I’d been feeling extra anxious lately, partly to do with all the house stuff I guess and partly perhaps from various current events.
But now I feel like it’s clearing up. Even though the gutter cleaning crew had to reschedule, the carpenter came today, and charged us a lot of money to quickly cut a hole that I honestly could have done myself in almost as little time. But he also looked at the deck, and gave a rough estimate much lower than we’d been expecting to demolish it and put up a 6 foot wood fence and stairs.
The stink in the living room is much less but not entirely gone. We’ll probably go another round of peroxide + dish soap and then baking soda, and not be surprised by needing to open the windows and air it out more.
I recorded 3 more tracks for the new album over the last two days. Right after finishing the second I thought, “here I can revisit that short one that I used, only reprocess it a bit” and so instead of making some notes, I simply got it done right then.
Part of the inspiration was the new Sofia’s Daughter module for VCV Rack. It’s inspired by expands significantly on Xaoc Sofia, which was an implementation of FOF synthesis in an analog module. FOF (fonction d’onde formantique). It’s a granular technique that triggers “ripples” synchronized with a primary oscillator, modeled somewhat on the vocal tract and used to create formant spectra (as well as oscillator sync-like sounds and some other timbres within a similar-ish general domain). Despite the technique’s origin in computer music labs, there’s no reason it can’t be done in analog circuits as Xaoc did. Of course, Sofia’s Daughter is implemented in code — and it adds hard and soft sync, PM and TZFM to the fundamental VCO, and PM and additional warp modes to the ripple elements, as well as three more outputs.