Panel discussion at LA Premier of the Subotnick documentary - Philosophical Research Society 4/17/24

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Excerpt from Jill Fraser, Peter Grenader and Lance Hill's panel discussion at the Los Angeles premier of Wavemaker Media's documentary SUBOTNICK: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer at the Philosophical Research Society on April 17th, 2024.

The discussion begins talking about Mort Subotnick's use of control tracks on A Sky of Cloudless Sulfer, a process that he developed."

DANNY CAREY • TOOL • CHOCOLATE CHIP TRIP • LIVE IN WINNIPEG 2023

video upload by Peter Grenader

"live recording of Chocolate Chip Trip form the 2023 Winnipeg Tool show, featuring Danny Carey at the Toolbox synth. Images are of the Toolbox in Palm Springs, October 2023 before their Power Trip Festival performance, while installing a new LFO in the bottom row"

re:VOLT • SUBOTNICK SIDEWINDER • RAVEL SCARBO Live at the San Fransisco Electronic Music Festival

video upload by Peter Grenader

"re:VOLT (Jill Fraser, Peter Grenader, Thomas Klepper) live at the 2023 San Fransisco Electronic Music Festival, September 16, 2023 at The Lab

Maurice Ravel SCARBO (0:15)

Morton Subotnick SIDEWINDER (10:09)"

MUTABLE MADNESS (sometimes it's luck)

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Tripped on a really great patch which incorporates a Mutable Rings as the sounding module, and Mutable Beads which made it magic. Enjoy"

MORTON SUBOTNICK • SIDEWINDER • PERFORMED LIVE FROM TOOL'S STUDIO (4K)

video upload by Peter Grenader

"MORTON SUBOTNICK'S SIDEWINDER:

Part 1 : in four movements (9 minutes 45 seconds)

Part 2: in three movements (6 minutes 45 seconds)

Performed live from Tool's studio Hollywood, CA by Jill Fraser, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader, Thomas Klepper

Filming/Editing: K. David

Recording Engineer: Tim Dawson

Title Graphics: Hyejin Sunwoo

Produced, arranged and mixed by Peter Grenader

Morton Subotnick's seminal 1971 electronic work Sidewinder performed live at Tool's studio in Hollywood CA on March 26th, 2023 by Jill Fraser, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader and Thomas Klepper, at the invitation of Joan LaBarbara, in celebration of his 90th birthday.

The idea of an adaptation of Sidewinder has been on the radar of zZyzx Society's Jill Fraser and Peter Grenader - both CalArts alumni who worked with Subotnick, for years. The process began with an abridged orchestration drafted by Peter Grenader, where the quartet was encouraged to both replicate his soundscapes and develop more interpretative timbres for the individual parts. With that, two general rules applied:

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SUBOTNICK • SIDEWINDER LIVE AT TOOL'S STUDIO • FINAL TEASER

video upload by Peter Grenader

"LIVE IN 48 HOURS: Morton Subotnick's SIDEIWNDER performed live from Tool's studio Hollywood, CA by Jill Fraser, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader, Thomas Klepper

Morton Subotnick's seminal 1971 electronic work Sidewinder performed live at Tool's studio in Hollywood CA on March 26th, 2023 by Jill Fraser, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader and Thomas Klepper, at the invitation of Joan LaBarbara, in celebration of his 90th birthday.

Performed on March 26th at Tool's studio, with access to Danny Carey's 1975 vintage Buchla 200 and massive E-mu. Filmed by K David.

Produced, arranged and mixed by Peter Grenader"

MUCKING ABOUT WITH THE EAR MODEL 12 MARK II

video upload by Peter Grenader

"The original Model 12 was super clean, and some said a bit tame. The Mark II addressed that by adding IFM SYNC and full range resonance into self oscillation. Oh, and a second filter as well.

Not what I would consider a proper full feature demo....just slapping up a quick patch plugging things in and twiddling knobs"

OFFICIAL TRAILER: MORTON SUBOTNICK • SIDEWINDER - Live from Tool's studio

video upload by Peter Grenader

"On April 23, 2023 with profound appreciation for his historic contribution to art and music a taped live performance of Morton Subotnick's Sidewinder by Jill Fraser, Shiro Fujioka, Peter Grenader and Thomas Klepper - filmed at Tool's studio in Hollywood CA - will be released in Celebration of his 90th birthday."

TOOL • TOOLBOX SYNTH DEMO FOR DANNY CAREY • CHOCOLATE CHIP TRIP

video upload by Peter Grenader

"The first demo of the additions and patch changes for the Toolbox to be used by Danny Carey in upcoming Tool shows. This is the first time he has seen/heard the system since it was reconfigured, outlined in this video posted a few months back:" [posted here]

M13 MINI DEMO, AGAIN

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Another demo of the Model 13 Mini Vactrol Low Pass Gate. Here two slightly detuned Model 15 VCO are being gated by the Mini, then through a phaser and finally through the EAR Model 27 After Effects Generator (Delay)"

Demo: EAR Model 13 Mini Vactrol LPG

video upload by Peter Grenader

Vactrol Hell

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Entering the final stretch of vactrol testing prior to final assembly of the EAR M13 Mini Vactrol LPGs"

4HP EAR Model 13 Mini Vactrol LPG KIT & Limited Pre-Assembled Modules In the Works

via Peter Grenader of EAR. You can find demos in previous posts here.

