a twinkling light in the void (the pulsar suite one)
By neon liminal on November 24, 2024 5:52 am
Six weeks to go, came far too quickly - at the same time, I'm pretty burnt out!
I recently acquired a new pink friend, a SOMALabs Pulsar-23, and it's both amazing and overwhelming, but mostly amazing. I can't believe how good this thing sounds. And the learning curve is deep, but it takes very little to get inspiring sounds out of this thing, so I plan to learn it, deal with being burnt out, and make some fairly relaxed music for the next five weeks.
And thus begins The Pulsar Suite - a five part suite of ambient space music, with a little narrative along the way. This week began with a twinkling light in the black of the Coal Sack nebula, the tides of a stellar wind, and a voice in the dark. I'm working from my modular setup, with the Subharmonicon on main droney chords, some piano from Wavestate running through Morphagene and Mimeophon, and the Pulsar-23 creating some heartbeats in the dark (with effects from the modular). I didn't actually sequence anything this time - setup the signal paths, improvised the performance. Voices and some extra sparkled added after some heavy edits in Ableton.
The remaining parts will probably all centre around the modular but we're gonna bring in some other friends, like my Lyra8, who hasn't had a chance to play with his new pink friend yet, and maybe even dust off the Hydrasynth.
And then the last week of WB I'll hopefully make something special.
Anyway, it's been a hell of a ride this year - I hope you enjoy this one.
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