Author: kirke
To Lazy to play notes
I find I regularly find myself just making quasi KRELL patches on the miniFreak:
Hours of zoned out fun.
REASON’s to be Cheerful
REASON TURNS 25!
Propellorheads reason was, and still is an astoundingly powerful and intuitive environment for music creation.
After burning out from working professionally in creating music for moving image,(after several years) the only tool I could face was Version 1 of a new program by Propeller Heads called REASON.
It replicated a load of the hardware tools I had been using before I retired, allowing the unique routing and manipulation the hardware had provided, but with the incredible convenience of software. It was also extraordinary stable at a time where most music software was … significantly less so… 
If you’re wondering about getting into music software… CHECK IT OUT!
The Ditch
Ive been working (On and Off ) for over 40 years with my friend, the absurdly talented Trevor Richards.In that time we have collaborated in bringing some of his songwriting to a full production.
THIS is the latest iteration.
We have ALL seen this before …
Despite decades ago, the entire planet going to war to try to stop it, it seem we have learned nothing.
Here we go again…
•obvious tip of the hat to Underworld.
Music, Lyrics, Production: Kirke Godfrey
Photograph: Hans Runesson
Don’t forget…
Sonic Gymnastics
Just a bit of Light Reading
Twenty books suggested by Long Now’s Founding Board Member Brian Eno, form the first in a series of reports on additions to our Manual for Civilization collection. This library will eventually include 3,500 books you would most want to sustain or rebuild civilization.
https://longnow.org/ideas/enobooks/
Puts the N in CUTS
Little Box of Folded Fun
The very xlnt Tim Prebble was kind enough to lend me his MakeNoise 0-coast. For a tiny little box, its remarkably deep and flexible (in a very MakeNoise way)
For those that don’t know Tim, he is a sound designer and recordist and makes pretty definitive sound libraries for film sound design under the handle Hiss and Roar
Before I returned it I sampled the living be cheeses out of it, both multi-sampled, and a load of long freeform noise generating.
I’ve since thrown a selection of exerts of these into my µFreak and are in some ways able to recreate some of the mayhem of the original.
WARNING– MAYHEM:
Aliens like music
Drones for winter
Classic 1 finger patch…
Accidentally over wrote this patch … So… I’ll have to redo…
Slow Steps…
Learning Resolve and exploring an aesthetic.
Unexpected Usage
Been messing with the Arturia miniFreakV and thought id try to Modulate the Comb filters and delay FX, to create a somewhat absurd beat slicer:
Still a work in progress…
The crew!
Its a delight to be able to spend time improvising with Awro, Emanuel and Gitpush.
This one seems to start with something resembling a melody but we eventually were successful in killing it. :+)
Save 20k lives, get death threats.
Jacinda Ardern
“It still baffles me that a leader that did her best, with undeniably good intentions, saved a minimum of 20,000 Kiwi lives, had her team shepherd the economy right through to November 2023 in a way where National inherited “better finances than expected”, all with one of the lowest debt to GDP levels in the OECD, as well as securing and keeping higher credit ratings in her tenure, and did her best to preserve water infrastructure in public hands, taking the political hits and death threats to herself and her family as graciously as anyone could, could have this level of reaction.”
Mountain Tui
The Process…
tick, tick, tick…
Should be Obligatory Reading EVERYWHERE
Omar El Akkad’s confrontation of the West’s hypocrisy over the continuing genocide in GAZA.
This is a book with an undercurrent of anger through it, but it’s not a book that shouts.
Instead, it’s a quietly convincing indictment of the West’s institutions and of its moral failings, and a thorough laying out of an argument about breaking away from the ideas and ideals we’ve held ourselves to.
Although, of course, it criticises right-wing institutions, one of the book’s biggest targets for critique is the Western liberal.
Cooler Doof this time
Same Crew… Awro, Emanuel and Gitpush.
Started this one at the official start not the rather unfocused preamble
RIP Dave Allen
Gang of Four & Shriekback
Were deeply formative for my views on what a simple guitar, bass and drum combo could be.
I may not have shared some of his later views on the music industry, but his musical work will remain utterly Game Changing,
More (and more) Doof
Another streamed session with the crew, way more versed than me in the ways of… THE DOOF!! so its an honour to be involved with the very brilliant: Awro, Emanuel and Gitpush. Be warned this is.ANOTHER.VERY LONG session, but if Nf Nf Nf is of interest, ENJOY!
