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Alternating Currents

by Tenshun/10shun

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  • 12" Acetate Dub-Plate & 7" Lo-Fi Flexi
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Heavy 12" Acetate Dubplate of the album “Alternating Currents". Which contains a track that is not featured on the digital. Each record is cut in realtime from a Presto 6N with Neumann MS 52H cutting head straight to vintage Audiodiscs Q3 lacquer.

    Due to the age of the dub plates the chemical compound has changed over time so there is some surface noise that comes in and out through out the record but the grooves are deep and the music is cut loud.

    It also contains a one sided Lo-fi Flexi disc 7" of a live session which is not featured in the digital download. Each one of these were sequenced live to disc so each one sounds different then the next.

    Only 10 handmade copies created. Each of them hand numbered and housed in brown sleeves with printed labels.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Alternating Currents via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

The title "Alternating Currents" refers to the audio and electricity that is alternating between voltages and timbre .
I got inspiration for the title from when I was on a overnight bikepacking mission up the California coast. I saw the oceans currents violently crashing into the beach sand. The sound of the oceans waves creating a rhythm . That's where I took the picture for this project.

With these sessions I was experimenting with sequencing drums and pitch voltage on the Er-101. I played around with the loop points of each pattern to create drums and melodies that were alive and constantly evolving. I also used the Maths function on the ER-101 to add randomized melodies and drum patterns as well. This was useful for improvisation for when I can copy a pattern and hit the Maths button to see what pattern gets created. if the pattern was not to my liking I could tap it again to see what it creates. This gives the pattern a sense of someone jamming out and tinkering with the instrument until something awesome happens.

This project also has some digital bonus material which is not included on the Acetate dub-plate and 7" Flexi disc.

credits

released February 7, 2022

Alternating Currents was composed using:
Orthogonal Devices ER-101 , Orthogonal Devices ER-301 , ALM Busy Circuits Pamelas New Workout, ALM Busy Circuits Px2, Ladik S-185 Gatsby, Doepfer A-150, Instruo Tanh[3], FSS MX 1.

All Sequencing was on done on the ER-101 which was triggering and sending pitch voltage to the Er-301.
ALM Px2 was sending the x24 clock out to clock the ER-101.
Pams workout was used as random voltage, trigger source and master clock.

Some of the random voltage was being sent to one channel of the A-150. And then opened up with a random trigger from Pams that was sent to one channel of S-185 Gatsby. The Gatsby was used to extend the trigger and allow the random voltage to play through or close.

I also used the A-150 to switch between two drum sounds. I had two drum sources that were coming from the ER-301, one going into IO 1 another into IO 2. I used a random trigger from Pams to switch between the drum sounds. That trigger was first sent into a channel of the S-185 Gatsby. I used the Gatsby to manually switch between the sounds using the potentiometer. If I turned the Knob clockwise it allowed the trigger to open up the switch. Depending on how far I turned the knob was how long it allowed the other drum to play from IO 2.

I used the Instruo tanh[3] as a wave shaper and overdrive source for the drums and synth sounds.

All percussion sounds were recorded from various objects around my area and then chopped and manipulated in the ER-301.

Recorded using MOTU Ultralite MK3 into Reaper.
Using a MacBook Pro 13"

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