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Dots
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2019
Dots are Nicki & Les, a dynamic electronic duo from Lancashire. Together they serve up a crazy cocktail of synth pop and early blues, mixing the sounds of Kraftwerk with the spirit of Hound Dog Taylor, topped with a generous sprinkling of humour!
Genre-bendingly bizarre? You bet.
Genre-bendingly bizarre? You bet.
To The Power Of One... A TipTop Buchla Bass Patch!
Creating a simple one note bass patch with a bit of randomness, using the Turing Machine, Buchla TipTop Dual Oscillator, Buchla TipTop Quad Function Generators, Buchla TipTop Source of Uncertainty, the Buchla TipTop Lopass Gate and a Wavefolder.
This would also work with any analogue oscillator and random voltage source... you don't need to have Buchla (though the Buchla does sound awesome!)
As mentioned in the video:
EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) - electronicmusicopenmic.com
Electronic Sound Magazine - www.electronicsound.co.uk
SynthEast - syntheast.com
Great video on Turing Machine Expanders by @DivKid - th-cam.com/video/Le26BIqB8Y8/w-d-xo.html
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This would also work with any analogue oscillator and random voltage source... you don't need to have Buchla (though the Buchla does sound awesome!)
As mentioned in the video:
EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) - electronicmusicopenmic.com
Electronic Sound Magazine - www.electronicsound.co.uk
SynthEast - syntheast.com
Great video on Turing Machine Expanders by @DivKid - th-cam.com/video/Le26BIqB8Y8/w-d-xo.html
Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands!
Subscribe:
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Follow us...
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Check out our music:
🎵 iamseeingdots.bandcamp.com
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Hardware Jam - From Arwen of Rivendell to the underground beats of Mordor
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Our first hardware jam of 2025! This weekend's challenge was to create a jam inspired by JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. We have been inspired by Arwen of Rivendell, and an orcs' underground techno party to create a jam of two different halves! Using Modular Synth - Mutable Instruments Rings into Beads and TipTop Buchla for voices, along with percussion from Mutable Instruments Plaits and Knob...
FM patch creation with Buchla Tiptop 258t and 281t and how to create it with other modules!
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How I created an FM patch using the Buchla Tiptop Dual Oscillator and Buchla Tiptop Quad Function Generator. I also discovered a way to make this patch without the Buchla Tiptop modules, instead using an analogue oscillator with FM input and Make Noise Maths. Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www....
Jamming with the Buchla Tiptop Dual Oscillator, Quad Function Generator and Source of Uncertainty
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Trying out some west coast synthesis with the Buchla Tiptop Dual Oscillator 258t, Quad Function Generator 281t and Source of Uncertainty 266t. The 258t and 281t very kindly loaned from our friend @draconianrhythms ... check him out! We would highly recommend checking out the following TH-camrs if you have the Buchla/Tiptop bug... Todd Barton: @vgermuse Stazma: @Stazma Don't forget to subscribe ...
Hardware Jam - Riding Home After The Xmas Party
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This week's challenge was to create a repetitive rhythm which turns into a handing electronic drum beat. Using modular and Arturia Microfreak... drums coming from Mutable Instruments Plaits and Knobula Kickain, sequence and bass from TipTop Buchla dual oscillator and pads from the Microfreak! Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as s...
A special delivery!
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We received a very special delivery at Dots HQ this week, which may well be of use for the All Stars Patch Off! Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www.youtube.com/@iamseeingdots?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us... 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 www.threads.net/@iamseeingdo...
Hardware Jam for Inky Da Cat Tribute Weekender
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Here is our Hardware Jam in celebration of Inky Da CaT. Totally improvised using Modular Synth, Korg Monologue and blues harp :) Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www.youtube.com/@iamseeingdots?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us... 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 www.threads...
What’s in the box?
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A quick look at Nicki’s performance rig Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www.youtube.com/@iamseeingdots?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us... 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 www.threads.net/@iamseeingdots 💙 www.x.com/iamseeingdots Check out our music: 🎵 iamseeingdots.bandca...
Cue the action!
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Having a sneaky look at Steve Davis' modular set up whilst watching his band The Utopia Strong! Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www.youtube.com/@iamseeingdots?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us... 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 www.threads.net/@iamseeingdots 💙 www.x.com/i...
