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.

Ran the Petrushka chord through a bunch of modules in VCV Rack.

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…

Built an Omri Cohen patch idea in VCV Rack, recorded a couple of takes, then edited and arranged the results in Reaper.

VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!

Messing with an audio field recording in VCV Rack.

VCV Rack patch reacting to an audio field recording. Cheers to Omri Cohen for the excellent patch walkthrough!

Various LABS instruments and a couple of Hainbach plugins in Reaper.

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.

Tape loop, noise loop, oscillating noise pedal, and some Korg Little Bits synth modules running a short sequence. Twiddled knobs on the oscillator and synth modules while the tape and noise loops were running, then chopped up the static and the…

Played around with some new virtual synths and MIDI loops I bought from a company whose stuff I like.

All MIDI, all the time!

Messing around with electronic doodads - tape loop, drum machine, looper pedal, other effects pedals, and then DAW plugins on the drums. Edited about 5 minutes of noise down to about 2:45.

Another last-minute MIDI confection using instruments from Spitfire Audio's LABS collection and drums from Superior Drummer 3. The overall chord sequences were recommended by YouTuber Venus Theory in a couple of recent YT Shorts.

Finally got around to connecting several electronic items on my side desk - Kawai R-50e drum machine from around 1995, Fostex X-18 4-track tape recorder from a couple of years earlier than that (I think), a Korg volca keys from 2021, and a handful…