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www.neatnetnoise.com
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Batchas - Un Cycle
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« I really enjoy its multi-functionality and its amazing sound. The first time I heard the VCFQ being pinged, it acted like a revelation! When I decided I should get a Serge system, we were lucky to already have CGS and Ken Stone with his inestimable know-how about Serge circuits, but I didn’t feel skilled or competent enough to build a system by myself and the DIY scene was far to be as developed as today. I was dreaming of having a paperface system, but never could afford it. What I found was either in a very bad shape, or way too expensive for my budget. So I saved enough money and bought a new system from STS, the only source I knew to get this magnificent analog modular system. I never regretted it.
A few years later, I got a paperface system from 1978 and a dream came true."
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http://www.nicolaspeck.com
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Ian Boddy - Krellic
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« Krellic uses my large 6 panel Serge system with an aleatoric, self-playing patch exploring an evolution of the basic Krell patch by Todd Barton. Utilising analogue FX to give it a Sci-Fi B-Movie vibe by using not only the Wilson Analogue Delay within the Serge system but also some external FX from a large Accutronics spring tank attached to the Doepfer A199 & the Echo Fix EF-X2 tape echo »
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« My art works are present in numerous public and private art collections, with some sculptures installed in public spaces in Spain.
Since 2012 I‘m working and experimenting with sound and my system is based on Serge Eurorack R*S, Catalyst Audio Bucha Serie 100, and Verbos Electronics, whose versatility allows me to experiment in sound and video synthesis. »
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https://hoffmann.bandcamp.com/music
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« After all my electronics were stolen, so I had to build a system again (I used the no-input mixer with many pedals, some fairly rare and hard to find) so finally, after something like one year thinking about it and one year waiting for it to be build, I got a two panel serge system, Sound Transform System animal and soup kitchen II as it was the only way to get a new serge system. It was a few years before the eurorack and diy boom. I immediately loved the sound and crazy routing possibilities, no difference between sound and control voltage ! I knew I'll have to spend thousands of hours on it too ! »
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Modular 2 - Astorevoc
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Marc Canter - Eva
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« When I first played a Serge system in 2015, I fell immediately attracted by the peculiar conception of the modules and of the whole system. At the same time quite esoteric and very open to many uses and abuses. This is a very generous design, which naturally encourages to try adventurous combinations. I found this very stimulating and the instrument naturally took a central position in my music.
I sometimes route some of the Serge signals into a metallic resonator (a speaker whose diaphragm is a tam tam gong). I like the way the electric wildness of the Serge hybridates with the acoustic nonlinear wildness of the gong. I use this setup (though quite gently this time) on “There is something behind me”, along with some field recording and hand manipulation of my Serge’s spring reverb. »
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« Of course it is a closed system, but I immediately had the feeling that it was more of a real instrument, unlike Eurorack and its frantic race to the latest fashionable module, which never attracted me. The Serge, which consists of almost only basic modules, whose design has changed little since their invention in the ‘70, requires a patch programming approach to get the best out of it, which was the logical continuation of my work in Max/MSP, but with a much more immediate result. It is really intended for sound experimentation, which can obviously sometimes lead to disappointing results, but also to happy accidents, which is what I have always sought in my approach to sound, because I consider myself more as a sound explorer than a musician. In my opinion, there are obvious comparisons with Lego blocks, in relation to which I have always considered the basic 4 x 2 brick to be the ideal module for stimulating the imagination and building an infinite number of things, unlike specialised pieces like you see now, which only fulfil one function and which you never find anyway when you need them. My first Serge system was a leap into the unknown, it was composed of 4 STS M-modules : Creature, Quadslope, Waveshaper and Gator, later joined with a TKB. I think retrospectively it was the ideal system to start understanding Serge's philosophy, because it contained both sound generation tools, the infamous VCQF filter, logic modules (that I learned to love), waveshaping tools and 4 instances of what I believe to be the most essential module in the Serge world: the Universal Slope Generator, the paradigm of patch programming flexibility.
