Clock Division, More Dad Jigging & An Anouncement...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- I apply a band-aid to my sick patient of a modular patch in the shape of #makenoise Tempi. Do you approve of Sandy and I changing the name back to Modular Mondays even if films don't always come out on Mondays?
Here's that clock divider: www.makenoisemu...
...and the clever looking multi axis sequencer: www.makenoisemu...
...oh and that #gamechanger audio sustain pedal I'm in love with: www.gamechange...
I like ‘Modular Mondays’ because it gives a natural idea of a weekly basis, eventhough I’m watching it every time I’ve got time, no matter the day. btw, I love your quest! Great soundings!
Sounds great. The piano fits very well. For my taste the DFAM is a bit high in the mix and would pull the soul strings a bit more if it was under the mix. I’ll be very interested in the journey to release an album!
This is such an incredible announcement! I am so excited to follow along!
The kick is so powerful in a very interesting way
Exited to see the mixing
Great performance at the end. Can't wait to hear the final track.
another great addition to the video library christian. i'm all for keeping "modular mondays" no matter what day the video goes up. great news regarding the experimental music and the upcoming albums. cannot wait to hear. this peek into your creative process and the other topics you'll be tackling coming up are a brilliant look into these situations. thanks for sharing them here. and that DFAM sequence is a banger! i'd take a stem of that ANYTIME!
SOOOOOOO Excited!!! The behind the scenes album releasing and self promotion would be interesting to see how you would go about it!
Thank you. I'm very interested in the release/label journey!
Great to hear you’re going to release autonomous work! As an music producer and sound engineer (with some composition ambition) I’m looking forward to learn from your newest endeavor. Good luck!
This is my new favorite channel. Very nice!
Love the new dfam sequence (even if it’s a bit too loud ;) ) it adds an industrial grit that makes the ambient piece rise even more
Was hoping for this. Many thanks for taking us on this journey. Looking very much forward to it.
Oh hell yes - this journey I'm **very** excited about. Something I've been skirting around for longer than I'd like to admit, keep putting on the docket, which inevitably becomes the back burner (once again). Can't wait to watch you go down the waterslide first :) Thanks for sharing, this will be an incredible learning experience for all.
Also, balls to anyone who discourages your dancing. Don't limit your joy of expression because of a few schoolyard dummies.
Lovely piece of music Christian. I was thinking it was a perfect piece to relax to with my wife 😛 Then the DFAM came in and moment was lost! 😳
This is great! I can't wait to hear the albums
Inspiring as always Christian sir. Many thanks.
Great work Christian. For me it sounds like a 20 year evolution of drum and bass, a light dusting of trip hop and your own stamp of classical pacing and spacing.
Beautiful...
Stunning ... made my week.
Hi, this is going to be a wonderful journey, thank you for sharing it with us. I look forward to your adventures in producing a record label because I believe you will inspire the rest of us to take the "leap" as well. (On a side note: I'm sure you have noticed that the sensor on your camera needs cleaning? a small dark circle left of center... can't remember whether you talked about it). Cheers
Brilliant always suspected that was going to be some sort of material release from these endeavours - good news indeed. Now, what about a tour!!!!?
F7ckin hell, that's an exciting announcement, Christian - not just what the vlogs of your journey will reveal, but primarily to hear your albums. I've just been to see Nils Frahm live, it strikes me that there are similarities with what you're putting together, but with a really interesting and individual slant from the modular stuff combined with your own background and experience. Can't blummin wait to hear what comes out of it. Plus the dancing - don't stop. If what you create makes you want to jig around, surely that's a good sign?
Great jam again!
Basic stuff, like multiplying and subdividind, is pretty simple on Tempi (if memory serves, it is only matter of holdin a or b and pressing the channel button desired number of times, or somethin along those lines).
Plans for vlogging the releasing/label process sounds great, as does the track! Cheers!
Great performance, cheers!
