[sdiy] Demios and Phobos [was: letting Hubble die]

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 Hi all,
 Wow! Finally something I can contribute to! :-)

 On Larry Fast's webpage, he describes how he created the rhythm track on 
Phobos. It's just a general description that he gave - sample and holds and the 
sequencer synched to the click track from track 8 of the tape machine....and 
lots of tweaking. 

http://synergy-emusic.com/cords.html
(scroll to about the middle of the page)

 You can also hear a clip of the Phobos rhythm part on Amazon.com. The 
quality is pretty bad though:

 http://tinyurl.com/3gy9v

 Andrew Sanchez


In a message dated 2/19/04 9:40:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
david.k.cornutt at boeing.com writes:

> Hey, look, a chance to bring this back on topic!
>  
>  From: harrybissell [mailto:harrybissell at prodigy.net]
>  > 
>  > H^) harry    (Demios, Phobos... rah rah RAH !!!)
>  
>  So, this suddenly reminded me of something: the
>  Synergy song "Demios and Phobos Go To Mars".
>  One thing I've always been curious about is how 
>  that percussion track was generated.  In Larry
>  Fast's web pages he mentions in passing that it
>  was a noodle, a self-running patch.  Now, I could
>  sort of see how one would do a thing like that in
>  the MIDI world, where you can have a drum machine
>  or a sampler or something with drum sounds mapped
>  to key numbers, and something generating some form
>  of random key numbers (actually it sounds like maybe
>  a random-walk algorithm, or something else more
>  complex than just uniform distribution).  I could
>  even see driving this with an analog control voltage
>  via a CV->MIDI converter.  
>  
>  But how might this have been done in 1975?  Of 
>  course there was no such thing as MIDI then, and
>  no such thing as multitimbral machines with sounds
>  mapped to keys.  The only thing I can think of 
>  would be maybe something involving one of those
>  PAiA KIM-1 processors, with maybe a whole bunch
>  of trigger outputs connected to it and going to
>  different groupings of modules for the different
>  sounds.  But Larry sort of implies that it was all 
>  analog.  Any thoughts?
>