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Ambient Noodlings
by Michael Connell
Modular musical meanderings michaelconnell.substack.com
Episodes
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Sunday Ambient #200
Happy Sunday afternoon! It’s a milestone day with episode #200 of these weekly (mostly) posts. This has been an incredible challenge for me to carve out the time to create and post something each Sunday. The idea to do this weekly in the beginning was to force myself to spend the time to learn...
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Sunday Ambient #199
Happy Sunday evening! I’m posting a bit late this time because I’ve been in bed most of the day. I think the high pollen count here got to me. When I’m not having sneezing attacks and runny nose, I feel groggy and just want to sleep. Finally felt like getting up and tinkering on the Digitakt some...
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Sunday Ambient #198
Happy Sunday evening! I found a few minutes to noodle on the Digitakt in the midst of another busy weekend. I just played with some patterns and textures that I ran through an Eric Synths Echolator and Eventide Space. I enjoyed playing the recording in the background while I got some work done....
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Sunday Ambient #197
A good Sunday evening to everyone! I’m doing a late-ish post that I’ll blame on adjusting to the time change. I had trouble getting to sleep last night and then lost an hour on top of it. Really wish we’d stop that nonsense! Anyway, back to today’s jam. It’s a bit on the dark side. I think I’m...
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Sunday Ambient #196
Happy Sunday evening! Hope y’alls weekend has been relaxing. Lots of crazy stuff going on in the world. Mass shooting in my city, more war overseas. I had to try and avoid the news today. Sometimes it is overwhelming. I’m thankful I’ve got my synth and ambient musings as a brief respite. Sounds…
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Sunday Ambient #195
Happy Sunday evening! Today I have a laid back noodling with a pad on the Minifreak. I used the Digitakt for sequencing and some background sounds, including some vinyl-like noise. Grab some headphones and chill out for a few minutes. It beats doom scrolling. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If…
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Sunday Ambient #194
Happy Sunday evening! I was tinkering around with a pedal I’m auditioning and time got away from me. While I had some fun, I didn’t really put together anything recording worthy. Running out of free time for the weekend, I ended up just noodling around with a pad sound that I like in the…
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Sunday Ambient #193
Happy Sunday! Apparently there is some big sports ball game going on today that has everyone all excited. I’m content to spend some quiet time with the synths after a hectic work week. Today’s track is a kind of meandering noodle with a pad on the Minifreak, along with some background texture by…
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Sunday Ambient #192
Happy Sunday! I’ve got a darkish jam for today. I was playing around with the Minifreak, getting to know it. This track is based on a slow arpeggio with lots of manual tinkering with envelopes and filter, plus a bit of percussive sounds from Digitakt. Eventide Space and Zoom MS-70CDR+ pedals were...
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Sunday Ambient #191
Happy Sunday! It’s a cold day in many of the states after a surge of Arctic air descended all the way down through southern states. We were spared the predicted ice storm last night and got away with some light to moderate sleet coverage. It’s enough that I didn’t venture out of the house today,...
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Sunday Ambient #190
Happy Sunday evening! Today’s track is a bit of noodling on an Arturia Minifreak. It has been a while since I’ve played an actual keyboard. I’m not much of a keyboardist, but I like the tactile and expressive nature of a keyboard synth. No sequencing in this track, just manual playing of keys and...
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Sunday Ambient #189
Happy Sunday! I’ve got a lot going on this weekend with preparing for some home repairs to start tomorrow. It’s going to be a fairly big disruption in house for a week or so. I didn’t think I’d have time to jam today, but I managed to work in a quick session. Mostly, I just tinkered with some…
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Sunday Ambient #188
Happy Sunday evening, ambient music fans! I’m headed back to work tomorrow after taking a bit of time off for the holidays. I was feeling a dark drone today and noodled around on the Lyra-8 for a bit. What a strange device. I don’t claim to understand it yet. It’s kind of meditative to play,...
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Sunday Ambient #187
Happy Sunday evening! Hoping everyone is having a good holiday season. I’m enjoying a little time off from work myself. Today I put together this little tune on my Digitakt using just a couple of samples I made the King of FM app on my iPad. I was inspired by a video I was watching by Hans Zimmer...
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Sunday Ambient #186
Happy Sunday evening! Last weekend before Christmas - wow! Doesn’t feel much like it with sunny and warm weather here. Today’s track isn’t very holiday fitting either, unless you’re like me and watched Krampus last night. Maybe that inspired today’s auditory meanderings. Grab some good headphones...
