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White Cart

by Robert Macleod

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Like Totally 03:58
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One And A Half 04:42
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BBHH 05:06
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Moroder 04:06
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Robert didn't use any instruments or sounds or effects that he didn't design and program himself from scratch using the Reaktor software in the making of these tracks. He found a way to convert the electrical signals moving between the synapses of his cerebral cortex into computer code to communicate with a processing machine that was able eventually to output more electrical signals to be turned into the pressure waves we recognise as music. I wish it meant that he sat with some kind of tinfoil hat on that scanned his ideas and translated them for the computer which made them into music but not quite. Nearly though, everything in this music was created with mathematical and digital alchemy and was played virtually, although Robert told the computer what to tell the imaginary machines that he built to play it was that computer, not him, who played them. On the one hand this is a completely musically artificial, digital product. On the other, it is an entirely human creation, only using computer processing as a tool or maybe an 'intervention' - or actually maybe 'translator' is the best word here given the different codes at work all interacting to produce analog noise - in realising a completely person-generated construction. The music hasn't been produced only by being composed, i.e. choosing instruments and their various timbres or tones and then choosing what notes and chords they should play for how long and when, this is more like having to build the instruments first and deciding how they should work and sound, then doing all those other things and then after that deciding what sort of space they should inhabit and building that around them so they have somewhere to exist.

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released August 20, 2017

All instruments, sounds, effects and music designed and programmed by Robert Macleod and played by virtual machines inside a real machine:

3 oscillator subtractive poly synth
4 operator FM poly synth
Mono square wave bass distortion synth
Kick drum synthesis (loosely based on 909 schematic)
Snare drum synthesis (also based on Roland sounds)
Hi hat synthesis
Clap synthesis
Delay
Chorus / Flanger
Limiter
Sampler

(Robert hopes to make the patches for these machines available online for anyone to try in the near future, please watch this space and we'll include a link when he gets it organised...)

Artwork by Andy McGeoch

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