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James Gardner - Au​-​delà de deux rivi​è​res

from Modulisme Session 057 by VA. Synthisis Sonoris I

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James Gardner is an English born New Zealand musician and composer who spent much of the 1980s in London playing and programming keyboards and synthesizers for a variety of artists. He moved to New Zealand in 1994. In 1996, he set up the contemporary ensemble 175 East, which he directed until 2010 and his compositions have been played and broadcast throughout the world.
Gardner has also broadcast on music on the New Zealand radio station Radio New Zealand Concert. He has taught music at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, Unitec and the University of Auckland. For some years he has been researching the history of the synthesiser company EMS with a view to publishing an authoritative book on the subject.
Gardner is also a broadcaster on music on the New Zealand radio station Radio New Zealand Concert. He teaches music at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, Unitec and the University of Auckland, and writes and presents shows covering contemporary music...

There was no particular aim at the beginning of working on this track but I allowed it to evolve "naturally". A lot of my music tends to change quickly or jump from one sonic area to another, so I wanted to try to let the piece "sit" for a while without, I hope, becoming boring.
I chose to use only sounds that I patched on a single 1976 EMS Synthi A, on loan from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. I decided that I would use only those kinds of audio processing that were available in 1975 (a rather arbitrary limit) although this processing was done with plug-in emulations, rather than the real thing. So I allowed myself "tape" delay, phasing, plate reverb, natural chamber reverb and spring reverb.
I limited myself to no more than eight tracks of material at any time, and bounced tracks down if I needed more, just as one would have to do on an eight-track tape machine.

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from Modulisme Session 057, released December 22, 2021

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