
I tend to work on music in phases. The impetus is almost always some sort of concert or engagement; a deadline, essentially. I’d been happy enough with the “Capitulation Engine” setup, but as with all things modular there’s this everpresent nudge to embellish & refine, and that’s what I’ve been doing over these first few months of Winter.
The set above (partially live on Bandcamp a/o Tuesday, finalized today for the platform’s monthly charity event) goes deeper into a given direction; gone are the Beatkid (which has been supplanted by a more bespoke approach to clocked event-generation, working natively within the remit of “Dynamic Gates”) & that slow granular crawl from the Disting NT (at Pianos it was a folk-song from the Voyager Golden Record) but further fleshed out are the controls from the Faderpunk™ (of which I’m now using all 16 channels in one way or another to automate wave-shapes & the harshness of freshly routed drum-saturation/wavefolding bus) which of course leads to new music & further refinement, ad infinitum.
Please have a listen, and let me know what you think; quite happy with the first/”Morning” piece here, which largely arrived fully formed when I powered up & listened to for a good 15m while packing Alpha State NYC orders before jumping in to actively further it along. The interlude returns to those gorgeous, logarithmically-derived chord progressions (ala the “Acid Causality” pieces) & the third “Evening” piece takes a more linear route into a propulsive Krautrock -type direction, stemming from an experiment in modulating various rhythmic vantage-points simultaneously programmed into the timing engine.
Then of course you get a remastered transcription of my performance at the Roulette event as a bonus track, replete with the raw video sent from my phone onto the screen behind me while I played. Given that we were all on about Cybernetics & man-machine hybrids beforehand, demonstrating the kind(s) of seldom-interfered-with automations this setup is capable of felt the right thing to display. Enjoy!

PS. The archival Livestream of the entire evening is (graciously, Roulette are the best) up on YouTube™, including the discussion by all four of us (Ted Gordon, Marcia Bassett, & Luke Stewart) along with the individual performances & Q&A’s:










