NoiseTheorem

silence is not the answer

I support the causes of justice and equality.   I do not support the record industry and its slactivist ‘blackout’ protest.   Coming from an industry that has a history of exploiting minorities by appropriating their culture and white washing it anyway they could, it’s laughable. I won’t be part of it, no matter how well intentioned.    

Now is not the time to stop the music.  We need artists…

A Turning Towards Chaos

Entropy en·tro·py /ˈentrəpē/

Noun

a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.

lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

Since the universe began an estimated 14 billion years ago, it has been turning, and twisting its…

Greetings everyone….Been a while…

First off, the pandemic has been hitting me very hard mentally. I know I’m not the only one, but creative output is difficult when you’re living day to day in survival mode. But I am trying to soldier on when I can, but not beating myself up when I can’t. Someday, this will all be in the past. I hope we all can get there safely, together.

Second (and I…

Quarantine Project – 2020:04:11

https://soundcloud.com/noisetheorem/quarantine-project-20201411

Last Saturday, I finally started streaming again. The setup was simple, with 90% of what is in the recording coming from my Akai Force and the rest being improvised by me on the Korg Wavestate.

First off, I am really amazed at the sound quality of the Akai Force. You can take an entire stereo mix off it’s main outputs,…

Yes, this little fiend will be performing, too.

I’ve been saying I’d do this for a while, but I finally just sat down and got all the pieces working so that I could do it. Next week, I will attempt to live stream an industrial/ambient performance via Twitch (https://twitch.tv/NoiseTheorem) and subject you all to what it is I do when I’m home alone and going slowly stir crazy.

I’m still…

While stuck, like everyone else, in semi-quarantine-work-from-home-bullshit, I decided to do what all good drone musicians do and prepare a live stream for you to quietly ignore. I’ve been picking the gear, collecting sounds, and just generally fucking around every chance I get (which is a lot of chances lately).

At first, the rig was going to be the WaveState, MPC One and Behringer DeepMind…

…But other than that mrs. Lincoln…

So. I could talk about it, but I’m not going to. You’ve probaby heard enough about it and, like me, could use a little break. So lets talk about something else.

Now that I am, like many of you, in a state-imposed social distancing exercise, I thought it would be time to get back to that internet streaming thing I did way back that was so fun and even somewhat successful. What form this…

Working, working, working

Lately, I’ve been on a creative tear. I’ve committed 5 songs to my next album over the period of mid January until now (late February). Only one of those tracks was written before that. I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I hope I can keep the momentum a while.

I’ll of this is leading towards my next album, which I’ve got the title for. I’ve also found the…

New Release: Graveyard of forgotten gods

So…I think I forgot to tell all (4) of you that I finished and released a short 3 song EP. I had to get it out and get it done so I could move past it. I mean…8 years between albums is not a rate of release I am happy about. These three songs have literally been hanging around for *years* waiting to get out.

Releasing an album is not an easy thing to do. It brings up all of the…

Quick Shot: Behringer Neutron

I’d never really played with an analog modular synth until I had a trifecta of amazing instruments in my studio on-loan from a friend while he lived in Europe. These synths were the Cwejman S1 mk2, Macbeth M5 and an Evenfall Minimodular. (I’d had both Clavia modulars, but they are very different experience).    Of the three, oddly, the one that left the most impression was the Evenfall. It was…

The STG Envelope Generator. Deep, yet accessible.

Tonight’s studio time was split between putting the Rubicon II through its paces and attempting to put together and play a set of live music. It was a good night, all in all. I’m really looking forward to putting it all together.

As I’ve commented before, I am not a fan of the way some Eurorack manufactures have decided to attack the second hand…

Akai MPC Live and Force. TR8s pictured at the end for sampling purposes only.

For a long time, I’ve been working toward getting back to broadcasting lives sets. In my original rig from this, the equipment used was my modular, Octatrack and sometimes an Elektron Analog 4. While that rig worked, it had the limitation that it was less than intuitive to change songs from one to the next, so most of…

To Rare to Die

Today, as I was working with my Korg Prophecy SSP-1 Synthesizer and news was breaking of the Behringer TD-3, it dawned on me that there is a wonderful class of musical instruments from the mid 1990’s to early 2000’s that can’t ever be replicated.  Instruments like the Prophecy and Korg Z1, the Yamaha AN1x and Roland JP8000.  Instruments that, while they modeled analog instruments, the fact they…

I’ve got some holes to fill.

Trying to pick a Eurorack Oscillator is an annoying complicated decison.  There are so many of the fuckers flying around now that it’s hard to settle on just one.  This is made harder because it is for my Satellite case, which alread has the basic MiniBrute 2S oscillators to explot.  With the basics covered, I can go a little crazy and weird and if you’ve spent…