"I chose to concentrate on just "8 bars" of my staccato typewriter sample (it's actually two splices of "4 bars" stuck together.) Listening to this loop in my MPC sampler, I tapped out a tempo and worked from there. Now I took this sample of mechanical rhythm, and one "bar" at a time, I reproduced the hits of the typewriter keys as hits of Control Voltage (electrical signal that can be interpreted as musical information by a type of synthesizer or drum machine). Now I played around for a couple of days with inputing that CV into some of my synths.
"I made a handful of long recordings of this playtime, jamming with different ideas, enjoying the discovery of a slow turn of a knob, or patching different electronic signals into unlikely inputs and listening listening listening to the results in real time. I am experimenting. I am in dialogue with my gear. Later in the day I will listen back to these long recordings while taking a walk or reading a book and se
