Fahmi M. - Music Releases / Sound Experiments with VCV Rack

All sound of these ambient tracks made with modular synth, use only one module as sound source : Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator 2 / Mutable Instruments Plaits in VCV Rack. Approach in minimalist direction, truth of the materials, and less effects.

Challenging and limiting in produce a sound experiment / music compositions by applying only one module as sound source, push the limit of creativity and sound design skill. In a scenario of overwhelming number of modules, people often do not take the time to deepen and explore the creative possibilities of each gear/module they possess.

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Collab tracks, blending of modular synth sound (made with VCV Rack), granular synthesis of javanese gamelan, and spoken words / human voice.

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Abstract rhythm compositions made with only Mutable Instruments Braids in VCV Rack

All sounds in this live improv recordings made with only Mutable Instruments Braids or Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator in VCV Rack. Explore the wild side of this synth module with minimal effect, minimalist approach.

Mutable Instruments call it a macro oscillator, but even that is an understatement. It’s a hugely sophisticated digital synthesis engine, able to produce and manipulate complex sounds by means of 45 or so fully-realized synthesis algorithms, featuring multiple oscillators, wavetables, filters, VCAs, ring modulators, and so on under the hood.

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Experimental beats made with modular synth inspired by climate change.

  • All sonic materials made with modular synth (recorded in single takes, live recordings), use only one module as sound source : Drumkit CR-78, process (designed system) to Valley Audio Plateau reverb and Alright Devices Chronoblob delay (control by generative LFO and tidal modulator) in VCV Rack.

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Generative Beats with Modular Synth in VCV Rack

These tracks made with modular synth, use only one module : Mutable Instruments Plaits as sound source in VCV Rack. For create bassline, kick, hi hat, snare and synth textures in generative rhythm. From ambient, drone, to minimal techno.

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All sounds on these tracks used Mutable Instruments Plaits as only sound source in VCV Rack for create kick, chord, and particle noise. One take recordings, no overdub, and minimal approach with less effects - only reverb.

Generative Abstract Beats.

All sounds made with modular synth in VCV Rack by Mutable Instruments Rings as only sound source. One take recordings, no overdub, and free improv.

In Husserl’s “Phenomenology of Embodiment,” the body is not an extended physical substance in contrast to a non-extended mind, but a lived center of experience, and both its movement capabilities and its distinctive register of sensations play a key role in his account of how we encounter other embodied agents in the shared space of the life-world. The phenomenological maxim - to the things themselves - as well as the concomitant task to reveal the world, has to be done by observing the forms of media and the life-world of communication.

This multi-levelled experience includes the electronic flow of information as wavelengths and physical particles as part of the equation. Thus, Generative Art offers a unique opportunity for the recapturing of the relations between humanity, technology and the environment as we find today that the phenomenological folding of embodied and mediated space into felt space or experienced time represents a multi-nodal structure of space, bodies, time, and otherness simultaneously.

Generative Art has gone through multiple transformations, referring to noise art, fractals, glitch, robotics etc. It has affected video, the Internet, and every possible technological form. Marshal McLuhan once said, “Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.”

  • Divergent Generative Art Practices by Dr. Dejan Grba
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Improv session / live jam used custom sound of VL-1 with VCV Rack.

  • Casio VL-1 processed to granular synthesis with Mutable instruments Clouds, and trigger harmonic oscillator sound of Mutable Insruments Rings in VCV Rack.

The VL-1 was the first instrument of Casio’s VL-Tone product line, and is sometimes referred to as the VL-Tone. It combined a calculator, a monophonic synthesizer, and sequencer. Released in June 1979, it was the first commercial digital synthesizer

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Switched On Rack Vol. 1 (2017)

Switched On Rack is a collaboration album featuring tracks made with VCV Rack, open-source virtual modular synthesizer.

Mastering and album artwork: Sergei Moistus

Bandcamp manager: Kori Elg

Organizer: Andrew Belt

Collaborative tracks with Ukrainian spoken words / voice, metallophone, and modular synth. (Mutable Instruments Rings to Clouds in VCV Rack)

Processed to granular synthesis for create sound textures.

Acousmatic listening experience.

I did sound design with VCV Rack for Asian Film Archive (State of Motion 2020: Rushes of Time - Exhibition Trailer), based on this patch :

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Great job, very impressive!

Thank you @Evgeny

All sounds made with modular synth, use only one module as sound source : Mutable Instruments Elements in VCV Rack :

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Ambient modular with only Mutable Instruments Plaits as sound souce in VCV Rack. Blend with field recordings from Berlin, Moscow, and some small cities in Russia. Inspired by meditative sounds and solfeggio frequencies.

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Nice music and kindhearted atmosphere. Field recordings are organically intertwined with the sound texture. I like it.

Thank you @Evgeny . Yes, try to keep balance between of machine and organic things.

And you did it! Did your colleague Angelina go to Russia specifically to make recordings?

Yeah, no she is from Russia and based in Berlin. She is artist work with light and video. She sent me many videos (her collection) about nature, I feel it fit with my vision also, and I response audio / sounds of her videos to my music compositions.