"I am pleased to announce a collaboration between EAR and Analog Haven.

The 4HP EAR Model 13 Mini Vactrol LPG KIT for Eurorack

The prices have not yet been determined, but the PCBs have been ordered and will be arriving shortly. ALl of the thru hole components are already in hand

We are producing 200 factory-assembled and 200 kits of VTL5C3 based Low Pass Gates closely resembling the behavior of the original Buchla design. Due to the largely unobtainium status of the proper vactrols this may by your last opportunity to purchase a Buchla based LPG. The factory pre-asembled modules will have green soldermask and metal photo process aluminum faceplates. The kits will have black soldermask PCBS and a FR4 black faceplate, of which there will be 2 variants - both priced differently:

A. A kit containing 1 Faceplate, 1 Main PCB, 1 Pot PCB, three jacks, three 1mm thick metal washers, 1 100K linear pot, 1 Davies-type push-on T18 black knob, 1 momentary pushbutton and a link where to purchase the SMT parts referencing both vendor and Mouser part numbers. Expect $12 in parts is purchased through Mouser.

B. Same as above including two vactrols. However, these will not be available until after the factory-built units have been completed.

Photo is missing faceplate"

PATCH OF THE DAY Mutable Musings

video upload by Peter Grenader

"A step by step set up of a continuation/development of the patch I uploaded yesterday (link below). Things really kick in a 1:05.

Anyone who thinks Rings is just a drone generator needs to dive deeper."

PATCH OF THE DAY More Mutable Beads Musings

video upload by Peter Grenader

EAR Model 13 Mini Vactrol Lowpass Gate • Demo 1

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Short Demo of a patch which demos the new EAR Model 13 Mini LPG"

Mutable Instruments • BEADS Demo

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Messing around with Beads. It wasn't my intention to do a complete demo of the module in this video. I am demoing it's effect on the patch i've constructed on the system.

Key modules:

Flame 4 VOX
Plan B Model 9 Mixer
Doepfer A-125 Phase Shifter
Plan B Model 23 Analog Shift Register
Plan B Model 32 LFO
EAR Model 27 After Effects Processor"

MAKING A MODULAR SYNTH FOR TOOL • DANNY CAREY

video upload by Peter Grenader

"I am Peter Grenader - the designer, curator and sometimes sound designer for Danny Carey's Toolbox, the modular system used live with Tool (Chocolate Chip Trip).

I recently did a huge overhaul and expansion of that system and this video details that journey.

For a recent interview detailing this system and my involvement with Tool, check out Kris West's Spiral Out podcast:

https://spiraloutpod.podbean.com/e/pe...

For an article on how this synth came into being check out The Fortheye:

https://www.fourtheye.net/2013/11/pet...

EAR/Plan B Synthesizer official website:

https://www.ear-synth.com

Peter Grenader's POV website:

https://www.pov-music.com/

zZyzx Society:

https://www.zzyzxsociety.com/"

Sunday Morning Mort aka Early experiments with Mutable Beads

video upload by Peter Grenader

"This is a lively Sunday morning jaunt with my newly acquired Beads... which, as silly as this may be, is offscreen in this video.

I know, lame.

Hear me out! The Mutable Beads is currently kicking the crap out of me. I have no idea of it's capabilities. It's all hunt and peck at this point. In one of those experiments, i noticed by putting a metric rhythm patch through it and syncing the Seed input with the same clock that's driving the patch that it would, magically, double the frequency of whatever it's processing.

This immediately reminded me of a certain passage Mort Subotnick is famous for, so i ginned up a quicky sonic xerox. This all came about after i produced a demo of what 'real' lowpass gates can do, which hearkened back my percussive motif fetish that dominated my piece The Secret Life of Semiconductors (search 'Peter Grenader Secret Life" on apple music or bandcamp if curious).

Everything you hear is being gated through vactrol-based LPGs, namely the Plan B Model 13 Timbral Gate. The first voice is from a Flame 4 Vox in which i cycle through a few of it's wavetables. The second voice is it's manifestation via the Mutable Beads in which i am controlling the wet/dry mix via Plan B Model 24 wiggly random voltage. The third voice is via a Plan B Model 15 which is getting it's pacing from Malekko Varigate 4.

Panning courtesy of an EAR Model 7 Panner, driven by a second wiggly random via a second Plan B Model 24

The first and third voices are being driven by two Plan B Model 10 EGs to both open the LPG and thwap the VCO frequencies.

As i sidenote, i think Apple finally chased all the demons out of iMovie. It does not piss me off anywhere near as much now.

enjoy, or not!"

Designing one/off Eurorack modules for TOOL w/ Peter Grenader of Plan b

video upload by Peter Grenader

"The Devil is in the details..

I think people who haven't yet done a lot of PCB/faceplate design and integration will appreciate this.

As some of you know, i was the designer of and now the lion tamer for the Euro system used by Tool live (Chocolate Chip Drip). I had to make them a single channel attenuator with very little time left b4 they leave on their new tour and didn't have a lot of free HP in which to do it.

This video goes through the process to make sure things align perfectly when there is no time for rev. 2

Enjoy (or not!)"