Moonrise
Today was the Youtube premiere of January Skies, a space music concert presented by the Colorado Modular Synth Society. I recorded Moonrise for this concert a couple of weeks ago.
My inspiration for Moonrise is from the "Pet Rock" module, which I had just received the day before and described in yesterday's post. Pet Rock generates a pair of random rhythms each day based on the phase of the moon. The day I recorded the music, the moon was in the waxing crescent phase, shortly after the new moon. Pet Rock played the rhythms of the two lead synthesizer voices.
The bass drone is a mix of three oscillators: Manis Iteritas Alia, Mindphaser, and E352 Cloud Terrarium. The first lead voice is the Ensemble Oscillator. The second lead voice is Chainsaw. Percussion is a simple kick drum played on Synthstrom Deluge.
Pet Rock supplies the triggers for the two lead voices. Their pitches are sequenced by Ansible Kria. The pitch and trigger sequences are different lengths, resulting in some interesting unsynchronized melodies. During the performance I repeatedly changed which sequences were being played by Kria, which further varied the melodies.
Here is the full January Skies video featuring performances by seven artists: