The first week of my sabbatical went better than I had expected. I managed to record all of the theremin parts I had hoped to, leaving me a week ahead of schedule. All in all I recorded 13 phrases:
1 phrase for Tristar
1 phrase for 737
1 phrase for A300
3 phrases for DC-8
1 phrase for 727
1 phrase for 707
1 phrase for DC-10
2 phrases for DC-9
2 phrases for 747
The majority of these phrases were recorded using a Moog Etherwave Plus to control a Behringer System 55, which is a clone of the Moog modular synthesizer from the early 1970s. A few of the phrases were recorded using the Etherwave Plus to control a small Eurorack synthesizer centered on the 2HP Vowel formant synthesizer and a the Calsynth Monsoon granular synthesizer. One of the tracks was recorded using just the Etherwave Plus, yielding a traditional theremin sound. Below you can see a patch on the system 55 using four oscillators, a low pass filter, and a VCA.
Due to the new tracks, I’ve re-released recordings of TriStar, 737, and 707. As mentioned in my previous post, I had about a month of data loss. I managed to recover the string arrangements I wrote for TriStar, A300, DC-8, & DC-10, and wrote string arrangements for Rotate 737, 727, 707, DC-9. & 747. Thus, all the arrangements are completed. They only need to be formated for printing so I can send them out to the string quartet that will be recording them. Also relevant to the discussion is my left ear is healing nicely. It may not be at 100% yet, but it is getting there.
Given that I am one week ahead in my schedule, I’m revising my schedule thusly . . .1 Theremin
2 Bass harmonica
3 Bass harmonica
4 Fretless
5 Fretless
6 Pedal Steel
7 Pedal Steel
8 Strings
9 Trombone
10 Trombone
11 Taishogoto
12 Cello
13 Voice
14 Lyricon
15 Modular Synth