Here I’m running Eurorack into norns with the Lepidoptery script. I tried Lepidoptery out because I thought it might be interesting, but it’s way cooler than I expected. I’ve been zoning out to it all morning. Might have to do a live set with this setup at some point.

Here I’m running the pt5 script on norns and sending it into the Octatrack, where it’s being sampled, processed, and resampled in real time. There’s some other stuff on the OT in there as well. #monomenorns #octatrack #phenotropicprogramming

It’s slightly out of view, but I’m playing a keyboard here like a real musician for once. The Minilogue is making the spacey filter sweep stuff. The Eurorack is doing the rhythm and melody.

Not my best patch, but maybe my most successful use of chaos (not randomness) to date. It never repeats, just follows its own logic, getting stuck in weird states for minutes at a time before falling back out. My favorite part is when Braids makes the weird baby sounds. #modularsynth #eurorack

Expanding on ideas from yesterday’s patch, I took things a little further and got weird with it.

I updated the firmware on Pamela’s New Workout. Here I’ve set boolean logic conditions on the top row of outputs, which are rotated by an external CV source.

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I accidentally made some weird modular synth funk. Everything is controlled by by Pam’s sending low-probability trig (2% chance) and CV patterns. The voices run through two long tempo-synced delay loops with 100% feedback, creating slowly developing patterns.

Playing at the D.M.V. in Denver this Friday. Show starts at 8pm and I’m up first. My practice runs have been going good and the lineup is great. Looking forward to it!

Excerpt of a practice session for an upcoming live set. #modularsynth #eurorack #minimalmusic

Excerpt from today’s Eurorack session. Percussion from the Serge VCFQ, mangled birdsongs on the Bastl Wavebard, watery splashes from the Phonogene, and Mutable Elements providing some angular banjo. Sounds good to me.

Just heard the other tracks on this 4-way split for the first time and they’re great! Very happy to have a track on this one.

Home sick from work and made this. 92 BPM (slow for me) jam with FM synthesis, physical modeling, and filter pings on the Eurorack.

I expanded my Arduino Wave Bard controller with two additional mutating shift registers, LEDs, and a randomize button that resets the number of steps and beats in the Euclidean rhythm as well as the patterns in the shift registers. Sometimes the results are musical, sometimes not so much.

I made an Arduino controller for my Bastl Wave Bard. It generates Euclidean rhythms and Turing Machine style CV with repeating sequences that slowly shift over time.

Excerpt from today’s vaporwavey ambient drone session.

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Running the Alchemist firmware on the BASTL Wave Bard with a little help from Volca Drum.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

A new Now Age Radio, guest hosted by hlao, is out today on MixCloud. There’s a track of mine in the mix along with a bunch of other really cool stuff. Listening now and really enjoying it.

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Joyeux anniversaire to French composer Éliane Radigue (b.1932) who turns an incredible 94 years of age today! Her work is proof that subtlety can be seismic, and that the smallest shift can change everything. Long live sustained tones, deep attention and Éliane Radigue!

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

The wizard sleeps deeply. Above the tower, clouds gather.

You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

Here’s a modular patch building on ideas from yesterday’s post. It expanded from an initial setup with Pamela’s New Workout controlling MI Elements. #minimalmusic #generativemusic #eurorack

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

"Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing" -Boston Globe, February 27 1966

It’s freezing out, so I skipped my usual lunchtime run and threw this together real quick. Just two modules, Pam’s New Workout and MI Elements, plus the Wave Bard. Really liking the bird samples on the Wave Bard here. Definitely going to explore this setup more.

Playing with sound on the Octatrack as usual. The clip starts at a manic tempo with sub-50% probability on all trigs. After ~15 seconds I slow things down and you can get a better handle on what’s happening. #autechre

“Sample mangling” sounds very violent and aggressive. Producers could instead say “I worked with the sample to help it become a better version of itself”.

Currently listening: John Oswald, The Grateful Dead – Grayfolded

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

An excerpt from this morning’s experiments. Modular synth ecosystem sampled and processed in real time by the Octatrack (off screen).

In retrospect maybe it was a mistake to allow the breakdown of objective reality

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Excerpt from tonight’s brief, noisy sound design session with the Bastl Wave Bard and Eurorack.

Third day in a row with the Bastl Wave Bard. This time I loaded samples from my modular synth and paired it with the Volca Drum.

Here’s an excerpt from my second experiment with the Bastl Wave Bard, this time without any external effects. I loaded it with tabla, sounds from the 7-Up Cool Spot game on Sega Genesis, and a few of the synth samples that I used in yesterday’s video.

Excerpt from today’s experiment. Samples of synthesizer videos and field recordings of traditional Hungarian music from YouTube loaded onto Bastl Wave Bard and run through the rpls script on norns.

More Dreamsequence on Norns controlling the Digitone, with some Volca Drum this time.

Running midi from the Dreamsequence script on norns to the Digitone. It’s a little cheesy but I think I like it. 🐬🌈💎

Quick excerpt from tonight’s Octatrack session.

Excerpt from this evening's session. #digitone #octatrack #fourthworld #generativemusic #dub

Sharing a few download codes for my Dream Logic album for Bandcamp Friday. Redeem: hippieswearingmuzzles.bandcamp.com/yum vle9-7936 6p6n-5zlk z73x-7gq8 z5xj-v762

Some codes for Dead Sea Aleatoric / Feedbacks if you want them. Redeem: hippieswearingmuzzles.bandcamp.com/yum uqax-ctbf v8fj-xb4m fkwr-ecjg m3ja-3w83

And a few for Minkowski Labyrinth as well. Redeem: hippieswearingmuzzles.bandcamp.com/yum w9xq-vrgt eyc6-gdf7 8uju-3lev 2l9d-hj28

Today’s ambient session. Eurorack patch → Octatrack with Lyra-8 delay on the OT effects send.