I’m happy to have completed and now share with you the final version of my ‘Model 15’ album of improvised solos made with Moog Music’s ‘Model 15’ app during its Beta testing phase. I couldn’t resist the fun of releasing an album the very day the musical instrument becomes available to the world :-) That’s why you got an incomplete preview version. Please read the initial announcement if you haven’t do so already.
Those who have purchased the album already, THANKS AGAIN! :-) and please redownload the album for free on Bandcamp in order to get the full album as I intended it. My apologies for not having told you in advanced that I wasn’t done reviewing all the improvisations I did with the ‘Model 15’ app during its beta testing phase. I thought my first track triage was good enough but it wasn’t.
The four tracks I added are quite different from the previously released ones and I hope that you’ll like them as well :-)
The new total is 17 tracks and a running time now of 40 minutes. I also slightly shortened the ‘There will be more’ track for it to begin and end more smoothly. In a minority of cases, I truncated the beginning or the end of a track, which is provided raw without any mastering: that’s really how great the ‘Model 15’ app sounds by itself and played live :-) We really need quality headphones to fully enjoy such an app and the resulting tracks.
Here’s the updated list of tracks with the presets I used to play the improvised solos with Model 15. For the new version of the Album, I admit I haven’t respected the chronological ordering of tracks I used for the initial release, the new tracks haven been inserted attempting to make track transitions pleasant as much as possible.
Track list for the 'Model 15' album by Satri| # | track name | time | Model 15 preset |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The wind | 0:41 | Pad / Drew Neumann Polynoise |
| 2 | Another blow | 1:09 | Pad / Drew Neumann Polynoise |
| 3 | Lumières | 2:01 | Brass / Fabio Di Mauro Sperimenting in |
| 4 | Learning to walk | 1:54 | Arpeggio / Kevin Lamb Play one note at a time |
| 5 | Constrained nonetheless | 2:49 | Brass / Trent Thompson Wod wheelopoly |
| 6 | Take off | 0:59 | FX / Trent Thompson Ghost in the record |
| 7 | Being real | 3:04 | Keys / Geert Bevin Soft poly |
| 8 | La foule | 1:22 | Brass / Trent Thompson Wod wheelopoly |
| 9 | Yourself alive | 6:05 | Tom Wies Sequence I |
| 10 | There will be more | 2:07 | Tom Wies Sequence I |
| 11 | Three trees | 2:25 | Tom Wies Sequence III |
| 12 | Through the rift | 2:59 | Modern / Geert Bevin Between The Edges |
| 13 | Steam loco | 1:50 | FX / Tony Saunders Steam loco |
| 14 | Ledom 51 test 14 | 5:54 | Tom Wies Sequence I |
| 15 | Légère | 2:04 | Keys / Geert Bevin Soft poly |
| 16 | Flat Earth horizon | 1:46 | Modern Cosmic Organ Grinder |
| 17 | D'autres traces | 0:39 | Modern / Geert Bevin Sagittent Voluris |
I’m rather happy with this album, I feel it brings something new I never heard elsewhere. That’s the feeling I get when I play solos with the Model 15 app. That’s fun music anyone can play live with the ‘Model 15’ app just like I did.
The album is of course still free, better actually as it is available as Creative Commons CC-BY, and you can ready for Moogfest 2016! I think I’m now done working on Animoog albums for some time, there’s another music project I want to work on first. And yes, it’s Animoog related :-) I obviously won’t stop playing since I like it so much. And you’ll still hear from me since I have a few other Animoog-related posts to share with you.
Enjoy life! — Alex / Satri