“REDRUM”: “Billy, Do You Wanna Play a Game?”

The recent passing of Manuel Noriega got me to thinking how he was ultimately driven from his sanctuary into the waiting arms of the US military. As I recall, the PsyOps guys bombarded him with loud music until he broke.

Imagine strapping down Mullah Omar and making him listen to this on an endless loop! Who needs water and a pillowcase?!

This is a Combinator, housing a Redrum drum computer and associated utilities. The Redrum, free-running from its sequencer, is fed to a Pulveriser for munging, and from there to an M-Class EQ and Chorus/Flanger. Pulsar LFOs are used to modulate the three tom-tom voices, the EQ’s two programmable frequency/Q parameters, and the Pulveriser’s behavior. Fun stuff, if you’re into ostinatos (and I am). Interesting side note: modulating the Pulveriser acts much like a formant filter. You can almost hear vowel sounds. (Or would that be bowel sounds?)