"A very interesting and curious phenomenon happened. I can only regard it as a jest. White coral islands in a dark blue sea. Sand blown by the sirocco. Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes. Iron and stones that fall from the sky. Vast things…

VCV Rack patch with LABS instruments.

Tweaked a recent VCV Rack patch from Omri Cohen on the last evening of April.

“The fittest survive. Not the strongest; not the cleverest -- Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. ‘Fitness,’ then, is only another name for ‘survival.’” – Charles…

“All imaginings that materialize into machines or statues, buildings, dollars, paintings or books in paper and ink are graduations from unrealness to realness.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919 Various electrical doodads played…

“A very interesting and curious phenomenon happened. Our greasy, shiny brains may be of some use after all.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919 VCV Rack patch with drums added in Reaper.

This one combines a bunch of things I like: rain, storms, weird keyboard patches, auditory snapshots of a particular time, sleep, and NOAA weather radio. (I developed an affinity for that last one while working third shift alone at Kinko's way…

The words come from a story by Robert Chambers (public domain, and available on Project Gutenberg). Think I recorded the weird noisy guitar part first, then played along on drums, then added the voice.

I like Captain Beefheart, but I'm not good at showing it. :)

Another one on the Cat Head Lowebow, this time with more effects.