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Black Warrior Lures - Smidgeon Phrygian

from Æther Waves Vol. 3 by Æther Waves

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This is the kind of patch I've been building toward since I started with modular synths. Once I learned about generative music, I knew I could make a single voice play a solo much like how a jazz musician improvises over chord changes. I don't do chord changes, however. I do modal music using minimal composition methods developed by the likes of Steve Reich, Terry Riley. Miles Davis and John Coltrane cover the modal side of things.

For this track I had been listening to Turkish bagpipe music, the tulum. Phrygia being a region of ancient Turkey/Asia Minor. Smidgeon meaning small. Smidgeon Phrygian means small, Turkish bagpiper. It's also played in Phrygian mode. Unfortunately I'm stuck with the western-tempered scale until Ornament and Crime are ported to AE Modular. Than I can play the proper xenharmonic temperaments and scales.

It's has taken about a year and a half to acquire all the modules needed to play in this style. It took time for Robert to develop a quantizer, switches, trigger delay. Wonkystuff introduced the a kind of Turing machine.

Vital to this patch is the rbss-random bit shift sequencer. A sort of digital rendition of the Turing machine. Those random control voltages are attenuated, then quantized. That makes for the solo voice.

The "under structure," the minimalist texture supporting the solo voice, is handled by basic 16 and 8 step linear sequencers.

Accents and harmonics are handled by beat dividers and the trigger processor called TRIP.

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You can find out more about Black Warrior Lures at
wiki.aemodular.com/pmwiki.php/AeMusic/BlackWarriorLures

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from Æther Waves Vol. 3, released October 1, 2021

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