PAT MCMASTER

Creative Palette
My aesthetic is grounded in the pairing of continuous pitch and tactile control with synthesis methods that privilege timbral complexity and responsiveness. I tend toward sounds that are unstable, harmonically alive, and sensitive to small gestures.

I explore how timbre, modulation, and spatial movement function as structural parameters, allowing tension and rhythm to arise from within the material, rather than being imposed upon it.

This orientation places my work in conversation with experimental “West Coast” electronic approaches of the 1970s, while also drawing from early ambient music, 20th-century contemporary composition, the World Soundscape Project, and the early 1990s strain of exploratory electronic music associated with Warp Records and related artists.

4U / "Banana jack" Instruments
Buchla and Buchla-inspired electronic instruments including the Music Easel, custom expansion cards and 4U implementations of o_C and Temps utile ecosystems.

Sextuple Quadraphonic Spatial Director (SQSD) voltage source and quad panner co-developed by Kilpatrick Audio and myself.

Serge and Serge-inspired modular instruments including the "Siegried" voltage controlled resonant equalizer and a custom quadruple universal slope generator.

Eurorack Modular Instruments
Bespoke systems designed for sound and projection, including modules from

Continuous Pitch Instruments

Synthesizers
Keyboard, module and rackmount instruments including

Live Visual Hardware

Software Environments, Instruments & Plugins