DIY Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer (testing)

D I R T Y
L O - F I
D I Y

*Patching, tweaking, and harnessing some interesting sounds here (at least for me) for a demo. Twas very addictive. Audio/Video was captured using a crappy digicam. Speaker use is a cheap PC subwoofer, also there is a feedback loop/loopception on 6 channel analog mixer for additional textures and noise. 

//Looking forward to expand it and build more or another. :)

MODULES:

VCO - 2x (Atari Junk Console)
ADSR (Envelope Generator)
VCF
LFO - 2x (Triangle & Square)
Ring Modulator
3x3 Passive Matrix Mixer
RC-LPF
White Noise Generator (not use in the video)
VCA (under construction)
10 Step Sequencer (on breadboard, will solder soon)

Thanks for watching! d[0-0]b

"Our entire biological system, the brain and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies." ~ Nikola Tesla

*Now i know why a system like this gets bigger and bigger in a basement or in a bed room like an organic matter, because right now i'm very lustful to get more "ins-outs" to insert and knobs to twiddle or is it just the fume from soldering that i became addicted to? Either way it is...

"[cos] It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, To feel, to know I'm alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

I'll keep digging
Till I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand." ~ STINKFIST [TOOL]

Thanks for watching! d()_()b

EP ALBUM: ROUTINES, RITUALS, & REPETITIONS

http://genthalz03.bandcamp.com/album/routines-rituals-repetitions

ROUTINES, RITUALS, & REPETITIONS
by Gen Thalz d[0-0]b

5 track EP (Extended-Paranoia) from the lost subterranean chapter of pure mundane day to day routines, rituals, and repetitions which was converted into voltages and feedback; sequenced and loop into sounds...

Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Experimental, Ritual, Noise, Acid, Glitch, Drone, minimal
Year: 2016

released January 9, 2016

Created, Mixed, and Arranged by Gen Thalz
Produced by Marlon B. Zoleta
Album Cover by Gen Thalz

Ex-nihilo Studio

© all rights reserved

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The Numbers Stations [industrial techno|noise-glitch|minimal] ~ Gen Thalz

*This is an acousmatic techno track. All sampled sounds is from different mysterious Numbers Stations on radio and internet. Sound collage/concoction into something minimally aggressive-harsh-noisy and glitchy with a feel of lo-fi industrial rustiness and dirtiness.

Bandcamp download: http://genthalz03.bandcamp.com/track/the-numbers-stations

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genthalzspace

Credits:
released 24 August 2015

Track: The Numbers Stations
Creator: Gen Thalz
Genre: Electronic
Style: industrial techno, noise, glitch, minimal
Year: 2015
Type: single release

_Special Thanks to:
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Swedish Rhapsody
UVB-76 (The Buzzer)
Webdriver Torso

Re-sample, mixed, and arrange by Gen Thalz
Produced by Marlon B. Zoleta

*The video clip is from AT&T archives - Telephone Switchboard (Old and New), from the 1920's onward. We just cut and select a few scenes and speed it up a little bit to sync and match the timing of our audio. We immediately like and chose this AT&T video clip for this track because it really (obviously) has the feel and vibes of the sound per se.  We also like the lo-fi look of it and the patching of cables and dialing on those massive machines.

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PAPER CUT-OUTS d[□_□]b

Ratio Oms 

[Glitch Paper Cut-Outs]

model = Ms. Tori Amos :)

monomaniac

[Abstract Paper Cut-Outs]

Materials:

- Old Music Magazine

- Bond Paper

- Colored Paper

- Scissors

- Cutter

- Scotch Tape (clear)

*our take for the Paper Cut-Outs, popularized by Henri Matisse d[●_●]b

Video Manipulation:::Still_Frames

Shaman Among the Machines

The Dark Priest

Bipolar

***still frames from a short video manipulation that we made. Original clip is not ours, it is Terence Mckenna talking about shamans among the machines...

Digital Chances|Aleatoric

Rework d(-_-)b

*HisStringInstrument

Remodel d(-_-)b

*HisStringInstrument

Remold d(-_-)b

Reconstruct d(-_-)b

Databending: Sound to Image

Synapses/Audio=4'33"remix

Syntax/Audio=EightEqualsZero

Singularity/Audio=6EQUJ5

Visuality in the City

"Cubism"

*GMA-Kamuning (QuezonCity)

09.03.2014

Video Synthesis

M*=5%8*1311

[Video.Synthesis||Bending]

*StillFrame_Telemetry

Remix the Mixer

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

data:::b.END.in_G

daemon

[binary:::poetry]

*still.frame//Maxwell'sDemon

 

_schema

[mode_rNO]

*still.frame//Maxwell'sDemon

<entropy>

[theo.r_eTiC.al]

*still.frame//Maxwell'sDemon

 

DIY Electronic Music Instrument

Dual oscillator with 8 step sequencer, 2 LFO and mild fuzz

Sound Title: "intron"

*A little improvise jam with voltage and frequencies using our recent hand job electronic music instrument, we don't know how to end it so we just fade out... ;)

 

intron_

 

*still.frame

Codon (microsound/granular synthesis) ~ Gen Thalz

*Please use headphones

“Beneath the level of the note lies the realm of sound particles. Each particle is a pinpoint of sound.” ~ Curtis Roads (electroacoustic composer/computer programmer)
 

The idea is to apply the method of granular synthesis but we didn’t use any granulator or software synthesis available today. What we do is like a sonic pointillism, we grab a small pieces of sounds (about 3 to 30 milliseconds) out of our chosen sample sounds then clone or combine those sound particles repeatedly to achieve a desire sounds by doing some time and pitch shifting.

Then just like music concrete, we arrange those sounds rhythmically and randomly, time/pitch shift several of it again, and apply some delay and reverb into some of it.

The process is very tedious but overwhelmingly satisfying if you’re into sound designs.

Ingredients:

-          Sound Particles

1.Short porn video clip converted to mp3

2.Recorded sound under the bed at exactly 3am

3.Toy keyboard circuitbent sound

For the visuals, we cut a small part (about 27x15 in dimensions) out of our “Bits and Glitches 3” illustration then tweak it, rotate, rescale, and animate it. The result is very organic and mystic.

Call The Technician

 

Live Analog Electronic Set

 

Demo

 

*Recorded Using a Sony Digicam

Grid (a digital noise)

*This is our short digital noise improvisation using a generative abstract sound sequencer android app called "KOSM", where what you hear is just a result of chance/chaos and a little experimentation.

- We digitally add ...some delay and reverb effects to give it a bit of flavors.

*The image used is one of our illustrations title "Deus ex Machina" posted last 11.06.2013, we digitally tweak it to make it more abstract parallel to the sounds.

Defragment

Live Analog Electronic Set

Demo

*Recorded using a Sony Digicam

Lo-fi Digital Photo

ROM (Reboot Our Minds) ~ Gen Thalz

Another analog session

with live circuit bending and DIY kit

feat. the voice of Mr. Terence McKenna (shaman, psychonaut, ethnobotanist)

*This is the second part of his speech in the video:

Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language and whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture.

Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y or something. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.

That is all cultural diversion and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears... and we are told no, we're unimportant, we're peripheral, "get a degree", "get a job", get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?

Glitch

Between Zero and One (analogue session)

New Track (demo)

Live Electronic Set

an improvisation that turns into something...