Ambient Noodlings

Happy Sunday evening! Time for some ambient noodling. I’ve been having some fun messing around with some upbeat stuff lately. Is this ambient? You decide. It’s kinda groovy and a fun diversion from the more ethereal ambient stuff I often dabble in. Hopefully it will brighten your mood like it did mine. Patch Notes * Clocking by Pam’s * Sequencing by a pair of Moskwa II * Main voice is…complicated....

Happy Sunday! I have something upbeat for you today that came out of some late night noodling around. Since I’ve been feeling kind of worn thin from work lately, I thought some percussive jamming would help raise my spirits. It certainly helps. Patch Notes * Clocking by Running Order and Pam’s * Ensemble is the melodic voice * Melodic sequencing by Moskwa II * Percussion by Blck_Noir and Ultra-Per...

Happy Sunday everyone! It’s time for another ambient jam and today’s track is a bit more jamming than usual. Lots of percussion experimentation as I’m trying out some drum modules. After a rough week at work, I was feeling a bit blah and could have easily settled into some dark, droning stuff. Instead, I decided to take things upbeat. Nothing like some jammy music to lift one’s mood. Patch Notes *...

Happy Sunday evening! It took me a while to sit down at the synth to noodle around today. I’m happy that this is a holiday weekend and I get a little extra time to get some rest. It was relaxing to play around and come up with today’s posting. Truth be told though, there is a little pressure when I don’t get a track complete until the last couple of hours in the day. There’s a balance somewhere. I...

Happy Sunday! Hope you’re having a great day. I was just chatting with my friend, Seth, and he thought today’s musical concoction was neat. He got to hear it live while I (poorly) explained my synth rig. This patch has got some interesting atmosphere to it. Hope you dig it. I decided to feature the Plaits module in this one, which I haven’t done in a long time. I have kind of a love/hate relations...

Happy Sunday! I did some rearranging in my Eurorack case yesterday - moving things around, taking some things out, adding other things back in. That’s the neat thing about modular. You can make an entirely new instrument by swapping parts in and out. I enjoy the experimentation and try not to let the endless possibilities overwhelm me. The engineering part of my brain can easily go down a rabbit h...

Hey there, ambient music lovers. Hope you all are well. Being honest, I really didn’t feel like making any music today. The past week flat out sucked. In a week’s time, two old friends passed away and a lot of people I’ve worked with for years were laid off. A lot of bad news lately, yet I have a lot to be thankful for, and the music must go on. Patch Notes * Clock run by Pams * Sequence run by Mo...

Good Sunday morning to y’all! I’m actually getting something posted early in the day this time. The last few weeks I’ve been down to the wire getting a Sunday jam posted before the day was done. No pressure, of course, but it’s good to have a goal and some time set aside for something that makes me feel better. I find the sound of rain water relaxing and sometimes mix samples in with music. Today...

Happy Sunday! Yeah, it’s another late day post this time. I managed to injure my knee yesterday and I’ve been in pain since yesterday evening. I really didn’t feel like recording any music today. It hurts to sit unless I keep my leg straight and it was quite uncomfortable sitting at my synth desk. It was nice to create something peaceful though, so I endured the pain. Suffering for the arts! Patch...

I’m trying something different today. There was a time when I was passionate about a number of things - photography, music, motorcycles, and writing. At some point that passion kind of faded away. I’m not sure if it was all due to the pandemic. That was certainly a big factor. In a way, the isolation never quite ended for me. Things that involved leaving the house became less appealing. Go to work...

Happy Sunday! I’ve apparently been in a groovy mood lately. Let’s keep the jam going with another upbeat tune. It might even be danceable. Maybe, I don’t dance, so I couldn’t say for sure. :) Grab your headphones and check it out. If it makes you feel like dancing, then by all means. Patch Notes More beats generated from binary! Can you tell I’m digging this? * Pam’s does the clocking * Lipsk and...

Happy Sunday! I’ve got another late day jam for you guys. It was a busy weekend for me, getting lots of things done around the house. The music must go on though - better late than never. It’s another upbeat piece today and I had fun putting it together. I seem to be on a kick with these percussion driven tunes lately. Still a drummer at heart! Patch Notes * Pam’s runs the clock and a few triggers...

Happy Sunday! Let’s get the party started! I’ve got an upbeat little jam for y’all today. I spent some time playing around with beats created with binary values from my Xaoc Leibniz modules. Huh? It’s just an interesting way for someone with an engineering mind to create rhythms. Maybe robots create music this way. :) Grab some headphones and get your groove on. Patch Notes No photo of the rack ag...

