109 / Otherworldly / Buchla, Pittsburgh, OB06 / Downtempo

The final jam on the Rendlesham Forest patch includes some samples recorded into an SP-404mk2 that I'm triggering live off-screen. Notes below ...

SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY
#Moog #Minitaur #LiveModular #PittsburghModular #Lifeforms #modular #Roland #Doepfer #TR-6s #Oberheim #OB-6 #dawless #SP-404

INSTRUMENTS:
Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms
Buchla Tiptop 200t
Doepfer A-100
Erica Synths Black Sequencer
Pamela's Pro Workout
Xaoc Sarajewo
Xaoc Minsk
Oberheim/Sequential OB-6
Roland SP-404 mk2
ADG-1
Seymour Duncan Polaris
Spring Theory
Meris Mercury 7
Eventide Black Hole
Strymon Deco
Strymon Volante
UA Golden

NOTES:
A complex modular patch with up to nine sounds, including Geiger counter sounds, bass drum, two drones, and telegram sounds. There's a simple arp on the SE-02, some chords on the Matriarch, and I'm playing the OB-6 and triggering samples on the SP-404 mk2 that I recorded myself. Drums from TR-6s. Master FX are Volante and Deco for delay and tape saturation, and UA Golden Plate 140 for reverb.

The track is inspired by the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings and Gary Heseltine's riveting and deeply researched account of those events in the book "NON-HUMAN". The lighthouse was an early and standard debunking story that was perpetuated about the incident despite eyes witnesses clear testimony regarding what they saw and how it couldn't have been the lighthouse. Other lines I just adlibbed based on other UFO lore and eyewitness accounts.

RECORDING
Everything is recorded direct. Post included only fixing a pop and a drop in volume, as well as overall compression, normalization, and limiting.