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Welcome to episode 31 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode we got the opportunity to talk with David Kean about his time working, and being friends with Don Buchla. He commissioned a few modules (255, 297, 299) that eventually led to Don developing the 200e system. We then dig into the byproduct module that came from these commissions, the Duophonic Pitch Class Generator Model 260e.   Show notes:  Hello: 0:00 David Kean Interview: 22:00 260e Exploration: 1:31:00 Goodbye: 2:18:00 For more information about David Kean’s Ondes Martenot recreation, the Ondea. Visit: https://www.ondesmartenot.com/  Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourceOfUncertainty  Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

Welcome to episode 30 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode we dig into the mighty and complex Programmable Spectral Processor Model 296. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a MEMS Project version of the module and did our best to put it through it’s paces. Show notes:  Hello: 0:00 296M Feature Dive: 17:15 Envelope Follower Outputs & Feedback Patching: 1:24:15 Goodbye: 1:44:00 For more information about the MEMS 296 go to: https://thebeast.co.uk/296m/  Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourceOfUncertainty  Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

Our First Encounter                   L'incontro                                 Cellule                        Il Suono Del Passato                Un Momento Di Silenzio          Staples                        Vicino   Creating these soundscapes, partly feels as navigating through some fictive offshore territories emerging from Buchla, populated with forms of vivid matter — as speculative lifeforms— interacting under our ears. While balancing discipline and letting-go, intention & contingency, I am half the conductor and half the spectator of this polyphonic life, which at times seems frictional or even riotous.   Diverse layers of sound, at different scales (possibly echoing microscopic processes or at times drone-scapes miles above the ground), may be violently —yet organically— erupting, morphing, swelling, eroding, dispersing, colliding, or collapsing. Sometimes swarming exosolar metropolis, with their expressive “concrète” fauna come into existence, and occupy the space in unregulated ways. These compositions are also a textural exploration. In some pieces, you can hear these sonorous critters  inhabiting alien metropolis alternatively humming, buzzing, throbbing, whispering, hissing, roaring, creaking, rattling, etc.   Although most of these pieces rely on samples, the original samples are warped, eroded, cut, squeezed and morphed in multiple ways, and quickly become illegible, alien. This disorientation is intended. Drifting away from the familiar & the terrestrial, with the aim to rewild our ears, minds and bodies through an exposure to a sonic otherness.

Welcome to episode 29 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode we talk to Mark Verbos from Verbos Electronics/Verbos & Associates about his decades long obsession with Buchla instruments. We also explore Mark’s Harmonic Oscillator and the Quantizer/Shift Register. Show notes:  Hello: 0:00 Harmonic Oscillator: 28:45 Quantizer/Shift Register: 56:00 Mark Verbos Interview: 1:28:00 Goodbye: 3:20:20 Link to Buchla Brochure: https://i1.wp.com/120years.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Screenshot-2021-08-06-at-13.53.17.png?resize=660%2C857&ssl=1  For more information about Verbos Electronics go to: https://www.verboselectronics.com/  Visit Mark’s Buchla blog at: https://buchlatech.blogspot.com/   Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast: https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourceOfUncertainty  Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

