ODAKU - Ensoniq Mirage Self-Composition (Circuit Bend)

Momentarely circuit bend Mirage. It was sitting in my studio not in use but turned on as always, it suddenly decided to play by its self. First a glitch, than a noise and than a composition started to form. There are lot of circuit bend instrument in the studio, maybe its contagious, perhaps a glitch in the Mirage's memory or disk, maybe its just simply alive and possessed by a ghost withing than never revealed it's self in all the years I've owned it.
It can surelly compose some interesting computer music.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• circuit
• bend
• horror
• glitch
• music
• electro
• scary
• venetian
• snares
• experimental
• dark
• robot
• sampler
• synth

[klotski]

My Mirage had a pretty weird sequencer glitch but when it would crap out and get stuck the sound was alot more raw. Was the audio here going through a pitch shifter or a reverb as well? Could you ever get it to do that again?

[odakueffect]

It was recorded directly to PC without any external FX.

And no, I am not able to get the Mirage to bend when I want to. It does it by it's self but it's quet rare. Usually it just sits turned on for hours and than it starts on it's own, maybe gets bored :-), but as I said it's rare. Only did it few times over the years.

[odakueffect]

You've also mentioned that your sound is more raw. It could be settings and samples loaded related.

[TheHevquip]

You know what would be great? If programmers secretly hid things like this back in the day in the software OS and floppy discs and whatnot...

[adderxxx]

my asr10 used to do this every every time i used a really small loop

[brightstarlit]

your mirage makes nice stuff by itself, awesome!

[brightstarlit]

your mirage makes niuce stuff by itself, awesome!

[nikwalnikwal]

It's actually NOT that bad!! I almost like it..

[wudsiba]

Were there samples loaded in this at the time, or are these just ghost in the machine sounds? Badass. I plan on sampling this in my MPC.

[kuronekotabichan]

this is amazing. the mirage puts laptop musicians to shame. what kind of samples are on the inserted disk? parts of the composition remind me of the fennesz album hotel para.lel - recorded entirely with a glitchy asr-10

[squidfanny]

have you had a bash at circuit bending this machine yet?

Looks like it'll 'bend quite nicely...

[Biopharmer]

This is so good, I like it.

[autisticotakugirl]

This is one of the strangest things I've seen as far as electronics malfunctioning on their own. The only other time I can recall something like this happening was in my own home back in the 80s or 90s. Only it wasn't a keyboard. Strange as it sounds, it was actually a wall clock. Not digital but one that has the hands and pendulum. The chimes were what was electronic and one night it started to go crazy. It woke me and my mom up. The chimes just started chiming consistently and sporadically.