Kevin Rix - Color Out Of Space

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Kevin Rix studied orchestral composition and decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a music career and started working for Audiomachine, which is a production company that places music in film and tv trailers. Within six months he was a full-time composer of Library music. In parallele he drives a powerful Buchla 200 analog synthesizer and released 3 wonderful albums under his own name and one of our first Sessions…

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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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from Modulisme Session 074, released November 4, 2022

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