Hello, thanks for inviting me to participate on SoU, it's an honour to be part of it!   In this mix I'm showcasing unreleased material I have almost exclusively performed on my 200e system, these jams illustrate some of the moods and sounds I'm looking for when making music on my own or collaborating with other artists here in London.    The first track is a recording i did after hours of meditation on a Buchla patch together with my friend Vince Morris, we spoke the bare minimum and kept slowly developing the patch for hours focusing on capturing the sound of each oscillator separately while giving each of the outputs a very  defined function in the landscape, it turns out more than one year after  this track is going to be pressed on 180g vinyl and released on Titrate Records ( and you can pre-order it on bandcamp) ! [ shameless promotion allowed? haha ]   The second track is actually the first track I made using the 296e which I'm very happy to finally have with me - that's definitely the module that I have been dreaming about the most! I was very pleased with the saturation you can get from driving the inputs, not to mention feedbacking the comb out into itself... Really powerful module which surely will help me make the Buchla sound a lot more rude! The effects here are provided by the 2H9 made by the lovely peeps from Northern Light Modular - shout to Sascha who without a doubt is one of the biggest legends in the space, my system wouldn't be the same without all the technical support and advice from him.   The third track ( starting at 31 minutes ) is a collaboration with my friend Steven McInerney who played some acoustic instruments and processed them on his eurorack and my friend Rin who played some mad electro-acoustic-ish instruments while i played the 250e...   The following track was a very special jam I had the pleasure to record with my friend Adrian who I met online when studying his amazing open source granular ( definitely one of the most impressive granulars i ever seen ) and we ended up becoming best friends when he moved to London..   Last but not least I have two drone-ish tracks, one of which is exploring two simple oscillators out of tune being heavily processed on the H9 and another one where I solely used the 259e ( and loads of verb and delay )!   I hope you enjoy it! ps: To listen to some of my dj mixes and other tracks i have released check out my soundcloud

Welcome to episode 28 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode we explore the Kilpatrick Audio K4816 Pattern Generator, then we talk to Andrew Kilpatrick and Pat McMaster from A Yellow Sine about their joint venture: The Sextuple Quadraphonic Spatial Director!   Show notes: Hello: 0:00 K4816 Pattern Generator Exploration: 5:45 Andrew & Pat Interview: 46:10 Goodbye: 1:53:00 For more information about Kilpatrick Audio and to preorder the SQSD go to: https://www.kilpatrickaudio.com/  For more information about A Yellow Sine and the SQSD visit: https://www.ayellowsine.com/  Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourceOfUncertainty  Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

Welcome to episode 27 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode we talk to Alex Pleninger from Keen Association and dig into the Graphic Waveform Generator Model 268e and Quad Transevent Generator Model 282e.  Show notes: Hello: 0:00 268e Exploration: 23:50 282e Exploration: 1:10:05 Alex Pleninger Interview: 1:57:00 Goodbye: 2:58:00   For more information about Keen Association: https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=92  Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast: https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SourceOfUncertainty  Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

The Sonny Downs Quartet is proud to present a selection of music written for Buchla 200e. All pieces were composed and performed exclusively on the 200e, with no external MIDI sequencing and no multitracking. Everything was sequenced or played using a 252e, 251e, and 223e.   None of the music uses 12-tone equal temperament. Since the release of Village Melodies in 2020, I have been writing music exclusively using just intonation, using up to 11-limit tuning.   1- Afternoon Documentary 2- Storm Season 3- Whale Posse 4- Herbarium 5- Prefabricated Pond 6- Patio Sport 7- Water Feature   https://thesonnydownsquartet.bandcamp.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFJ8EWkSYN_dt-wbwwAVY8Q

Steven Barsky Music is life. I feel inspired to record the sonic patterns and sounds that are running around in my head. Sometimes they come fast and furious, I don’t think I’ll get the Logic up and recording before the ephemeral soundscape spewing from the speakers is gone. It happens so fast sometimes… Here are some examples of those dreams that got captured. Some meander, some bleep and bloop, some have something resembling an actual song structure. Some are part of my Tribute series of songs that pay homage to and remind you of the original song. Rain Dancing is an example of that. It is highly evocative of the end of the song Rain Dances on the Camel album of the same name. Listened to it as a teen, then it bounced around my head for several decades. Voila! Tribute! Give both a listen and you’ll see what I mean. Some of these songs pay homage to classic Buchla Styles. At least in my view. There’s a bit of Pop style here too, enjoy that. I love my Buchla gear. It takes me to a whole different place than my other synths do. Buchla is deep. I bought my Music Easel about 5 years ago and it’s only recently that I feel I understand a good part of it. The same with my 248r v2 MARF running v2.5 firmware ;-) At first I used it just like a sequencer for notes and gates, but with the special ability to change inter-step timing. Over the past year and a half the MARF has taught that it is oh so much more. Arbitrary Function, indeed! Thanks for the listen, Steven Tracks 1. Einstein Walks his Cat 2. Ropes Course 3. That Feeling’s Gone 4. Sticks 5. Reverse Guitar Thingy 6. Sparky’s Charge 7. Inner Space 8. Supercharged Roadtrip to the North 9. Funhouse 10. Gunfight at Noon 11. We are Siamese if you don’t please 12. Everybody, Now We Got It 13. So Falls Niagara Falls 14. Diamonds at Dusk 15. Slowly Now 16. FerryRide 17. Rain Dancing 18. DigiDooDoo 19. Afternoon on the Nestucca 20. Swing your MARF

