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Thomas Fang - Conjuring

from Modulisme Session 058 by VA. Synthisis Sonoris II

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Portland-based sound and video artist Thomas Fang uses modular synthesizers and esoteric antiques to weave reverberating textural drones with fractured granular alien glitches. After exploring the uses of vintage laboratory test equipment, handmade devices, field recordings, radio transmissions, and circuit-bent electronics, working for synth manufacturers since 2008 has led him to embrace the newest hardware while still allowing chaotic and aleatoric forces to guide creative processes. In 2001 he co-founded the Artificial Music Machine record label and began recording and releasing experimental electronic music and noise. Since then, he has performed under his own name and as Static Storm System, and as a member of the Bradley Telcom Ensemble and Inversion Effect.
Fang was also conductor of the Furby Youth Choir, a small army of modified toys which terrorized audiences at festivals around the US. He has worked forsynthcompanies including 4ms, LZX, Darkplace, and Bleep Labs, and has also been a curator for Church of the Friendly Ghost, staff member of the nonprofit organizations S1 and Austin Museum of Digital Art, and has taught synthesisand circuit bending workshops for the Modern Aural Sculpture Symposium South, New Media Art and Sound Summit, Future Music Summit, and Synth Library Portland.

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Conjuring was created using material from my recording sessions with a Synthi 100 (in Vancouver, Canada) in September 2012, and a VCS3 (in Austin, Texas) in November of the same year. This brief composition explores the emotional tension created by instability, when processes outside of our control refuse to be tamed.
I first became aware of EMS after seeing Rick Reed perform with a Synthi, probably around 2002, and soon discovered Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and other famous EMS users. At that time EMS itself was dormant, but after I learned that Robin Wood was beginning new production, I joined the waiting list for a new Synthi A and received it in 2018. By then I was also able to find an older Synthi (without its original KS, which I am still seeking!), and I am planning to take delivery of a new VCS3 soon as well. These instruments can be incredibly humbling and frustrating, but also reveal unexpected wonders. I don't try to impose musical ideas on them; I let their particular quirks and personalities guide the compositional journey.

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from Modulisme Session 058, released January 14, 2022

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