One of my favorite all time web programs is a little series called AGAINST THE CLOCK put out by FACT Magazine. The concept is extremely simple: grab a producer of merit and see what he or she can do in ten short minutes using the gear they rely on day in and out. Having consumed an inordinate amount of these (I'd reccomend starting with EL-P's performance if uninitiated) I decided this would be the perfect sort of thing to bring to the Dtube Daily community. Although short and improvisational, this proved to be immensely challenging and the time evaporated faster than I could have possibly imagine As such, I have a few ideas on how to revise this concept to better suit modular synth and allow for a bit more meat and a bit less patching going forward, as I'd like to really make a go of this as a Dtube series:
Allow myself to patch the basics ... mixers, inputs and outputs, clocks ... all the uncreative "guts" that facilitate the patch and that is more or less consistent each time.
Allow myself fifteen minutes instead of ten because this is a modular synth and ten minutes is the real world equivalent of about fifteen seconds on an mpc.
Incorporate sessions with live looping via the Push 2. I considered it for this go as I can get melodic work done as fast as i can think of it on the Push, but it seemed truer to the spirit of Against The Clock to go fully modular, all hardware sequencers and zero computer. I will do more like this in the future, but not limit myself to it.
Please enjoy the patch! For the modular synth heads out there, the rhythm of this patch is predominantly being driven by the tiptop trigger riot, which is completely and totally indispensable in scenarios like this. The ability to sum rows of odd meter into a stream of asymmetrical gates that take eight bars to loop ... it's the stuff improvisational modular is made of. Otherwise I'm sending both and X and Y trigger to Rene to get some generative melodies as I hammer on the trigger riot, and engaging with some Voltage Block shenanigans to get some movement in the percussion. I almost had Maths patched in when I ran out of time and that's really where the wacky, system-wide sweeping modulations would have gotten kicking.
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that was Adrenalin building. I watched with the kids. they loved the clock element.
i will type their comments now mr. boy....i like it more than ever...the part when he twists and it goes chink chink chink...feeled good.
ms. girl
i wonder if he will win the clock... when he was moving really fast shwoot swoot... when there was 1 minute left...and what was gonna happen if he doesnt win the music song.
-it not about winning or losing sweety...it about challenging yourself to do something.
i love @drumoperator
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Man! This has got to be one of my favorite things I've read on steemit so far. Thanks man. So great.
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Aw that is rad and this video was friggin intense during the last third Wow!
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haha....nice. funny...they woke up this morning and asked to watch it again.... when we were watching it the second time...i was trying to pull emotions out of them...but what does it make you feel. it is a pretty tricky getting kids to understand and verbalize there emotions....but we left that it would be great music for an intense scene. we started brainstorming about a really silly intense scene....at this point...it's a drama about a missing hair tie....we may adapt it further. but my question is...can i use the music and put it to this video concoction we are going to create??
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Love it. Such a cool concept!
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I was stressing out the whole time... What's gonna happen, looking at the countdown, ok there is a kick now, connect another cable, Oh shit it's arpeggio time, another cable look at the clock, heartbeat racing, what's going on, more cable, light flashing, ogh shit only one minute left ...3..2...1
one more cable.. ANyway the whole thing is dope.
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Welcome to my world, sir. I could not believe how short the time seemed or how long it took me to patch the basics. V2.0 going to be much tighter and less stressful to watch. : )
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Love ir broskies !! Always top norch videso from you. We need to work in a collab.
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that's crazy :O
and i see that you have one of these?
http://www.rmlfx.com/?p=792
i discovered this unit on some youtube video a while ago, it looks reeeeally interesting
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Both it and the electron fuzz cv are incredibly rad, incredibly well built furniture quality pieces of kit. I had every intention of using the fuzz custom on this but, obviously, ran out of time.
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Addictive viewing - had to watch just to see what happens.
Reminds me of Anklepants - have you seen him ever?
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No but I shall investigate!
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Watch out - he's weird.
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Oh papi! That's awesome.
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