Welcome to episode 26 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode Kyle fly’s solo and digs into the new Time Domain Processor Model 288r. He then talks with Steven Barsky about overhauling the v2 MARF’s firmware. Show notes: Hello: 0:00 288r Deep Dive: 8:00 Steven Barsky Interview: 1:11:44 Goodbye: 2:05:40   Check out Steven Barsky’s music: https://soundcloud.com/steven-barsky  Max Lord's MARF Book: https://github.com/wir35/marf-book/raw/ ... f-book.pdf Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio  

I am composer and performer based in Stockholm, Sweden. My work usually stays within the realm of electronic music both when performing as a solo artist and in different constellations, but I have also written for chamber ensembles, dance companies and some opera. Starting out with a basic Doepfer system in 1999, there have been modulars in my home studio ever since. Ten years ago I acquired my first small Buchla system. I started out with a 6-panel powered boat with a 206e, a 259e, a266e, a 281e and a 292e. Just before this was delivered, the Skylab cabinet was released. I tried to change my order into that instead and Don replied with a "yes". But of course I got the 6-boat anyway in the first shipment. Eventually, the Skylab arrived and I also added a 258v from Mark Verbos. The system has grown over the years and right now my system populates two Skylab cabinets, where one is my live system and the other have a more fixed position in the studio. I also still have the original 6-boat and an Easel Command. As an associate professor in electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, I also maintain and teach on our fairly large system which is a hybrid of 200e stuff and vintage modules from 1974. The school are also in possession of an original Easel which was very close to be thrown away in a move of store rooms some years ago. So, there's quite a lot of Buchla in my life and it is surely one of the cornerstones of my artistic work. My research is also all about different kinds of modularity, virtual and physical, human and non-human, and I usually strive for the perfect integration of my Buchla with self-made software instruments written mainly in the SuperCollider programming environment. For my performance at CCTV Stockholm in March this year, I started out with the intention to work with my Easel Command and a little live-coding system I've made. I practiced and made some recordings with this setup for some weeks, but also tried other solutions in parallel. I ended up using my my live Skylab, comprised of the following modules: 266e, Studio.h CSR, 225e, 281e, 292e, 285e, 261e, 259e, Studio.h DPO (258e) and 291e. For control, sequencing and mixing I used another home made SuperCollider instrument based on the Snyderphonics Manta controller (http://snyderphonics.com/manta.htm). It is a touch sensitive device with 48 pads, 4 buttons and 2 sliders. Basically, the SuperCollider instrument is a modular system where each pad can be assigned one or several functions, like volume control of hardware inputs from the Buchla, sending midi or cv, apply effects, sequencing or sampling. For the live set I used a combination of live input from the Buchla and loops and samples made during the recording sessions with the Easel. I have some music released on various labels using my real name, under the moniker Codespira1 and as part of different collaborations (mainly There are no more four seasons and RTTRSPRT). For further listening and info check these links:   Social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codespira1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codespira1/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCspNTJ1xczCgKW0NUAMhSpQ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/emp/   Releases as Codespira1: Artefact (Moving Furniture Records, 2016) https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/artefact Rasterfeld Archives #1 (CO-DEPENDENT, 2019) https://co-dependent.bandcamp.com/album/code009   Releases as Mattias Petersson: Remaining oddities, resultant additives (Jahr Null Aufnahmen, 2010) https://open.spotify.com/album/5IcAo9aprlVwNddnrXucLe?si=qXJ-Hd7tShqFXSmfhuDhbw Floodlight (Ideal Recordings, 2008) https://open.spotify.com/album/7nGL4dtqmfUnOKiXtvUzKD?si=uM7Yb9tUSsuGDovLMvzFEw Mimer (Fylkingen Records, 2003) https://open.spotify.com/album/41pgXkm2uw4iEbXSinyrSP?si=6aUh2fwfSS2kzuk5NMwICw   RTTRSPRT: https://soundcloud.com/rttrsprt   There are no more four seasons: Bandcamp: https://nm4s.bandcamp.com/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8_uqxOGZvxSRmEjKAuRl3g

