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Plucking the Spectrum - Slow Dark

from Modulisme Session 075 by 3 Year Itch Birthday Session v.3

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Trained as a child, untrained as an adult, Timothy Ellis' first public performance was age 7 when he played Spinet in a trio with tenor recorder and bass viol. The parents made him study music, touring with a collegiate choir in his teens. He rebelled, choosing to go on the road with his seminal multi media group Jackdaw with Crowbar, recording sessions for the legendary John Peel sessions in the late 80’s.
Influenced by The (early) Residents he took up experimenting with cut up music using two cassette decks before graduating to 1” tape machines, meanwhile curating events with unusual pairings in unusual settings such as theremin and church bells at the top of a church tower, or drum orchestra with didgerido in a crypt.
His forays into experimental music have seen many guises including instrument building and most recently making paintings using synthesised bass frequencies to disrupt paint on treated water - printed at the moment of disruption.
His interest in ‘visual music’ led him to modular where he creates mini-dramas under the alias ‘Plucking the Spectrum. Fast forward to today he says ‘I finally found my instrument! The Serge Synthesiser Console’.

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Timothy Ellis’s mini-drama ‘Slow Dark’ is like fighting your way through a storm with only a few things to hold on to. Some repetition building familiarity, a sense of certainty in an uncertain landscape. Groaning, seething and driving through as it depicts a sense of urgent despair at a world trying to survive. Recorded February 2021 using various components from Serge Random Source, Make Noise, Buchla, Moog and Erica.

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from Modulisme Session 075, released November 18, 2022

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