The Great Hapax Experiment Vol. 1 - Squarp Hapax sequencing loads of stuff and Cocoquantus improvs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2023
- Sat with this one quite a bit for quite a bit.... kept it unlisted for over a year but after some revisits thought maybe its time to put it out there. Still stand by what I initially thought, its a "Curate's egg... Good in parts". Squarp and Coco were still newish at the time of this jam so still finding the feels.
This is what I thought of it back then:
I got a new brain!
Here's a full 45 minute noodle with the incredible Squarp Hapax front and centre. To say this is the most powerful hardware sequencer I have ever got my hands on is a total understatement.
WARNING This pretty experimental jam is not for the faint hearted in certain sections. Focussing on Hapax and the CocoQuantus it gets noisy and out there but that's what I love these days.
It was improvised and live-sequenced over a couple of initially formed sequences.
There are good bits but also some really bad sections in the middle too. I considered cutting these out but that would be a hard edit and they eventually do settle down.
I'd say the worst bits are:
20:30 - 21:26 (shitty idea to try and record a kick bass line without tuning the kick!)
28:39 - 29:42 (combo of not realising that the 1010 Blue box was turned down and having a few moments of forgetting how the CocoQuantus worked... oh and a pesky Buchla sequence I forgot to stop!)
Hapax is firing off and controlling a ton of stuff in the room:
Circuit Rhythm
Ciat Lonbarde CocoQuantus (clocking the loopers)
Nord Drum 3p
Rossum Electro Assimil8or (through CV.OCD)
Meng Qi Wingie 2
Novation Summit - also acting as a controller keyboard for everything in the set-up
Buchla 208C
Norns (running Plonky Script for multisamples)
Just Friends in polysynth mode
Vongon Polyphrase
Vongon Ultrasheer
Mutable Instruments Beads
and some dodgy singing
All connected via Hapax's MIDI Outs and a Conductive Labs MRCC - เพลง
👍Merci !🙏
One mans unsuccesful experimentation is another mans discordant sonic masterpiece 😅
Loved it all calc 😁
If you ever wonder "should I hit publish", know that the answer is yes, yes I should 👍👍
Great experimentation.
Ahh so good to see Calc! This is glorious! 🤩
Love all of your jams, CALC! You are my favorite synth youtuber to watch. :)
Wow Thanks!
Killer! For the noobz out there: what's making the happy little clicking sounds that start around the 1:48 mark (that get more decay time at 2:09)?
Thanks! I think the section you're meaning is a combination of two things. Some fast click samples from the Rossum Assimil8or (really powerful sample module) and the Mutable Instruments Beads. Beads is mostly used in this performance as a granular glitch effect - during this bit it's being fed some of the choir sound.
@@-CALC- Amazing, thank you so much for the explanation! Gonna go down a rabbit hole about both modules now 🙂
Yay, Calc! What is that thing with all the colorful patchbay jacks above your Circuit Rhythm?
That's the rather marvellous and enigmatic Ciat Lonbarde Cocoquantus