Welcome to episode 25 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode Robert and Kyle grab a joystick and dive into the Human Comparator’s Nested Vector Oscillator. Show notes: Hello: 0:00 NVO Exploration: 25:00 NVO + CV: 53:30 Goodbye: 1:12:00   Find out more about the Nested Vector Oscillator check out: https://thehumancomparator.net/   Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/    Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/    Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/   Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/    Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261    Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/   Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/    Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty   Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty  Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

In the 1940’s, Pierre Schaeffer realized that the electronic medium opens up music composition to the whole domain of sonic phenomena. Technology enabled the composer to work directly with sound itself as opposed to an abstraction of it, operational signals on a sheet given to performers that could interpret them and realize the piece. For him, this reversal of the compositional process meant that we would need a new vocabulary to describe the whole reality of music, that notation only rendered a part of while all the while being prescriptive ; a language based on the premise that musical sounds are most importantly perceptual realities rather than acoustic ones. His idea was that we could use this framework to describe, discuss and reflect on our perception in a more objective way instead of relying on references to the origin of the sounds or onomatopoeia. This would in turn enable composers to identify and classify their materials based on their perceptual characteristics before manipulating and combining them into a piece of music.   Buchla’s 200e, to me, embodies these concepts in a single, open-ended instrument that allows me to generate, shape and articulate sounds into musical objects for both composition and performance.   This piece is an exercise in acknowledging my influences as well as a display of the way in which I have been using my 200e system in composition. It is organized in three parts :    Part 1 : A dynamic and busy system, where the ‘humanized’ noise of the 272e provides changing and unpredictable timbres accumulating in parallel to the 261e's shapeshifting waveforms. The 223e allows my hands to guide the flow of the processing and impart intentional gestures among the chaos of the patch. Sounds disintegrate, coalesce and resonate as they move around the different channels of the (mixed down) quadraphonic space.   Part 2 : A pulsating drone swells and brightens as it iterates. Here, I am trying to coax the slowest movements that I can out of the 200e, as I open a filter on a rich sound being continuously shaped by the 296e. At the time of composing this section, I was listening to a lot of Eliane Radigue’s electronic works, which are often based around the careful exploration and subtle control of the movement and beating that stems from phase relationships between oscillators. I chose to pay tribute to her unique form through this progressive reveal of the spectral content of the sound, making its various components gradually percolate and collide across delay lines.   Part 3 : Part 2 blends into part 3, wherein sorrow gives in to a more hopeful colour. The 272e is sampled and then manipulated. Repetition, like an attempt to eternalize things I know have to die, disperses faint echoes that become more distant and fade in and out, gradually, like memories.   Thank you to Kyle and Robert for the podcast and for providing me with an opportunity to share this. Thank you for listening and keep on patching!   Bandcamp : https://davidpiazza.bandcamp.com