Bravo!! Really looking forward to the album(s)! This is just the kind of announcement I was hoping for! :-) Thank you for sharing the whole journey with all of us, Christian!
Jig away! It makes music groove harder. 👍🏼
Love it !!
sounds exciting - looking forward to hearing more!
You continue to inspire and educate, Christian. As a 48-year-old English expat playing in bands for all of my adult life, I've always had this desire to record and release solo instrumental material. Only in the past year, has this come to fruition. So this video hits home. Your work with Spitfire and independently have been a valuable resource and cheerleader. Thank you.
ps. That DFAM beat is delicious!
I haven't got a clue what's going on, but I like this
The beasty kick from the DFAM literally destroyed my eardrums, loved it!
Those drums kicking in really woke me up from my morning dissociation. Not sure I need a coffee now. :)
I also am composing music with the idea of releasing it down the road so would be fascinated to watch your journey to releasing your own music. Keep up the excellent work.
Hi Christian, good to see the patch didn't have to be started again. As a VCV Rack user pulling all the cables out scares me. One Question - given that you start with only the piano, what are you hearing from the headphones at the beginning/ throughout to keep things synced. Are you using one of the sounds from the modular rig as a click?
Love it! Hey Christian, how are you not picking up any unwanted noise on the piano mics? The piano just sounds so amazing. If I was doing this it would sound like a shock and awe bombing campaign had started down the street!
That sounds like an exciting if not slightly trepidatious project that you've embarked on...good for you! I wish you well with it and look forward to watching the project unfold and come to fruition over the coming months :-)
Yeah... hence the throat clearer, do some music that doesn't challenge my artistic ambitions too much to see how the process feels and flows.
Very nice
Down to watch the album process. Excited to see it.
Hi Christian, good to hear that you will be covering the process of releasing an album etc.
If you're covering this aspect, I'd be interested to know what best practice is for protecting your IP.
For instance how do you stop someone else claiming your music as their own on TH-cam etc.?
Thanks!
This guy has some interesting content, but I wouldn't want to be alone in a life raft with him.
Super-interesting idea! Looking forward to see the progress of this project :)
OMFG!....... An album? & more work to follow.. Had to watch this twice in case I'd imagined it. Today is a very good day indeed - can't wait (latest composition was fantastic too)
Looking forward to the tracking and mixing stage of this... Curious to see how you do that with a live performance.
Great job & can't wait to see this develops Christian, I would wish you good luck, but... you won't need it!
Love the new dfam beat!
Can you please be my dad
Or at least teach him your moves
@@blcanny Ha ha ha.... next week I'll be throwing a shape known as the "Hype", or maybe I could run a poll for that or "Orange Justice"?
Christian Henson Music no way man, just skip the poll and do Orange Justice! You KNOW that one would win anyways. Wait... does it have anything to do with a certain president? Eh... better stick to Hype. 😉
Needs a lovely fat low passed reese bass 😋😋
Amazing work, so inspiring
Keep it Modular Mondays
Also in my opinion, DFAM is just abit too in your face but would fit in so well just underneath everything
I can see this leading to a modular orchestral piece at the proms!
Very interested in what you discover as I’ve tested the waters by putting up some albums on bandcamp & realise you still need the traditional record company procedures of promotion rather than rely on a few hundred mates on social media noticing it so looking at the next steps now
Taking liberties I know but I had the sudden urge to solo all over the top of this... Just gorgeous.
No point limiting the dad jigging for the sake of others... If you like the groove of the music, flow with it.
I actually think that Modular Mondays would be a good band/artist name. Best of luck with the album project Christian! I look forward to watching it unfold.
awesome sound i love the percussion
Needs some vocal chops or some poem extract from Crow hill…?
Good luck with the projects, I'll definitely buy one!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video Christian. I for one would love to learn about setting up your own record company. I met a fantastic musician at Dartington who always said it was the way to go. Now nearly 17 years later, it’s time.
