I love the Moog Voyager: big, rich sounds; easy to program and save sounds; good "feel". I especially like the xyz touchplate which can be mapped to just about any parameter and allows for on the fly changing of the attack envelope from note to note or sound to sound.

I spend about 10-15 minutes to create a one minute musing. This is all done in real time and no pre-planning. I just step up to the Voyager and program a new sound (5-7 minutes) or use a stock sound I find interesting. Then I lay down a loop via my Oberheim Echoplex of 30-60 seconds then begin layering with either the same sound (morphing it on the fly with the xyz touchplate) or adding 2-3 different sounds on top. Often I like to see how much I can get out of just one patch. That process takes another 5-6 minutes then a couple of minutes to edit the beginning and end of the piece and convert it to an mp4/mov file.

Equipment routing:
Voyager to Oberheim Echoplex to Lexicon Alex then onto Lexicon Vortex then direct into Peak on my G4.

Most days I just use some reverb. Every now and then I really warp things with the effects processors.

Typically, I construct the new page from the previous day's site page and change the music file. Then, I preview the page so that the music loops in the background. I go online at NASA/JPL to see what's new, interesting, and appropriate to the music that I'm listening to.

Once I find a suitable image for the music I use Photoshop and/or Illustrator to clean the image and to add other content. The source image is then artiistically manipulated in Artmatic and/or VTrack according to the following criteria:

1. Make it aesthectically interesting.
2. Tell the story.
3. Keep the file size small so that it streams well on the net.

Artmatic is such an interesting visual tool. It and VTrack work extremely well with QuickTime, freeing me up to work at any frame rate or image size that I choose. Most times I use Sorenson compression to reduce the file size, paying attention to the introduction of unwanted compression artifacts. Once I save this compressed hinted movie I paste it into today's page along with the accompanying text for the JPL site.