Welcome to episode 24 (or is it 23?) of Source Of Uncertainty. We are excited to welcome back Mark and Chip from the MEMS Project, and had a great time digging into their “Boat Of Uncertainty.” Show notes: Hello: 0:00 Boat Of Uncertainty: 1:37 Interview with Mark & Chip: 55:22 Goodbye: 2:22:52   Find out more about the MEMS Project at: https://memsproject.info/   Find the David Rosenboom’s book “Biofeedback And The Arts” here: http://www.frogpeak.org/fpartists_paypal/fprosenboom.html    Purchase Robert’s music at: https://robstand.com/    Purchase Kyle’s music at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/    Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/   Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/    Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261    Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/   Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/    Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty   Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty    Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

Kevin Rix is a film trailer composer, guitarist, and modular synth artist. His compositions have appeared in trailers for films such as Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, Robin Hood, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Aquaman, Frozen 2, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, The King's Man, Joker, and Cruella. In 2015, Kevin was introduced to modular synths and fell down the rabbit hole.    “Visitors” is a live improvisation recorded in one take on a Buchla 24 panel system and Music Easel. I took an hour to program the 252e and do initial patching, then hit record. When using Buchla, I like to program modules like the 252e and start a basic patch with the sound off so I can discover and perform the patch in real time using the Todd Barton "follow the sound" method. There's no editing, overdubs, or mixing. The Easel was patched into a Strymon BlueSky.   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdaO1wMpa0iCTimthFvfvxA   https://robotrixie.bandcamp.com   https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OneC6VqxKoEr5z6N17sOC?si=d57jujP1R8WU60wM1Nd_TQ

BIO Mathew Watson is a Melbourne (AU) based artist focussed on the exploration of electronic sound and the drumset. He has an extensive list of past and ongoing artist collaborations and has performed at arts festivals, music festivals, galleries and theatres in Australia, Japan and the USA.  Watson began his musical life as a drummer, before turning attention to electronic sound, and in particular, modular synthesisers. He has established a highly personal approach to performance, composition and improvisation, as a solo artist and collaborator over the past two decades covering a vast spectrum of sound, style and form. He released several albums under the name Other Places (It Records) between 2010 and 2017 alongside solo albums focussed on the EMS Synthi Aks and Buchla 200/e system. Amongst a plethora of local and international collaborations, Watson has moonlighted with Bronx legends E.S.G and performed in several large scale Boredoms BoaDrum performances in Australia and Japan.    A few thoughts about Spin Patterns.  As a drummer I am forever drawn to rhythm and texture. I am fascinated and inspired by pulses derived via electronic means: be it the beating of an LFO or the plucking of a low pass gate. Spin Patterns is very much focussed around the simple idea of movement and pulses coming together. I love how mellow the flow of voltage seems in the Buchla system. It’s like the edges are rolled off. This feels more musical to me and I think  you can feel this each time a new movement is set in motion, and as it reaches its destination. A perfect exchange of voltage, if such a thing can exist! Rather than using a sequencer for Spin Patterns, I decided to focus all attention on the relationship between cycling function generators and the Source of Uncertainty random voltage module. It is this relationship which is at the very heart of this album. I never tire of exploring this simple idea as it always yields new patterns and sounds that inspire me to create something new. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I enjoyed making  it.  BANDCAMP: https://matwatson.bandcamp.com

Welcome to episode 22 of Source Of Uncertainty. Get ready to phase in or phase out (whichever you prefer) with a long look at the Infinite Phase Shifter Model 297. Robert and Kyle then check in with Buchla USA CEO Eric Fox about the past year and a half since we last talked and chat about what’s coming in the future.    Show notes: Hello: 0:00 297 Featured Module: 22:22 Interview with Eric Fox: 1:15:00 Goodbye: 2:46:40   Find out more about Buchla at: https://buchla.com/  Purchase Robert’s new album at: https://robstand.com/  Purchase Kyle’s new album at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/  Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/ Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast: https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/  Listen and subscribe to Cosmic Tape Music Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-tape-music-club-hosted-by-the-galaxy-electric/id1550827261  Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/  Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio

