Raglani and his Make Noise controller.

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Interview with Make Noise mastermind Tony Rolando on Waveform City.

Small Buchla Part 2.

Via on Youtube

New*  Keith Fullerton Whitman Occlusion pre-order available on Editions Mego.

Recorded on February 18th, 2012 at LES ATELIERS DE BITCHE, Nantes, France.
Performed on a 4.2 Quad Array, captured in stereo from the performer\'s perspective on a Zoom H1 HANDY RECORDER (auto level :: OFF)

Occlusion (Weteringschans)

Recorded on February 25th, 2012 at PARADISO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Performed on a 4.2 Quad Array, captured in stereo from the performer\'s perspective on a Zoom H1 HANDY RECORDER (auto level :: ON)

… Occlusion is a loose framework for a multi-channel, freely improvised piece of LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC, performed without the aid or consent of pre-recorded or even pre-arranged materials of any kind. A given realization will last between 10 and 30 minutes ; time is elastic. Every effort has been made to avoid divisible rhythms (although mistakes are occasionally made) … Still, I consider it a "kind" of Dance Music.
These two realizations, recorded a week apart at festivals in France and The Netherlands during February 2012, capture the piece (much like those on the Generators LP) in two entirely different iterations, in states of (A) a mildly inebriated bliss & (B) an arbitrarily triggered blind rage. Both recordings were made at 24-bit, 96khz through the absolute cheapest means available to the consumer to do so. They sound fantastic.
Occlusions is a companion piece to Generators in that they share the same tool-set … however, it is the FREE JAZZ yang to Generator’s MINIMALIST yin. It is not recommended to those seeking meter, melody, cleanliness, or a clearly outlined organizational sense.

Keith Fullerton Whitman. Auto-Melody Generator w/Drums 2012.

“… testing a revised set of “Auto-Melody Generator” patches (using Intellijel Dixies for the sine waves, a DrumDokta DRM-110 for the drums) for a concert w/ JD Emmanuel in June in Brooklyn ; not that I’m consciously trying to ape his style (which I love) - just trying to yield something a bit more flowing & less asynchronous / manic than the recent “Occlusion” pieces …

Close-ups of the Voight-Kampff machine, shot with a Canon VIXIA HF M50 (in VERY low afternoon light ; impressive performance) with the stock lens ; line-level audio pumped out of the “thru” of a direct box directly into the mic input of the camera (with the internal manual preamp levels set on the low side ; still doesn’t sound half bad despite the output buzz of the Vermona) …”

EMS Synthi A and VCS3 in concert. 1970’s.

” In 1974 Belgian composer Peter Beyls was not only a technician at the STEIM-studio in Amsterdam but also a teacher at the Vrije Akademie Psychopolis at Den Haag. Hero Wouters was a movie-making “paticipant” (a sixties-word for student) at the Academy, picking up some easy money as a technical assistant in the electronic-and-film-music-studio. They decided to join forces and gave in 1974 and 1975 two series of concerts, “Transformation” and “In Concert”, mixed-media performances consisting of live electronic music, tapes, films and slides.

One of these events (Studio Skoop, Gent, rehearsal at the IPEM, november 29 and 30 1974) was filmed by Psychopolis-student Jacques Tooten, and the material was edited by Hero Wouters in the same year. Projected during this concert were his movies “A Boy’s Ballad (Hero Wouters Movie nr 32), “On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection” (HWM 64), “De Zogenaamde Zeetrein” (HWM 65) and “Prints” (HWM 25), fragments of which can be seen in this reportage.

Interesting are the use of two EMS VCS3’s, communicating through a very long tape-delay-loop, and a platform built by Beyls to control (with hands and feet) his “kraakdoos” (a famous STEIM-synth design).

Music: “Dialoog voor twee Synthesizers & Tape-transport” opus 103 (Beyls / Wouters) and two Peter Beyls-pieces for VCS3, tapes and kraakdoos. HWM nr 66.”

Alka - Improvisations On The EMS SYNTHI AKS part 1.

By far one of the best Synthi videos on the web.

Alka- Improvisations on the EMS SYNTHI AKS. Part 2.

Modular Synthesizer Demo by Raglani.

Keith Fullerton Whitman live at the Graham Foundation, Chicago IL.  3.10.12.

U.S. premiere of “Rhythmes Naturels,” created at the legendary INA-GRM studios, plus a live modular synth improvisation.

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The Sixth Ear contributor Raglani has a new free track for download on his soundcloud page.

Here.

Roland System 100.
I always wanted one of these! I get chaffed every time I see that video of the guy who got a cheap brand new one at an estate sale!

Roland System 100.

I always wanted one of these! I get chaffed every time I see that video of the guy who got a cheap brand new one at an estate sale!

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