Intrepita (Paul Stillwell): Recent Episodes
Paul Stillwell
Dark Ambient and Berlin School with a smattering of Industrial and Musique Concrête. Toronto based electronic musician and member of The Canadian Electronic Ensemble. Modern modular synths, classic hardware synths, field recordings, software synths, along with digital and analog effects all have their place and find a home in my music. Most (but not all!) of what you find here are rough cuts & works in progress. I hope you like it!
Been feeling very off lately... work pressures, personal pressures, they've had a pretty big impact on me lately and as a result I haven't been making much music. This was an attempt to shake my head and bring me back a bit. I decided to limit myself to Ciat-Lonbarde instruments only. There is a tiny amount of software reverb and delay but other than that it is all from the instruments. Completely improvised, no cuts.
A dark & moody jam... a little droney. Decided to spend some time trying different things out, stumbled across some stuff I liked and pressed record. This has been mixed but nothing was edited out. Improvised start to finish.
Second experiment with the amazing Soma Ornament-8 sequencing eurorack. Elements, BIA, Loquelic Iteritas.
After a long time apart due to the global pandemic, Not Your Average Worker Bees (Intrepita & Simple Sineman) got together for a long overdue jam. It felt real good! We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it! Many emotions float around in this track; Joy for being together again, angst for the future & not knowing when we will be able to do it again, concern for friends, family, and everyone.
January 5, 2020 - the Bees got together to celebrate the new Decade... this a portion of what happened. All improvised... Instruments: Synthi AKS, Buchla Music Easel, Soma Lyra-8, Eurorack modular synthesizers.33
A significant shift in energy occurs at sunset. This track was inspired by, created and recorded during that significant time.
A collaboration of Intrepita and Android Dreams. We hope you enjoy it!
3 In A Basement - an impromptu gathering of friends on a gray Saturday afternoon resulted in this track.
Sat down with the new Spring Box and the Octatrack to practice some looper techniques and this happened.
Improvised Dark Ambient track performed live in studio in a single take with no edits. Paul Stillwell (Intrepita) and David Sutherland.
Featuring Android Dreams. Techno mixed with some Berlin School. Recorded in a single take. Mix by Intrepita.
How much fun can you have with just 3 notes? Turns out to be quite a bit! Performed live in one take. Only a touch of compression added after the fact otherwise it is untouched.
This was born of an exercise in learning to get as much happening as possible using the amazing Elektron Analog Keys as the primary controller for my modular system. In use are the Analog Keys sequencer providing pitch, gate, and modulation via a funky sample and hold LFO thing. The Intellijel ShapeShifter is the sound source. the modulation from the AK is modulating FM on the ShapeShifter and the inverse of that is controlling the cutoff of the Synthesis Technology E440 filter. Audio out into Intellijel Dubmix Channel 1. Effect Send A to Echophon and Effect Send B to Clouds.
Very Dark Ambient. Performed and recorded in a single take. No edits, very minor tweaks that probably only I would notice on the mix.
100% modular. Fartin around with some rhythmic stuff. E-350, Malgorithm, Streams, Echophon, ZDSP, Dinky's Taiko, Beatstep Pro
100% Eurorack modular. One take. No post processing. This may or may not be related to what you might here from me at Frequency Freaks this Saturday in Toronto. It's supposed to be improvised :-) I will definitely be using all the modules used in this and more: Morphing Terrarium, Loquelic Iteritas, Ecophone, ShapeShifter, Streams, Z-DSP.
Had some fun playing with triggers on the modular tonight. Modules used: Grids, Trigger Riot, Kermit, Braids, Richter Osc II, Phonogene, Z-DSP, Shapeshifter, Freqshift, Streams, Ecophone, 4MS RCD, Turing Machine, Maths, Linix.
100% modular, single take recording. This is a drone for your Friday evening relaxation pleasure :-) Modules: Braids, Richter Osc. II, Kermit, Echo, Echophon, Nebulae, Clouds, Maths
I'm tired of this fucking cold. My Moog Mother 32 arrived on Saturday and inspired this track today. Equipment: Moog Mother 32, Malekko RO2, 4MS SMR, Turing Machine, uScale, Shapeshifter, Braids, Streams, Kermit, E440, Linix. All recorded into Ableton Live where EQ, balancing, and digital effects were added.
Loosely structured modular improvisation. Ambient and a bit droaney. Pitch changes played by twisting knobs.
Patch Info: Braids -> Monster K-Fuzz -> E440 VCF -> Clouds (left) Chaos Nand -> Streams (vactrol LPG) -> Clouds (right) Trigger Riot -> 4MS SMR -> H-Delay Trigger Riot -> Elements Everything into Ableton Live for a bit of post processing - balance, eq, and such.