Harmonic Selection (Survival of the Fittest)
By NWSPR on July 12, 2020 11:57 pm
For the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with semimodular architecture and trying to learn a bit more about it. This week is more of the same except I've added Roland TR-626 to the rhythm as well as hand playing some white noise on the Moog Grandmother. The chirpy kick drum comes from the Moog DFAM and 2 monophonic synth lines are coming from the Mother 32s. All the random Arp lines are played on the Grandmother live. The initial 4 minute track was all laid down live from the gear pictured below. Then I overdubbed guitar, Model D, and white noise hits. Everything is analog except for a repeating shiny chord riff that is polyphonic. Everything else is monophonic but the model D's 3 oscillators are at intervals and can be mistaken for chords from a polyphonic synth.
This picture can explain better than I can. But below is the reason my wife gets pissed off at me as I set up right off our kitchen 
I had a lot of fun recording this. It is not a masterpiece but I think the fun shows through!
Hope you are all well and staying healthy!
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