Damon, the palette you use to create mood is wonderful!  

Sending wishes for peace and goodwill to all!  

This is awesome.  Damon, thanks for the wonderful added details as to how you achieved these particular effects. You are so creative!
I remember waaaay back around 1968 (!) my mother buying Wendy Carlos' new vinyl LP "Switched On Bach"... played through the then-cutting-edge Moog Synthesizer. It was played over and over at our house, happily seared into my brain.
Thanks for sharing this with us!

Thanks! I didn't realize I had so many comments here.

Well, yes, there are sequencers that form the "loopers" you hear. The modular synth I use is called the AE Modular from Tangible Waves. https://www.tangiblewaves.com/. Check out their forums: https://forum.aemodular.com/forum. I post there often.

This is what synthesizers were like before computers. While there are a few digital modules peppered here and there throughout the system, it is essentially an analog synthesizer.

Here I use the synth both as a signal processor for the dulcimer and as it's own voice. For the dulcimer I have a basic bass/treble tone control, signal amplifier to drive the sound, phaser to make the sound move, swirl and come "alive" without changing the pitch.

The rest of the sound you hear come from good old oscillators, filters and voltage controlled amplifiers. Check it out, it' s a fascinating way to make music.

Hi Damon,I'm curious about the modular synthesizer.Is it a form of "looper"?I've been thinking of getting one.In the 90's I had this fabulous Digitech pedal w/an 8 second delay and a hold and decay function(and you could add layers of sound)...it was like painting w/music...Any recommendations?

Like this a lot.Oddly it reminds me of classical Scottish bagpipe music(pibroch).The player introduces a theme,3 or 4 (or more) notes then proceeds to develop the theme through successive repeats with increasingly complex variations with the drones going all the while...cut a long story short- it's very cool!

Really interesting and engaging to listen to, Damon. This kind of music works great to help me focus on things, and I'll definitely be listening to this more in the future. Thanks for sharing this

Nate

Damon:  Thank you for sharing your musical creation on this (perennially) timely theme!

Bravo!