13.1.11

Live @Polonia

Gerard Herman played a brilliant set using his saxomophone, a tapedeck, a mic, and his grandpa's Snarenbalk (played automatically by a rubbery contraption, all very interesting.)
all i needed was the wink and the nudge and off we were.
mauro pawlowski's drums -already set up for the Club Moral show- decided to join me while their owner was laying down new dEUS vocal tracks two blocks away.

on the record: Doepfer Dark Energy, Gristleizer, Moogerfooger delay and a Roland spring reverb.

Gerard Herman / Remörk jan112011 by Remörk138

5.1.11

Club Moral/ Gerard Herman / Remörk

will be playing a show with

a) Club Moral
b) Gerard Herman
c) all of the above

on january 11th in a cosy polish soccer cantina!
more info on fleshbook.



did the mastering for Club Moral's archival 10" release
"Instruments of Attraction - II. Sociale Hygiëne"
which gets presented there, so should be grim. not fun.
things are never supposed to be fun, ok?
anyway, looking forward to seeing AMVK go wild on the Wasp again..

the Hohner Bass Threemörk, pt. XIII: more plans for expansion

in an attempt to expand on the Hohner - gotta fill that lid - i tried a 4011 pseudo ring modulator (scroll down on linked page) as found in the Korg MS-20, apparently.
started out combining one of the 4 octaves with the MCO, since it seems to work best with straight square waves.
didn't do much for me - more or less the same effect as combining the MCO with the sequencer the way it was already hooked up.
tried different combinations, and gave up on the idea in the end.
as it's not too much of an expansion (if any) on what's already there, it would be a waste of space. and i like mine better, so there.

so, next plan is a subharmonic generator - like a small part of the Mixture Trautonium.
i've already got 4 octaves now, meaning F, F/2, F/4 and F/8.
i'd like to try the subharmonics in between those even divider numbers: F/3, F/5, (F/6), F/7. maybe F/9 and F/10. lower than that is just gonna land me with clicks speeding up or down, and i don't really find those interesting - reminds me of cheap casio keyboards whose effects speed up or down with pitch.
have a 4017 on the breadboard for the first test to come (soon, i hope).
seems the easiest way, although i'll never have access to all subharmonics at once with just one chip, and that's only half the fun.

hmm, maybe running a subharmonic through that ring mod would be better..


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edit: Ken Stone, Hero Eternal.
http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/pic/schem_cgs36_pulse_divider.gif
might want to add that /9 and /10, but that should be ez shizzle!
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