Blandcanyon

Drone Day

For International Drone Day 2023, the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet group streamed a collection of videos created by members. One of them was my video, called "Bloom"

I performed the music on Moog Matriarch and Monome Grid. The Matriarch was in "drone" mode, playing sustained notes with its four oscillators tuned to different notes in a chord.

I played the melodic/arp lines on the Grid, modifying an Ansible Kria sequence in real time to play notes on the Virt Iter Legio and Cloud Terrarium in unison. LFOs from Batumi and Ochd were modulating the Cloud Terrarium and Virt Iter Legio parameters. Those sounds were mixed in the modular and sent into the Matriarch mixer noise input.

All sounds were processed through the Matriarch stereo filter in LP/LP mode and the stereo delay.

I recorded the video clips several years earlier in Boulder and Crested Butte.