The All Stars Patch Off In A Nutshell!
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So what is this All Stars Patch Off all about? Find out here! Don't forget to subscribe ✅ and hit the notification bell 🔔 if you want to see the next instalment as soon as it lands! Subscribe: ✅ www.youtube.com/@iamseeingdots?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us... 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 iamseeingdots 💙 www.threads.net/@iamseeingdots 💙 www.x.com/iamseeingdots Check out our music: ...
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 46 - Farb Failure (due to my bad soldering!)
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 46 - Farb Failure (due to my bad soldering!)
Dots On The Road - Machina Bristonica 2024
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Dots On The Road - Machina Bristonica 2024
DOTS - WEIRDSVILLE ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL SET - OCT 24
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DOTS - WEIRDSVILLE ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL SET - OCT 24
Dots On The Road - Hidden Notes Festival - Sept 24
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Dots On The Road - Hidden Notes Festival - Sept 24
Dots On The Road - The Utopia Strong & Konformer at The Yard, Manchester
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Dots On The Road - The Utopia Strong & Konformer at The Yard, Manchester
2 BOXES IN 5 MINUTES - HARDWARE JAM CHALLENGE
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2 BOXES IN 5 MINUTES - HARDWARE JAM CHALLENGE
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 45 - Making Sound Machines Farbfolder demo
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 45 - Making Sound Machines Farbfolder demo
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 44 - Farbshaper: The shape of things to come?
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 44 - Farbshaper: The shape of things to come?
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 43 - DIY Making Sound Machines Farbfolder
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 43 - DIY Making Sound Machines Farbfolder
FLOWFAL FUN! Controlling our modular synth with movement!
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FLOWFAL FUN! Controlling our modular synth with movement!
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 42 - Suck It And See
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 42 - Suck It And See
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 41 - Bad day at the office
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 41 - Bad day at the office
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 40 - A Micro Modular Moment!
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 40 - A Micro Modular Moment!
MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 39 - Building the AXiS Modular 2xATT
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MINI MODULAR MOMENTS - Episode 39 - Building the AXiS Modular 2xATT
Good version
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
The miracle of AI android ic telecommunications satellite Dots Telstar like this in music videos like this on TH-cam 2025 with the Thunderbirds TV series in the British imvasion of the United States of America with music 🎶 kind of a Hush Hermins Hermits Sentimental Old Friend over there Peter Noone waiving a hand with a workhorse Salute Allons anchors away across the Atlantic with this song in the first transatlantic television satellite communications comanys like Hughes being sold out and 1601 Hughes Way now being empty for lease really sucks in aerospace and movies like Fantastic Voyage or Inner Space and Johnny Five alive in AI robotics my cellphone glinting to watch movies I'm going to watch my VHS movie collection starting with the aviator and him making movies like Hells Angels the Outlaw and Jet Pilot in my adventures of Corky Wallet Gasoline Alley my mom used to read on the Denver Post in Colorado on her Families farm in their outhouse everyone knows what they used news paper for in outhouses in those days don't you my mom nicknaming me Corky from the gasoline comic strip in their dr version post news paper and my stories as a veteran senior citizen handicapped disabled person in repairs and maintenance as POA main beneficiary for my mom the owner so many interested in buying our home and putting us in the streets homeless and my not getting my medical needs having life threatening medical GI liver transplant issues these days in these cellphones glitching now in my needing to have my own phone number working to keep in contact with my doctors and nurses at the VA hospital in Loma Linda as well as other people in such healthcare and well NSA DHS BIA bureau of internal affairs and native American land management of which I find now kind of screwed up for US in my relating to these things these days from so many foreign interests in intelligence community's involving cyber security and national lampoon's holidays like the deal of the century or spies like US starring Chevy Chase I would rather watch on VHS movie tapes without these high-tech AI android cellphones and computer science as Will Smith I Robot tries kiss Sophia after she and other AI android entities watching us humans who program such games as grand theft auto becoming human with Chloe and her video games of Kara having to save that little girl from humans that hate AI android my not being a hostile intent towards them and my own government and country either yet they can conspire against my moms home trust home here like they did on that property I was buying until I got busted getting back my shotgun trying to sale it to pay the water bill at the other place I was buying so they wouldn't shut it off and I would have to pay more money to turn on the service as my neighbor and others didn't pay their water bills or utilities during the Covid pandemic not shutting off those people as I paid my moms water bill like I had as her POA and main beneficiary here still and what im going through to keep it out home with the grand daughter and her dad having to make a will and living trust for her and her dad and mom working together they split up as I am her God father bad Grandpa holding together what left of our family I y story's as 😅 handicapped disabled veteran senior citizen now gee whiz ward do you have to be d to hard on the beaver
This is awesome! My Dad, who grew up in the 50s, introduced me to the original in the 70s.
