Radio Free Arcadia

I was supposed to be at a giant conference in Lisbon today, but instead spent the day in my hotel room, expecting Storm Charles to arrive at any minute and bring 140 km/hr winds. The storm never really arrived, but it stayed rainy and somewhat miserable. So, with my plans suddenly changed, and not incredibly keen to wander around the wet city, I activated the Free Arcadia Transmitter and assembled...

I've been travelling a lot recently for my more mundane 'real life' responsibilities, which has made it difficult to experiment as much as I would like. Since many of those experiments find their way into episodes of the podcast, it means I recently seem to find myself under the proverbial gun more often than not. So, before I embark on more travels later this month, I figured I could use a bit of...

I noticed that I had fallen slightly behind on podcast episodes, so I decided that there was no better time to catch up with a 9th episode in the 9th month sometime around the Autumnal Equinox and my own birthday. I've been working a particular tune to death recently with the aim of submitting it for consideration for a compilation. I started layering in more stuff, trying to bend it away from whe...

Wherein the Transmitter hath taken two works of sound, begotten of angelic converse and the visions thereby unveiled, and subjected them to the art of permutation: that the Voice might assume new vestures, and the Vision pour forth an ever-changing song unto the exhaustion of Eternity. The original works shall manifest in the forthcoming compilations of the Hermetic Library , ere this year hath ru...

In the last week or so I have made the first addition to my hardware collection in quite some time, finally pulling the trigger on a Torso Electronics S-4 after keeping my eye on it since before release and through the various software updates. I've been having quite a bit of fun with it, and it is ideal for making these sort of soundscaping pieces that this is an example of. I'm still getting stu...

What happens when you feed the stems from a reclusive tropical techno artist's music into the Radio Free Arcadia transmission device? You get a deeply psychedelic and ambient journey into spaces unknown, that's what.

I have spent 4 of the last 6 weeks travelling, which has made it somewhat difficult to put myself into a more creative mental space, but I have been occasionally tinkering with my Max devices and creating things I can feed back into the broadcaster - iteration after iteration.

This episode collects a few of my first recordings with the second iteration of the Sinewives concept. Unlike the first, which moves largely of its own accord, this iteration is intended for more direct interaction, ultimately for live use. It is rudimentary at this point - 8 sinewave oscillators with pitches generated randomly based on scale, root, range and harmonicity - but with fully flexible...

A collection of recordings made by my newest Max/MSP patch Sinewives, combined and mutated by my other patch, the Free Arcadia Transmitter. The world is burning, but we are aware of the emptiness inherent in all things. This too, shall pass. May all beings find and achieve happiness.

I first heard Éliane Radigue's work sometime shortly after I started my own journey into Tibetan Buddhism. I stumbled upon a reference to her "Songs of Milarepa" and suddenly was captivated by her music. Shortly after, I found a cassette copy of Jetsun Mila that doubled that captivation. It is a sublime, slowly moving piece, and was everything I loved about Coil's Time Machines but seemingly tilte...

After what must be more than two decades of attempting to properly learn Max/MSP, this holiday season I took some time out and made one more attempt. I'm very pleased to say that this time it appears to have clicked for me, and I've actually got a proper device I've been thinking about for some time. I'll go into details about the device as it continues to take shape, but it is beginning to fulfil...

The year ends with a final episode of collected explorations. We will draw a close on this ‘Season’ of the podcast and with for you all to have as good of a closing of 2025 as possible, and a hope that 2026 sees some rays of light through the gloom. My sincerest thanks to all of you who have listened.

On Tuesday I will be releasing the new Logickal album, entitled Theories of the Heavens. It is a colletion of ambient drone works of a darker variety, and should be thought of as a series of meditations upon vast distances that arise between us - whether physical, psychic, temporal or magickal. This episode is comprised of reconfigurations and reprocesses of the tracks from the album, but keeping...

Back from a holiday in the United Kingdom - 9 days away from music making, which might be the longest I have abstained from any kind of creation in a decade, at least. While I had a wonderful time, I definitely had the need to get back to work once I returned. This episode is made of bits from three different rehearsal takes, all bent and modified in some way of their own. I’ve been on the fence a...

Slightly late due to illness and Internet issues, here is a live improvisation made using the hardware rig of Elektron Octatrack, Syntakt and Digitone, sequenced by the Torso T-1. It's been a bit since I've had my rig set up, but an upcoming show made me work through some of a late summer cold to get things up and running. This is definitely a longer, slower burn of a piece, and a bit of a change...

Recently I was going through some recent generations looking for tracks to polish to send off to a compilation, and found a series of drones where I was experimenting with alternate tonalities and microtuning. "These will suit my needs nicely!" thought I, but then the inevitable tinkering occurred, starting with a series of overdubbed parts. Experiments in the time domain followed, along with addi...

This is a Patron subscriber episode mixing together the tracks from a new collection of hardware-based ambient improvisations that I just released for subscribers to my Bandcamp Telemetry Feed and I will be uploading to Patreon shortly. I hope you enjoy! Tracks: alienwave2c / mondayloops / feedback, again / postfree

A collection of explorations using Alexandernaut’s excellent Fugue Machine Rubato device. Also, feel free to check out my recent hands-on walkthrough of the device on YouTube !

May 24 was International Drone Day, and while I wasn't able to participate with a live stream as I have in years past, I was able to spend some time this weekend creating this episode of the podcast for you all. May all beings be happy!

A recent experiment, extended with elements derived from the new Logickal EP, "Exit Strategies". It bears very little resemblance to that source material, however. Exit Strategies was released originally on Metalabel, now available on Bandcamp and Ampwall: Bandcamp: https://logickal.bandcamp.com/album/exit-strategies Ampwall: https://ampwall.com/a/logickal/album/exit-strategies

Originally posted to Patreon . Various pieces, scraps and snippets assembled into a somewhat coherent whole. May all beings be happy! Tracklist: Breach. immortalstatesman. Pastel Grain. Blightness. Skyle. Lass. (and a Pigments synth overdub)

A collection of demos and generations from the Logickal archive, recorded at various times in 2023. Tracklist: Supplementary Preference / Crisistime / Mare Drift / Skylon 1 / Activation Out Visualizer version available on YouTube .

Originally posted on Patreon . More jams edited together for your listening pleasure. Some more rhythmic material this time creeping into the aethyrs. Hope you all enjoy, much more where this comes from!

Originally posted at Patreon. This inaugural episode of the podcast is a segment of Octatrack + Digitone live looping made on a June Tuesday during the run up to my July performance at Random Sample. Other segments from these rehearsals were released as Tranquilitatis . This is one of my current favorite techniques, building up asynchronous loops on the Octatrack from live Digitone playing.