Herculoid Rumination

Herculoid Rumination



This time around it's all live and all hardware. A Realistic Electronic Reverb (aka cheesy PA delay) patched to feedback playing into a small old Realistic transistor amp miked by a Realistic mic into a Boss SE-50 set up for a looping delay into the oft aforementioned crappy karaoke machine with echo.

WatUSpace

WatUSpace, an instrumental hosted on DivShare.



Honestly, this is fun with faking. Depending on what you consider "fun" or "faking".

Or "real".

The synth heard herein is a plug-in called U-NO-60, a virtual version of the Roland Juno 60 polysynth.

Once upon a time anything electronically created, reproduced or enhanced would not be called real. Now circuits and hardware in the devoted service of analog sound creation have become things to be copied and rendered real by their replication. With a dead Juno 106 and no budget for its resurrection/replacement, I find far more fun in plug-ins than semantics.

And the tape delayish manipulations are thanks to the WatKat, a virtual version of the WEM Copicat tape delay. Of which I have a real one, just not patched into a computer & ready to roll yada yada.

Anyway, fun, remember?

Francis Bacon-video

Getting all glare-filled & artsy with the lack of depth of field and the feedback and the glaven. This time doing low rent Jodorowsky Holy Mtn. with the trippy symmetry and hoodie shroud.

Surfy Meditation

Surfy Meditation, an instrumental hosted on Box.



Some famous art dude wanted to have a robot likeness of himself to attend art openings in his stead. Some of us remaining humans wonder if passing the Turing Test is really a slam dunk. Or a thing desired in times to come.

While no one's making more real estate, virtual space has been building out and more or less improving. What was spring reverb is surplanted by digital reverbs which are obviated by software versions of all the above. A commonly available entry-level home studio software contained as it were the amp and the ambiance heard herein. Even this low rent bit of Any'verb USA sounds kinda cool.

33rd Floor-video

33rd Floor

Our Preschool Speakers

Our Preschool Speakers, an instrumental hosted on Box.



Kinda what it says. A spare speaker from an venerable Silvertone portable hi-fi joins a small stereo pair of speakers from my wife's old Realistic record player. As percussion/microphones. And in the case of the Realistics, as feedback microphones.

The transformative powers of both the Smokey Amp and the cheep no-name karaoke machines are invoked. Singing thru the Dora the Exp. Karaoke Cassette Player. Rhythmic feedback from the same. Ebowed beatup acoustic.

33rd Floor

33rd Floor by krseward

Also hosted on Box.

Yes, a song. But kind of trancelike . . .

Kay acoustic in DADGAD, toy bass drum, voice with & without Dora the Exp. Karaoke Cass. Player, toy echo feedback, ebowed homebrew steel-string instrument via contact mic into crummy no-name karaoke machine amplification with built in supah heterodyning echo, Ashbory bass. That mostly covers it.

33rd Floor video

Heading Back From The Colonial Store

Heading Back From The Colonial Store, another instrumental hosted on Box.



What does feedback and the phrygian mode have to do with an old grocery store chain?

Who can say?

But here it goes.

Chester Valley Brood

Chester Valley Brood, an instrumental hosted on Box.



Seems the Turing Chicken may have hatchlings. If so, they likely inhabit this piece.

Touch Nothing

Touch Nothing, a songlike instrumental hosted on Box.



A creaking ark of pet sounds, it could also called Touch Everything given the even more than more, supah-maximal approach.

Optigan drums as well as organ are in there. Home organ bass pedal, glockenspiel, feedback, sludgy distorted guitar, two melodicas, sleigh bells, egg shakers. Not quite enough, right? The Yamaha VSS-30 sampler will help . . .

Another older recording mixed to wondrous stereophonic sound.