Noise and the Beauty
Superbooth was on again this year and I spent 4 frantic days with the guys at the AE Modular booth. This year we had tangible waves, BF Synth, Wonkystuff and Symbolic Circuits and it was chaotic, fun, entertaining, educational and very, very tiring!
Here are the videos from that week:
And a very special guest this year was Josh, who came all the way from California to jam with us with the Coils module which he is building and selling in the US.
Unfortunately the performance at The Generator was cancelled due to inclement weather. However I had invested so much time into this one hour performance patch that I didn’t want to let it go to waste and instead performed it at home.
Here is the first video in which I’m explaining how it all works:
And finally in the evening I did the performance for the very first time in its full glory!
This drone got out of hand. It started with two oscillators and 4 filters then some modulation of the filters, some delay and then a bass, some percussion and playing some notes on the keyboard with real time modulation of delay time via the mod strip.
Last weekend I was invited by Ed of Elk Elektronik to perform at the Electric City event. This was held at a cosy little bookstore in downtown Wollongong. Synths and books are my favourite things in life, so I felt like I was in heaven and had a wonderful time playing to a sympathetic audience of electronic music enthusiasts.
I was inspired by Matt Wand’s jam at Superbooth and have been thinking about the little case for a while since. I think it is perfect for really getting to know one or two modules really deeply without being distracted by all the other modules in a bigger rack.
Here are my first two videos I made with this rack and I’m sure more will follow in the next few weeks.
Sascha is a really consummate artist and his work flows between the rhythmical (he’s a drummer by trade), the ambient (he gives workshops on how to make music with tapeloops) and the visual. For his visuals he’s interested in making sound visible by using old, fluorescent oscilloscope and sending audio into them which he programs using Pd, a graphical programming language for programming sound.
Please check out his gallery of images on his website: https://hearwhatyousee.de/
Matt came prepared to Superbooth and smuggled this tiny system onto the premises. As you can see there is less than a handful of modules in there, but they pack a big punch as you will hear in this video.