Used handy VCV Rack virtual modular. Tried various limited systems but settled on using 2 VFX oscillators with a bunch of VCV Fundamental Modules, LFO-2 and Mixer. The Bento Box module set proposed in the Shared System had other options but they didn’t seem necessary here.

The VFX oscillators allow for modulations aplenty, which were not used here. The detune/multiple voice/spread functions alone created undulating stereo spread drones. Then LFOs drove the mixer levels and other LFOs modulated those LFOs. The sometimes audio range interactions added higher frequency squelch sounds. No filter was used as the fundamental tones were sine waves anyhow.

Various favorite things, like delay and reverb, were not stipulated in the Bento Box set and were not used here.

Fade in and out were done real time on the fly using level adjustments in the Mixer modudes. The live take was recorded to a venerable fruit-branded hand-me-down laptop running Audacity. Trim edits done there likewise. Overall presentation was to enter and leave ongoing heterodyning drone oscillations.

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