hallicrafters, inc. “10 poke 54272+int(rnd(1)*25),int(rnd(1)*256) : goto 10” c36 cassette

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november 2009 release ; geoff, the thoughtful soul that he is, finally coerced me into compiling a tape of my “automatic electronic music” pieces from the past few months ... the first side offers a piece entirely comprised of three takes (panned hard left, soft center, and hard right) of a particularly woolly modular synth patch that converts the incoming attacks, volume curves, ground hum, and audio signals emanating from this prime bit of 1961 audio tech :: ... into a control & audio voltages that “play” a series of panning, analogue delay, resonant band-pass filter, telephone modulator/demodulator, gating, and spring reverb circuits ... the result is not unlike my beloved dub taylor, costin miereanu, and luis de pablo lps in approach, only much louder (arguably the most “noise” thing i’ve ever done ... well until the kfw/gm 2lp drops in 2010) & nowhere near as “good” ... the second piece is a bit of computer music nostalgia, harkening back to my first experiments with the commodore vic20 back in 1982 or so ... utilizing the titular code (thanks to noah “shifty” vawter) plugged into a c64 emulator (running on an iphone no less :: ... had to earn enough “nerd cred” to warrant the title somehow !!!) ; the resultant peeks & pokes were then fed into a similar modular patch that “drove” an 8-bit loop-recorder circuit fed into an emulation of the russian “polivoks” filter & further analogue echo / band-pass configurations, building & decreasing in density until a melancholy random pulse-wave arpeggio comes in to close out the side ... the tape comes as a norelco housing one of four different collages by geoff ; the tape itself if a lovely blue pro-duplicated affair with randomly chopped full-color labels, and there’s even a nice pearlized fold-over insert !!! i tend to go on about the “side-long aleatoric electro-acoustic collage” spec ; here’s my stab at said ... enjoy.

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hallicrafters, inc. "10 poke 54272+int(rnd(1)*25),int(rnd(1)*256) : goto 10" c36, ry-30 two utterly satisfying pieces of electronic music for automatic processes and modular synthesizer. to me, this just about sums up keith’s uncanny ability to blend technical prowess with an innate musicality - something that i find to be pretty rare in the world of “academic” electronics. side a features an old shortwave radio (made by hallicrafters, inc.) run through keith’s ever-expanding modular set-up, while side b is fueled by old commodore patches being processed by an iphone and sent to the suitcases...