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Stelios Giannoulakis (Schema Musicalis) - Synthi100 + PianoImpro2

from Modulisme Session 059 by VA. Synthisis Sonoris III

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Recorded during June - July 2020, at CMRC / ΚΣΜΕ, Athens Conservatory, Greece
Synthi100: Stelios Giannoulakis, Piano: Vassilis Roupas
I got familiar with the EMS synth workflow working a lot with a VCS3, during my PhD at Bangor University, and from various digital emulations (vst, iPad, etc). At some point I even started making a VCS3 emulation in MAX, witch never really completed. Finaly, got around to playing with the Synthi100 at the Contemporary Music Research Center in Athens in 2020, a couple of months before the first lockdown. I remember having seen this same machine back in 1991, during a seminar on creative studio techniques and UPIC. Back then it was not functional. It got restored to functioning order in 2017, with the opportunity of Documenta14. Anyway, during June - July 2020, in room 10 at the Athens Conservatory, I had the opportunity to work with it a lot, so after some experiments, I patched the synth for live drone-glitch-noise improvisation, and started recording many hours of material. In the same room there was an old grand piano, so I had the pleasure to invite my friend and music collaborator pianist and composer Vassilis Roupas, for a couple of long improvisation sessions. Synthi100&Piano Impro 1 and 2 are edited from material performed during these sessions, the 3rd and 9th of July 2020.
The relationships between almost static and highly active sounds have always been of interest to me, so I tend to think a lot in terms of texture and gesture. Sound-streams in contrapuntal structures, with varying degrees of independence, trajectories within sonic landscapes and abstractions. I feel that acoustic instruments, played with traditional or extended techniques, may very well be part of this musical discourse, especially when there is a shared musical aesthetic and deep connection between the performers. In these sessions I used the Synthi100 for basic sound families such as tones and clusters, grain textures, noise gestures and random sequences, which I would mix and modulate in real time. Vassilis on piano is contributing his own sound world in a constant interplay, leading or responding.

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from Modulisme Session 059, released February 4, 2022

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