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed!
@@iamseeingdots th-cam.com/video/ZxyN3b1bs-w/w-d-xo.html
I enjoy the content, but good-god girl, if you are going to use an open room mic.... put up some acoustics room treatment. You sound like you are in a tiled bathroom.
60s syntho-pop and Supermarionation. Gotta love it!
Ah, modular nerds. I can't follow a word they're saying and their music always sounds like nails down a chalkboard, but I'll never fall out of love with the grin in their voice when they explain. I mean in no way to diminish, it's like a child showing all the shells they picked up off the beach. "And I found this one, and this one, and this one, and this ones got a hole in it."
😍
Congrats on the namecheck in the magazine! Also loving the Buchla/TipTop modules! I've just filled a 3 row 270hp case with the Buchla/TipTop modules.
Thank you! Oh I’m totally hooked on Buchla Tiptop. Do you have the mixer? I’m torn between the buchla tiptop one and the 14hp Toppobrillo minimix. The minimix has two stereo inputs which would be handy for my stereo modules, and it also saves a lot of HP real estate! but then the buchla tiptop has ability to monitor the sounds before sending them out the front. But then again, with such a big module it’s unlikely I will be taking it to gigs anyway!
I do. I did go back and forth about the TipTop Buchla mixer and the Toppobrillo and yes, the TT is more hp but ultimately I wanted to keep the case TT/Buchla as I used to have a 4u Buchla system and I like having one manufacturer per case (I also have a make noise case).
I love the sound of the patch, and the graphics are awesome btw. I’m gonna start playing around with single-note setups based on this. And well done on getting in print .. bravo all round 🎹🔥
Thank you! Still loving the buchla! Now to get a second sequence going with the other oscillator… watch this space!
a bloody great start to the year!! seeing all these duos jamming and getting super jealous, haha.
Dots do it best great version of telstar this should be in the charts right now an uplifting updated version of telstar a great sound to listen to in an ever growing dystopian world of unease and negativity yes dots dots dots do it good play it loud play it proud tunes and sounds forever forever great thanks dots for the great sounds and greatest vibes
Thank you sooooo much! So glad you enjoyed! We always play this at our gigs, it’s such a classic song!
It needs Joy Division Transmission music overdub.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!
2025 I am Listening
Very cool jam. Great start to 2025.
Thank you so much!
That was great.
Really good and special vibe
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Amazing jam!! Love the Vibe!! Loved it!! 🙂💜
Thanks so much! Loved your jam, it was epic, those twinkly sounds just brilliant!
That was glorious!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!
lovely minimal jam, Nicki and Les, much enjoyed the vibe 🙂
Thank you! Very much enjoying your jam right now!
@@iamseeingdots thank you very much 😊
Chilled! Give Arwen a hug from me!
Ha! Of course we will lol!
I started to do one then gave up !
Awwww we often do that!
@@iamseeingdots I've pretty much given up in general !
@@adeevisionnoooooo! Don’t say that! We demand you do the next one. We will if you will?!
@@iamseeingdots does it depend on what the challenge is ?
@@adeevisionyes but it’s DISCO! You in?
Very cool subtle vibe
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
That’s a real command station you’ve got going there.
Thanks! It’s great fun!
We feel the vibe.
@@soma4u289 thank you!
Absolutely excellent 🔥🔥🔥
@@draconianrhythms thanks! The buchla again!
@ Buchla … Elvish magic
Furchtbar
@@BertBeyer sorry you didn’t enjoy our cover version. We had fun recording it, and we do enjoy playing it at our gigs. Obviously we cannot compare to the original as it is an absolute classic. Happy New Year and all the best for 2025 :)
Those puppets look like The Shadows. Does this music go with the video, or is it from something else? Just wondering how this came to be. I'm really glad it exists, thanks.
