Subscape Annex

Autoharp in a reverse-playback loop in Native Audio's Pattern Keeper, through Moog MF-103 phaser and MF-104SD delay

tenor hurdy gurdy through Fowl Sounds' Echonomicon fuzz and HLUD's Behemoth sustainer: a three-note pattern looped and pitch-shifted upward in the Pattern Keeper, then the same three-note pattern played over it very slowly and not pitch-shifted. I like how this turned out.

tenor hurdy gurdy, through Fowl Sounds' Echonomicon delay and HLUD's Black Mass fuzz and Behemoth sustainer

Happy Drone Day! No instruments, just a cable and lots of fx.

Today being the anniversary of Bob Moog's birthday in 1924, I played with my oldest theremin, a Big Briar Etherwave.

Start with a loop in the Native Audio Pattern Keeper looper, then add two upstream loops in the Akai Headrush loopers and feed those two upstream loops through the Death By Audio Exploding Head triple delay to smear the notes into a synthlike texture.

Using a patch cable to whip an extension of my body's EM field through the theremin's pitch antenna sensory range faster than my hand, add a rhythmic pulse.

Tenor hurdy gurdy looped in Native Audio Pattern Keeper, overlay through Danelectro Back Talk reverse delay and HLUD Behemoth sustainer

Chapman Stick and Victoria Shen's FERROUS spinning magnetic resonator livelooping with Native Audio's Pattern Keeper, overlay through Fjord Fuzz's MIDNATTSOL vibe and HLUD's Black Mass fuzz

An anecdote from the early days of computer-assisted translation tells of a time when machine translation ran into difficulties with idioms. They translated the English phrase "out of sight, out of mind" into Russian. When they told the computer to translate that Russian back into English, it rendered as "invisible idiot".

As the Italian saying goes, 'traduttore, traditore': the translator is a traitor.

In that spirit, please receive my first exploration of the new Pattern Keeper looper from Native Audio where I play in "invisible idiot" mode: playing notes from a Chapman Stick through a Danelectro Back Talk reverse delay, looping that in the Pattern Keeper, then reversing playback of the input-as-reverse sound.

Newly arrived, the Demon Box EMF sensor array from Eternal Research Foundation, interacting with a FERROUS spinning magnetic resonator. Clean signal, then through some Moog fx (phaser, delays).