How are you keeping occupied in this period of 'social distancing'

Working on a 60-second audio art project with SWMBO.
She's wrote the text and recorded the voice track, I'll be editing and adding sound effects and ambient sound, using Audacity.

Some of the tracks are generated using a virtual modular synthesizer, VCV Rack - totally free, for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Screenshots of the patches I came up with:

This patch sounds like a swarm of bees. Eight different triangle wave oscillators that are close in frequency, but not harmonically related, and which slowly rise and fall a bit in frequencies.

This one produces clicks at random intervals, like a geiger counter. It started out as a wind chime effect for a different project.

This one produces a drone-like Asus4 chord, with 16 different notes that slowly rise and fall in volume independently.
It's meant to provide a dream-like atmospheric ambience.


By right-clicking on an unoccupied area of the rack, you get a huge library of other modules you can add.

The interface is modelled after traditional analog modular synthesizers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer .
My first contact with modular synthesizers was in Art College back in the '70s when a roommate managed to borrow a Mini-Moog, a Moog Sonic 6, and an Arp 2600 from the Dalhousie University Experimental Music Lab for the weekend. He gave us a brief tutorial on how they work, and in about an hour all four of us pretty much had them figured out. 
The ARP 2600 was my favourite, being a miracle of user interface design. The keyboard is optional.

They look complicated, but forty-five years later I could still remember how they work, and used the same principles in VCV Rack. This is good, because the VCV Rack documentation is rather sketchy and assumes you already know how real-world modular synthesizers work.

Boy oh boy!  Catching up on tons of stuff.  Rebuilt a weed trimmer carburetor.  Made an old Poulan saw rip again.  Put a new bar and skip tooth chain on the stihl getting ready for some big wood.  Rehung some vintage axe heads and gifted each of my sons an historic axe.  Harvested some mountain  mahogany for some future lathe projects.  Working on two savage rifles fitting with good gunstocks because the ones furnished are crappy.  Rewired the raft trailer AND the drift boat trailer.  Built shelving in the garage.  And now working on redoing a vintage camp trailer but I’ll be hanged if parts aren’t hard to get right now.

I have so much to do here in rural Maine that it hasn't cramped me at all.

I have so much to do here in rural Maine that it hasn't cramped me at all.

Yes, unless I am at work or in town, I feel the same! Partly location, but also a bit of natural seclusion, since neither of us at home do much outside of our home!

Watching the tea leaves dance…

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