Resonate Vacuum Energy Transfer

Resonate Vacuum Energy Transfer is an experimental electronic ambient-inspired original musical composition. The composition has a strange ethereal and science-fantasy like feel married to dynamic video synthesis creations using animated textures and line functions. The work seemed to be fitting with the concept of energy production, creation or harnessing; and so there are allusions to the extraction of free energy from the very vacuum of space-time itself - hence the title of the work. The piece comprises tones from three different software synthesizers and the visuals created from two software video editors to emulate the functioning of analogue signal generation or real video synthesizers. New visual techniques were employed to create the embossed and line effects seen in the composition. To start, a long section of experimental sequences were created using the SynFactory 1.15 modular software synthesizer. The patch used comprised an oscillator set to noise output, driving the FM inputs of two additional oscillators set to a sinewave and a triangle wave. These in turn were fed to a multiplication module for ring modulation. The ring modulator output was then fed to a primary delay module, and the dry output of this feeding the inputs of two additional delay modules set to slightly different delay settings. The output was recorded while adjusting the signal oscillators frequency and the delay feedback. Ten minutes of random electronic tonalities were recorded in WAV format. A loop of four bars of a high-frequency chordal sample was taken from the original 10-minute recording and alternated with a version slightly lower in pitch of itself. This track was then copied and positioned along the timeline to create a single-shot delay. A rhythm sequence was created by various shaker samples processed through a medium reverb, and synchronised to the above tracks. The TS-404 software synthesizer was used to create a pulsating rhythm-like sequence - again using ring modudlated tone sources. Various low-tone sequences were then positioned along the timeline, including a horn-like sequence from the SynFactory 1.15 recording. Tones with short delay times and short percussive peaks, high-frequency chordal tones, signals with heavy feedback delays, ringing sequences of random fluctuations, pleasant chime-like sequences were all alternated with one another creating a checker-board like pattern in the multi-track time-line. The Krakli Cygnus-SF VST synthesizer was used to create an eerie space-like pad of tones that form a background ambience to the main SynFactory 1.15 sequences. Finally, an additional SynFactory 1.15 sequence was added as the last background track for extra random ambience and spontaneity. These 13 tracks were the mixed down to the final version. The visuals were created by a combination of horizontal modulations, embossing and colourisation to create the dynamic animated video patterns. The Edius Neo software was used to create the horizontal and verticle looping motions to a video still, and multiple orders of embossing to create the 3D-like texture effects. The Edius Neo verticle and horizontal edge detection tool was used to create the broken line effects. A base video track was created by combining the best modulating background textures. Superimposed on top of this were the white line effects. The result is a strange ambient work that has a very dreamy and meditative quality when listening. The pulsating vsiuals resemble electronic circuits, particle accelerator traces and oscilloscopic traces.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• free
• quantum
• vacuum
• energy
• ring
• modulation
• electronic
• electronica
• music
• experimental
• ambient
• atmospheric
• ethereal
• surreal
• sub-atomic
• Synfactory
• 1.15
• modular
• software
• synthesizer
• synthesis
• sequencer
• soundscape
• FM
• chimes
• metaphysical
• transcendental
• analog
• analogue
• digital
• superimpose
• videography
• patterns
• textures
• emboss
• oscillators
• Cygnus
• Krakli
• SF
• Space
• VST
• synth
• TS-404
• electro
• loop
• pulses
• trance
• animation
• zero
• point
• field
• waveforms
• aether
• harmonic
• cosmic
• energies
• sub-molecular
• aetheric
• vibration

[astrophonix]

Seriously love your music dude, this is more listenable than Stockhausen! It would be great to see a video of one of your pieces seeing all the musical elements you're using and the sequencer tracks?

[JeffreyPlaide]

Thanks so much for this, and I also listen to Stockhausen, and even more obscure artists, even using Buchla systems in the most radical way.

I'll have to think about how to screen capture the LMMS tracks or the Adobe Audition multi-track sessions. I use video synthesis modulations to complement my sounds, as basically my computer system is my studio, with a few hardware keyboards as well. Lots to think about....

Thanks!

[jenamu6]

This is really good....great atmosphere and bloody brilliant visuals

[astrophonix]

@JeffreyPlaide It would be a complex task! In a way your comprehensive descriptions of how you achieve these hypnotic structures is a kind of text-based score of the piece. I grew up listening to Radiophonic workshop stuff, from the Dr Who theme to the schools programmes they made us watch, and your work makes me think of what Delia Derbyshire, Peter Zinofieff or Tristram Carey might be doing now with computers, with the focus on complex and subtly layered shifting timbral patterns.