K

 October 2022 sees a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton – continuing experiments with various instruments and VST synths played through Kontakt, Kreative Kontrol, and other goodies from the Native Instruments stable. This time round there is a lot of experimentation with midi routing and bringing in extra devices and instruments into the post-production stage. Of course, being Conny Plankton, everything is as weird, wonderful and unpredictable as always.

First Kontakt

First Kontakt is a new series of recordings and mixes from Conny Plankton: Based around a common theme of exploring use of different synths and samples through the Kontakt series from Native Instruments, this very quickly evolved into bringing in various guest appearances from external synths, the Eurorack system, field recordings and other VST devices.

C19

 A new series of recordings from Conny Plankton: All of the source recordings here were produced while in quarantine with Covid-19. Though not in any real pain or discomfort, the isolation of quarantine allowed for investigation into different approaches and arrangements: So here have VST synth sequences working alongside abstract Eurorack electronics; heavily modulated midi files interwoven with treated samples and field recordings.

Dis

 The Sweltering Days of August '22 were the breeding ground for this new series of recordings from Conny Plankton: Based around explorations with the Nifty Eurorack system, and in particular the Disting MK IV module from Expert-Sleepers (available from https://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/disting.html). The Disting allows control and modulation of other Eurorack Devices as well as sync to external synths and VSTs. The final mixes take us on a new journey into uncharted possibilities.

Benediction Video Mix

As well as the recent upload of four long mixes from the Mixcloud site, here is a new video from the warped brain of Conny Plankton. The audio track is Benediction from the recent Replete album, uploaded to the blog from Bandcamp a week or two ago. The video contains some mind bending graphics and should really hit the spot. Enjoy folks!

 

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No youtube on this one folks - some of the footage used may mean I would get a strike almost instantly!

Four New Mixcloud Mixes from Conny Plankton

Conny Plankton steps out temporarily from the regular Bandcamp site and all of the albums being released there - diving in back into Mixcloud to upload four long mixes, based on some quite diferent themes.

Here we go!

Chemical Shock

A Mix based loosely around voice actors from a popular video game - there is a clue in the title. The voice samples were edited down and rearranged with loops of 1930s and 1940s music as multi-tracked arrangement to produce something deeply and darkly disturbing.

The Real World

This mix was made from a series of home produced field recordings, made at various times and places around the North of England. Everything was edited down, minimal effects added, and then reassembled to produced a mix far away from the contexts of the original recordings and to create something altogether new and unsettling.

Revisited

A Mix made from earlier recordings by Conny Plankton - but rather than just segue one track after another, stems and samples were cut from the original recordings and then reassembled into a multi-tracked monster to make something weird and wonderful.

Reincarnation

The second in a series of mixes based around using samples and outtakes of earlier Conny Plankton recordings: stripped down, deconstructed and then arranged into and reincarnated into one single mix.

Replete

 July 2022 sees a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton - celebrating the completion of the first version of the Nifty Eurorack system and allowing many complex routings and patchings with external sequencers, synths and VST plug ins. The final mixes range from atonal onslaughts, to hypnotic sequences to ambient soundscapes - and many places in between!