. Wonderful puzzles The whole creation process when making music .

. A borrowed Buchla No idea what I'm doing Inverted faders? . #synthstr

. Grabbed other machines Created an improv kit Into slower realms . ** Minneapolis - Aug 8, 2026 Zipped back from Portland and dropped off that gear in the studio. Looked around and assessed what could be used to play unstructured freeform excursions around 50 bpm at the Voltage Control event locally in Minneapolis. Selected some participants and went on an audio jaunt. Enjoyable and challenging in a different manner. Now have some new possibilities to try based on what I stumbled into with this rig. ** Kit list (for fellow synth nerds) Frostwave FAT controller (sequencer) Mystic Circuits LPG (x2) Eventide Time Factor Eventide Blackhole Korg Volca FM (original) Korg volca FM mk2 Bastle Wave Bard Baum Cherie mixer Roland SBX-1 Rare Waves RA-9 Grendel Grenadier Behringer RD-78 Wood Box contains: Bastle B Drum Kastle (x2) Bastle Kastle 1.5 Korg Volca Modular Bastle Dude mixer Modular skiff contains: Mylar melodies Random8 Pittsburgh Double Helix Beepboop crossfader Maneco Labs 16 second delay ALM HPO  #synthstr

. Downtempo journeys Some other explorations Wrestling machines . Reference type of "Dronewrecker" exploration moods this weekend back in Minneapolis.  .

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Dronewrecker EP01 • Paul Birken

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https://paulbirken.bandcamp.com/album/dronewrecker-ep01  .

. Personality Emerges while stickering Also anti-theft .

. A fun night was had Back home now at 6AM City of Acid . Kit list for tonight's jam (photo of table layout during soundcheck) TT-303 Bastl Softpop2 Korg Volca FM RD-78 Elektron Octatatrak Roland sbx-1 (master clock) Roland TR-8 Roland R-70 Small modular skiff with assorted oscillators and filter Soundcraft mixing board Eventide timefactor

. This Saturday night Here in Minneapolis City of Acid . https://ra.co/events/2402989

. Down in the shadows Giving life to modules Twisted voltage worms .

. Layout from the show Drums to the right, synths on left 3 AM back home . Thanks to everyone who showed up tonight in Eau Claire, WI. Great music and sets from everyone. Unpacking machines now before dawn at home.

. 2019 track Some interlocked icicles  Green sun inversion  .

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A Clockrate Orange EP - Analog 50 • Paul Birken

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. Brain reeled and floor swayed so there goes the neighborhood All hail the king Boom! . #art

. The future is here Electronic energy Something you can use .

. Drum machines offline Synths allowed to drift along Evening excursions . #music

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Out Of Bounds Occasion • Paul Birken

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. 3 years already Exploring and building things Quite an adventure .

. Adrift in delays Bouncing signal finds pocket One step has a pause .

. True low budget camp Diced and sliced into promo Freaky Friday fun .

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MORD005 "Executing Disappearing Modulations" ep, by Paul Birken

4 track album

. Phone mic can't handle Learning range of synth controls Wavetable wrestling .

. The way it began Discover duplication Better than ever .

. Rambling riffs run Overlapping envelopes Studying sync sends .

. Taming tricky hats Testing trigger gates from sync Learning by doing . Wave Bard sampler sounds great, but I have no feel for range of dials yet to control outcomes of routings. Sitting with patterns repeating and making adjustments to wire up my mind.