Annunaki

A live take. Trance induced polyrhythmic ambient piece. It reminded me of something old - hence the name. The Watchers from the Sky. The Annunaki are the ones of Heaven and Earth in the Sumerian lore.

The synthesizer is an Arrick modular.

The delays are a Lexicon MX200 and a T.C.Elecronic D-TWO.

Six oscillators are used. Two are tone generators and four are modifiers. I also used a noise source for the random sample & hold to an instrument interface which generated odd accent timings for the noise source through a Cyndustries Quad Low Pass Gate.

The moving line is the sequencer run through a Suit & Tie Guy Soundlabs Sea Devils diode ladder Filter module.

The monotone drone is through an Arrick Q150 Transistor Ladder Low Pass Filter. The drone timing was designed by using two low frequency oscillators' pulse waveforms into a Ring modulator (balanced modulator). The syncopated output was sent to an envelope generator that fired the amplifier and filter.

The resonant octave-sweeping sound is a manually modified FM oscillator tone fed through an Arrick Q107 State Variable Filter in band-pass mode.

No attempt was made to synchronize the various oscillators and sequencers. This gave me a polyrhythmic feel that seemed organic.

A Pan/Fade module sweeps the sounds in stereo for a dimensional effect.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Annunaki
• modular
• synthesizer
• Arrick
• synthesizers.com
• Q107
• Q150
• synth
• sumerian
• ambient
• drone

[macbethsynthesizers]

David! This is a fantastic video- I really like the delay effects on the vision!

....now how did you do that?!

Ken

[davidryle]

@macbethsynthesizers It is an effect in iMovie. That is an Apple movie editor that comes bundled with Mac OSX.

[aquakarn]

David, this is absolutely magnificent. Truly inspiring.

[davidryle]

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[JohnLRice]

Great one! It does sound very organic . . but scary! Good motion and tension. Like being in a dark forest, cave or abandoned building and hearing 'life' all around you but not seeing it. Would be good as a video game or movie soundtrack.

I like the video effect too, very trippy! ;-)

[davidryle]

It does have a spatial effect due to the delays. Thanks for the nice comment. I'm finding the modular itself to be more and more a tool for starting with. Less so as a melodic inspiration but more of a sonic palette.

The scary effect to me is the percussive "sticks" sound. As if someone were running.

[Quay1962]

Sorry about the double posts.. Ps David in the solfeggio section it shows u how to make cool sounds n make ur own brain wave theta wave etc.. I am a newbie am just passing along my knowledge of things to come..

God bless in love n light

[toslytodie]

wtf

[55mautak]

CAN'T LOOK AWAY NOW.

[mattsynth]

Bravo. Very cool sound and setup Dave. I enjoyed it very much.

[boobtube356]

really nice

[ORIAM85]

Truly deep and full of texture. I love it...