Ras Thavas
ras-thavas.bsky.social
Ras Thavas
@ras-thavas.bsky.social
Musician working in numerous modes of looping and modular electronics, through live improvisations using delay, granular, low-res sampling and west coast electronics.

https://rasthavas.bandcamp.com
"Ten Milliasescendooctogintillion" from "Further Excursions Beneath The Bush Of Ghosts", featuring the Djupviks Elektronik “Beneath The Bush Of Ghosts” quad looping answering machine chip sampler.
Further Excursions Beneath The Bush Of Ghosts - Ras Thavas @ Bandcamp

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Ten Milliasescendooctogintillion
YouTube video by Ras Thavas
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August 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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A short Cicada Electronics piece featuring the estimable Xaoc Odessa Variable Spectrum Harmonic Oscillator murmuring through the Holocene Electronics Non-Linear Memory Machine.
August 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
First test of using Multigrain under full cv control, one Xaoc Odessa “wiggle” manipulated in varying ways on numerous slots with semi-random control. One particularly impressive feature Multigrain offers is a wealth of ways to tie grains to clocks & gates, there’s much to explore with this module.
July 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A short tone poem with XAOC Odessa Variable Spectrum Harmonic Cluster Oscillator thru Tiptop Audio Buchla 296t filter bank with cv modulation and manual wiggling/curating. Deep FM inputs and a very playable surface for Odessa create many glassy, metallic, and noise-based universes.
July 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pleased to announce a new release, “The Ghost Cicada Orchestra”, on Bandcamp.

Looping, delay abuse, double buffered-scrubbed rhythms, and several forays into the dangerous regions of blind format switching on the Tyme Sefaris.
New Release- The Ghost Cicada Orchestra
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April 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Next week on Bandcamp-

“The Ghost Cicada Orchestra”

Featuring Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave & Xaoc Odessa with Make Noise & Industrial Music Electronics processing, & Ectocore rhythm section. Looping, double buffered-scrubbed rhythms, & blind format switching on the Tyme Sefaris.
April 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sublime even when condensed to broadcast tv time requirements, Robert Fripp and Frippertronics. I was fortunate enough to see him do this at the Mabuhay Garden back in 1979 and it remains with me to this day.
February 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
An excerpt from an alternate version of “Transient Guest” on “In A Translucent Way” on Bandcamp.

Live improv into Industrial Music Electronics Tyme Sefaris, Make Noise Phonogene and Holocene Electronics Non-Linear Memory Machine. Time and Space melting by Modyfi.

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Transient Guest II
YouTube video by Ras Thavas
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February 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
From a group of short wavetable and granulated loop atmosphere studies, "Cicada Electronics 2"- Industrial Music Electronics Kermit MK III into Holocene Electronics Non-Linear Memory Machine and Pladask DRADD. Time and space bending by Modyfi.

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Cicada Electronics 2
YouTube video by Ras Thavas
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January 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM