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Ed Herrmann - The Case Against Reason

from Modulisme Session 035 by VA. Serge-O-Voxes --- voices for the Serge III

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Ed Herrmann studied music composition and electronic music with Thomas McKenney at the University of Missouri, where he learned analog synthesis on an EMS synthi and Emu modular. Later, a three panel Serge system became his primary instrument; much later adding eurorack, Moog, and acoustic instruments. Equally at home with free improvisation, analog electronics, and invented instruments, Ed Herrmann has performed throughout the US and in Berlin and Zagreb. He has composed music for dance, theater, and broadcast; created site specific sound installations; produced and hosted radio, podcasts, and audio tours.

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« In college I became fascinated with the possibilities of analog modular synthesis. Chaos theory was popular at the time, and I thought of modular patches as chaotic systems, based on waves interacting with waves, in which the smallest change could produce large consequences. The Serge system, with nearly every module able to send and receive control voltages, is perfect for this approach. I don’t remember how I heard about Serge, but in 1983 I wrote to him on Haight Street in San Francisco. He sent me a catalog of modules and over the course of our correspondence we came up with a three panel system that became my main instrument for the next 30 years. The first piece I made was a sinister bass line that was the theme for a radio production of Orwell’s 1984.
I love the spontaneity and non-repeatability of the Serge in live performances. I sometimes recorded, but almost never took notes on patches, instead preferring to immerse myself in the moment, trying to understand everything that is happening in a patch and remembering it. Someone once asked why I never used delays or reverb or other signal processing. I said, “The Serge doesn’t need external signal processing. The Serge is signal processing."  »

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from Modulisme Session 035, released February 14, 2021
The Case Against Reason was recorded in 1985

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