Thanks for the new demo. I'm still at the modular sw emulation stage (VCV Rack, modules). It will be a while before I dive in. Some of that gear is pricey! - I'm looking forward to your perspective and ideas on creating an indie record label. I've entertained doing this myself, solely for my own music. But I wonder, outside of more control and possibly income, if owning and running a label for this purpose offers much benefit over no affiliation at all. Cheers.
Great vid, best of luck with your project!
Are you using revert from hardware or is this a software reverb that you're using?
My modular tempo was sent rising by seeing so much spaghetti - but it is too early for pasta. Never too early to embark on an album though. You’ve already got a fan base so success (in your dictionary term and others) is guaranteed. I look forward to watching your journey in respite from my own.
Hi Christian, I saw you got a prophet rev 2 a couple episodes ago. Did you get rid of it? What are your thoughts about it?
Good!!! I'm looking forward to sharing the adventure, and learning about the self-publishing route. #yougofirst ha!
Great idea regarding the album - I've always thought you should release some of the music you write for the Spitfire demos etc, indeed, having suggested it on this and various other forums, I'm taking total credit for it! ;) Good luck Christian - it will be surprising if what you produce isn't anything other than breathtaking, and will be great fun and an education for us to watch your journey.
Hey CH. I thought your piece there was quite nice. You achieved that hypnotic motion thing...don’t know a clinical term...that I think is at least one of the goals of doing an evolving electronic piece. I might have taken a different approach with that balls hammering kick sound, but over all, quite pleasant.
And I never knew you changed the name of Modular Monday...I haven’t been paying attention much lately from actually having some work [snoopy dance of joy]!!! But all seriousness aside, you could call it “Modular Spooge Monkey” for all I care...good content always carries it anyway. Cheers......
Love the label idea! Very exciting.
Stick with the Modular Mondays name 👍
You have enough subscribers to get the album into the Top 40. Sounds like a journey to watch. I again really liked the Dfam but felt the modular sequence had to automated with distortion and compression when the beats come in as I felt the beat swallowed it. But the modular sequence sounded lovely. The piano also sounded great. Again I agree with you that it needs to be made listenable and you are certainly crafting towards this in a very nice way.
All the best with the self releasing. I’m a Tempi dad too...
I love those sounds. Actually, I was a bit annoyed when you brought in the bass and that flutey main theme at the same time, because I was already enjoying that piano immensely, then the synth theme came in with that beautiful sound that I genuinely don't think I've ever heard before and really gave me the fizz, and then the great bass came in and drowned out the other sound before I'd had time to digest it. Great stuff though. I'm going to listen to it a second time now before I get to work myself. It's going to be a bit tough, because you have again inspired me to grab an instrument and turn on the looper pedal
Really curious to see how you approach releasing albums on your own label. I've been doing it on Bandcamp or through CD Baby for iTunes, Spotify, etc., but I've never had my own bona fide "label"
I could be your Dad....er...not. But I do really enjoy the journey, I have over 200 of your videos in a folder and can revert to at anytime. Thank you. It goes without saying but I will anyway that I'd love to be part of the team.... I compose and compose until I've totally and utterly decomposed. Amen. All the best
We are in. But need a Hi Def digital copy as we dont have a record deck, tape player or working cd player. Good luck and we will be with you every step of the way.
All those cables and knobs and modular stuff makes my brain hurt, however the track is like a warm hug for my ears and totally makes up for the brain ache. The DFAM entry is a little loud on entry though! Looking forward to coming along for the ride with you as you release your album! Can we have a music video with you simply doing contemporary dance on your own? Shall I just leave my card details here?
That's how the internet works right?
interested in seeing the mix of this, how many tracks?, and definitely looking forward to the process of setting up a label, want to do the same.
These sounds are really beautiful! (However the beats are a bit too loud for my taste too.) I would definitely add it to my playlist on spotify :D
Marcell Illyés not mixed yet, I want the beat that loud but more controlled... let’s see where I get to next week.
A friendly reminder to take your meds at the same time every day!
