I went ahead and bought Make Noise GTE. This means, if I stick to my No New Gear Year pledge, there will be no more changes to my modular setup (aside maybe rearranging) for at least 280 days.
Honestly, that feels good. I hope it will continue to feel good later in the year if there’s something else really cool that I could use. But I repeat:
- I definitely do not need another oscillator.
- I don’t need another filter.
- I don’t need another modulation source.
- I don’t need another effect.
- I don’t need another controller.
- I don’t need more stuff to explore, to provide inspiration, or to get music made.
- 🎵 We don’t need another hero… (sorry)
I have also finished the recording phase of the next album, XQSTCRPS.
I’m not generally that big a fan of disemvoweled album names, and my process differed from the the surrealist game. But I did want album titles for every letter of the alphabet. 😉 Also I hope the album title makes more sense if you catch how the song titles work.
First I recorded something. Then I took that something and sampled it, borrowed bits of its rhythm, melody, and sound design, and made something new (in the same tempo and key). Then I took parts from those two somethings to make the third something, and so on. I started seeing it as imposed continuity, as the encrustation of momentary improvised phrases into a kind of norm or tradition, and also as a process of decay and evolution… plants growing in the mulch of their ancestors.