Eurorack? MediterraneaRack!

Published on Apr 11, 2017 Izhar Ashdot

"As a modular patch I was working on started getting a Greek/Balkan flair, in walked Dudu Levi, my guitar tech, modular partner in crime and a fine musician. Few people know that Dudu is fluent in the Greek/mediterranean guitar style.

I asked him to put down the soldering iron and pick up his guitar, and this is the resulting jam, mixed live as we were playing and edited down from 29 minutes.

The main melody is played with the Radio Music module with new Chords firmware, going through a CVfied Boss Overdrive pedal."

Daily Modular Jam walkthrough, featuring Radio Music & DIY

Published on Mar 27, 2017 Izhar Ashdot

"After this afternoon's blackout, I started my daily Modular jam. It's my daily musical workout.
What made me fall in Love with Modular Synthesis is that although it is my music, it's new and surprising to me.
So here's a taste from today's jam, complete with subtitles describing my connections as I develop the patch.
This patch features The Organ Chords version of the Radio Music Thing plus other modules, many of them DIY."

A Digital Guy in an Analog World בחור דיגיטלי בעולם אנלוגי

Published on Feb 1, 2017 Izhar Ashdot

Click on CC on the bottom right of the player for subtitles.

"Israeli musician and record producer Izhar Ashdot talks about 35 years of working with synthesisers, moving away from them and their recent return to his creative process via the Eurorack Modular system.

Izhar talks about creativity, working alone and collaborating with other musicians, about fear and how to get around it.
יזהר אשדות מספר על 35 שנות עבודה עם סינטיסייזרים, ההתרחקות מהם והחזרה שלהם ליצירה שלו בשנה האחרונה. יזהר מדבר על יצירתיות, על עבודה לבד ובשותפות עם מוזיקאים אחרים, על החששות ועל ההתגברות עליהם.'

Future Drums - Selonoid Grooves

Published on Jan 24, 2017 Izhar Ashdot

Side note: The bass is a Roland SH09, running from a Turing Machine clocked by the Beatstep Pro.

"A sequence of drum grooves, played by three DIY selonoids, driven by the Bastl Selonoid Eurorack module, programmed on the Arturia Beatstep Pro and Bastl Little Nerd.

Design and Programming: Izhar Ashdot, Assembly: Dudu Levi, Recording: Gal Cohen.

In Memory of Jaki Liebezeit"

Pentatonic Spectral Delight

Published on Apr 11, 2016 Izhar Ashdot

"This Patch is based around a sequence using the Spectral Multiband Resonator’s Indian Pentatonic scale.

The SMR and other modules receive various pulses from the Bastl Little Nerd’s 5 outputs which is clocked by a BestStep Pro.

Other modules used: Doepfer A-118, A-156, A-148, Erika Polivoks Filter (as oscillator), Make Noise LxD, Synthrotek NAND, a LEL UDS drum module and a Roland SH-09 synth."