stripe - An Archaist is in Our Presence #hardwarejamsDavid Svrjcek2025-07-31 | No. 3 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
From Internet Archives:
"L'Araignée d'or" (The Golden Spider 1909) is an excellent short film that tells a fantastic and delightful story wherein a lumberjack, who shares his strange adventure with the audience by looking directly into the camera, follows four gnomes during their peculiar stroll through the forest. In a pond of water, the gnomes pick up a golden spider who has special and profit making abilities. They take him to their cave where this talented insect weaves gold ingots that can be cut up into pieces, gold coins that are even minted.
#darkambient #acefstripe #silentfilmsAcef Stripe - Ye Lovely Profiteers #electronicmusic #vintagefilmDavid Svrjcek2025-07-29 | No. 3 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
Excerpts from The Phantom of the Opera by Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick courtesy of Internet Archives.
Music from Acef Stripe Recording’s release Amateur Intelligence.
#darkambient #acefstripe #hardwarejams #darkelectronic #darkelectroAcef Stripe - CyclingDavid Svrjcek2025-07-26 | No. 2 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
From the release by Acef Stripe
acefstripe.bandcamp.com/album/amateur-intelligenceAcef Stripe - In a dishwasher #electronicmusic #vintagefilmDavid Svrjcek2025-07-26 | No. 1 of the videos for the Amateur Intelligence release. All the videos use old film work or studies from the early 1900s.
Big thanks to Internet Archives. This is a wonderful film study from the early 1910s I believe. I would love to believe they would appreciate the collaboration. If I can find more details on the film I will.. ☮️
#darkambient #acefstripe #electronicmusic #darkelectronicASR Release - Time Rival - A New Type of Silence (Perceptions compilation)David Svrjcek2025-06-17 | Music from the May 2025 Acef Stripe Recordings (ASR) release titled "Perspectives"
ASR organized a special prompt challenge on Discord to make a track inspired by an acrylic painting my father (Benjamin Svrjcek, Jr.) made many years ago. The work is placed on the wall near the entrance to my home so it’s an image I see regularly and always admire.
We were happy that some took on the offer to make a track. It really meant a lot. The variety of music is wonderfully expressive and I am sure my father would have been delighted. So thank you fellow musicians below:
ASR organized a special prompt challenge on Discord to make a track inspired by an acrylic painting my father (Benjamin Svrjcek, Jr.) made many years ago. The work is placed on the wall near the entrance to my home so it’s an image I see regularly and always admire.
We were happy that some took on the offer to make a track. It really meant a lot. The variety of music is wonderfully expressive and I am sure my father would have been delighted. So thank you fellow musicians below:
#darkambient #DarkAmbient #acefstriperecordingsAcef Stripe Recordings - Companions at Sea (for Baby Bat) #vintagefilm #vcvrackDavid Svrjcek2025-06-07 | A video honoring both our past friend Baby Bat. Music is from Acef Stripe Recording's latest compilation release titled "Perspectives".
And a massive appreciation to Georges Méliès (1861-1938) whose amazing filmwork backdrops this video.
#ambient #ambientmusic #electronicmusic #vcvrack #acefstriperecordings #acefstripeKORG MS-20 at nightDavid Svrjcek2025-05-29 | ...VCV Rack Exploration - Drone Day 2025 #vcvrackDavid Svrjcek2025-05-24 | My 2025 International Drone Day video submission produced for the Rocky Mountain Synth Group in Colorado. I made this one on #VCVRack and imported into #Cubase for a quick master. Video created on iMovie.
#electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #vcvrack #eurorackmodular #droneday2025For Inky 🦋David Svrjcek2024-12-10 | many technical difficulties.. but here is the final Inky version. RIP you superstar.A Reunion - Renascent #ambient #romanticDavid Svrjcek2024-07-15 | Video created by @DK_Sounds for Acef Stripe's A Reunion.Acef Stripe - Drone - Shadows Appear... #dronemusicDavid Svrjcek2024-05-20 | This is a little jam I made working on some drone concepts and my video skills. The character in the video is from Shadow of Fear and I recommend finding a copy although it was a B movie to start and is rather old. This video is for enjoyment only. 💥
#dronemusic #synthesizers #lumafusionHardware Jams Weekend Challenge - 4/29/24 - PolywannabeeDavid Svrjcek2024-04-29 | #DarkElectronic #HardwareJamsAcef Stripe - Pink-Slipped (full album) 2023David Svrjcek2024-04-27 | Pink-slipped was a collection of songs that came together during a tumultuous time of labor strife in the US. The UAW was striking, others being laid off, and of course, the Bandcamp dismissal of half their loyal workers. I choose a sketch i found that my father made of a somewhat weathered, but proud man. A life given to a cause that had always planned to erase him.
