Dear Diary
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve given you an offering, but I’ve been super busy with lots of secret, powerful things. If you were afraid I had disappeared, I have… but only mostly.
A number of things have gone missing from my Substack, but perhaps that’s the ephemeral nature of a mostly digital existence. I suspect this is only the beginning. For now, guard closely the vast aural illusions at your disposal while you still can. Soon they may demand more…
I’ve said too much…
About the track
I’ve taken to performing my morning meditations with a fully portable rig, just in case. The hardware is currently just a single iPad and a custom Spark mini, which is much simpler to set up and easier to shove quickly into an overnight bag.
I’ve added two new apps to the toolkit recently, Patterning 3 Drum Machine and the fabulous LoopMangler, both of which feature prominently on this track.
Xenome 80B
80B is a 4-note xenome with 2 anchor notes and a chromatic run to the exit, I mean octave. I think this may be the first non-interval xenome thus far in the journey with something resembling a name: Messiaen III Inv. Tetrachord Mode 4 (according to the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales). Olivier Messiaen was a French composer and musical genius-type who also liked to color outside the lines of western harmony quite a bit as I understand it. Maybe he would have found all of this amusing.
C-80B scale diagrams
Xenotuning
6-String Guitar
Keyboard
Tools and stuff
Gear: Strandberg Boden NX 7, iPad Pro M2, Positive Grid Spark Mini
iPad Apps
Audio Damage: Other Desert Cities, Replicant 3
AudioThing: Noises, Speakers, Reels, Outer Space 2, Moon Echo, Wires
Kymatica: AUM, AudioShare, AU3FX:Space, AU3FX:Push
Igor Vasiliev: Stellarvox, LoopMangler
Jam Origin: Midi Guitar 2
Fabfilter: Pro-Q 3
Arturia: iSEM
Olympia Noise Co: Patterning 3
Moog: Animoog Z
AudioModern: Gatelab
Korg: Module
K-Devices: TATAT: midi streams generator
Disappearing Act