Listening to “Kinka” by Carter Tutti, live at LEM festival. This is the perfect picture of where I want to take sound. The use of rhythm to enrapture and then sound to displace is so tenderly applied.
Tonight [… and recorded earlier today…] straight from the Matriarch/Subhamonicon dynamic duo; no messing with samples or over dubs at all. Just going with where my patch took me. I am so completely falling heads over heels for this.
Still working with material from my stay in Twillingate, the recent addition of a new tool has taken my work in an entirely new direction. The direction I have always wanted to go in. Slower, more transient, insistently/crashingly ambient. All my respects to Brian Eno, but I think ambience can be filled with tension. It is for me anyway, ambience is the thin line between controlled and out of control.
The Matriarch is going to play a big part in how my work moves forward. I see that already, the ability to create more expansive and flowing motions in time is what I have been looking for. The ability to formulate and transform the sound is amazing and quite natural in a strange way. As opposed to an initial synthesizer I got that was sequencer based, the Matriarch is more oscillator based with a sequence function, subtle but important difference for me.
Two new pieces today built on mostly the same samples with different synth patches and expressions.
It has been a week of shooting across the province in nothing ore than an effort to build tension and the need for explosive expression. All is not lost. At the end of this meandering in between space, the Moog Matriarch ordered arrived.
Without further ado…