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Next up in the Freq series of @Modulisme interviews is @robinrimbaud, AKA Scanner.

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#7

Thanks for your support!!

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Gino Robair has played percussion nearly his entire life and began working with tape music and synths in the late 70s. As a composer, he has written concert works and music for television, radio, silent film, theater and dance. As a drummer/percussionist, he recorded albums with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet; and performed with Nina Hagen, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and Wadada Leo Smith. He is also a founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain. With the Club Foot Orchestra, he accompanies classic silent films. Currently, he plays in the trio Tender Buttons with Tom Djll and Tania Chen.
To record our Modulisme Session he has been using 3 different systems: Serge, Bugbrand + various Eurorack in a suitcase… And there is no doubt that his luggage bwas well-repaired, enjoy the trip.

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Todd Barton speaks to Freq about 40 years in modular synthesis and his @Modulisme session.

#10

so proud to have released that one:

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#11

Modular synthesis “excels at a fundamental goal of mine — to use sound for its own sake, without an undue relationship with any specific genre”.

The newest interview in the Freq cross-collaboration with @Modulisme is with Doug Lynner, and can be found here.

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#12

Great stuff guys, really digging the sessions and the interviews! I think it would new very interesting to have the interviews also recorded just like the live sessions. Just an idea. Keep it up!

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#13

Thomas Dimuzio's modular

“Some millisecond-long events as well as structures that last ten minutes” @Modulisme - the San Franciscan invasion: Thomas Dimuzio, Tom Djll and Gino Robair interviewed at Freq.

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#14

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“It was very inspiring, but looked too fantastic for our Soviet reality”: Alexei Borisov on modular synthesis and his session for @Modulisme.

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Allow me to share Batchas who started to play electronics and experimental, industrial music in 1983 using analog machines. The way our world vibrates always fascinated him and today he enjoys very much every ephemeral moment spent improvising on his modular systems, whether it may be EMS, Buchla, Ciat-Lonbarde, or the great SERGE system he used for our session…

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#16

i have been friends with batchass for many years we shared a bunch when i was in grad school and he streamed his set [in 2010 to our theatre space in RT
Bruce!

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#17

Can we have just one thread on these?

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#18

you forgot bugbrand…

not to mention he also makes some special modules for the bugbrand community under the scrotum lab moniker. i have the pleasure of owning some.

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#19

RODENT is sculpting soundscapes which defy categorization, in a way Post Industrial, IDMish, melodic vs. Dark cinematic but above all those labelling facilities his music is subtle, entertaining-moving, very organic.
Eric Cheslak has been playing a significant part in the modular explosion we are experiencing now, working for Make Noise a brand designing some of the most innovative modules, also co-founding with Bana Haffar Modular On the Spot in Los Angeles: "It started off as a small gathering of fellow synthesists on the LA river. We brought our systems, a generator, and a PA. The idea was to create a third space (not the studio and not a music venue) in which to gather, perform for one another, and exchange ideas. The event has now grown to many cities across the US through local initiatives…

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#20

exactly, he is an essential actor in our community if I may say

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#21

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“I began to get my head around a Korg MS20 as a teenager when a friend of mine bought one, but the big step was when I first got my hands on an EMS VCS III when I studied music at Middlesex University in the 80s. Although using a patch field rather than patch cables, the system is truly modular and there are no normalled patches. It was at this point I began to really realise the potential of synths that are liberated from the medieval keyboard layout, with its focus on pitch change rather than sound change for expression.” Jono Podmore interviewed at Freq about his @Modulisme session.

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#22

Benge ARP2500
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“I collect systems, and have vintage modulars made by Moog, Buchla (100, and a cloned 200 system), Serge, Polyfusion, Paia, ARP, Modcan, Formant, Roland (100M), Emu and Korg. I am obsessed with modular synths!” Benge interviewed about his @Modulisme session.

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/modulisme-benge/

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“I think Buchla was designed to explore the unexpected, so it feels wrong for me to patch, rehearse, record, edit and mix. I spend every day of my life composing on the DAW for my work. That process is very tedious until the very end when it all comes together, and I don’t have the energy or desire to duplicate that process with my modular experience. That being said, my composing process has recently been “do whatever the fuck sounds good”, so I’m trying not to have any particular dogma and aiming to stay open to all processes.” Kevin Rix on Buchlas and more.

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/modulisme-kevin-rix/

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#24

ITATIOM : Inventors Talking About Their Instruments Or Modules starts with the article/interview with Joel Davel and Eric Fox from Buchla USA.

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#25

Furthermore, as a companion PROUD to offer a collection of works made using Buchla-only which took one year of my life to complete. An unprecedented effort documenting the use of one of the most innovative « musical vessel » ever designed, whose extent of the sound spectrum does not seem to belong to this world and the logic lies apart from everything that may have existed before its creation in 1963.

About 9 hours of music which I chose to cut into two parts.

Here’s Buchlaïsms I

  1. Morton Subotnick - As I live I Breathe

  2. Sarah Belle Reid - Collectible Rectangles

  3. Morton Subotnick - Live & Breathe

  4. Miguel Frasconi - Ode To Time

  5. Todd Barton - Maxed Out

  6. Kevin Rix - 81

  7. Klaatu - Barada Nikto

  8. Rachel Aiello - Buchla Sketch III

  9. Bob Ostertag - Pointillism

  10. Stevie Richards - The Electric Music

  11. Miguel Frasconi - Tuning Study #2

  12. Martin Eriksson - Ahrah Lepodahle Go

  13. Joel Davel - Spider Inside Her

  14. The Electric Weasel Ensemble (feat. Bernard Heidsieck) - Improvisation Collective Pour Paris (1978)

  15. Batchas - Liberé

  16. Philippe Petit - Buchlaïsmic

  17. Benge - Improv System 100

  18. Suzanne Ciani - Lixiviation 11 (Live Buchla Concert 1975)

  19. Electric Weasel Ensemble - Live at KTEH Studios (Edit1)

  20. Steve H - Dancing on Saturn’s Rings

  21. Bob Ostertag - Tickled Pink

  22. Nordlys - The Ratcheteer

  23. Laurent Perrier - Post pesto

  24. Batchas - Humanity.

  25. Benge - Improv System 200

  26. So_Takahashi - Natural Process

  27. Dan Preece - Early Riser

  28. Dark Sparkler - This Is Not Lake Michigan

  29. Mutierend - Nowhere Close Home

  30. Rick Reed - Space Age Radio Love Song

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