Don’t be a sucker.
Unacceptable Words …
The US Govt’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
It’s fascism, plain and simple.
Exploring the DOOF…
Been Exploring, with some very talented musicians, who are way more versed in the ways of…
THE DOOF!!
so its an honour to be involved with the very brilliant:
Awro, Emanuel and Gitpush.
Be warned this is.a LONG session, but if Nf Nf Nf is of interest, ENJOY!
Together for Te Tiriti
Incomprehensible
Unless you have been paying attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America
Donald Trump and Fascism
Some scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump resembles the political style of fascist leaders. Such assessments were first made during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign,[37][38] continuing over the course of the Trump presidency as he appeared to court far-right extremists,[39][40][41][42]including his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election after losing to Joe Biden,[43] and culminating in the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[44] As these events have unfolded, some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it, including conservative legal scholar Steven G. Calabresi and conservative commentator Michael Gerson.[45][46] After the attack on the Capitol, Robert O. Paxton, a historian of fascism, went so far as to state that Trump is a fascist, despite his earlier objection to using the term in this way.[47] In “Trump and the Legacy of a Menacing Past”, Henry Girouxwrote: “The inability to learn from the past takes on a new meaning as a growing number of authoritarian regimes emerge across the globe. This essay argues that central to understanding the rise of a fascist politics in the United States is the necessity to address the power of language and the intersection of the social media and the public spectacle as central elements in the rise of a formative culture that produces the ideologies and agents necessary for an American-style fascism.”[48]Other historians of fascism, such as Richard J. Evans,[49] Roger Griffin, and Stanley Payne, continue to disagree that fascism is an appropriate term to describe Trump’s politics.[44] Jason Stanley argued in 2018 that Trump uses “fascist techniques to excite his base and erode liberal democratic institutions”.[50]
If ya haven’t … Do!
Much like a composer might write a musical score, Len Lye composed sequences of motion, harnessing intangible energetic forces to sculpt matter.
https://govettbrewster.com/exhibitions/2024/len-lye-motion-compositions
WIRES. (headphones needed) 🎧
Binaural 🎧
Test Soundscape for a possible project later next year.
Images are of some rather fantastic looking Vietnamese military audio gear.
Kuini‼️
THIS is a monarchy im prepared to respect !
Kuini Nga wai hono i te po is the eighth Māori monarch
WindScatter
Rainy Saturday
Ka aroha hoki
Ka aroha hoki.
e pouri ana ahau mo to mate
Just a West Coast Murder Ballad!
Had the fun of contributing some guitar twangs to the second verse and outro, along with production, to this brilliant bit of darkness by the lovely Mike Hogan
Delighted these came to fruition !!!
Realised a lot of people had audio interfaces with spare unused ADAT connectors
Seemed a logical extension to the other interfaces Arturia make.
SO… If ya have spare ADAT In or Out on your current interface, you can now just add 8 more sockets to your setup!
#SurroundMonitoring #SynthHeads, #ExternalHardware etc…
Resurrected by a Hero
Sadly the company that created the brilliant Endlesss went under.
Brilliantly a whipsmart human sussed how to craft their own server and …
Much fun being had with GitPush
FUCK RACISM
Born and raised in a VERY racist homeland.
Sadly watched as… people I grew up with * succumbed to the viral toxicity.
Now sickening to see even the idea of racism, being inverted by the right wing…that acknowledgment of those things is now a thought crime in Aust .
Interesting / hilarious to see some of these people deciding to self identify as being racist ‘outed‘ by this comment despite not being named)
The definition of self incrimination! Narcissists will Narcissist!
Not so…
Bone Yard
Dug this up while cleaning up a drive.
not sure exactly when I made it, but think it was mid 1990’s
And… its… Done
Undeniable
Somewhat Retro Guitar Pop :Dislocated
Composed by Trevor Richards and
Dislocated
Words : Trevor Richards. Vocals
Music : Trevor Richards & Kirke Godfrey
Visuals : Bruce Foster
https://trevorrichards.art/home.html
https://shapednoise.com/
http://www.brucefoster.nz
If you’re reading this…
You’re wandering around in the garden.
We are all wandering around this garden.
Refusing to acknowledge what’s on the other side of the wall.




















