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Modulisme Session 074

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Decapoda was recorded in 2018 at EMS in Stockholm with the Buchla 200. It's part of a larger collection of compositions that are inspired by the variation of the plankton biomass in the Baltic Sea depending, for example, on the entering saline pulses from the North Sea, the oxygen levels and the temperature of the water. The rest of these recordings will be released on the upcoming Lau Nau album "5 x 4" in the first half of 2023. https://launau.com/
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This piece marks a departure of sorts in my creative output. Previously my electronic work has been in electroacoustic contemporary music, indebted to both French and English traditions, as well as to acoustic chamber music from the 20th century. Datacombs, however, traces it’s lineage to dark minimal techno (although I’m no genre purist, and this is by no means correct “techno”). I remember watching an interview with Ritchie Hawtin, where he talked about really getting all the machines humming or singing together. So I hooked up a rig of drum machines, Eurorack and other synths (no computer involved), and spent a long time creating the sounds and getting every machine to sing together. When I felt I had arrived at a palette and patterns that worked, the track was performed live in one take and subsequently shortened/mixed in the studio (but nothing was added to the original recording). The title is borrowed from Nick Land.
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Over the summer I was obsessed with cosmic horror sci-fi movies like The Thing, Color Out of Space, Annihilation, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I used them as inspiration to capture the complex emotions of what it might feel like to witness a more evolved alien species envelope all life on earth. The Buchla is great at evoking a kind of beautiful terror, as the sound of the 200e can be cold, aggressive, and distant. To me, the West Coast cross modulation and the natural aliasing from the digital oscillators overdriving the input and output circuits create a sense of DNA being ripped apart and reformed into something completely different. All thoughts, memory, and trace of our existence on this planet absorbed into a new life form. For this session, I came up with a patch using a modified Buchla Skylab. It’s pretty stock except for a 250e in place of the 251e and iconic 223e. I also allowed three extra cables to create spontaneous additional patching and used a Strymon Nightsky for reverb effects. The patch stayed the same all summer as I recorded different sessions. I was intrigued with how much variation could be achieved within one patch.
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« I have been fascinated by modular synths for a very long time. To me they represent the apex of electronic musical expression. I have never been a ‘keyboard player’ type musician. I prefer music that has been put together in a more mechanical way – I like listening to the machines more than the humans. I never bothered to practice my scales or even think about constructing music from a “keyboard” point of view. Not that I don’t like some music produced by great keyboardists, and great humans, its just that my direction of travel has been away from that and more towards listening to the machines. Obviously computers can now recreate anything that can be done with a modular system, but the difference is for me they can never replace the experience of being in the presence of a physical object like a modular synthesiser. We live in the physical realm, but too much of life now seems to be experienced in the virtual realm, its not somewhere I want to be spending my creative time. So thats why I am so obsessed with modular synths, and I think I am just stuck in my ways and am still living in the physical world – I can’t seem to break away from it!» https://modulisme.info/session/15
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This piece was constructed from various recordings made on my “Kameruka” Serge system throughout 2022, with some additional layers of Eurorack modular added. Listening back to the work, there was something about the chaotic interplay between the materials that suggested friction to me, a process in which some energy is always lost. https://modulisme.info/session/20
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This is a recording of a Buchla 194 clone (Bandpass filter) that I modified for a client who wanted to be able to drive his frequency bands with a sequencer. For this patch the Buchla 294 module processes a Buchla 208 and then passes into a mini "L/R" module which distributes the stereo randomly. Since the creation of Synththomas I see my recordings as technical documents allowing to listen to my research, they have no musical or aesthetic pretensions, I record the machine playing.
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Recorded Aug. 26, 2018 on Buchla Modular System.
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Let's celebrate our birthday : 3 years of activity !
Thus this gathering is broken down into six volumes, each being about 2 hours long, and an opportunity to invite back some familiar faces but also to introduce some who wouldn't make a full session but whose approach I like.
Here's part 2, please stay tuned...

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released November 4, 2022

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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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