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Gabriel Prokofiev - A Cultured Robot

from Modulisme Session 077 by 3 Year Itch Birthday Session v.5

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Gabriel Prokofiev is composer & producer of electronic & classical music. He is the founder of Nonclassical label & events, and in 2022 Oscillations. Through Nonclassical, he has been one of the leading proponents of presenting classical music in non-traditional venues, & created remixes of classical which are the central focus of his DJ sets.
He cut his musical teeth in the 00s producing electronic music & Grime, before returning to his classical roots with a new urban-influenced vocabulary. He has composed electronic scores for Rambert Dance & Stuttgarter Ballet, His Concerto for Turntables has been performed by over 30 orchestras word-wide.

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A Cultured Robot is from a series of compositions for a duo of Moffenzeef Modular System (plus ARP 2600) and Marimba (plus Crotales), all inspired by a re-reading of Asimov’s brilliant ‘Robot’ short-stories, Most of the stories are set on isolated space stations, and focus on discussions between different robots and the robot psychologist Dr.Susan Calvin. As the stories progress, Robots become more and more sophisticated, and autonomous, to the point where their intelligence takes them beyond that of their human creators, and they become what could be called ‘cultured robots’. My main tool in creating this piece was the Moffenzeef System, which is a self contained percussion modular system with a really unique sound. Most of the modules use old digital chips, and my favourite module: ‘ Dial-up’ generates sound using a chip from an old dial-up modem, when I controll it with the ‘MITØ’ sequencer and the ‘DEVIANT’ Random Modulator it really takes on a life of it’s own and start to chatter like a robot - almost like it has a mind of it’s own!

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from Modulisme Session 077, released December 17, 2022

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