Physical objects · Machine
The instruments and tools I use, one page each: what it is, who makes it, how I came to it, and what I have made with it. Software machines of my own are on Contraptions.
A graphical sound-design environment; the Paca is the orange box that computes it. Beta tester, credited on the Kyma X startup screen. Metal Machine Trio, the Reed tours, Lulu, Lucibel Crater, The Book of Sarth, SeqOSC.
A surface that tracks the fingers in three dimensions, continuous pitch, not keys. My instrument since Lucibel Crater, in Lou Reed’s band, Metal Machine Trio, Yellow Pony and Lulu.
The performance DAW. I endorsed it, built “Awakening (To Blacklist)” in it, and looped Lucibel Crater with it.
Generative video and image models, the motion end of Visual Reference Prompting. Burlap connects to it and came out of its 48-hour film competition.
My first instrument. A 1974 Fender Jazz Bass, a Warwick six-string, and others. Number19, Lucibel Crater, “I Before E.”
Yamaha’s 1998 workstation synthesizer. The keyboard on Suspension.
The Little Phatty on “Peggy Sue,” Lou Reed’s Moog on “Cheat on Me,” and the pedals and the theremin I brought back from the factory.
Lou Reed’s guitar from 2008, first tried at the factory the day after the Orange Peel. A feedback loop into the pickups; the notes seem to start out of nowhere.
Three boxes from the Electrix performance line, on my table now: a half-rack analogue filter, a full-size stereo filter with MIDI, and a tempo-synced tremolo, flanger, filter and delay.
Blackmagic Design’s edit, colour and audio application. Through the Brambles was cut and mixed in it.