SI28-Radio-Worm/Week6
The plan: a chill morning radio set with music to wake up to. The outcome: listen for yourself by following the link on MixCloud!
Hosts
Ema, Lea, Valentin, Daan and Youjung (observer)
Broadcast
Listen to our broadcast here
Shownotes
Etherpad: Class notes during the broadcast
Recap of the Show
During the show we played a lot of music and samples.
Daan did some very basic moderation, explaining what we are doing and promoting the upcoming event at Worm Ubik.
At one point, Ema played with his Deathcore Writing Machine:
Deathcore Writing Machine
Is a Musical Writing Machine made by Ema with the precious help of Riccardo
Presented first on Radio Worm live broadcast on 10th Nov 2025.
Deathcore is a fusion genre, which combines death metal characteristics such as blast beats, down-tuned guitars, tremolo picking, and growled vocals with metalcore characteristics such as breakdowns, melodic riffs and high-pitched screamed vocals.
The machine is built to highlight how "simple" it can be nowaday to start to play deathcore without the need to actually learn how to play an acustic instrument, and how easy it can be to compose a deathcore song on the spot.
This musical writing machine has been built in MAX 9 by implementing "Deathcore Soundboard" VST of vocal samples, heavy guitar riffs samples and a metalcore drum track, all collected for free from the internet.
What are the "core" elements needed for a song to sound Deathcore?
1st: The tempo. I went for 180bpm - 2nd: Heavy n' groovy guitar riffs with distorsion ofc - 3rd: A drum track at the set tempo - 4th: Growly, harsh and guttural vocals characterised also by pig squeals and swear words.
Every single sample was hand-mapped to a button on my midi LaunchPAD, which was then played live to compose a deathcore song on the spot.
The selection of samples is up to the self.
Fun Fact: This WM has been built in just 3h the day before the radio broadcast that took place Nov 10th 2025.
Extract of songs and sounds played
- Bruce Haack - Epilogue
- Dwig - Superunke
- Gray - Cut It Up High Priest
- Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
- Monolake - Mobile
- Pole - Fohlenfurz
- Sun Ra - Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus
- The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat: Film Excerpt Part II (cut)
- The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat: The Voice Of Cheese