I think it is important that people know: #WoodyGuthrie #Music #SpeakOut #ThisMachineKillsFascists

According to Wikipedia it was exactly 85 years ago today that Woody Guthrie composed the original lyrics of This Land Is Your Land.

More urgent and pressing than ever.

So I did a tribute. And changed one line. Not the best performance ever but I did my best.

#WoodyGuthrie #ThisMachineKillsFascists #GulfOfMexico #Ardour #LinuxAudio #ThisLandIsYourLand #Recording #DIY #ProtestSong #SingerSongwriter

Almost ready: METSÄÄN version of the DIN DATIN DUDERO MK2

A patchable, stereo-sonic touch controlled noise/drone synth based on a @ciat_lonbarde circuit and a @mengqimusic PCB design.

#Metsäänmachines #Metsään #touchsynth #patchpoints #dindatindudero #ciatlonbarde #thismachinekillsfascists

Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

#StopTheCoup #thismachinekillsfascists

https://metsn.tumblr.com/post/775040316000567296

METSÄÄN - OURBOROS AUTOPOIESIS - extreme EFX chain feedback looper

A feedback looper that squeezes the extreme out of your EFX-chain. Perfect for 'Tone scouts', sound-designers and those who like harsh noises. An extended version of the Death by Audio - Total Sonic Annihilation 2 pedal, the METSÄÄN version has a 3 stage MODE selector that switched between 'vanilla'/ORIGINAL and boosted HIGHS or LOWS, which exponentially enhances the sonic possibilities of the original pedal and allows for dynamic frequency shifts in a harsh noise live performance, for example. But this pedal is not just god for harsh noises, but also for subtle tone experimentation, imagine a sound modulator like a delay or tremolo modulating itself in a loop. wonderful textures and abstract saturation might occur. Sometimes, you might get not much out of it and with other set-ups a plethora of unexpected sonic gems. With some EFX chain set-ups an input signal is not needed, as you can generate no-input noise scapes. A experimental sound artist's treasure trove/ pandorra's box. This feedback looper enables you to send the output of your EFX-chain back into it's input, in NORMAL mode, you control the the amount with only the FEEDBACK (Note: this pot works counterclockwise) pot, but in the ACTIVE (indicated by a ultraviolet LED) mode you get hands-on control of GAIN, FEEDBACK, PHASE, FREQUENCY MODE and of course final OUTPUT LEVEL (to tame the potentially destructively loud signal.). The 4x 6.3mm mono sockets on the back side of the pedal are from left to right (when pointing away from you): OUTPUT, RETURN, SEND, INPUT. When the TRUE BYPASS (indicated with a green LED) is engaged, your signal still goes through your EFX-chain in the loop. The Power input is for 'boss-style', center negative 2.1mm DC plugs, that are pretty standard for EFX-pedals it needs 9V DC (PSU not included). Build into a standard die-cast aluminum enclosure individually painted in the the burned out industry camo pattern in chrome and black. Handmade by GRM for METSÄÄN.

DEMO VIDEO follows. Stay detuned.

#metsään #metsäänmachines #ourborosautopoiesis
#thismachinekillsfascists #harshnoise #guitartone #tone #efxpedal #pedalboard #pedalworship #experimentalmusic #noisesynthesizer

This Saxophone Kills Fascists with Greg Saunier – Big Ears on the Lookout- Benefit for RAICES Texas
#Deerhoof #Experimental #SteveGigante #ThisMachineKillsFascists #Trancepunk #arringtondedionyso #avantgarde #bassclarinet #freejazz #gregsaunier #improvisation #oldtimerelijun #throatsinging #Olympia
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://arrington.bandcamp.com/album/big-ears-on-the-lookout-benefit-for-raices-texas

Another request based #Metsään machine build: The relatively popular #DirtyDroneDistortion. Thanks for the interest.

#thismachinekillsfascists

Peter Seeger - If I Had a Hammer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWUSM_KJF_E
#ThisMachineSurroundsHateAndForcesItToSurrender
#ThisMachineKillsFascists

"I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

[...]

Well I've got a hammer
And I've got a bell
And I've got a song to sing
All over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land"

cc @stefan

TMKF for Woody Guthrie and y'all. Links in site footer (store link in bio).

#digitalpainting #art #artist #gothic #horror #comics #illustration #fiction #woodyguthrie #thismachinekillsfascists #politics

Important.

(forgot the all-important tags in my rush to post!)

#vote #bluewave #voteblue #kamalaharris #harriswalz2024 #harriswalz2024🇺🇸 #thismachinekillsfascists

Finally able to upgrade my office setup to match my home setup.

#WoodieGuthrie #ThisMachineKillsFascists

#thismachinekillsfascists

here's another demovideo of the STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY + ECHOBLENDER (combo-can)

https://youtu.be/Dbvg8Zmx43M

More info here: https://metsn.tumblr.com

#METSÄÄN #STOCHASTICASYMMETRY #HARSHNOISE #GLITCH #SOUNDART #NOISEBOX #experimentalmusicalinstrument #sounddesign #powerelectronics #thismachinekillsfascists #makenoisesmashfascism #asymmetry
#asymmeteicwarfare #GLITCH #harshnoise #noisemusic #noisebox #noisepedal #harshnoisewall #industrial #anarXnoise #ANTIFANOISE #noisegear

STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY - for eruptive harsh noise assault patterns

The STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY is a machine to generate glitched-out eruptive noise assault patterns. it is a signal generator for those who are interested in exploring the harsher spectrum of experimental noise making. STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY can be the base battery for any anti-fascist noise resistance set-up and running it through a chain of manipulating EFX will lead to massive sonic results. Simply put… 5 square wave oscillators of which 2 are LFOs generate complex waveforms which are getting further effected by a starve control, a distortion and a resonant low pass filter.

Of course nothing really is simple, so here are more details:

WAVING:
Each of the 3 square wave oscillators has a FREQUENCY potentiometer for controling pitch, a RANGE toggle switch to select 2 different frequency ranges, a MODE toggle switch that enables latch or trigger mode and a TRIGGER button switch, as well as a orange indicator LED. In trigger mode, the oscillator is mixed into the signal only momentary as long as the trigger is depressed. But be aware, the machine has a non-linear response in the trigger section and sometimes an oscillator raises it’s voice even when you did not engage it with the trigger, that is part of the fun and it can get less out of control depending on the starve setting. when the oscillator’s LED is on it’s LED is on and it might or might not switch off when you repress the trigger, but as said, this function is highly stochastic and i have not been able to predict it (a lesson for control freaks!). All three oscillators have different ranges, higher on the left and lowering towards the right. A MIX toggle switch selects linear or non linear mixing, the non-linear mixing is a bit more uneven and noisy.

MODULATING:
Each of the 2 LFOs has a SPEED control and similar to the other oscillators a MODE toggle switch and when in trigger mode the LFO can be activated temporally, which is most interesting when running in higher speeds for tremolo-like effects or high pitch noise assaults in the highest setting.

SOUNDSHAPING:
the signal generated with oscillators with or without LFOs is shaped by two more controls, which are highly depending on other setting on the machine, so they as well, do not have a fully linear response. the EDGE control works like a distortion, that adds more sharp edges to the waveform, resulting in ‘higher harmonics’, while the CURVE control acts like a resonant low pass filter that rounds off the already very 'edgy’ squarewave forms and it has slight self-resonance. Both of these controls are as such not affected by the power-starve function, but works differently the more the oscillator section is starved. With very much starving (STARVE counterclockwise) the CURVE control can generate almost electro-acoustic sounding crunch and hiss for example (see demovideo). Of course there is also a VOLUME control that lets you tame the output level.

STARVING:
The STARVE control regulates the power that is accessible to the IC that is used for the 5 oscillators and when one turns it down (CCW) the different oscillators start to get more stochastic in their functions so the generated waveform becomes more noisy. Turning STARVE counterclockwise also has a global scale effect, it lowers the pitch of the three oscillators and the speed of the LFOs, but at the same time it also introduces high pitched noises and clicks. Similar to the other trigger functions on this machine there is also a POWER toggle switch, that is either in latch mode or activates the power trigger mode, which interacts with the STARVE function. When starve is up (CW) the decay time of the oscillators using up the available power is faster, while when STARVE is low the decay is longer, while the oscillators get less power in total.

CONNECTING:
STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY runs on 12V DC (positive inside/negative outside, 2.1mm standard socket) and unless otherwise communicated it ships with a suitable recycled PSU with euro-plug. The audio output is a standard 6.3mm mono instrument jack socket, but beware that due to the special enclosures it might not work with angled plugs.

The first batch of STOCHASTIC ASYMMETRY is build into enclosures found in an abandoned car repair shop in turku. Originally they were some kind of 'black box’ engine data-read-out ports and are now painted with the 'industrial burn-out’ camo pattern in chrome and black. Handmade by GRM for METSÄÄN.

https://metsn.tumblr.com/post/745561561886851072

#METSÄÄN #STOCHASTICASYMMETRY #HARSHNOISE #GLITCH #SOUNDART #NOISEBOX #experimentalmusicalinstrument #sounddesign #powerelectronics #thismachinekillsfascists #makenoisesmashfascism #asymmetry
#asymmeteicwarfare #GLITCH #harshnoise #noisemusic #noisebox #noisepedal #harshnoisewall #industrial #anarXnoise #ANTIFANOISE

@w7voa Violence is coming for us, be prepared. #2A #ThisMachineKillsFascists

My 2024 theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vVtOYOIlk

#woodyguthrie #folkmusic #thismachinekillsfascists

Tis the season to dust off the Woody Guthrie inspired #antifa sled I made a couple years back. #ThisMachineKillsFascists