Ambient Noodlings

Hey everyone - it’s Sunday, time for an ambient jam (that sounds really weird as I say it.) Not gonna lie - I haven’t felt all that great for several days now, both physically and mentally. I’m getting over a respiratory illness that had me feeling sick for a couple of weeks and left me almost completely without my voice for the last few days. I’m getting better slowly but there is a lot of anxiet...

Happy Sunday! Wow, here we are at #50! That means a full year of weekly ambient music posts is just 2 weeks away. Hard to believe! Today I have another jam on my Moog Mother 32 duo. One of them plays a plucky sequence while the other has a complementary drawn out attach. Despite all the cabling, it’s a fairly simple patch. The Dice module provides the brains of the operation and the Mothers supply...

Happy Easter Sunday! Hope everyone is doing well. I’m still trying to get past a nasty respiratory illness. It has been a tough past week but I’m getting better slowly. A little music is sure to help. Today I have a little jam going on between my pair of Mother 32 synths. One of the things that fascinates me about modular synthesis is how you can create music with relatively simple components. Thi...

Happy Sunday everyone! I’m not feeling so great today, but I can’t let my weekly posting slip due to a bit of illness - especially since I’m getting so close to the one year mark! I’m just gonna get my little jam kicked out here and get back to resting. This is something I put together with a Moog Mavis that I’m trying out. I let the Subharmonicon go and decided to give this little synth a try. No...

It’s a beautiful Sunday here and it’s time to kick out another ambient jam. This one is some more experimentation using the Dice module to sequence my Mother 32 synths. Being extremely busy at the time, I recorded this one evening and didn’t take any notes whatsoever. Didn’t even remember to take a photo of the patch. That’s ok - the kind of stuff I do is rather ephemeral in nature anyway. However...

Happy Sunday y’all! Wow, another weekend got away from me and here I am doing a late Sunday evening ambient jam post. Lots going on lately and there’s not as much time as I’d like for music making. Still, I’m trying to be disciplined in doing a weekly post. Here we go! This is a short piece I recorded a while back while playing with the After Later Audio Dice module I picked up. Here it sequences...

Happy Sunday everyone! I don’t know if the Daylight Saving Time change is messing with me or what, but I almost forgot to do my Sunday posting. Things have been super busy at work, so I haven’t gotten a lot of jamming time in lately. Fortunately, I’ve always got a few recordings stored away, so I do indeed have something to share today. This jam features my pair of Moog Mother 32 synths. They are...

Hey, it’s Sunday! Time to kick out another ambient jam. We have some beautiful weather in Austin. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the summer heat isn’t here yet. I’ll take it. Today I have a duet with my pair of Moog Mother 32 synths for your listening pleasure. They are sequenced by a new module, the After Later Audio Dice, which is a clone of Mutable Instruments’ Marbles. I’m expe...

It’s Sunday, time for an ambient jam! Things have changed a bit in the gear department. I decided to part with my Moog Grandmother. While I do love the sound of that synth, it just didn’t seem practical for the type of music I’m making. It took up a large section of the small table I have to work on. I found myself liking the sound of the smaller keyboard-less Mother 32 just as much and its patchi...

Happy Sunday! Today I have a somewhat somber sounding tune for you. It kind of meanders around between the Moog Mother 32 and Subharmonicon. Each synth does its own thing. It can be a bit difficult to combine the Subharmonicon with other instruments. It tends to have a mind of its own! I liked some of the bell like sounds that I got from it in this session. It adds a haunting vibe, at least to me....

It’s Sunday - time to kick out a happy jam. This is a peppy little tune that largely utilizes the Moog Subharmonicon. That synth is becoming kind of a love/hate thing with me. It can be really frustrating to get something just right with it. I feel like it’s more a matter of taming it than playing it. Maybe that’s just me. I did get something I liked one evening and here it is. Headphones on and e...

Happy Sunday! Here we are at ambient jam number 40. Wow, I can’t believe it! I might just make it for a full year of weekly recordings. No pressure on myself. I’ll keep doing the recordings as long as it brings joy and I have the time. Thanks to those of who have stuck around so far and offered encouragement. We made it through a brutal ice storm this week. The Austin area looks like a war zone wi...

Here’s a mellow jam for a kind of dreary Sunday afternoon. We’ve got light rain off and on, which I won’t complain about - we definitely need it. This jam has a gentle lounge music sort of vibe to it. The DFAM plucks the bass while the Subharmonicon and Mother 32 play their melodies. Get your headphones on, maybe have a cup of coffee or tea, then sit back and chill for a bit. Patch Notes Voices: M...

