23 posts tagged with ambient and modular.
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Rescue

Optimistic little song using Just Intonation [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Aug 5, 2022 - 0 comments

For Each One To Discover (AO)

One of my favorite vocal samples (mid century Henry Miller interview found on Archive.org) with some little pings and big booms [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Mar 12, 2022 - 1 comment

Ask your body

Another AO jam - this time using a cellular algorithm to derive a melody and a few drum triggers that I mess with and layer under some drones. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Feb 12, 2022 - 6 comments

Accretion

Another Ambient Office Project, this one involving a custom 4-voice sequencer that involves the generation of melodies and then handing them off between each voice, in and out of sync to produce polyrhythms. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Jan 29, 2022 - 4 comments

Ambient Office : Twin Special

Two sequencers that randomly diverge from a programmed melody, while I try to keep control of them by resetting the values. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Dec 4, 2021 - 0 comments

Ambient Office - Feedback Edition

After reading way too much about cybernetic theory I put together a feedback patch to provide some period-appropriate music to my Serge system. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Nov 2, 2021 - 3 comments

The Foreman

Another ambient office jam - some granular textures and filter pinging over a slow chord progression. Needed something relaxing, then got too relaxed and needed a bassline. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Oct 9, 2021 - 3 comments

Accept Advice

Playing with feedback loops with a slowly shifting pattern. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Aug 27, 2021 - 0 comments

In the Castle

My kids complained they couldn't dance to any of my music so I threw and impromptu office dance party with them. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Aug 22, 2021 - 1 comment

Midnight

An all-analog Ambient Office jam [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Aug 2, 2021 - 4 comments

Over the Fence

Bamboo forest / digital zither / bass loops [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Jul 24, 2021 - 0 comments

Tense

Choral piano with granular drums [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Jul 3, 2021 - 3 comments

Guardian

More songlike modular AO entry - with a heartbeat! [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Jun 13, 2021 - 4 comments

Ambient Office v8 - Plod

Apparently my mood impacts the song that develops... [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Jun 5, 2021 - 1 comment

Ambient Office v7: Backyard

A field recording of my yard activities, set to some dark drones. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on May 21, 2021 - 0 comments

Ambient Office v6 - Find Your Rhythm

Working with found sound - in this case a snip from an old interview with Henry Miller sliced, looped and generally destroyed. Productivity advice from a dead man. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on May 14, 2021 - 3 comments

Ambient Office v5: LoopLoopLoop

Three looped instruments with different beat counts between sequencing and looping. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on May 6, 2021 - 1 comment

Subbing - Ambient Office v4

This week's ambient office featured polyrhythmic drums-bass-slewed marimba-and-sonar pings jam, songified here with some knob twiddling. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Apr 17, 2021 - 0 comments

Ambient Office v3: Pam Tam

Got so excited about playing with Euclidean rhythms after getting a new clock utility that I did a Friday/weekend AO edition. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Apr 3, 2021 - 1 comment

Wobbles & Drums

This week's ambient office jam, deeper and darker than last week. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Mar 30, 2021 - 4 comments

Rings and Marbles

I've been using a modular setup to produce background music in my office. This is me playing around with this week's patch.
posted by q*ben on Mar 27, 2021 - 4 comments

Wintry Mix

An ambient/drone piece from my newly released album Float (pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp). I'm breaking a habit of expressing anxiety and foreboding through my music, and aiming to spread some tranquility and wonder instead. [more inside]
posted by Foosnark on Jan 25, 2020 - 1 comment

Vox Inhumana

From my newly released album of the same name, at starthief.bandcamp.com. Something on a spectrum of drone/ambient/abstract electronica. [more inside]
posted by Foosnark on Jun 17, 2018 - 1 comment

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