Studio Diary - 2016-12-09

Yesterday was a subtly very productive time in the studio, even though I wasn't in the studio for most of the productive moments.After work, I met with a friend who has done voice work with me before. I showed her something I had written that I may be interested in having her record. We discussed its themes and tone over a (very good) drink and agreed to setup some studio time after the holidays.I also made a deal with a friend who wants to sell off all his eurorack and go all in on Serge modular stuff. He doesn't want to be bothered with the whole process of pricing, posting, haggling and shipping all his stuff. I agreed to broker the sales. He's going to send me his whole rig, I'll part it out for him. My broker fee is play time with the rig.It will be interesting to work with someone else rig for a while, even integrated with mine. His selection of modules is very clearly from a different mindset to my own, having a lot more digital, fewer filters and a lot more crazy oscillators and function generators. Combining the rig with mine should be interesting.And, finally, on the eurorack topic, I installed my Mutable Instruments Clouds installed and started futzing with it. It's a very interesting module that creates a very interesting 'smeared' version of whatever signal you toss into it. Very interesting possibilities there. I'm going to need to feed it some signals from outside the euro, I think, to get the most out of it. It creates some very interesting textures out of the source material it's given.Today, I won't have a lot of time as I've got the whole holiday shopping waste of time to contend with. Blah....