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A Cinq: Moog Prodigy vs. Count to Five

In this minimalist piece I use the third mode of the Montreal Assembly Count to Five and a Moog Prodigy. This creates three copies of the same loop with independent speed and directions controls. The final mixed was completed with SoundToys, Metric Halo, and ValhallaDSP. 

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Invisible Homes, "Big Soft" (2023)

This is partial glimpse of another forthcoming track off of "Solipsisms," a collection of ambient and electronic experiments that emerged after completing the second album (which is also on its way). I'm getting ahead of myself, apparently, but I have a lot of music waiting in the wings. T This track was made using the Sequential Prophet Rev 2, and a patch I programmed to explore the warm, undulating goodness sometimes hidden in Dave Smith's synth. It is supported by the Moog Prodigy and some knob twiddling on the Roland MC505 drum track. ©InvisibleHomesMusic 2022, 2023

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Invisible Homes-Phantoms in the Hall

Full song: https://invisiblehomes.bandcamp.com/track/phantoms-in-the-hall

I'm having heart surgery on Monday, Jan 30th, 2023. It's been beautiful to have so many people lifting me and my family up already. There are also some dear folks I haven't shared this with yet. I'm thinking of you. As a futile, hopeful, but above all human, gesture, I'm releasing a song that fits the moment. This is an uncannily apt one that I created long before I learned about my heart. The unconscious always speaks apparently. 

This track will appear on 1 of 2 albums I've finished and which I'm eager to share when I'm back on my feet. Thanks for the love and support, my friends. 

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Big Soft: Prophet Rev2 and Moog Prodigy patch taking advantage of the modulation power of the Prophet Rev2 with bass support from a vintage Moog Prodigy. I added a touch of Valhalla Vintage Verb and some spring reverb from an old EV mixer.

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Some kinds of homes are invisible.  Follow & Listen on @spotify: https://sptfy.com/KScm

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A Ballardian visual companion to Invisible Homes, "Pale Rage (for J.G. Ballard)"

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Tape echo for TBD Invisible Homes LP3 track- Moog Prodigy and Korg MS20

I thought this was just a disposable sketch on the Roland MC505 until I CV linked the MS20 and Prodigy and ran them into the reel-to-reel tape echo set up via an old EV mixer (with a lovely spring reverb.

The Moog and the MS20 work so well together. 1. CV compatibility issues are commonly overstated. 2. Their voices are distinct, and it is interesting to layer them as if they where part of a multi-timbral patch. I have the attack slower on the MS20 here and you can here the higher note "bloom" into the tape echo.

Maybe it has some life in it (enough to excuse the multi-tracked bass bit's absurdity)?

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Pale Rage: Where do songs come from?

If you read this description would it matter?

Maybe it’s all about the gear?

Beware of car crashes and cliches (spoken and visual).

Video essay on the Invisible Homes song "Pale Rage" (for J.G. Ballard).

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TEAC Reel-to-Reel Tape Echo Moog Sequence

I keep an old graphic EQ parked on top of the TEAC. This video shows how an EQ can be used to contour the harmonics of the feedback.  Shows other technique, inc. speed change, cross channel feedback.

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Infinite Amount of Hope Tape Loop Drone- Invisible Homes

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Pale Rage Studio Session Fuzz Factory

This pedal is a wonder, but, as the opening shows, its self-oscillation could conceptually send band mates running. We decided to use it to create actual tuned oscillator tones that fit the song. Here it is in process. At the end you get a taste of the actual musical use (the track drops soon on @spotify.

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Tape loop guitar

A telecaster tries to pass through a tape loop but leaves only warbling traces behind.

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Moog Prodigy Loop for Wow & Flutter—Invisible Homes

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Simon Plumpton laying down drums for “Pale Rage” a track from the next Invisible Home record (which is inching closer to completion). Yes, this one is loud.

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Simon has been digging into the album tracking work for the second Invisible Homes record. The challenge of this track is creating a paradox: danceable shoegaze.

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Preparing for an upcoming summer festival spot (TBA), we began work on moving new material into the set. Here’s a bass-centric POV clip of us rehearsing the new 80s synthpop/shoe gaze track, “When We Dead Awaken” (think Adrienne Rich and not George Romero). This video features a rare glimpse of the patented “My-Guitar-Wants-to-Kill” face that has scared so many bandmates in the past.

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Here is the origin moment of a new, very long, very psychedelic track. This escalated very quickly. It is futile to resist an armada of analog synths playing together in their unruly glory.