Canned Parasite

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Michael T Klapwyk

An etherealesque abstraction that could vaguely resemble a monk praying outwards

Christmas Revisited

She came to the land Fleeing political disorder Gangs and criminals and things And a desperate type of poverty Crossing over the border She left behind endless insecurity Looking for a better life Which she found in a land of over abundance Life there was still hard and difficult But

An abstract drawing, vaguely architectural, in black against a stark white background.

Studies in Samples 1b

Studies in Samples 1b0:00/3641×What if you were an interstellar being traveling the speed of light under a trance of greatly subdued consciousness? Induced as such in a desperate attempt to preserve your essence from infinite madness as you hurtle beyond known space you sit in stasis. Fed

A large, round, kaleidoscope effect in a very subtle orange hue overlays a dark ambiguous black and orange hue background.

Social.

This is something simple that devolves into barely controlled mayhem. A slow build that moves into entirely different territory than those first few bars. Chain: DigitoneII—>DigitaktII—>Habit—>Onward—>MoodII—>LVX—>MercuryX—>Clean. When I use the Chase Bliss Habit I generally have

A picture of a large flower in stark black and white with the text “Canned Parasite” atop, and “What about this?” at the bottom.

What about this?

This included more Digitakt II, Digitone II and a small snippet of Syntakt. Oh, yeah, the word salad is going through the SP-404mk2. There is a fair amount of Mood II and some use of an Onward. The Habit was in use, but I kept its use pretty subtle and

A rather sadistic looking lanyard with an employee’s badge attached. The employee doesn’t look particularly well.

Lost Letters 1

To Dearie, I am taking a moment to chuckle at a recent sign that I indubitably have indeed been out of the corporate world. For quite some time might I add. I just had to share. Imagine this scene: It is a pleasant early spring day in Minnesota. A woman

An abstraction reminiscent of screen printing that subtly suggests a human man in a brimmed hat in orange on a green background.

What happened to us?

Two independent tracks drive this creation. The first track was generated using a Digitakt II and a plethora of samples I created as well as some samples that were already onboard the box as it came to me off the shelf. Digitone II synths are layered onto this track and

Lots of random 2 dimensional circles connected by wires in a green blue motif...

What do you do when Robots come for you?

Robots... and by extension the virtual abstraction of them that we carelessly labeled "AI" (without committee or academic rigor). And derivatives there of. Thematically, this is a fairly straight forward track: Robots are increasingly and forcibly present in our lives. And we appear increasingly powerless to limit them