Dear Diary
Itβs been a few weeks since Iβve given you an offering, but Iβve been super busy with lots of secret, powerful things. If you were afraid I had disappeared, I haveβ¦ but only mostly.
A number of things have gone missing from my Substack, but perhaps thatβs 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 moreβ¦
Iβve said too muchβ¦
About the track
Iβve 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.
Iβve 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