Droomy Doogie by piak
Droomy Doogie is the third and final part of my Moog Studies Series consisting of recorded improvisations using a Moog "modular" system build around a Little Phatty synthesiser and several MoogerFooger modules.
Compared to https://piak.bandcamp.com/album/moogular and https://piak.bandcamp.com/album/early-studies, these have a more deliberate and sinister atmosphere. Sculptural meditations on sound, if you like. Both are some 20 minutes long.
Technically, the Phatty here delivers a basic drone and slow arpeggios. The Murf (fixed filter array and pattern generator) acts as a slow sequencer with random rate but with tonal and rhythmical variations through manipulations of filters and preset patterns on the Murf.
On an additional oscillator (FreqBox), the frequency around a fixed offset from the Phatty drone is modulated by the volume envelope of the Phatty. The intensity of this effect contrasted with Phatty filter modulation is the source of most timbral variations.
All of this is routed through a delay whose feedback varies with a separate clock but where delay time and change rate is random. An artefact of the analogue delay is a tonal effect when changing the delay time. Modulating these produces random and often unexpected tonal elements.
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piak works with drones, primarily using analogue and modular synthesisers to produce slowly morphing textures, rich in timbral and harmonic elements, free running clocks, euclidean rhythms.
Lately more actively engaged with instrumental and vocal expressions, including spoken word, text-sound and improvised voice.