Below is a track I created using just the iPhone Filtatron app. I started off just playing around with using the app as a delay with my guitar, and then it gradually got into feedback and self oscillation. At some point I hit record, and at another I hit stop. This track is around 12 minutes and it’s fairly modular-sounding and satisfying.

Watch your audio levels. Most sounds come in fairly gradually, but if you jump around, turn the volume down first. Some parts are quite a bit louder than others.

Let me know if you take a listen.

Filtatron 20111219 [ 11:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A little track done in Nanoloop for iPhone and Tape Echo in Logic. The first two tracks were just endless, and were created by playing live with Nanoloop and just recording the result. This track was the result of recording various separate sequences from Nanoloop, then cutting them into loops, and then arranging them into a song using Logic.

The photo above is unrelated. It’s a photo of my Thingamakit customized with input and output jacks. Useful if you need bleeps and bloops.

Loop 3 [ 2:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A little track done in Nanoloop for iPhone and Tape Echo in Logic.

Loop 2 [ 10:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A little track done in Nanoloop for iPhone and Tape Echo in Logic.

V8 Media - Loop 1 [ 12:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a controller that I have put together for the purpose of controlling visuals software, and probably sequencers and synthesizer software as well. I hacked together a bunch of different controllers as a way to test out what works and what I would really use.

Here is a track I put together using just Apple’s Logic and my Minime as a basic midi controller.

Minime 20091209 [ 9:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Click “more” to see information on the construction of the minime and more photos.

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Just a try at creating a Cure-like track. Ended up sort of New Order.

I usually end up getting lost in how many options there are on the computer. Three hours later, I’m surfing the internet and the only way I can remember I was trying to put a song together is that I’m holding onto an instrument. This one I finished because I didn’t do almost anything with filters or effects, and I only used the guitar.

Bis [ 3:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The photo is one I shot whilst on Seattle’s underground tour. Seemed like it fit the mood of the song. The tour is probably worth doing once, but I was expecting it to be much larger cavernous spaces.

I’d like to see if there are tours of what’s underneath New York and Chicago as they likely have old train tunnels and old unused train platforms down under, and Detroit as it has a salt mine.

RjDj Echelon + Korg DS-10 + Apple Motion from Ian Page-Echols on Vimeo.

This is a weird little conglom made using various pieces of software. The main audio was created on the fly using the Korg DS-10 software for the Nintendo DS. This was transmogrified using the RjDj app for the iPhone and the Echelon patch. A small amount of leveling was done on the file in Sound Studio, a simple audio program on Mac OS X. The resulting audio file was dropped into Apple’s Motion program.

The video clips are all of my creation, I use some of these files when I am doing live visuals. I tend to use Motion sort of similarly to the way I do visuals. I blend multiple layers of video and fade clips in and out while trying to have the video go with the audio. I can’t work fully live in Motion (at least with the machine I have it running on), but since it can loop segments or the whole project, I get a pretty good idea of what the end result will feel like.

Just got the Korg DS-10 cartridge for the Nintendo DS, and it’s great! This is a simple little modulish patch, somewhat like a modular synthesizer patch.

Korg DS-10 Patch 01 [ 1:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A little playing in Gleetchlab

20060802 Gleetchlab [ 6:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A lot of the samples in this are recorded from my 1975 Moog Minimoog. The cars have nothing to do with the audio, but they just might be in the same color scheme.

Prophet64 for the Commodore 64 playing through my Moog MiniMoog. I just wish I could get some cleaner sound out of the Prophet64. I’ve never heard recordings of the Commodore sound as buzzy as mine. Maybe mine’s faulty? Either way, the combination of retro computer with retro synthesizer is quite fun to play with.

(Watch your volume dial, some of the audio is fairly off the scale)

Prophet64 Through Minimoog [ 10:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download