Eight Bit Eight Bit - Two Pieces of Eight

Here we have one of two takes of a home made 8 bit/circuit bent synth type thang, fed through a Kaoss Pad for a bit of extra flange together with a bit of Bass Station loop sequencing to help it all gel together.

....and this time we have a remix of the session from the circuit bent 8 bit synth and Kaoss Pad, now just with midi bass sequencers. A more ambient sort of hollowness in the back of the head kind of feel...

Radio under the Sea

This is a complicated beast - two radios, one circuit bent and running through distorted AM frequencies; one running UHF frequencies on white noise shipping forecast airwaves, fed through banks of effects through a Kaoss Pad, and then chopped up, mutilated and lovingly arranged on beds of various drum loops. Who can work out the source of the drum loops? Good Or Great?

Weevils Meetles Again

This all started its merry little journey from an unassuming home made synth noise maker called the Weevil Bugbrand, designed by the DIY electronics wizard, Tom Bugs (have another plug Tom, at www.bugbrand.co.uk/). Then it evolved through being fed through my noise maestro monster, the Powertran digital delay and alongside a Roland Mc303 sequencer - with much editing of the flanges and edges afterwards of course.

Eating Radio

Take one shortwave radio. Feed through Kaoss Pad. Add midi loops. Process through various effects. Simmer with shattered synapses.

Me and My Tubular Droner

The Kaoss Pad still in force here, now running through a series of hand built electronic devices and fed through multiple effects. File somewhere between ambient, noise, and beautifully damaged...

Big Changes in my Lonely Furrow

So when I started this blog idea thing, the original idea was to have a small select group of us putting in various tunes, videos, images and other bits of media on a sort of regular basis, and then interlinking with threads and themes. It started becoming obvious after a short while that this wasn't going to work and it was only myself putting in stuff....

...and that's alright, because after all it's what people want to do. No disappointments, no reproaches. On I go, winding my lonely furrow, putting in new stuff and weird ideas as the fancy takes me.

So, after a long think, and a long long time away from anything, bloglike, here we go again...

KG and the Ultramixes:



While working on a track using samples from the amazing Gristleism box of effects running it through midi sequencers and Kaoss pads for effects, I started finding I was developing one of the most complex tracks I had ever come across - or at least, one of the ones that I found was taking longer and longer and longer to get right. Fourteen takes and remixes later, I was coming away with something that I was happy with. Here is a little oddity that almost feel by the wayside during these sessions, being a track that was made entirely with midi sequencers and much processing of the flanges.





This track now shows the TeeGee samples modulated through Gristleism and the Kaoss Pad and now teamed up with a certain Tee Gee ditty. I can't think what came over me when I was putting this one together...





This is what I was trying to achieve with the track - but at Version 12, it is still something I am not happy with. Maybe I am just being picky but there is a series of clicks throughout that really get on my bits. This is one is the Gristleism Box, the Bass sequence loop, and the Kaoss Pad, all going at it together!



...and then finally from this series, we have the Tee Gee samples and the Kaoss Pad at work again, but this time supported by a solid piece of brain candy in the form of a loop from the PFC. I leave anyone vaguely interested  to figure out what that particular acronym stands for.

Marlene Remembered

A complex track from Kev Trundley, being based on two different songs with the same tune which were popular in World War Two - one with the allies, one with the German Forces. The English version here is the irreverent send up of the original song, based on a largely forgotten and rebuked section of the British Armed Forces, where the likes of the 8th Army were ridiculed as "D-Day Dodgers" for not taking part in the D Day allied offensive - despite facing some of the most intensive fighting in the entire war.

Meanwhile, over in Germany, we have an equally complicated song - first used as a simple love song, then becoming a firm favourite with German troops on wartime radio, and then re recorded as a propaganda tool in English, sung by the gorgeous German actress, Marlene Dietrich, then living in America. This is based around the original version - in German with original lyrics.

As confusing as war itself, with two themes interwined around a single tune.

Too Much Gristle in the Blancmange

Another one from Kev Trundley - loops and multi layering galore, as everyone's industrial music innovators gets the Trundley treatment, and what stated off as a novelty noise making device evolves into something more intense and sinister.

