The weblog of Vlad Spears: musician, science fiction hero, Max/MSP/Jitter gangsta, Daevl incarnate. Currently engaged in fast action on slow sculpture, I have an ongoing love affair with animism as an approach to creativity and an affinity for all things automata, gridded or digital.

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020060121 22:08 •

Tonight I discovered processing a signal with two serial phasers can, given the proper settings, sound remarkably like wow, flutter and rhythmic physical manipulation of magnetic tape.  I also discovered I can take this effect much farther.

I’ve always been spellbound by the sound of phasers, particularly the Pink Floydian flow of the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase.  Until I sat down and patched one up in Max/MSP, I had no idea how far the effect could stretch.

When I drive one or both of the frequency sweeps at audible sonic rates, strange textures appear… almost like a form of synthesis I’ve not heard before.  In this sound clip, I’m driving the first sweep at 200Hz, and the second at 1Hz:

Black Strings (0:35, 44.1KHz, 128kbps, 552k)

I’m wrapping my patch up as a plugin tomorrow.

I can’t get this sound out of my head.

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