- (1/3) "Make Noise Morphagene, Rings, Pianoteq", Synthusiast
Modular artists love "self-playing patches". It's like a game: find enough mechanical structure in your rack to produce enough novelty to keep people interested for the length of a "song".
This piece starts with the modular trope of "Rings plucks at random times with random pitches run into echo" but then asks a different question: What if I just sat down and played the frickin piano? And it's great
- (2/3) "Breaking Point [live improvisation]", Stephen Torto
Here's a video showing off the power of the Novation MIDI controllers with Ableton Live, specifically the looper interface. Torto builds an entire dark electronic song from nothing as the song itself is playing; other than what seems to be a pre-prepared drum loop, Torto is playing every note himself on the Launchpad's weird isomorphic-keyboard scale grid thing. It's legit cool to watch.
This is a hypnotic, constantly churning 80-minute ambient piece by the lead designer of the Pittsburgh Modular synth company, performed live and streamed from the company's account. It seems to me this would make great background music for a programming trance, guided meditation or drug trip, assuming you want your code, meditation or trip to take a sinister turn somewhere around the 36 minute mark.