31 October 2021

Too Much Information - music by Used Soyuz

Here is another VCV twiddle, in two mixes. First I made this one, with three takes, edited together in Audacity:
 
Then I worried that it sounded a bit grim, so I thought I'd liven it up with a bunch of vocal samples, taken from two episodes of Gerry Anderson's Space 1999:  
I played this version to my family, whose response was, 'It's just a load of samples, with no music.'. I guess there's just no pleasing some people.

01 October 2021

As We Get Older And Stop Making Sense - music by Used Soyuz

My first bit of soft modular synthesis. I have been wanting to use VCV Rack for ages, but it didn't like my Linuxed Lenovo, so I put it on my Windows laptop instead. It worked first time. Here are my first two twiddlings, including my first ever use of a sequencer, edited together in Audacity. Free stock footage from videezy.com.

At first it reminded me of early Human League - 'The Dignity Of Labour' - only not as good. In fact I just read of the death of Richard H Kirk, one of the founders of Cabaret Voltaire. This is now a clumsy tribute to their early 'Methodology' period work. Only not as good.