Slightly late due to illness and Internet issues, here is a live improvisation made using the hardware rig of Elektron Octatrack, Syntakt and Digitone, sequenced by the Torso T-1. It’s been a bit since I’ve had my rig set up, but an upcoming show made me work through some of a late summer cold to get things up and running.
This is definitely a longer, slower burn of a piece, and a bit of a change of pace to some of my usual sequencing – I have the T-1 tracks focused on a single note of a single sound on the Digitone, each with a different sequence length, leading to our favorite asynchronous looping patterns. The Syntakt is supplying analog drones and some arpeggios via the SY Chip machine.
All of this leads into the Octatrack, where I start sampling, looping and stretching the patterns and let things evolve as they go. It’s not perfect, but it leads to some blissed-out moments. Overall, it was a good practice session, I think.