thanks to Sunwarper for mastering and to Dad for the lovely sketch. : )
I appreciate all of you that take the time to read my words. ❤️
Moog Minimoog VST handling the arp and the rest is mainly Reface DX and an Amen Break sample at breakneck speed not used as break. Lots of ping pong for stereo madness. Cleopatra providing that Art Garfunkel vibe.. 💥😻Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - 4/1/24David Svrjcek2024-03-31 | HWJ Challenge - Bass In Da Face!! 🙀
Just trying to get rolling again. Boomstar processed thru Rings and the modular. Hope it’s bassy enough….Acef Stripe - “G.A.S” - Hardware Jams Weekend ChallengeDavid Svrjcek2023-12-09 | Hardware Weekend Jams Challenge for week of December 11, 2023. The challenge was to use your recent G.A.S fueled purchases. Mine included the Roland Aira E-4, Boss MD-500, and Gaia 2. I hope to do no more purchasing this year.
Sounds from the Minifreak and Gaia 2 with vocals looped on the RC-500 and processed on the E-4💥💥
Last i mixes the track with AudioThing Valves ios app in Lumafusion. Gave it some additional grit.
I love the lonely Jackdaw image i found on Pixelbay.
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Sounds: Roland Gaia 2 Roland Aira E-4 Shure SM-57 Boss MD-500
Drums: Arturia Drumbrute Impact Eventide Pitchfactor Boss RC-500
#electronicmusic #hardwarejams #darkelectronic #acefstripe #dawlessjam #dawlessjamminAcef Stripe - Erasing HistoryDavid Svrjcek2023-12-07 | Song is from a recent release (Pink-slipped) found below on Artcore. Really an offshoot of one of my Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge. The song title refers to our tendency to remove parts of history we find unpleasant to think about and fits into the Pink-slipped release theme.
The video was just a fun exploration of images I had that were put together on iMovie.
#darkelectronic #dawlessjam #dawlessjammin #acefstripe #electronicmusic #technoAcef Stripe - “Emotions” - Hardware Jams Weekend ChallengeDavid Svrjcek2023-11-11 | ...Acef Stripe - “Heavenish and Hellyish” - Hardware Jams Weekend ChallengeDavid Svrjcek2023-11-06 | Hardware Weekend Jams Challenge for week of November 4, 2023. The challenge was to create lush pads and beastly drums. I tried to grit up the drums with the Vongon filter pedal.
Most sounds from the Roland Gaia 2 looped on the RC-500!! 💥💥
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
#electronicmusic #hardwarejams #darkelectronic #acefstripe #dawlessjam #dawlessjamminAcef Stripe - “We are in this together” - Hardware Jams Weekend ChallengeDavid Svrjcek2023-10-15 | Hardware Weekend Jams Challenge for week of October 16, 2023. The challenge was to have a message. I have been struggling with my depression and general anxieties. When i am able to let go and allow myself to remember we are in this together, i can feel the weight of responsibility lift from me a little. Trusting that others will be there. I hope this message brings you some peace of mind too.
All sounds from the MiniFreak looped on the RC-500!! 💥💥
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
#electronicmusic #hardwarejams #darkelectronic #acefstripe #dawlessjam #dawlessjamminAcef Stripe - “Background Noise” - Hardware Jams Weekend ChallengeDavid Svrjcek2023-10-08 | Hardware Weekend Jams Challenge for week of October 9, 2023. The challenge was loosely to incorporate natural rhythms in our environment.
I recorded a few minutes of typical background noise outside, or the “exterior” as I like to call it. You can hear the planes. But also a weird tape like loop got recorded that was roughly 81 bpm so I worked with that.
