Todd Barton - Surfing the Krell

from Modulisme Session 073 by 3 Year Itch Birthday Session v.1

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Ever since the early days of the platform Todd Barton has been with us contributing a marvelous Session, appearing on our Buchlaïsms + Serge -o- Voxes hommages ; as well as Control Voltage Therapy (his duo with Bruce Bayard) initiating our « Reciprocess series ». Learning to play my Buchla gear I watched most of his tutorials/demo videos thus he was my teacher at a distance and when I completed my very first « modular recordings playing my Easel K » I sent to him and Morton Subotnick and both encouraged me to move on.
Since 1979 Todd has been exploring analog and computer-based music. He currently is a Consulting Artist for Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments who, after four decades of exploration, is still delving deeply into the ever-expanding frontiers of musical expression.

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All sounds, textures and timbres are created in realtime using the THC Nested Vector Oscillator which is 4 joystick-controlled oscillators in Buchla format. I am only using sine waves. These 4 oscillators go into individual Buchla Lo Pass Gates which are controlled by the Buchla Quad Function Generator. This is the control center. The audio out of the Lo Pass Gates goes to a larger system for processing and mangling via the Spectral Processor and Time Domain Processor and a nexus of control voltage processors.
Oh, and the Nested Vector oscillators are at times cross modulated depending on the joystick position.
The first half of the piece is quite percussive and rhythmic. The Krell patch is always present in some parameters but somewhat masked until about half way through when it becomes quite apparent.

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from Modulisme Session 073, released October 21, 2022
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