Bitwise

In between various odd jobs and projects this summer, I've been experimenting with generative and procedural music-making. Using Reaktor, I've put together a suite of several random and near-random instruments-- most of them make use of AM or FM, and all of them rely on the behaviors of Boolean logic gates to gate or otherwise create "sequences."
I'm still in the instrument-building phase, but when I move to record these instruments, I'll probably not use any traditional DAW (other than to do a little mixing), and will let the gate sequencers do the work of song structuring. This will be a nicely different approach to my usual method of obsessively placing each drum hit and glitch sound (I don't usually use any software-based "IDM Creation" plugins, preferring to hand slice and granularize my stuff, laying out automation by hand in each track [automation by hand -- is that an oximoron?]).
Anyway, I'll update this blog with sound samples and maybe a Reaktor ensemble or two. Watch this space!