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Sunday Ambient #185
Happy Sunday evening! It has been a cold-ish gray day here and I decided to put together a dark and brooding drone. I’m still getting to know the Lyra-8 I mentioned last week. All sounds are from the Lyra with some help from a Vongon Paragraph pedal and an Eventide Space reverb. No sequencing…
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Sunday Ambient #184
Happy Sunday evening! I’m down to the wire getting a new jam kicked out today. I didn’t have time until late this evening and I decided to try and record something with a new synth. I traded off some modules I wasn’t using any longer for a Soma Lyra-8. What a weird little beast! Probably wasn’t…
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Sunday Ambient #183
Happy Sunday evening! It’s the end of a few days of holiday for me. Back to reality in the morning. I’ve missed a few weeks of posts now and I’m happy to have finally found some time to do something I enjoy tonight. It has been a been a difficult past couple of weeks for a few reasons. The synths...
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Sunday Ambient #182
Happy Sunday evening! I can’t believe October has come and gone. It has been a busy time for me. For the first time in over 3 years I missed posting a new tune last weekend. Too much going on with my work and getting a post in last weekend would have meant forcing myself to squeeze it in when I…
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Sunday Ambient #181
Happy Sunday! I’ve got a chill jam going today. It’s something I recorded last night while playing around with different timbres on a wavetable oscillator. This particular oscillator can really shred, but run through a good filter it mellows out nicely. I’m amazed out how many different sounds I...
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Sunday Ambient #180
Happy Sunday evening! It’s a late posting for me again this weekend. I found some time to play around on the synths this evening and ended up messing around with this not exactly ambient jam. Most of the timbre variations are filter manipulations through modulation and manual tweaking. I started...
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Sunday Ambient #179
Happy Sunday, my ambient loving friends! I spent some time this afternoon exploring the wavetable Piston Honda oscillator and was pleased to find some string-ish and glassy timbres. I put together a sequence driven by the Digitakt and chilled out for a bit, playing with levels and filter…
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Sunday Ambient #178
Happy Sunday evening! I’m getting in my jam time a little late today. I put together a laid-back tune that I had fun tweaking on my small modular system. There is a lot hands-on modulation going on. Grab some headphones and chill out for a bit. Enjoy! Patch Notes * Piston Honda wave table...
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Sunday Ambient #177
Happy Sunday evening! I’ve got a little jam on my Digitakt for y’all today. I did some experimenting with creating a somewhat generative tune. I’m slowing learning how to do things on this interesting little box. My background with modular synthesis certainly helps with wrapping my head around…
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Sunday Ambient #176
Happy Sunday afternoon! I spent some time playing around on the Digitakt this weekend, still working on figuring it out. Creating a tune with only samples is interesting. It’s very different from how I’ve done things the past few years with modular synthesis. I wasn’t sure I’d like the Elektron...
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Sunday Ambient #175
Happy Sunday! Hope your day is going well. Last week was rough at work was a rough one. I took some time today to chill out on the synths for a while - longer than usual. I felt like creating something fun and whimsical so I just kind of jammed around on my Digitakt with a bunch of different...
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Sunday Ambient #174
Happy Sunday evening! It’s Labor Day weekend and I’ve been doing my best to try and relax a little while I have an extra couple of days off. I had some time to play around with the synths today. I shuffled some things around, trying some different configurations for my rack and the Digitakt that...
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Sunday Ambient #173
Happy Sunday evening y’all. I’ve got a little jam I put together on my Digitakt for you. It’s easy to get lost on that thing and I can’t even remember what I put on all the tracks now that I’ve recorded it. I am running the Digitakt through my modular rack, with Morphagene, Mimeophon, and FX Aid...
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Sunday Ambient #172
Happy Sunday afternoon, y’all. Today’s track is a darkish piece that is inspired by Vangelis’ Blade Runner work. Lots of experimentation going on here. I played around with a few layers to create something deep with one simple sequence. Patch Notes * Digitakt sequencing Typhon mono synth * Typhon...
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Sunday Ambient #171
Happy Sunday! I had some fun creating this little jam this afternoon. I picked up a used Dreadbox Typhon synth today in a trade and had my Digitakt controlling it over MIDI. Funny thing is I used to have a Typhon a couple years back or so and sold it when I started dabbling in modular. I missed…
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Sunday Ambient #170
Happy Sunday! It’s a nice day here and I’ve been enjoying a chill weekend - something that has been all too rare lately! I have something special for today’s ambient track. For quite some time, I’ve been intrigued by the Elektron’s Digitakt. I’ve been watching videos about the Digitakt II with a...
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Sunday Ambient #169
Happy Sunday evening! I’ve been playing around with my Spectraphon today and came up with this little jam. There is a lot of manual manipulation in addition to the usual modulation on this one. I enjoyed the range of tones I was able to pull from this complex oscillator module. All sounds are…
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Sunday Ambient #168
Happy Sunday afternoon! Today’s ambient exploration is a journey of some noise through Morphagene for grain extraction and on into Spectraphon to find music in chaos. It’s a lot of fun creating things like this. I’m never sure what I’ll have in the end. Grab some headphones and check it out.…
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Sunday Ambient #167
Happy Sunday evening, ambient music fans! I tried to create something simple and relaxing this time because that’s what I need. Things are still busy for me and there is a lot of stress at the moment. Calming music helps. Grab some headphones and take a short break with me. Patch Notes *...
