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First Fruits of new toy: Dolmen
“Old! Old! Old!” he would moan over and over again, “great God, they are older than the earth, and came here from somewhere else.” - H.P. Lovecraft, The Mound.
We all know that a Dolmen is a ‘portal tomb’, the exposed stone bones of a once soil-covered resting place. But the question remains: portal to - what?
So in the depths of lockdown I rashly decided to take the plunge and spend some cash from a lucky sale I had made on a Moog Sound Studio 3: a DFAM, a Subharmonicon and a Mother 32, packaged with a rack, a lead hanger, a mixer/power source for all three units and a fistful of patch cords.
It took until two days ago to arrive, during which time the online price increased over £200 from what I paid upfront when I ordered it, which made me feel a little easier about blowing so much dosh as the UK plunges into economic ruin.
The whole package is superb, literally the only time I have ever been genuinely delighted by all the surrounding bumpf that comes with a gadget. This includes two posters which are genuine, v. trippy/70s works of art in themselves (I’m going to get mine framed, how sad is that?); a great little card game to encourage Eno-esque oblique patching strategies; a fab ‘workbook’ taking you through a series of patches across the whole set up, and a proper, thick manual for each unit. You also get individual power supplies for each unit, in case you want to use them separately. It fair reeks fun.
So of course I’ve immediately used it to make something bleak and depressing! 
The track was wholly improvised and recorded live into the iPad using only the Sound Studio and a Korg NTS1 on reverb duties, then very lightly edited (mainly for length) in Wavebox. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have made this as spontaneously with apps, if at all, and twiddling knobs while the unit’s sequencers did their various things is the closest I’ve come yet to feeling like a proper sonic boffin.
So: another unlistenable din for all the non-ambient fans out there! Feel free to spindle, mutilate, or even, maybe, comment. Cheers!
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nice noises! s-f ocult, portal into neverending dream about dream, brrrr
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alone job in the cosmic space:
fixing broken solar battery 2milions km from Earth, 15th hour of job….
For some reason, the dolmen portal story and the music both reminded me of Kubrick's Monolith. Listening to this, I feel like an ape. And you seem to be from a far more advanced civilization that came on some strange spaceship to enlighten our pack of primates. BTW, a picture of your new spaceship would be greatly appreciated.
Pictures or I’m just going to pretend this was made in Drambo. 😊
Excellent!!
Going to have to listen to this later on, but congrats on acquiring the Sound Studio 3. I got mine just after Xmas, and it’s been a real joy. And combines excellently with the iPad.
Note to self: must sort out my Soundcloud and post more music…
… And, wow. Isolation and existential dread. And the tooth-rattling bass that comes in about 8 minutes in is really quite something.
Definitely up to your usual high standards.
@szczyp : thank you, for the listen, and especially the imaginative audio description. I seriously need to do something with that idea now… maybe a short story.
@JanKun, @Edward_Alexander : Ha! thanks, both. Your wish is my command
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(Not all those leads are for the Studio 3, obvs! - the rack just turns out to be a very useful place to keep the leads for the other modular gear, out of shot. Beats the messy tangle in a wicker basket I was using before…)
@sevenape @bygjohn : thank you! Knowing I have evoked existential dread means my day is complete.
That's one hell of an expensive beautiful toy 😍
Yes, and my guilt at not even being a musician enough to justify it is real, but I had a little luck a while back and decided to use a portion of it to buy some things I really wanted, instead of the cheap knock off versions of stuff which has been the habit of my lifetime.
I’ve also arranged that when I die all this very expensive kit I have, and probably will continue to accumulate, will be donated to a local music access charity so kids, many of whom will doubtless be a lot more musically talented than me, who wouldn’t otherwise have a chance of using this stuff, can get stuck in with it.
I tell myself it’s not so much ownership. More a curation for the next person to have it. The lesson of the premature death of a friend of mine a couple of years ago was that I, who have no family who are in contact with me, and few remaining friends, might as well enjoy my time playing alone on the beach while I can. Because it is getting dark, and the tide is coming in.
Thank you for the pointer here re music access charities as legatees for musical kit. Not something I’d thought of, and way better than my relatives just eBaying my stuff when I pop my clogs.
I’ve just hit the age my mum was when she died of cancer, which is a sobering thought, and a real push to make the most of my remaining time. Your analogy hits the nail on the head.
It is very nice of you for the lucky kids who will get their hands on those on day. Hopefully, Moog will survive humanity ... just like dolmens ?😉
This sound (analog) from first post go deep into memory, something in the quality, not too much high frequencies, warm, full. Plus your style of sounddesign/playing this ambient together is nice glue. And this is beginning!
I like you have in memory fact that our life is not endless, not so many people want to talk / remember about this.
During listening to your music it is possible to forget about this, going deep into current moment.
So , are you using more toys like these modulars? Thats good for us listeners! Keep recording!
Yup. Got bit by the modular thing fairly bad, usually get a module a month or every other month now, as an alternative to eating, though the whole ‘UK economy on a crash course with the heart of the sun’ thing might make a dent in even that. My mission? To boldly make every grander atonal drones, or die trying… It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it…