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)

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"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]

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Music Review: Routines, Rituals, & Repetitions EP

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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Act I: The Subterranean Chapter

"43684259A+!M"

Synthesist | Electronics

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I Dreamed I Dream [Sonic Youth cover|remold + VHS Tape Loop]

*All sounds made from analog synthesizer/drum machine, feedback loop, looper/effects processor, noises, and human voice. Recorded using digital multitrack recorder, arranged and mixdown using DAW.

- the video is a VHS tape loop from a broken VHS cassettes (we combine 3 tapes, cut and splice them together, no measurements at all, but a long loop). To make things worst, we draw some random shapes and figures on the reel to add effects. We help the player by pulling the reel to rotate the loop because it gets stuck from time to time, the result is really messed up :)

Probably we cover this song because we are so amazed that we think this track by Sonic Youth was ahead of its time, considering it was written in 1982, it felt like we're listening to some triphop song from the late 90's... Though the tuning of their guitar here is standard and the sounds really differs from their noise-lofi-punk-esque aesthetic which they've known for and we like, the dark-ish downtempo and experimentation here still mesmerizing.

Lyrics -

Note: The lyrics is slightly differs from original, we add some word and subtract a few phrases.

[Ego]

Look before you leap, okay?

Do you read me?

The day we spent, go on...

The dream...

Shit.

Shift...

Fucking youth, working youth

Fucking youth, working youth

Shift.

Do you read me? Do you read me?

The day go on, the dream

Shift.

Fucking youth, working youth

Fucking youth, working youth

Fucking youth, working youth

Fuck, work

Shift, shit

Fucking youth, working youth

Fucking youth, working youth

Shift, shit

May all your dreams come true

The day we spent go on and on

Shift.

May all your dreams come true

The day, go on

Shift.

Fucking youth, working youth

Shit.

[AlterEgo]

You slept

Did i drift?

Do i dream?

Do you read me?

I'm not speaking.

Do you read me?

I dream, i dream

Sound today are you sound today, are you sound today,

Are you sound today? Sound today, are you sound today,

Are you sound today, are you sound today?

Today.

Do you read me?

I dream, i dream

I dream, i dream

Do you read me?

I dream

Do you read me?

Fucking youth, working youth

Did i drift, do i dream?

Do you read me?

I'm not speaking.

These things don't happen automatically

I dream

Edith moves each step, fucking youth

The day we spent go on, i dream...

Do you read me?

Fucking youth, working youth

Fucking youth, working youth

Do you read me?

I dream, i dream.

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd cover]

*please listen with headphones

Our first attempt to do a complete cover song and it's full of pretension, dreams, delusions, and ambition - considering it's from the Floyds'! But hey, we need to get this psychedelic paranoia out of our heads, also this is a personal favorites of us from them and we are deeply moved after hearing the version of this song from the great Mr. Mika Vainio (electronic/noise musician), and our newly found progressive metal band OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). So we dearly hope that we give justice covering this trippy-enigmatic-magical song though the recordings is not on its best quality and vocals is a bad idea haha :)

All sounds was made from analog electronic hardware, except for the "bell" or the sine wave sounds which we done/programmed using a free android app called S.A.M.M.I., there is also some noises that happens during recording and editing which is not intentional but we see it as "happy accident", we like it so we keep it.

- recorded using an old multitrack tape recorder.
- arranged, master, and mixdown using DAW.
- spoken sampled words by Morpheus from The Matrix movie (redpill scene).

And for the visuals, obviously it is composed of several random footage of our gears that we used overlapping each other, combined with a different video feedback loop clip that we shot using an ordinary webcam staring at itself on a pc monitor... No special effects and animation.

Lyrics-

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Morpheus: The matrix is everywhere, its all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. (Neo: What truth?) That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

Look/Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun (several times).

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...

Call The Technician

 

Live Analog Electronic Set

 

Demo

 

*Recorded Using a Sony Digicam

The Invisible Web

 

Live Analog Electronic Set

 

Demo

 

*Recorded using a Sony Digicam

Defragment

Live Analog Electronic Set

Demo

*Recorded using a Sony Digicam

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?

Between Zero and One (analogue session)

New Track (demo)

Live Electronic Set

an improvisation that turns into something...

DIY Mini Analog Bass Synth (demo)

Music, video, and DIY/Circuit Bent by Gen Thalz 

- This is our version of the simple Toy Organ schematic, we reverse engineer it to make it sound more bass-y.

- It is a open circuit 7 key analog bass synth, it means you can add more key if you like or some stuff like filters, white noise, etc.

- It has a pitch pot so you can adjust the tone level that you want, and of course volume control.

*The melody in the video is purely improvise not preconceive or plan, and the droning sound coming from the amplifier is not intentional. We like it so we keep it.