The first time I ever saw a Buchla system I was curious and intrigued. When I first heard a Buchla system I instantly fell in love with the timbres and have been exploring Don's circuits ever since. The sound of the Easel's Complex Oscillator or the Programmable Complex Waveform Generator Model 259 are unlike any other oscillator I have ever used. And the in depth interconnected relationship with their Modulation Oscillators makes them instruments in their own right. There is truly something magical in Don's designs. Something that attracts and inspires musicians from all corners of the world and all walks of life, to push their boundaries and think outside the musical status quo. In my mind the Buchla ecosystem is the perfect platform for live musical improvisation. Raw stream of consciousness materialized by the musicians creativity and rewarded through careful exploration of the system. My favorite quote from Don is "Anything is possible. We're not limited by technology; we're not limited by instruments. We're limited only by our mindsets." Its this quote that continues to inspire me to explore new ideas in the creation of sound and to be fearless in my approach to improvised live performance. This piece of music is a manifestation of that quote and a glimpse into my creative mindset. An eclectic mix composed of various patches reflecting and archiving where I was and what I was feeling during that moment in time.  One of my favorite ways to create music is to wake up, fire up the Buchla, hit record, and just explore the endless possibilities. Whether I end up liking the patch or not I always make it a habit of documenting the results and adding it to my personal sonic journal. I love the places I go and the emotions I experience when freely improvising on my Buchla. I believe I produce my best work with this method and it has personally become a powerful creative technique that I continue to explore. All sounds heard in this piece were one take recordings with no overdubbing or multi tracking. Recorded between March and December of 2020 straight from the mixer to a Zoom H4n Pro. While I have a growing collection of 200 series clones that were used in these recordings from time to time. This piece of music was done almost entirely on a Music Easel through various outboard effect units.   Modules used in performance: - 2016 Bemi Music Easel (208 and 218e) - Progammable Complex Waveform Generator Model 259r - Source of Uncertainty Model 266 - Mixer/Preamplifer Model 207r -Quad Lopass Gate Model 292c - Quad Function Generator Model 281r - Dual Voltage Processor Model 257r   Effects used in performance: - Sony TC-366 reel to reel (for tape delay) -Strymon Timeline -Strymon Big Sky - Make Noise Mimeophon - Make Noise Erbe-Verb - Make Noise Echophon - Make Noise Morphagene   For more music, videos, and tutorials: soundcloud.com/musicalfungus youtube.com/musicalfungus kriyarecords.bandcamp.com musicalfungus.bandcamp.com instagram.com/musicalfungus (@musicalfungus)

Welcome to episode 21 of Source Of Uncertainty. In this episode Robert & Kyle talk to Nicoletta & Christopher from Passepartout Duo about their new album “Epigrams”. Kyle also digs into the Bandpass Filter Model 194F.  Show notes: Hello: 0:00 Kyle explores the 194F: 6:48 Interview with Passepartout Duo: 32:37 Goodbye: 1:36:26   Find out more about Passepartout Duo, visit these links: Bandcamp: https://passepartoutduo.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/passepartoutduo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/passepartoutpianopercussion Website: http://www.passepartoutduo.com/   Purchase Robert’s new album at: https://robstand.com/    Purchase Kyle’s new album at: https://darksparkler.bandcamp.com/    Listen and subscribe to Podular Modcast: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/   Listen and subscribe to The Deerhorn podcast:  https://thedeerhorn.podbean.com/    Listen and subscribe to Esoteric Modulation: https://www.esotericmodulation.com/subscribe-to-podcast   Subscribe to Waveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/   Get your source of uncertainty t-shirts at http://sourceofuncertainty.threadless.com/    Support the show and get access to exclusive videos and audio content through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sourceofuncertainty   Find us on Instagram @sourceofuncertainty    Contact us at sourceofuncertainty.audio