1st Tracks from Alessandro Cortini's Upcoming All Buchla Music Easel LP

"'Gloria' from the upcoming 2XLP 'Forse 1' by Alessandro Cortini. Catalog# IMPREC373

Deluxe double LP pressed in an edition of 500 copies. First 100 copies pressed are on red vinyl.

Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel. Forse, meaning 'maybe' In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases Cortini recorded for Important to release in 2013."

And a podcast featuring a second track titled "Resta":

Imprec Podcast#4: "Summer Releases 2013"


"Podcast #4 with Klaus features new and upcoming Summer releases. This podcast also debuts the "Three Questions..." segment, providing artists a space to discuss their work in further detail. This weeks guest is Duane Pitre and he will be discussing his new album 'Bridges'.

Tracklist:

Jozef Van Wissem- "Where You Lived And What You Lived For"
Alessandro Cortini- "Resta"
Master Musicians Of Bukkake- "Circular Ruins"

Three Questions with Duane Pitre

Duane Pitre- "Bridges: Earth/Ember/Serpent (excerpt)"
Else Marie Pade & Jakob Kirkegaard- "Cirrocumulus Cirrostratus Stratus (excerpt)"
TOTAL LIFE- "Radiator I (excerpt)"
Nadja & Vampillia- "Aurora"
Acid Mothers Temple- "Babe, I'm Gonna Reave You"
PITRELEH- (excerpt from side A)

*Background music throughout podcast is an excerpt from the forthcoming album "Feel Free Live At Cafe OTO" by Duane Pitre"

Follow-up to:

Alessandro Cortini: Forse 1 - All Buchla Music Easel Release in the Works
IMPREC Podcast #3- "The Synthcast" with Alessandro Cortini & More

Alessandro Cortini: Forse 1 - All Buchla Music Easel Release in the Works

via Justin of Important Records:

"Beginning this June, Important Records will be releasing a series of vinyl records and a subsequent cd box-set of Alessandro Cortini on the Buchla Music Easel. The first album, 'Forse 1', will be issued as a double LP.  It will feature Alessandro playing an original Buchla Music Easel with a mastery and intimacy unlike anything previously released. It's obvious from these recordings that Alessandro has spent a great deal of time exploring, experimenting, and pushing the Easel to its limits. I think the readers of your site will be really enthusiastic about these recordings as they showcase what the Easel is capable of, and the talents of Alessandro. We are very excited about these releases and pleased that they will coincide with the BEMI Music Easel reboot this June. The masters have been submitted and the artwork is being finalized as we speak.

A teaser video for the album will be available soon and a track from 'Forse 1' will be included in the next Important Records podcast on soundcloud.

www.importantrecords.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Important-Records/
https://soundcloud.com/importantrecords/"

Three One Synth Releases From Important Records - Alessandro Cortini (Buchla), Eliane Radique (ARP 2500), & ELEH (Serge)

Important Records wrote in to let us know they have three new releases showcasing one synth each.   Alessandro Cortini's "Forse2" was made entirely on the original Buchla Music Easel, Eliane Radique's Adnos I-III was composed with an ARP 2500, and ELEH features an 8 panel Serge modular wynthesizer.
Full details and links:

"-Alessandro Cortini’s “Forse 2” is now available. Made entirely on an original Buchla Music Easel, just like 'Forse 1' but with an entirely different mood to it.

This is a 2xLP and the second in a series of 3 releases we have planned with Alessandro. Hopefully the CD Box will be out early next year. A cassette for our sister label Cassauna is in the works too for his Synthi A explorations.

You can find more info and a soundcloud track here:

http://importantrecords...imprec374
https://soundcloud.com...


Eliane Radigue "Adnos I-III" 3CD - Official Traile Published on Sep 19, 2013 importantrecords

"Eliane Radigue's Adnos trilogy was composed between 1973 and 1980 and is among her finest compositions. Adnos is a deeply meditative work of infinite depth and sensitivity; one of the high points of modern minimal electronic composition.

Packaged in a heavy duty 3CD jacket containing extensive archival materials.

Film & collage: John Brien for Imprec"

"Eliane Radigue’s masterful “Adnos I-III” 3xCD box-set containing a cleaner mastering of the album, new artwork, and an absolutely gorgeous booklet of archival material. Adnos I-III was composed using Arp 2500 feedback paths into multiple reel-to-reel tape recorders. A masterwork of minimal electronic composition."

http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec028

"ELEH mail-order only CD 'For Moussavi Atrium' a studio recording initially created for a recent live performance at Cleveland Museum Of Contemporary Art using a custom 8 panel Serge Modular Synthesizer and loosely based on a composition by La Monte Young."

http://importantrecords.com/artist/eleh

Music Easel Senza Aria Scappa

Music Easel Senza Aria Scappa from CatManDeux on Vimeo.

"2022 marks two anniversaries: a half century since the debut of Buchla’s Music Easel and a decade since Alessandro Cortini performed these songs while on a solo tour. This is my attempt at recreating those songs on a more modern Easel reissue. This is inspired more upon the Control Voltage Faire performance.

I’m still working on refining the patching, and I’m not using a TimeLine delay like Cortini did. But I think I’m reasonably close. Thanks for watching! And be sure to check out Alessandro’s Forse series, which the final versions would ultimately appear (years after the live performances)."

Update: you can find additional posts mentioning Alessandro Cortini Forse Series here.

NSWaves presents Alessandro Cortini 04.03.14. Cobramatic Live Video Synthesis, Sydney.

NSWaves presents Alessandro Cortini 04.03.14. Cobramatic Live Video Synthesis, Sydney. from Cobramatic on Vimeo.