This system went through many iterations, then eventually evolved int a 8 “shop panels” system before I realised that it was actually too much, and understood my creativity was actually richer with less (Less IS actually More in the Serge world). So I reduced it to 4 shop panels, which I augmented with a TPS control panel I made with CGS PCB’s (my biggest venture into SDIY so far).
With this system, I have the feeling I have achieved the perfect balance for my needs.
Oh and did I mention that I'm in love with banana cables as well ? »
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« After a few years experimenting with creating my own modular system, I realised that the power of a system that is carefully designed as a whole, is substantial to my work as a composer. And Serge was honestly the only system that gives me the freedom to dream different connections without the restraints of formality. »
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"In this tune/patch 'Band Brus Blues' the following Serge modules were used: 2x DUSG, 2x SSG, 4x NTO, 2x VCFQ, 1x VCFS, 2x VCM and 1x Stereomixer. Effects are BBD delay, Tape Echo, Compressor/Limiter, Reverb. Recorded on 2 channel tape recorder. The first part of a DUSG is clock in the patch and also drives the rhythmic sound. Then the rhythms go back and forth between DUSG, SSG, NTO and VCFQ which gives character and random. Mainly Sinus from NTO with FM input but also Variable, Triangle and Saw. Pulse for rhythm. Further filtered in VCF and some steering and tweeking. No keyboard or sequenser."
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Tom Djll - Hesitation
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« This piece is very recent and the result of an improvisational approach to a new instrument I put together over the last year or so. It is a 3-tiered XL-boat Serge system built mostly from Random Source components, including a TKB, a Mantra, and an Edelweiss Mk 1. Also heard are Hordijk and Bug Brand instruments. Single-track stereo take.
I am of one mind with Serge when it comes to ‘letting the circuits speak for themselves,’ rather than putting together Bach preludes or visionary math-rock or whatever, although my open-ended, polyrhythmic sound constructions might suggest a kind of electronic free jazz. »
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https://julienheraud.bandcamp.com
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PRFRK - NTOS - Opus 8
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« Since I was a child, I have been interested in electronic music, films and art. After school in the 90 ́s, I went to Europe to connect with my Italian ancestry and all the classic art I had always admired through pictures in art books. I spent a year in Florence, visiting museums by day and illegal techno and electro parties in abandoned factories by night. Then I went to London to attend film school and ended up staying there for 10 years. Time passed quickly, shooting short films in Cambridge, and driving back to London the same day to attend jungle parties on raided supermarkets at night, sleeping and attending Bernard Parmegiani ́s quadraphonic performance in ICA the next day... Every other day was like that: beautiful but exhausting. Until the day I tried an electronic instrument: a dodgy and primitive Roland TR 606. From that day on I stayed home most of the time playing and recording my brand new Livewire modular system and Metasonix Wretch Machine. More recently, back in Lima, I managed to shoot my first feature film in Super 16mm called The Light on the Hill, a mystery thriller at 5000 meters above sea level in the mountains of Cusco, featuring sounds made with the Metasonix TM boxes and other synths and modular. And even though it took me to Montreal and Sitges film festivals, back in Peru it was treated like rubbish and was put in commercial theaters in Halloween to compete with cheesy horror and stupid romantic comedies, and was removed from theaters in a week. Angry with the commercial film distribution system and theaters, and full of debts, I decided to concentrate on my new Serge Modules and Metasonix gear to avoid going crazy. »
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« In 2018, I met Eric Barbour of Metasonix (indirectly, through many emails and social media). Then in 2019, after getting into the 4U Serge format, requested custom Random*Source/Serge 4x4 panels made with RK modules. The first panel, aptly named the "Sodomizer", had an RK3 and the beta version of the RK7 Thyratron VCO (uses different resistors and labeling). The second panel, flagrantly named the "Bellend", contains an RK4 and RK2. Eric also re-adapted the original R-56 Vacuum-Tube Reverb to fit within the Serge 4x4 format. Only one of which currently exists. »
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Modulisme Marseille, France
Modulisme (translates Modularism) is a media supporting leftfield Electronic music (giving priority to Modular Synthesis but not only). Providing ressources/interviews, a radio program aired via 7 antennas, and above all label-like streaming music for you to listen to… ... more
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