Building an analog pitchshifter/granular sampler/delay thingy

Published on Jan 22, 2019 Wouter van Veldhoven

"A little contraption with rotating tape heads"

Modular tape-sampler (preparations)

Published on Nov 4, 2017 Wouter van Veldhoven

"cv controlled tape loops, a little preparation of things to come..."

composition for cassette mellotron, automated zither, toy piano and oscillators

Published on Mar 17, 2015 wouter van Veldhoven

"another composition for some instruments I build/modified"

A mechanical composition with eurorack.

some random modular randomness on tape

Published on Jul 8, 2014 wouter van Veldhoven

"just having some modular fun in the studio :)
probably more entertaining for me than for you..."

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automated composition for violin bow, zither, toy piano and tape recorders

Published on May 11, 2014 wouter van Veldhoven·19 videos

"a registration of an installation at rood|noot.
including an automated violin, toy piano and zither.. and lots of tape recorders"

rehearsing for lgw13

Published on Nov 29, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·17 videos

"preparing a live-set for "le guess who?" 30-nov-2013

yes it's in the middle of the night and I'm wearing pyamas,
and yes, that is a baby-phone on the right, I'm a responsible dad ;) (well, I try to be)"

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"using four tape recorders, a TV (noise generator), an a100 system and a couple of cassette loops I was rehearsing some thingies for a techno-set."

pulses

Published on Oct 11, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·14 videos

"I had a little idea; back in the days people used the second track on a tape-recorder to record some pulses on to which a slide projector could be synchronized ( http://patentimages.storage.googleapi... ). I thought I could use something similar to synchronize samples recorded to tape to do some analog sampling. Every pulse signals the end of a sample (and the beginning of another) and shuts the motor down, an external pulse then starts the motor again on the next beat.

I tried it and it works! I just wanted to show here how the simple sample on the looped tape (on the right) gets synchronized to the sequence on my doepfer. I got carried away though and couldn't keep myself from using two other machines (the reversing tape-machine and the pitching cassette) and eventually it turned out sounding like some kind of weird pulsating scapish thing, I guess I've been listening to Dreamies and Silver Apples a lot lately :)"

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experiment: cassette-synth

Published on Oct 1, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·13 videos

"I build a four step sequencer from a couple of old relays and used this to switch between a couple of podmeters that control the speed of a cassette walkman.
Not sure what to call this, a sampler or a synth, well, doesn't really matter now, does it?
I think the last tape I used is actually not source material from me but from Machinefabriek."

2nd composition for toy piano etc. at Utrecht Down Under

Published on Aug 26, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·12 videos

"A video of the installation I made at my installation for the art festival Utrecht Down Under. Really nice to see all the reactions people have. Some people sat there and watched for over 20 minutes, absorbed by the sounds and moving thingies, hardcore! Cheers me up to see all the curious faces :)

http://www.utrechtdownunder.nl/"

composition for modified toy piano, sine waves, ta

Published on Jul 5, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·11 videos

"This basically put almost every machine in my studio in operation,
Everything is controlled by a doepfer a100 system + some home-brew modules, in combination with some self made step sequencers build"

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"a Doepfer a100 system, a self build relay step-sequencer, tape recorders, an automated toy-piano, a broken television and an old radio."

Techno preparations; I need more hands

Published on May 15, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·14 videos

"for some ideas one simply does not have enough hands, patch cables and modules to record everything in one go..
here is an example of this; these are some preparations for a track for the techno-oriented album(s) I'm working on, probably the least subtle thing I've made thusfar... (other tracks are way more minimal, I guess I had this coming after recording a bunch of ambient baby lullabies last week).
I tried to mix the four videos I shot of me making this piece of music, as you can see I'm no video editor.. but I do like to share with you people what is going on in my studio

btw. for the people interested; the rhythmical melodic part was created with a doepfer triple resonance filter on full resonance, routed trough a ring modulator together with an oscillator and radio noise. this was then recorded to tape and dissected using a bunch of gates and a wave-shaper. The kick was created from a low frequency dropping sine wave recorded too loud on tape combined with low end tape feedback, the result was then routed through an adsr module and again recorded to tape witch various delays to create off beat effects and high end noises. The high percussive sounds are "brown noise" (filtered static from a television set) run trough a adsr, high attack, short release. Background scapes are a bunch of slowly changing sine waves, recorded to different tape recorders with long delays. That's about it."

research: The sound of bad reception

Published on May 1, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·12 videos

"This is just to give some insight into how I search for noises and sounds for my recordings: this is the sound of a broken valve radio being modulated by the turning on and off of the old television right next to it (frequency is controlled by the doepfer system). No idea how this works exactly, possibly the radio picking up oscillations from the deflection coils.
I was planning to record a neat track after this experiment but of course turning an old television on and off with this frequency doesn't do it much good... it died a few minutes after recording this...
luckily I recorded it all on tape so I can make some loops for techno tracks.."

four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno: looping, delay, reverse delay and saturation

Published on Feb 25, 2013 wouter van Veldhoven·11 videos

"four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno:
1) a tape loop system (1 recorder, top right)
2) long delay (2 recorders: top left and middle right)
3) reverse delay (bottom middle)
4) tape feedback/tape saturation on system 1, 2 and 3

The tascam 8 track is not doing anything here.. except being a rather expensive table for two other recorders,

btw. the video in the second part doesn't really match the music, the camera fell so I couldn't use the original.. I wasn't doing all that much except for letting the long tape delay saturate on itself for a very very long time..."

Also see: Automated tape delay/reverse

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