It’s ages since I posted the last sound here, but there have been several opportunities to hear my sounds lately. My music has been played in a dance performance, I’ve played on a huge improv session and have released a collaboration with the talented Harnes Kretzer on the Withering Trees netlabel.

Anyway, driven by this thread at muffwiggler, I recorded a small oscillator sync demo with the Harvestman Hertz Donut (it’s the old model, with lots of aliasing).

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Happy New Year!

This friday, the dancing company mareatanz premieres a new choreography at the Westend Dance Theatre.
The performance features music by Sigur Ros, Soap&Skin and by myself.
Find all dates for this performance in this link.

Haven’t posted for a while, sorry… But there’s news in the studio:

Got a The Harvestman Hertz Donut, apparently a eurorack sized brother of the Buchla 261e complex waveform generator. Sounds good:

See you there.

I’m very busy recording an album, but nevertheless I sumbled over this sound today.

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It’s a new toy I bought in my holidays, and the one or the other might feel reminded to the opening track of my my debut EP imperfect objects for perfect moments.
You can listen to this track on my bandcamp page.

Recently I got a kalimba (thumb piano) as birthday present. Unbelievable how much fun that little toy is! Following examples were recorded with a contact mic.
With effects:

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Without effects:

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I’ve been busy quite some time lately, different projects catched my attention and destroyed my free time. First, there’s a Capybara320/Kyma in my studio now. Wonderful sound design workstation, I must admit.
On the other hand there’ve been just enough summerdays left not to stay in doors too long, keeping me away from the Kyma a bit.

Nevertheless I’ve been working hard on two projects, first my Fairground Recordings, which I’ve been able to give a listen and further postprocessing. I’ll probably finish a sample pack this winter, if you’re interested.

Apart from this I found my bandcamp page somewhat half-empty. So I decided to work on a follow up to my imperfect objects for perfect moments EP. Have a first glance:

Also some time ago I placed this demo recording on soundcloud. A different version of this song will end up on the EP:
opaque texture by ab-arts

I’ll report when the thing is finished and released, meanwhile please also watch my soundcloud and bandcamp!

I took the saturday afternoon to do some field recordings of fairground organs at the Volksfest in Nuremberg. A more detailed post about the recording session itself will follow. Some cool results came out when the organ recordings got in touch with my modular system. Some results of this event follow now.
A short segment, looped with the Doepfer Sampler module:

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The same segment, but with pitch modulation by a Woggle Bug. Gives us quite some tape-flair, doesn’t it?

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And a droney segment:

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And last but not least, here’s a teaser for the original (=unmodified) recordings, which I will upload at some time.
Fairground Organ by ab-arts

Latest addition to my Eurorack Modular is the MOTM E-340 Cloud Bee Generator.
A short droney demo is here:

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