For this video I put together a mind-map showing the 7 stage alchemical process for music production, see the image below for a high level version.
I talk through the 7 steps, and look at structuring musical compositions around the…
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The Universe as a Musical System
At the deepest levels of reality, beyond the flesh, beyond the stars, exist a set of eternal creative principles that we represent as symbols.
The symbols we are most familiar with are letters and numbers. We call them into action…
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Sacred Secrets Revealed
I wanted to share this documentary from Luxor Media - this is not my own content, but it's one of the first good films I watched on the subject of alchemy, about 5 years ago.
This inspired me to create…
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002 - Alchemy & Generative Jazz
Kicks off with a few minutes of generative jazz "live performance" .... nice.
Then I get into some alchemical art, spirit science, what it means to be an alchemist, and look at some esoteric concepts and how they relate to…
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The Humble Sine
In music and mathematics, it is understood that all sounds are composed of combinations of frequencies known as Sine Waves.
Every sound can be represented as a waveform, and every waveform no matter how jagged or distorted can always be…
001 - Novelty Generation with Melodic Steps
In this first live stream, we look at using S&H LFO's and uneven loop lengths to add life, variation and unpredictability into sounds.
I use Ableton's Operator and 'Melodic Steps' MIDI device, combined with the mappable LFO device, as well…
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