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Dominique Grimaud - AKS Medley

from Modulisme Session 058 by VA. Synthisis Sonoris II

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Dominique Grimaud started his musical activities in 1970 with an improvisation and happening group formed by Jacky Dupéty. The group performed under the name Camizole until 1978. In that year, it merged with the group of Gilbert Artman Lard Free.
Then Dominique Grimaud created with Monique Alba the duo Video-Aventures, whose first album ranked second in the charts of the magazine New Musical Express.
Gilbert Artman, Jac Berrocal, Han Burhs, Guigou Chenevier, Cyril Lefebvre participated in this album.

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From 1970 to 1974, with Camizole, I had experimented bass guitar, double bass, flute, violin. I had even built an adaptation of the zither, kind of piano frame which I scraped, hit and rubbed. Then I bought the mini-Korg 700, the very first model of the brand. It was a very pale imitation of the Mini-Moog, but extended by a Wem Watkins Copicat tape echo chamber, it opened possibles.
I acquired my Synthi AKS in 1975, a second-hand purchase (trained keyboardists could not get used to the digital keyboard). Not having any conventional instrumental technique, I had finally found the instrument that suited my experimental and empirical approach. In the inputs I connected the little Korg (a bit like an extra oscillator), as well as an alto saxophone and a guitar in order to distort and pervert the sounds in our wild improvisations in public.
From 1979, with Video-Adventures, it became my preferred instrument and most of our recordings originated on the Synthi AKS. By running it through a warm MXR effect, I was able to achieve broader and warmer sound colors. Loops, pulses, rustles... I always approached this instrument in a completely intuitive way and with unlimited happiness. However, even if I used it on stage, I think that it is above all a studio and laboratory instrument. That's why, afterwards, I preferred a Moog Source, which I used in sample and hold mode + coupled with the first affordable samplers. In 2012, I had it completely overhauled by Robin Wood (an EMS veteran) who offered to include new features for me to chose. Today, I still use it by connecting it to Moogerfooger and Eventide stompboxes.

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from Modulisme Session 058, released January 14, 2022
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