Triumph Elektro

Composition by Eric Klein. 

"I chose to concentrate on just "8 bars" of my staccato typewriter sample (it's actually two splices of "4 bars" stuck together.) Listening to this loop in my MPC sampler, I tapped out a tempo and worked from there. Now I took this sample of mechanical rhythm, and one "bar" at a time, I reproduced the hits of the typewriter keys as hits of Control Voltage (electrical signal that can be interpreted as musical information by a type of synthesizer or drum machine). Now I played around for a couple of days with inputing that CV into some of my synths.

"I made a handful of long recordings of this playtime,  jamming with different ideas, enjoying the discovery of a slow turn of a knob, or patching different electronic signals into unlikely inputs and listening listening listening to the results in real time. I am experimenting. I am in dialogue with my gear. Later in the day I will listen back to these long recordings while taking a walk or reading a book and se