The more I listen back the whole thing feels very sinister, like a madman preparing for something, counting out the details. 👀🤔🤣
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
This week’s challenge was to loosen up the grid (sequencers etc) used for our jams a d explore a little live playing. I disconnected the Midi and used tap tempo or delays to keep things cohesive. Played some parts live on the Minifreak and Drumbrute Impact. Of course living off the grid made me think of the moose. Naturally.
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
This week’s challenge was to use 909 samples in our jam. I found some in my Roland TD-07 kit and looped a hi hat and bass drum pattern. Struggled to get the melodies blending but sis the best i could.
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Hardware Jams (HWJ) entry for August 21, 2023. This week we explore timing and i took the more subtle approach with a fun exploration of timing and changes to feel.
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
This week’s challenge was to focus a little more of the endings of our jams.
I have the Reface DX playing a looped bass part, MiniFreak doing a nice vaporwave pattern, while the Moog Grandmother again handles everything else. Another great opportunity for me to really learn and push the Moog into different territories.
I didnt really crush the ending and refused to use post production to fix it..
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
This week’s challenge was to create a psytrance jam.
I have the Reface DX playing a looped bass part while the Moog Grandmother handles everything else. Great opportunity for me to really learn and push the Moog into different territories.
The intro was a song I released on Renascent and is a favorite of mine.
This week’s challenge was to choose a city as a theme. As I grew up and spent my younger years near, and in SE Washington D.C. So tgis was an easy choice. The 80s were a tumultuous time for the city but we that hung out there loved it dearly. I stayed close to D.C. and gome vs moving away for college. So in this challenge I tried to fuse some of the Go Go rhythms that were a big part of the local music scene.
I have the Reface DX playing a heavy bass part while the Moog Grandmother drones. Tried to get a little bounce going with the rhythm and bongos. We would hammer beats on the car hoods at nightime in the same style. Not pure Go Go but its definitely implied. I cranked that swing up on the Drumbrute 🔥. The ContinuuMini is again doing a textural drone.
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Looked up mixolydian and learned what that was. Decided to go another route ultimately. I attempted to use chorusing and micro-detuning to get a really full and interesting sound in the Minifreak. Eventide Pitchfactor adds additional micropitch. The ContinuuMini is unquantized and has a lovely odd out of tune vibe.
And yeah the crackles appear to be me pushing the Moog pedal a little too hard. Gives it a vintage vibe..
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Sounds: Arturia Minifreak Eventide Pitchfactor Roland DEP-5 Haken ContinuuMini
The Moog Subharmonicon with its six oscillators stacked with the Weston Precision VCO (four waves), Mutable Plaits (saying “electronic”)and a WMD Crater all sequenced together! Eventide Pitchfactor adds additional oscillator layers. Maybe a little different approach to stacked waves but hey?
Great practice and fun as always. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Took a couple takes (one time someone entered the room) but got something useable, whew! The Moog Subharmonicon is hard to sync and tune so I needed about 15 minutes prior to make sure I had an idea what key it was in. I guess i sorta had a sequence so maybe a teeny bit disqualified. 👀
This is probably the hardest challenge due to the starting from scratch and having no idea where it would go. Great practice and fun though. Thanks to HWJ crew for the support. 🩵🌈
Sounds: Moog Subharmonicon Eventide Pitchfactor Roland DEP-5 Reface DX
#ambientdrone #electronicmusic #hardwarejams #acefstripeAcef Stripe - Late In The Day 🌈David Svrjcek2023-06-19 | A #dawless jam featuring the Moog Subharmonicon thru the Roland DEP-5. The Haken ContinuuMini plays the lead line and was processed thru a Lexicon MPX-500. Drumbrute Impact is handling the drums with the delay from the Timefactor. I record these on the Zoom Livetrak.
Had Fathers Day in my mind a little bit so I wore one of Dads old hats. I know much of my creative spark is attributed to him. I hope you also celebrate your creativity. 🌈 Thanks for listening and reading this.
You can feel how much post-punk influences my drum rhythms. Most of the movement for this was the drum machine thru an envelope filter and then a dual delay. A couple of modules were clocked and added some interesting texture’s especially Plaits.