I wanted to take my recent home-made crackle to a more melodic realm. The soundtrack came together quite quickly but figuring out how to put it into a video was what took me the longest. The original crackle sound used in this track: https://youtu.be/9jBq8JfW6hA The source sample on the SP-303 is taken from the intro of the 1978 track 'Lanquidity' by Sun Ra. It has been processed to death though but you can hear the original over there: https://youtu.be/7O4c6D8Z9a8 The guitar is detuned so every open string are in key with the sample, I believe the tuning is DGDGG (the high E is broken).

In this experiment, I wanted to swap the roles between the Volca Drum and the Modular. So the drum is playing the randomized/self-gen melody while the Modular is filling in the rhythm & bass parts, granted it's not quite your standard four to the floor stuff. I normally tweak the tune function of the Volca Drum's Wave Guide to create some movement, but this usually tends to also bring in nasty feedbacks. Whilst interesting, I haven't figured out the way to tame the machine yet so I left it alone during this take. As for the Volca Modular, it was initially only meant to be altering the Volca Drum's tempo (which I can't stop doing these days) but while I was trying out extra random patches, these weird breaking notes started whirling I even thought for a second I'd shorted the equipment! So I decided to record it right away. No effects. No post processing (besides light compression).

On this take, the Ornette Coleman recording is coming from the Boss RC1 and is limited to the (double)double bass part at the end of side B, and running as a loop. This saves me from resetting the record every few minutes like I was doing the first time around. The Volca Modular is still triggering the Coleman soundtrack, as a noise source, but at regular intervals this time, instead of the random stochastic mode used during the first take. I also tried to allow more space between the speed changes of the Guitar/Volca soundscape (Tascam Porta2) as it felt a bit rushed and clumsy on the first take. The ambient Guitar & Volca Soundscape #1: https://odysee.com/@AmbientWorkshop:5/GtrLopWavesScape01:a Ornette Colman Experiment, take one: https://odysee.com/@AmbientWorkshop:5/The-Ornette-Coleman-Noise-Source-%C2%AC-Experiment--1:6 Ornette Coleman Double Quartet 'Free Jazz' (1961): https://archive.org/details/tntvillage_558072

I've been dragging this decorative gong around for almost two decades. I was hoping to get something interesting out of it but never got around to record anything until now. This is a first attempt, better late than never. As for the setup, there's a contact microphone clamped to the gong itself and going to the left channel and the dynamic microphone, recording both the gong and the environment, is plugged into the right channel. Both channels are bouncing back and forth between each over with a ping-pong delay effect. Sprinkle of reverb and filters for good measure. Headphone warning: it ends a little abruptly with a 'crashing' accident...