Midnight Playground is an interactive, kinetic, installation by Peng Wu, Jack Pavlik, John Keston, and Analaura Juarez. Peng initiated and directed the idea, Jack built the jump rope robot, and Annalaura helped refine the concept and promote the piece. My role was to produce the music and track it to the still images that Peng had selected. I ended up making a one hour video with thirty minutes of the image from the moon followed by a four second transition into another thirty minutes with an image of Mars. To produce the sound I gave Peng a list of audio excerpts that had all been previously posted on AudioCookbook in One Synthesizer Sound Every Day. He picked the two that he thought would work the best and I went back to my original recordings and processed them specifically for the piece by adding some reverb and delay to enhance the spacial properties of the music. The piece will be on display in Gallery 148 at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design through January 29, 2012.
Tag Archives: Roland MKS-80
Ostraka with Miditerranean
I recorded this all analog synthesizer jam recently while my friend and fellow synthesist Michael Moline, otherwise known as Miditerranean, was visiting. I played an arpeggio on the Roland MKS-80 while Michael made noises on my Pro-One. In addition I played a few notes on the Roland Juno-106 for some additional melodic content.
Ostraka_with_Miditerranean
Parasite
Call it a bomb whistle or a filter sweep. In any case this descending analog tone is doubled on another layer with a twenty-second delay. Over the top of that I introduced some glitchy analog crackles about a minute into it.
Parasite
Interrupt
This piece includes two layers of arpeggiated patterns with arbitrarily different tempos and time signatures generating an awkward interrupting atmosphere.
Interrupt
Magnet Head
This experiment is called Magnet Head and features a filtered drone combined with percussive, analog spatterings all generated by the Roland MKS-80.
Magnet Head