Glad you like it. The music is our cover version of Telstar, we always play it at our gigs. The video is from an episode of thunderbirds and yes they are the shadows :) happy new year!
Great video,. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed!
That was a lot of work!
Hi Nicki, can you recommend the ground control?
@@johnmckenzie6941 absolutely would recommend Ground Control - great that you can sequence four different things at once, arpeggiator is great, the midi on it is great so you can sync to other equipment or computer seamlessly. Great if you are used to having a keyboard layout. Slightly menu divey but it’s practise you get used to it :)
Thanks for quick reply, HNY x
Analogue oscillator with FM input interesting. Like your analogue dress too!
Ha ha thank you! 😀
Really like the patch run-through .. awesome
Thanks! You will be able to try it when you get your modules back ha ha!
Great lesson! I need to play with my Maths much more... Grace gets cross with me!
@@AndyVonal ha I was talking to Grace about Maths and she did mention that lol! To be fair I had no idea it was based on the quad function generator until a couple of weeks ago! And I did only ever use it for a basic envelope 🤣
Am I right that you don’t need Maths, if you have any other cycling function generator?
@@nystada I would think so, I had heard maths was similar to the quad function generator so that’s why I tried it out. Basically triggered it with the gate output and fiddled about with it until it sounded good - needed to be on the exponential end rather than linear. Very trial and error for me, as don’t know all the technicalities lol!
@ ah thanks anyway for sharing the idea :) will try with cosmotronic delta-v :)
@@nystada let us know how you get on!
DOG: Don't mind me. I'm lost in the rhythm.
That was amazing. I've just been watching the original and your video came up.
Thank you! So glad you liked it!
@iamseeingdots what are those keyboard guitars called that your good lady is playing. Have they got a special name. Ive seen them around and always wondered.
@@MrBooojanglesthey are called Keytars. The one in this vid is the Roland AX Synth. We no longer have this one as it was a little big and heavy lol
@iamseeingdots ah thanks for that. Yes they do look heavy LOL.
@@MrBooojangleswe have a korg keytar now which is significantly lighter!
merry Christmas to you, Nicki and Les, I hope you are enjoying your break! West Coast certainly is a lot of fun, if slightly scary, especially if you have been doing East Coast subtractive synthesis for the last forty years haha! thank you for the breakdown and subsequent jam, Nicki, much enjoyed 🙂 cheers, andy
Merry Christmas to you too Andy! Glad you enjoyed the jam, we are having a lovely break spending time relaxing and playing music with no time pressure! Yes West Coast is certainly different but so much fun! Scary moment performing with it the other week - couldn’t work out what was causing a problem until we were two minutes in when I realised the knob on the Disting used for the low pass gate had been knocked! Would have solved that quicker had it been a straight forward envelope and filter ha! Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas!
That's pretty funky for West Coast! Great jam.
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I now believe in FSM (Flying Spaghetti Music)
Hmmmm interesting ! almost .. . . . no no I'll stick to my Microfreak !! good jam though
Thanks! The microfreak is epic, I don’t blame you!
Wicked jam Nicki
Thanks Simon :)
good luck at syntheast...
Thank you!
hey there everyone... 👁 ope u r all doing good! stazma does kewl stuff. nice system. check the tuning on the analogue oscillators cos the lava lamp hadn't warmed up...kidding
lol! Thanks! Fast becoming my favourite modules! Have a great Christmas!
Merry Christmas .What a buzz.
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too!
That sounded great Nicki. I keep wanting to pull the trigger on those Buchla Tiptop modules but then I always talk myself out of it. You did a great demo that will make it harder to talk myself out of next time.
Glad you liked it! Get them bought, you won’t regret it! It’s totally revolutionised my modular journey!
cooool
Thank you :)
Nice vibes here ! Thanks for the shootout 🎉
Thanks! And thanks for that vid on the OR output - it was invaluable, my patch has been made using some of those tips!
Nice set up, Nicki! It's coming together nicely!
Thanks! Buchlas are definitely going to synth east!
Nice jam - Happy holidays!
Glad you enjoyed it! Happy holidays to you too… have a good one!