VCV Rack
VCV Rack is virtual Eurorack software that has a free open source version that is quite robust as well as a pro version with many more features. There is a thriving community of users as well as developers who make plugin modules for the software. It is an excellent way to virtually work with modular synthesis and do so for free and expand quite affordably. The creative possibilities are virtually endless.
Determined by Whom Part 1
Decided by Whom is a collection of VCV Rack patches that explore the stretching, if not breaking of determinism at a perceptual level. While the patches have initial settings that mean that upon loading, the resulting musical output will always be the same, to the listener, they seem organic, alive, and full of beautiful surprises. In part 1, time warping is explored. Specific motives are maintained throughout, and the oscillation of time is consistently and regularly varied, but tot he listener, it is easy to find one’s self in a continually evolving vortex of time manipulation that seems endlessly different with welcome recurrences of ideas.
Determined by Whom Part 2
Decided by Whom is a collection of VCV Rack patches that explore the stretching, if not breaking of determinism at a perceptual level. While the patches have initial settings that mean that upon loading, the resulting musical output will always be the same, to the listener, they seem organic, alive, and full of beautiful surprises. In part 2, time warping is explored. In this part of the series, a drone pervades and is characterized by an ancient sounding timbre that roots the piece. Washes of punctuated, crystalline sounds come and go like stellar waves of energy coming and going like waves of the ocean.
Determined by whom Part 3
Decided by Whom is a collection of VCV Rack patches that explore the stretching, if not breaking of determinism at a perceptual level. While the patches have initial settings that mean that upon loading, the resulting musical output will always be the same, to the listener, they seem organic, alive, and full of beautiful surprises. In part 3, the intensity comes on strong with contrasting ideas creating discord with one another. The themes persist and vary in time to achieve a tentative peace with one another. It is almost as if oil and water have learned to live side by side with one another without changing each other.
