tom moody

"4 Oscs and a Kick" [3.7 MB .mp3]

...plus some percussion, and it's in 9/8 time! Woo.

"Monk 2022" [4.9 MB .mp3]

More synthetic jazz combo stuff, with dramatic piano chords trying diligently to stay in the approximate tonal range of a quavery '60s style modular moog (not actually a Moog but whatever), while an imagined drummer with an unfiltered cigarette hanging out of his mouth keeps the thing regimented.

"Squarewave Express" [5.7 MB .mp3]

Primitive techno-trance -- am biased but especially liking the sine wave "flute" that comes in at :37.
The pulse width of the square wave that runs underneath is being widened and narrowed by a slow-ish LFO sweep.

"B4 and 4fter (Bongos)" [6 MB .mp3]

Part one is a mangled organ sample using the Doepfer A-112 wavetable function with an offset/attenuated LFO hitting various tables (the sample is cut up and pieces of it are treated as playable waves that are arbitrarily ordered in a grid).
Part two is live FM synth and a different set of (prepackaged) wavetables played with a different module.
The beats are Reaktor Rhythmmaker.

"B4 and 4fter" [2.9 MB .mp3]

A slightly melancholy nursery tune. MIDI notes playing 3 hardware oscillators* tuned to make a chord - with LFO tremelo on 2 of the oscillators' VCA control voltages. Some obscure Hammond B-3 licks (taken out of context) on the fade.

*1 Doepfer triangle (low note) and 2 Gamma Wave Source

"Trippmatic Variation 3" [4.2 MB .mp3]

More rearranged drum-and-bass, almost becoming...dubstep. The "profit" pad is from the Synth Mania website, also rearranged.

Variation 1 / Variation 2

"Drum Lord" [4.6 MB .mp3]

A mix of granularized and hardware-sampled percussion with a thrilling conclusion of haltingly shredded breakbeats.

"Crom and Bass" [4.2 MB .mp3]

This song has a message and the message is "I don't care." (Technical note to self: the main synth is the A-112 wavetable playing a sample of the Vermona Perfourmer and harmonizing with another Perfourmer riff played simultaneously with the same MIDI notes. The guitar amp-like vibrato is made with an ADSR envelope's control voltage plugged into the A-112's CV in.)

"Barney's Bag" [3.1 MB .mp3]

The song is kind of jazzy and the title is kind of a parody of a jazz song title from the '50s. This is a substantial reworking of a song I don't yet have the fortitude to post, with the working title "Barney's Bag (Chipmunks)," which features chipmunk-like vocalese made with live FM synthesis.
This version has the synth-bass-piano combo I've been working with in recent songs; I had to write some harmony to make this work. (Monk meets Glass in a robo-carwash.)

"My Robot Can Eat Your Robot" [4.8 MB .mp3]

Have been keeping scrupulous notes on how pieces were made, mostly for my reference in case I wanted to come back to something. This has a tendency to demystify the work, which isn't always desirable. #krypt