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Sunday Ambient #166
Happy Sunday evening y’all. Down to wire for me to get a jam posted again! I needed to spend the holiday weekend working and didn’t get a chance to sit down at the synth until late in the day. Honestly, I just wanted to crash on the couch! The music must go on though. It provides a necessary...
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Sunday Ambient #165
Happy Sunday evening! Another busy weekend for me and I’m down to the wire to post my weekly ambient track. Feeling a bit dark again I guess, as I’ve got a bit of a brooding drone this time around. I like the atmosphere as I listen through my headphones. Enjoy the darkness. Patch Notes *…
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Sunday Ambient #164
Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers. After another long, tough work week, today’s modular synth session ended up going kind of dark. I didn’t really have that intention when I sat down to noodle around. Yet, here we are. Maybe I’m reading the news too much. I should stop that. Grab some headphones...
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Sunday Ambient #163
Happy Sunday! Today’s recording had some obstacles to clear and I wasn’t sure I was going to have a post ready before end of day. I had to work a lot of the weekend and today we had a thunderstorm take out power and Internet connection for several hours. Things finally aligned this evening and I...
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Sunday Ambient #162
Happy Sunday! Today I’ve got a little jam that came together quickly while I was experimenting with a different delay module. I’m trying out an Intellijel Sealegs that may replace both my Mimeophon and FX Aid. The Sealegs caught my attention with its nice tape delay emulation, organic modulation...
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Sunday Ambient #161
Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers! Hope you’re enjoying your day. We’ve got sunshine where I’m at after a week of some pretty powerful thunderstorms. I’ve got a pretty chill tune for you that makes good use of the versatility of the Spectraphon. Grab some headphones and give a listen. Patch…
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Sunday Ambient #160
Happy Sunday! Hope y’all are enjoying the holiday weekend, for those of us in the U.S. I’m having a busy weekend myself, getting caught up on a backlog of work. Still found time to jam on the synth a bit, as usual. This is a simple composition using Spectraphon to create a variety of tone. Lovely...
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Sunday Ambient #159
Happy Sunday folks. Let’s get this ambient thing going! I spend some rearranging and reducing in my modular cases yesterday. Not that my rig is that big, relatively speaking, in the Eurorack world. Still, I’ve been looking and listening critically to what I gravitate to and I’m cutting out…
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Sunday Ambient #158
Happy Sunday gang! It’s a nice, mild day where I’m at and it may be the last before the heat of summer starts creeping in later this week. I’ve been able to spend some time outside this weekend and I’m looking forward to an evening walk after posting this tune. Enjoy! Patch Notes * Morphagene...
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Sunday Ambient #157
Happy not Sunday! I’m a day late posting my weekly ambient jam. I finished this recording yesterday and got distracted doing stuff around the house. Late today I realized I never uploaded the recording. Oops. Better late than never, right? Patch Notes * Interstellar Radio into Spectraphon *...
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Sunday Ambient #156
Happy Sunday folks! I’ve got a little tune I put together over the weekend. I played around quite a bit to get this one patched and arranged. Honestly, I could have gone longer tweaking it. The weekend is almost over though and it’s back to the grind in the morning. Major scale this time, so...
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Sunday Ambient #155
Happy Sunday! It’s a beautiful day here after a stormy night, and I just got back from a nice walk around the neighborhood. Today’s jam is a simple little tune I pieced together from noise, which has become a theme for me as of late. I’m really enjoying how harsh sounds can be processed and…
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Sunday Ambient #154
Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers! Here’s a jammy little tune I put together this afternoon after a short motorcycle ride. It felt good to get out of the house for a bit and got me in a jamming mood. More fun with music created from noise today. Grab those headphones and check it out. Patch…
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Sunday Ambient #153
Happy Sunday. Music is a source of solace from the stressors of life for me. It’s needed more than ever in our current time. I again worked with noise sources to produce something that I found calming. It’s kind of analogous to life lately. Lots of noise and it’s a challenge to find calm and…
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Sunday Ambient #152
Happy Sunday y’all! I’m happy that I found more time to jam around on the synth rack today. Lots of experimentation again, with noise serving as the basis for all things in this track. I’d been dabbling with more conventional sequencing for a while and I’m back to using the Xaoc Leibniz modules…
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Sunday Ambient #151
Happy Sunday evening. Time for a jam and I’ve got another upbeat tune to share. Not sure if this sort of thing is ambient, but it is a bunch of noodling around. As usual, I did some experimentation with new sounds. Last time I mentioned that I ran some noise through my Spectraphon to create the...
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