Eurorack Modular Synthesizer Sound Design Piece
Primordial Soup
On a distant planet far from ours, a comet strikes the surface. With it, the ingredients for life melt and coalesce into a strange liquid within the center of the massive crater. The planet is harsh and barren but there is movement stirring. Extraterrestrial and unfamiliar with this newly formed land, it awakens and makes a new home. Can it survive and flourish? Is it sentient?
This slightly musical soundscape was created using the combination of Make Noise's Morphagene, Mimeophon, and Tempi eurorack synthesizer modules. Other modules such as a noise generator and low frequency oscillator were used to drive the piece. Human interaction was required to drive this piece during the recording process. Samples from the show Futurama and the video game The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past were used in the Morphagene.
Eurorack Modular Synthesizer Improvised Song
I Fell in Some Ice, And
Off the cuff, improvised, and slightly loose in time, this song was created using Make Noise's Morphagene loaded with the entire audio track from a Saturday Night Live sketch called Unfrozen Caveman Laywer. Rest in peace, Phil Hartman.
Eurorack Modular Synthesizer Sound Design Short
Ice Palace Festival of Lights
A crystalline being known to the galaxy as the "Luminous Queen" rests upon her throne in an ice palace atop an eternally frozen mountain on a rogue planet. Since no star graces this seemingly hostile environment, the icy creatures here have adapted to make their own light. Visitors who venture to her palace can observe the queen listening to her rainbow choir sing their ringing chants praising the goddess of light. Each participant glows a different color in time to the music, some of which are so high in frequency, they cannot be observed by the human eye. This sample was recorded by a Terran who was invited to the one thousandth and fifth festival as a honored guest of her grace. Unfortunately, due to extreme cold, humans can only listen using recording equipment suitable for harsh environments. Attendees that may survive the elements without an environment suit tell us that the sound reflects and scatters throughout the ice palace while resonating in the more cavernous parts of the structure. The experience has been described as spiritually harmonious by a renown critic of music whose actual name is unprintable. However, this case we are allowed to call her "Joanne the Music Maker".
This piece was created using various analogue eurorack modules but features Make Noise's QPAS filter module. The raw was audio was imported into Ableton Live for further filtering, reverb, and other audio manipulation.