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This video, Where Are You?, captures Stretta (Matthew Davidson) playing a French Connection controller against a looping phrase. If you listen carefully to the phrase, the pulses change slightly throughout the composition. 
The French Connection is controlling a small collection of modules including a Cwejman VCO-RM2, MMF1, Plan B model 11 and Doepfer VCA. The left hand joystick [...]

 

I’ve said a lot of nice things about Matthew Davidson, his music and his awesome blog over the last few months. 
Unfortunately, I may have to take it all back.
His latest video - the Insane Dog Of Truth Remix - just etched itself into my subconscious and will now haunt me as long as I walk [...]

 

Matthew Davidson is a musician, sound designer, blogger and graphic designer. 
He’s released a series of free albums of electronic music, including the all Monome Grids and an album of ambient piano works, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty.
The Hand That Paused to Gather, below, is an ambient piece recorded yesterday morning before Davidson went to [...]

 
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Stretta got his hands on the new Tiptop Audio Z5000, a modular analog CV-friendly DSP effects processor, and says “Go buy one”:
What the world needs is a Eurorack-format DSP with CV control. Along comes the Tiptop Audio Z5000. First of all, it is in stock, you can buy it now. None of this, announce, wait [...]

 

Stretta, Matthew Davidson, has released a massive sample library download - Total Harmonic Distortion.
Here’s what he has to say about the library:
Fragments of the Total Harmonic Distortion sample library have popped up in various places, like the recent OLPC Sample Library Set. The complete library weighs in at nearly 3GB uncompressed. It is comprised of [...]