Messed around with the Petrushka chord in VCV Rack, then added a couple more effects in Reaper. (Thanks to Omri Cohen for creating a neat VCV patch and Ben Levin for his recent video on that chord.)

Plugged my Kaiser Electrical Instruments Drone Stack and Hypno-Drone into my interface, fired up Reaper, and hit Record. Decided to split the 2-minute Drone Stack track in two and pan it hard left and right, just to save the listener some time…

Once again, waited till the very last minute, played around with a couple of new-to-me apps on my iPad, and sent the resulting noises through some plugins in Reaper. Fun stuff!

Played around with a couple of new-to-me plugins on my equally new-to-me tablet, then connected a little USB interface to make sure the guitar signal would come through. Fun little 10-minute diversion that turned into a just-shy-of-2 minute "soundscape…

Same as the previous track, with the addition of a drum machine run through some effects pedals.

Trial run after rearranging some electronic doodads on my side desk, most notably the pictured Drone Stack and HypnoDrone from Kaiser Electrical Instruments in lovely Duluth, MN. Recorded at the end of a rare week-long ice event in north Alabama.

This December was more somber and complicated than usual, so just I threw some ambiguous chords into an old VCV Rack patch and didn't bother trying to track down or fix the discordant foghorn tone that crops up a couple of times. I wish I could…

It finally dawned on me that I could use the faders and knobs on my MIDI controller to control channel volumes and plugin settings in Reaper while recording live, so I fired up a bunch of instances of Hainbach's excellent Noises plugin, tweaked…

Yet again with the Petrushka chord... Maybe one day I'll learn another one! This time, I threw those notes into some plugins in Reaper.

As has become a habit, I threw together a VCV Rack patch at the last minute based on a couple of YouTube tutorials.