Looking forwards to watching and if course listening to the album...and to echo other people...the Dfam was a little to loud this time.
Really interested in how you go about your new record label. I'm new to media composition so I'm often filling in time making my own stuff in between jobs. I'm planning how to release it at the moment so your timing couldn't be better. Will you release it under your own name or as a "project"? There seems to be a fairly even split at the moment, about half the artists I follow do all their work under their own name, the other half do composing/session recording under their name and then go by any number of names (depending on how varied their output is!) for the music they release themselves? For example at the moment I'm "Moray Macdonald, media composer and sound designer" and "Moray Macdonald, rock keyboardist session man", so adding "Moray Macdonald, maker of solo anthemic electronica" might just be a bit too schizophrenic!
... At the beginning until now, “Modular Monday" was a good name-title to this kind of rendez-vous. But, last week, during a very short stay in London (sorry, I didn't had time to going to the Spitfire Audio HQ to said "Hello" to all of you) I really enjoyed and liked this new title-name “Modular Project”. That's sounds, more soft, less straight, under a smooth line from mind, more opened... because sometimes we need a bit more longer to reach this aim on the time. ... Because also our own life in privacy...
I felt also that as new important step for you, to improve, to increase something.
But this “Modular Xxxxx" each week, is your own and you are strongly involded with; I am not sure that you want this one writing in the marble but, more like a young tree growing up. :)
Wishes Christian
Yes! The whole insight into how to release your own album could not be more timely - be sure to release on CD, Christian, whatever other format you choose...
Call it Moduday
Do you think you could do an introductory video to what you’re talking about, because I try to keep up, but I’m normally gone within the first two minutes?
You weren't joking about that DFAM sounding FAT!
Why not just release it on bandcamp? :)
will be watching the progress with interest - self-releasing is not so hard (oo er mrs) - I've put out vinyl / cd / downloads etc - of course bandcamp is perfect for all this - the hard bit is getting the fans:) - my advice (not that you need it or asked!;) is do a very ltd run of vinyl, with downloads too - I have a hunch this is your plan anyway. You might find that the vinyl becomes collectible - some of mine have ended up in the rare record guide, with one selling for £200 second hand. This, in a roundabout , wonky way, opens your audience up even more. You said you want the lp to be all otb - personally - I wouldnt throw the baby out with the bathwater - simply because there are some amazing softsynths that can do things that arent poss with hardware..so you'd be constraining yourself (which I realise can of course help creativity, but still...).. and also, and perhaps more importantly....when doing experimental music, I've often found that being able to edit itb is an extremely powerful tool - the most amazing happy accidents can occur when you grab a short section - pitch shift, loop etc....all of this is so fast to do that it encourages experimentation, whereas with otb it's very cumbersome, and for that reason, you'll find yourself less likely to play around with mixing up odd elements that you recorded and seeing how they work together. saying all that - im imagining you're aware of all this and want to take the old-skool challenge:)
Modular jazz album? You know you want to Christian
I guess music's all about where your head's at really. This chap wears tan brogues.
I'm really on the fence about buying a DFAM.
More daddy jigging! :)
Lose yourself to dance!
Really like the chords you came up with at the start of the piece, but found the entry of the drum sounds far to aggressive, insistent and in your face - a bit like the drunk guy that invades your personal space and insists on telling you over and over that not very funny anecdote whilst you are trying to slide away to enjoy a quiet pint.
I'm interested to see what you mean by "experimental" - as you probably know, there's quite a thriving experimental music scene in Edinburgh, and it covers a broad choir of things. I've just spent a few days immersed in the Dialogues festival and a lot of what I heard has been quite thought-provoking
Love your stuff but it’s not just the pedals that are too complicated - consider cutting down your modular rig to those you really love, or at least are willing to put in the time to love fully. Cheers.
Drums didn’t work for me I’m afraid Christian but otherwise quite beautiful.
Drums waaaaaaaay to high!!
Beautiful...