Modular on the Spot Chicago 2019.07.28

2020.02.23

This is a live recording of my modular on the spot performance on July 28th 2019. Unexpectedly my friend Luke showed up and said would you like me to record the performance. This was a simple recording with the recorder placed in the audience with the sound coming from 2 PA speakers and what it captured with the natural sounds of the cicadas really resonated with me and added to the performance. Growing up in a area where the periodic cicadas came out as do the annual cicadas I have a strong connection to the summer and the sound of them relating to memory and feel good warm times so after the fact the tracks where split up and names are inspired from cicadas. I decided to take the recording and run with it and fix it up via mixing and mastering it myself. I placed it on bandcamp for the price of $0.00 in the spirit of module on the spot being a public event for all of us to get together.

monome-ansible-kira took on the note sequencing, One synth voice and one bass slash percussion voice. vpme-Euclidean Circles took on precision sequencing and clocking. I also had a oscillator-filter feedback chain to make some more off the grid spacey sounds. All rain into the dub mix and a spring reverb thats inside the case. This was an improvised performance with just a couple programs sequences to start from.

My take away was that it was very refreshing to not have any keyboard with me and take my time and focus on the modular and be more part of the performance myself. I dont perform often but when i do I sometimes overwhelm myself with bringing to many things and trying to play things that are planned out instead of sort of letting loose having some fun.


O S T

2019.10.14

This is OST, my seventh full length album. I named it OST for Original Soundtrack to be funny or something like that and the song names are references to the scenes I was given to original score. This is a timely release with the Halloween season open us. Please enjoy and let me know what you think or if you have any questions.


Continuous

2018.10.17

This is Continuous, my sixth full length album. The A-side is a loose exploration of ambient minimalist sounds and themes. All composed on my Sequential Prophet-6 and Korg Poly-800, with a Moog mf-104 and recorded on a Portastudio 424 mkii. The B-side is a series of 3 new songs made out of my “Music for Aquariums” experiment. They were created by taking extended modular ambient songs and reforming them into upbeat-on-the-grid songs. The B-side has a polar opposite feel to the A-side. The 4th track is an off-the-cuff jam session that I just happened to be recording.

Continuous has a physical release with a limited edition lenticular print cassette.

CONTINUOUS VISUAL ALBUM

This is the Visual Album for Continuous. It relies heavily on a generative video process with Tachyons + gear, LZX Industries video synth, video mixer’s, and filming a old Sony CRT monitor. It is a psychedelic audio visual experience full of color, alien landscapes, microorganisms, lakes, clouds, creatures, etc.


THE EPHEMERAL II: THE TWIN

2017.10.26

Robotboot’s 5th album. The Twin is a score for the follow up to The Ephemeral, A Erotic Sci-fi Horror Film Soundtrack. Inspired by a time that was and a future that will never be. Extruding a sea of sound that will not overwhelm and is full of lush atmosphere.


The Ephemeral

2016.10.27

Robotboot’s 4th album. A Erotic Sci-fi Horror Film Soundtrack. Inspired by a time that was and a future that will never be. Extruding a sea of sound that will not overwhelm and is full of lush atmosphere. Composed completely with hardware. Swimming in the sonics of reverb and delay.


The Cosmic Green

2014.04.20

Robotboot’s 3rd album.


computer citizenship

2006.10.01

Robotboot’s 2nd album. A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, esp. one programmable by a computer. Start (a computer) and put it into a state of readiness for operation. 
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program. A legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.


start-up_disk

2003.01.07

Robotboot’s 1st album. This album was sequenced with a Yamaha RM1x and a MPC 2000 in a basement in Brookfield Illinois.