welcome to an underground part of my website. this is where i show all the music stuff i create. it's a fun hobby and helps me during tough times of my life. i try my best to do music creation on a budget while staying away as much as i can from my computer when creating music.
i already managed to get cool stuff to work with such as cassette tape players, cheap synthesizers like the microfreak or samplers like the volca sample.
i haven't made any release yet, i don't feel ready for that. but please check my demos (esp. the latest ones, the first ones kinda stinks).
i call them demos but it's mostly just experimentation.
formerly recorded using my crappy phone mic but now i have a shiny
tascam dr-05x recorder to use for my recordings
some demos are missing, you can find them here.
| Audio Link | Description |
|---|---|
| demo 005 | doing more actual stuff. this one is more interesting than the previous stuff |
| demo 007 | "ooo [...] it's very atmospheric" - my gf |
| demo 010 | sampled a bunch of bleeps i did with my microfreak then made music with them directly on my NDS with NitrousTracker |
| demo 011 | first attempt at making something more complete. a bit sloppy but it's actually quite good. |
| demo 012 | most experimental demo so far. playing with various samples and granular synthesis |
| demo 014 | experimental virtual modular setup with algorithmically sequenced bassline |
| demo 015 | DnB jam |
| demo 016 | ambient music with electroplankton on the nintendo ds |
| demo 017 | reattempt at making a psytrance jam, featuring the usual setup (volca sample + microfreak) along with korg ds-10 |
| demo 018 | tape loop ambient experiment, it's honestly one of my favourite demos yet. the loop is a short recording from an FSK signal of a weather forecast shortwave station |
| demo 019 | FIRST RECORDING USING AN ACTUAL RECORDER (WOW!!!) more tape loop experiment, coupled with electroplankton on my nintendo ds |
| demo 020 |
this time i'm trying to use a tape loop as a drone. i'm
starting to feel limited by the lack of speed variation
system on my tape player. should consider modding. attempted using the microfreak as a drum machine, quite satisfied of the result. |
| demo 024 | noisy jam with nts-1 + nanoloop. blending the nts-1 oscillator with nanoloop together using distortion yields some interesting results. |
demos made with a daw. as i am working on an ep, i obviously have to learn some daw so i can make something structured. doing a whole ep dawless is probably expensive as hell to do anyway.
| Audio Link | Description |
|---|---|
| dawmo 001 | some jungle |
i recently picked up an old tape deck and a couple audio cassettes. i quickly found out what i could do with them and started experimenting. some demos uses tape loops.
| Audio Link | Description |
|---|---|
| tl 001 | tape loop used in demo 019, the first actually good tape loop. |
| tl 002 | distortion effect realised by recording my volca sample at full volume on my tape recorder, then replay the cassette on my recorder |
| tl 003 - "drone" | drone used in demo 020 |
| tl 004 | strange FM synthesis tape loop i made |
| tl 005 - "tones" | tones made using my volca sample as a synth |
| tl 006 - "arp" | arpeggiated tones |
experimenting with digital synthesis by writing synthesizers in C. feel free to tweak the scripts, i encourage you to experiment like i do with software synthesis :)
all programs will output signed 16-bit PCM sound at 44.1k sample
rate. use an appropriate player for this. to compile and pipe those
programs directly through ffplay with correct
parameters, you may use
this shell script.
requires gcc and ffplay in order to be used.
| Iterations | Description |
|---|---|
this program uses a polynomial to do waveshaping on a
sine wave. parameters a, b and c are randomly modified each
second to produce a different sound. the waveshaping function
is the following:
ax^3 + bx^2 + cx where a, b, and c are random
reals between -1 and 1.
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