- This one did not come together. But I guess that is the point of this whole thing. I like the video though.
Was trying to do a different feedback patch for the drums, but I think the audio routing got to complicated and there weren’t enough points in the patch where CV changes made enough impact. Going to try again today and start simple.
I dunno mate, sounded pretty good to me. Love the MD beat when it comes in.
Really like the vibe I hit last night (11/11 so far)
- Rene driving the modular voice. Melodies by digitone. Distant beats by machine drum and zoia.
Managed to squeeze in a couple of jams during the week after changing my setup a little bit (replaced OT with MnM for a change).
This one’s a Dreadbox Nyx (overdubbed) noodling. Took it out of the box after some months, which is usually a mistake if you try to decide whether you should sell something or not. Yeah, not selling.
#8 is a one-bar rhythmic loop on the Monomachine with some MD laid on top.
#9 is also Monomachine. For me, MnM jams often end up somehow funny-sounding to my ears, which is not the case with most of my music.
#10 is yet another MnM jam (and an exception to the funny-sounding MnM jam rule) with the lead at the end courtesy of the Analog Four preset named Banjo.
tried to avoid participating in this due to my diploma-project (have to hand it in next wednesday…), but procastination forced me to upload this 
it’s a jam, raw, unmastered, not mixed.
but it’s material for an audiovisual installation in cologne, may 2020.
gear used:
IM HDMK3
IM PHMK3
QPAS
OT
BITWIG
SOMA ETHER (towards the end)
jamuary <3
digitakt and preen fm
yesterday was late had work please forgive, also loweffort, was just messing around in ableton with the automation lanes, they are fun
Machine drum in a custom ZOIA patch. Melody and bass courtesy of Digitone into reverb.
The zoia patch was me trying to get useful feedback from a couple of simple reverbs a delay and some overdrives.
Rocked the Digitone for pure FM percussive glitchy goodness.
You know, one of the more interesting aspects of this, which hit me while re-listening to the 12 pieces last night, is that it really highlights what some of my fall back tendencies are, both from a composition stand point and just my approach to making music in general.
My ‘comfort’ process (the process that happens when I dont have a lot of time to noodle) is:
- have an idea for a sound/processor
- build that weird sound/ processor
- refine this until its doing something interesting (which in non jamuary terms could be months)
- find a melody/ harmony I can play over/ play with the sound or processor
The incredibly tight deadlines (at least for me) for Jamuary have put this process into really sharp focus. There are certainly occasions where I have a melody, or baseline, or drum pattern I want to explore, and I build from that. But it appears that when the chips are down Make a technically obfuscated noise , play over that noise is my go to form.
It will be interesting to subvert this process post Jamuary.
Experimental/random/ambient/idm jam for today. Mood is so crazy for this stuff 
Oddly timed rhythms on a techno tip:
i love almost-vocal patches on the a4mkii
the more i share the more insecure i become or press control alt delete
watched some movies with the gal today and made this throughout the day after work.
- Due to gear excitement over the the empress announcement I made Zoia as the primary synth voice.
Good job keeping this up. You’re going to be a machine by the end of this month.
It’s more stubbornness than anything else. I’ve learned a bunch during this though, way more than during inktober, which has always been more of an excercise in stretching my drawing muscles.