Kaoss Pads and Circuit Bent Toys

Kev Trundley now runs us through a series of circuit bent toys, fed through loop devices and bounced in and out a series of sequencers and samplers. 

Anyone spot the Canada Geese in there?

Effe Em Gee Bee

Kev Trundley strikes again. This time with a jam session based on a freshly rewired midi set up. This was later remixed, cut up and rearranged, and then finished off courtesy of a guest appearance of James Joyce coming through the aether.

A New One

Here we go again folks. Its time for a new one - this time round it is another piece of deranged loveliness, as put together by Kev Trundley Here we have a working together of some funky faves by the Ives Brothers, being Charles and Burl. 
Enjoy!!

Field Recording - sort of

Here we go again folks with another well ripened audio offering. This time round we have another serving of sonic madness  from Kev Trundley, based on a field recording from Spain:

A short track made from a field recording waiting outside the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. Buskers and voices from the crowd have been blended through a series of delays and multiple echoes to create something quite well distanced from the original ambience of waiting outside an hour long queue down  a narrow side street on a noisy hot day in Spain!

Soundcloud Jam

Hi folks:

As Quaquaversity begins to spread its media dominance like an over ripe toasted tentacle, we move now into direct audio downloads from our new Soundcloud page. This one is from a jam session from Kev Trundley.

More to enjoy!

Kev Trundley Video Remix

Hi folks: Here we are again with a bit more addled madness. This time tis a weird and wonderful video remix of Mal Short's Dekonstruktion track, found a couple of posts down - now given a suitably warped multi layered visual kick by our very own Kev Trundley. Put on your bifocal shades and enjoy!

DRUNK IN HELL: BORO SCUM

LIVE ISLINGTON MILL 06/03/2015 Filmed using a BMPCC with 7.5mm Samyang Lens. Audio through the desk with a Zoom H4

VIDEO (full set with mixing desk audio) by Jamie Robinson
I'M AN ARSEHOLE / SICK SICK SEX / BITCH BOY / I'M NOT LAUGHING / BORN SICK / CHICK FLICK / SOMETHING IN THE AIR TONIGHT / RAPE STORY / HUNGRY FOR BLOOD

DeKonstruKtion

by Prawnshocker

Give me a good clicking

'Deconstruction' originally appeared in 1990 on a tape credited to MSFP. It was written on the Amiga using Sonix software, looped and deconstructed live on an Amiga 500, and recorded to tape with overdubs added afterwards on a 4-track, then remixed. The original piece had a running time of just over 14 minutes. This revisit is the opening 1.05 of that recording, stretched. It represents one loop of the theme as written on the musical score.

Getting the ball rolling

For our first post of samples of media proper, here are two videos, made as a big remix and collage from a series of video footages from the Fiend himself, Paul Harrison of Expose Your Eyes, now making lots of creative emissions once more from the wilds of West Yorkshire.

A Different Pancake. 

Original Footage by Paul Harrison of various live concerts, field recordings and a range of video releases. Remixed into something wild, weird and wonderful by Kev  Trundley.

The Amazing Kev the Rev has been at it again with his second remix of Paul Harrison Live footage. Originally based on live sets from Smell & Quim, the Ceramic Hobs and Con-Dom, it has all been put together, chopped up and generally transubstanitated into something a whole lot more! This one is called...

HodgePodge. 

Enjoy!

Who we is and what we is here for...

So what is QuaQuaVersity? A series of manifestations of the Quaquaverse - evidence of the universe spreading and exploding simultaneously in all directions. In this case, shown through a blog produced by a series of its founder members to show different media and ideas from all over the place published simultaneously, constantly evolving and developing in terms of its threads and ideas. The core concept being that each founder member of the blog has to put up something new at least once every four weeks.

Uploads are basically examples of anything we like - or even dislike for that matter, and as it develops, ideas and themes should start to bounce off, absorb and connect with each other. A Multimedia stream of consciousness?  Convergence of the Media Vortex? Apocalyptic transmissions? It is if that's what we want.

That's sort of the idea anyway...