Happy Sunday! Time for the soothing sounds of modular stuff! Today’s recording is sort of piano-like. Definitely different from recent recordings. I’m always experimenting and I’ve got a great set of oscillators and tools with which to do that. The Spectraphon is still intriguing me and it’s featured in today’s jam. Grab some headphones and chill for a bit. We all need that. Patch Notes I decided...

Happy Sunday y’all! Hope everyone is doing well. The heat of summer is setting in around here and I’m glad I have my synth setup to play with in the air conditioned comfort of my office. I hope that will give me more time for experimentation and exploration of new sounds. Headphones on. Chill. Patch Notes Looking at the patch cables now, all I can think is that’s quite a mess! Here’s the gist. Pam...

Happy Sunday everyone! It’s late in the day, but I can’t let the sun go down without posting a new track. I was enjoying the outdoors this weekend before temperatures get crazy hot for the summer, so I didn’t sit down to dabble on the synths until this evening. I’m still playing around with the Spectraphon, trying to figure it out. It’s a really interesting module for creating new sounds. So many...

Happy Sunday! I’m posting late in the day since I had a lot of stuff to do over the weekend. I just got around to sitting down at the synth rack a little while ago and didn’t have anything particular in mind. I've been trying out a Make Noise Spectraphon, as I mentioned last week, and I needed to figure out if I’m going to keep it before the return period ends. So, I just kind of noodled around on...

Happy Sunday! I’ve got another jam for y’all today using a new module I’m trying out. That’s the thing with modular. It encourages experimentation with different bits of hardware since it’s easy enough to change things out. My case gets shifted around a good bit as I trade or buy things in search of “that” sound. One thing I have learned; I like playing around with sine waves - so simple, so versa...

Happy Sunday! Let’s get this jam going! Today’s tune is all about waves - wavetables, wave folding, wave mangling, wave crunching! Lots of experimentation going on and it was fun to wiggle the knobs and sliders in this patch. Grab some headphones and check it out. Hey, what’s with all the cyborgs lately?! With all the hype of AI, I was imagining what it might be like if machines tried to jam some...

Happy Sunday! Time for some groovy ambient jams! I’ve got a laid back beat going in today’s jam that I found relaxing to sit back and listen to for a while. I’ve been doing more rhythmic stuff with my modular rig lately, which is probably a natural byproduct of playing drums again. Grab some headphones and chill for a while! Patch Notes Geeky stuff going on today. I managed to score a couple of mo...

Happy Sunday! Time for a new ambient jam! I’m going to be short on words today since I just had carpal tunnel release surgery in one had and typing is hard right now. Enjoy the sounds! Patch Notes Pams clocks the sequence, with Moskwa driving the percussive sounds of Plaits and QD. 4ms STS plays a few percussive bits triggered by Pams. Chaos and Octasource modulate things. Morphagene plays some re...

Happy Sunday! It’s a nice day here after a dreary few past days. I had a nice walk in the sunshine this morning and now it’s time to share today’s musical journey. So far I’m liking the new-to-me sequencer I picked up recently, the Moskwa II Rotosequencer. I’m finding it to be an intuitive tool to create melodies. Hope you enjoy this relaxing little jam. Patch Notes Pam’s runs the clock. The main...

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is safe and sound out there. We had some severe spring storms blow through in the early morning and we made it through without any damage. The sun is peeking out a bit now. It’s time to kick out some ambient noodling from last night. I picked up a new-to-me sequencer last week and I’m giving it a run-through on this track. While my Erica Black Sequencer is a powerful mu...

Happy Sunday! Today I have an ambient jam that’s a bit more jammy than usual. Part of the modular synth experience is stumbling upon happy accidents. I started with the drum beat and just built on top of it, with no particular idea in mind. I experimented with new ways of patching things and ended up discovering a bass-heavy groove that’s sure to make cheap speakers rattle. I added in some bleeps...

Happy Sunday! I have something kinda groovy for you today. I’ve been playing drums again, having gotten talked into participating in a Battle of the Bands thing at work. It has been quite a few years since I’ve played a drum kit. There are cobwebs to dust off and some pain to endure (yay, carpal tunnel.) It is fun though and it has me thinking more rhythmically in my ambient jam sessions. Grab som...