Here’s a jam that is inspired by mellow jazz. The Mother 32 synth can produce some rather saxophone-like timbres, which works well over a slow bass/percussion line by the DFAM synth. I recorded this piece over the holidays and enjoyed listening to it again on this lovely Sunday morning. Have a peaceful day! Patch Notes Voices: Mother 32 (M32), DFAM * Korg SQ-1 Step Sequencer Gate A -> DFAM ADV/CLO...

It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for some ambient jamming! Today’s tune is kind of upbeat with a structured “drum” track from the Moog DFAM. It’s fairly simple patch and sequence that came about from some late evening noodling. I love when something like this comes together with a little experimentation and I can sit back and relax with the results. Enjoy! Bonus Track Here’s a bonus track that...

It’s Sunday morning, time to chill. Here’s a gentle jam for your listening pleasure. The Moog Grandmother, Mother 32, and Subharmonicon all contribute to the tune. An arpeggiated sequence along with some random bits combine into a piece that I found relaxing. Hope you do as well. Bonus Track Here’s a bonus track with an extended, slightly different take on the sequence. Patch Notes Voices: Mother...

Happy Sunday and Happy New Year! Wow, where did 2022 go? The older I get, the faster time seems to advance. Here’s some upbeat ambient to kick off 2023. I did a couple of different takes of the sequence, trying different timbres. So, you get a bonus track to check out if you like the first. The bonus track is a bit more percussive. Bonus Track Podcast Did you know you can listen to my music in you...

Wow, I can’t believe it’s Christmas already! Hope you had a merry one! I almost forgot to post a jam today. I’ve been relaxing at home and realized only late in the day that it’s Sunday. It clicked in my mind when I sat down at my synth table to play around a bit this evening. I probably should have something more festive for Christmas Day. However, I do record things in advance as inspiration hit...

It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for a new ambient jam. I’m going dark and droning this time with some deep percussion sounds mixed in. All of my Moog voices were used, even the often chaotic Subharmonicon. I enjoyed pulling them all into a nice mellow piece. Podcast Did you know you can listen to my music in your favorite podcast app? Just click the Listen On dropdown menu on the track player...

Happy Sunday y’all! Today I have a slow moving ambient piece that includes waves of brown noise - something that I find calming. Part of my purpose in experimenting with ambient music and sounds is to hopefully find things that provide some relief to my tinnitus. Some ambient noise helps to mask the non-stop ringing that I hear all the time. Podcast Did you know you can listen to my music in your...

Happy Sunday! We’ve had some cool and gloomy weather here the past couple of days. While I recorded today’s track a few weeks back, it feels appropriate for today. It’s a bit dark and slow moving, with some percussive sounds tossed in. I mean, drums are my first instrument - I can’t get anyway from hitting things, or at least making it sound like I am. Headphones on - enjoy. Podcast Did you know y...

Happy Sunday y’all! Hope everyone here in the states had a great Thanksgiving. I was thankful for a few days off from work to chill out a bit! We’re at #30 today. Wow! 30! I can’t believe I’ve spent 30 weeks doing these recordings. It’s a neat accomplishment. Hopefully I can keep it up for a full year! It’s about having some fun and learning new things, so no pressure. This jam was almost lost. We...

It’s a dreary Sunday here - damp, chilly, kinda gross outside. Perhaps it’s fitting that today’s jam is a bit dark and droning. I recorded this last month before Halloween. Maybe I was getting in the spooky spirit? Hope you like it and have a happy Sunday! Headphones on! Podcast Did you know you can listen to my music in your favorite podcast app? I didn’t until recently. Just click the Listen On...

Happy Sunday everyone! Here’s a simple tune that I really like. I’ve enjoyed listening to it a few times during my daily commute. It has added some calm to the hectic traffic around here. Hope you like it too! I really need to start taking better notes on these things! While I have patch notes and photos for the knob settings, this recording is one where I can’t remember exactly what I did on the...

Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers! Today’s jam is all about noise (some might say all my jams are noise - haha.) I played around with the noise generator on the DFAM, controlled by the wonderful Chaos module. It sounds kind of windy/wavy to me. The Grandmother is playing an arpeggio while the Subharmonicon does what it does - a sort of semi-controlled chaos itself. If you like the main track, I’m...