ACID LAB
The machine the lab is named for: a TB-303 bass sequencer with 909 drums. Program steps, ride the squelch, record live, chain snapshots into a song, or let TRIP mode drive.
PLAY →eel
A 303 you play with one finger. Drag sideways to slide the note, drag up to open the filter. Pure, no drums.
grab it →eel²
The many-finger eel: multitouch voices, wiggle vibrato, a FREEZE pad that loops your echo, hijaz and blues scales, drums.
unleash them →RAVE
An endless generative acid station. Three faders: ENERGY, SQUELCH, CHAOS. Never the same night twice.
OPEN THE NIGHT →RIDGE
Draw a mountain range and the bass rides it, gliding along every peak and valley you sculpt.
SCULPT →loom
Draw threads of light and they loop as music. No grid, no rules, nothing you draw sounds wrong.
draw →ORBIT
Hang planets around a sun. Every pass through the beam is a note; the sky is a polyrhythm.
LAUNCH →rain
Stretch brass surfaces across the sky and let the weather play them. Gravity is the sequencer.
open the sky →CELLS
Conway's Game of Life on a beat grid. Paint a colony, press play, and let it compose until it dies.
GROW →swing
Twelve pendulums drift out of phase and find each other again, plucking as they cross. Reich physics.
let go →swarm
A bioluminescent flock that chirps crossing the light. Tap the water to call it; the music is emergent.
call the flock →tide
Breathe with the circle. A chord swells on the inhale and settles on the exhale, over slow ocean.
breathe →bowls
Singing bowls. Tap to strike, hold to make one sing, chords of open fifths that ring for ages.
strike →sand
A zen garden that whispers as you rake it. Pass close to a stone and it chimes.
rake →lanterns
Release lanterns into the night. Each one hums a note of the chord as it rises and fades.
let one go →om
One deep tone, held. Slow overtones wander above it, and a binaural beat pulses between your ears.
hold →