Note this performance was from 2014. Somehow missed this one. The shorter version was previously posted here.

"Alessandro Cortini, live at the 'New Sound Waves' performance at 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney, Australia 04.03.14
Playing a Buchla Easel with Strymon pedals - Scappa, Senza, Aria from Forse 3.

Live Video synthesis by Cobramatic using LZX, Jones MVIP and Euro synth modules treating original (plus some hijacked) and live video sources via a P10 and video mixer. Live pattern generation and video feedback.

Sound and video quality are not great unfortunately - this is the majority of the show as filmed on an early digital SLR and an iPhone. (The Distorted audio is from the camera recording - not the audio on the night, there is better Audio on the shorter clip here: https://youtu.be/KaBL6PbPEB8 )

Professional Video/Audio is available and hopefully will follow on another channel - (subject to Copyright).
Supporting Act videos will be posted on this channel in future...

Autoglide provided some of the original video used in the show and also recorded the footage of the performance."

Alessandro Cortini Forse 3 & Risveglio

9 tracks of Buchla.

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

Update: one more release from Alessandro:



out now on Hospital Records.

Reviews:
www.spin.com/2015/07/review-ale…cortini-risveglio/
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20802-risveglio/

IMPREC Podcast #3- "The Synthcast" with Alessandro Cortini & More

"May 10th 2013
Good afternoon friends,

We are pleased to announce the newest podcast from Important Records:


Summary:

IMPREC podcast #3- "The Synthcast"

This weeks show will focus on the role of the analog synthesizer as a creative tool in the production of electronic music, modern composition, and sound art. This podcast highlights artists in the Important Records catalog that have made a connection with specific systems or instruments in the analog domain. Some artists have made momentary, inspired connections and managed to capture those results while others have spent decades exploring and mastering their given voltage-controlled instrument.

Each track represented in the podcast brings something unique and challenging to the table. This is not an attempt to fetishize or promote analog synthesis hardware; it is a snapshot of the results that are yielded by careful study, improvisation, and creative approaches to the technology available to artists at a given point in time. Although some may consider analog synthesis an archaic mode of expression, the tracks here attest to the opposite. There are three tracks featuring the EMS Synthi on this podcast but if you expect to hear something akin to "On The Run", well…you're in for a wild ride.

Track Listing:

Alessandro Cortini makes his Important Records debut with the track "Gloria" from the upcoming Forse 1 album. Alessandro created the Forse series of recordings using an original Buchla Music Easel. 2012

Pauline Oliveros- 'A little Noise in the system' (excerpt) from Reverberations (2012) was created on the Moog III modular system at UCSD in 1968.

Eleh- "Indictiva" from the Return LP. Eleh uses a custom Serge Modular. 2009

Jessica Rylan- 'Phantasia' (excerpt) from Interior Designs. Serge Modular feedback patch with home made electronics. 2006

Space Machine (Yamazaki Maso)- "Track D" from Space Machine 3. Maso uses multiple sound sources including the EMS VCS3, Arp Odyssey, Roland System 100M with various echo/tape delays. 2003

Christina Kubisch- 'Ocigam Trazom' from the Intorno al Flauto Magio exhibition, an interpretation of Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'. Performed on the EMS Synthi with processed field recordings. 1985

Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa)- 'Artificial Lake' realized on an EMS Synthi with Tape Delay. From the album 'The Echo From Purple Dawn'. 2008

Eliane Radigue- 'Triptych Pt. 3' created on the ARP 2500 in 1978. From the album 'Triptych'.


We hope you enjoy the podcast and thank you for you continued support."

Alessandro Cortini's All Buchla Music Easel Releases Forse 1-3 Now Available on Vinyl

You'll find them here (demos previously posted):

Forse 1 | Forse 2 | Forse 3

"All pieces were written and performed live on a Buchla Music Easel, in the span of one month. I found that the limited array of modules that the instrument offers sparked my creativity.
Most pieces consist of a repeating chord progression, where the real change happens at a spectral/dynamic level, as opposed to the harmonic/chordal one. I believe that the former are just as effective as the latter, in the sense that the sonic presentation (distortion , filtering, wave shaping, etc) are just as expressive as a chord change or chord type, and often reinforce said chord progressions.

Of all the years with Nine Inch Nails the period spent writing and recording the instrumental record Ghosts I-IV is probably the one which changed my approach to music making the most. After that record I started getting more into instrumental composition, although I tried to approach it in a different way. While we had a vast array of tools and instruments at our disposal then, I decided to approach my pieces limiting myself to one instrument only, as I found myself being more decisive when faced with a limited creative environment."

The Sushi Thief

The Sushi Thief from Mike Lynch on Vimeo.

"I've been listening a lot to the new Alessandro Cortini 'Forse 2' record the past few days and wanted to have a go at doing something in the same style with modules similar to that found on the Buchla Music Easel. I cheated a little by incorporating a second oscillator and a second sequencer but I'm pretty happy with the results.

I've named it 'The Sushi Thief' as I was accosted by security at my local Tesco supermarket yesterday on suspicion of theft! Eventually, my items were verified as paid for and I left a free man.

http://www.facebook.com/mikelynchmusic

http://instagram.com/mikejlynch

http://gameoflife.bandcamp.com/album/mike-lynch-a-secret-sphere-of-influence

Patch notes: http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p189/spikelynch/06065532-f5f0-4d12-8454-4a012b31152f.jpg"

Check out Mike Lynch's latest release on MATRIXSYNTH-C here.

Miles Butterfield Analog Improvs

11.24.13 from Miles Butterfield on Vimeo.
"Another one day patch. This one is inspired by Alessandro Cortini's Forse records. All done in one attempt with only a little compression and a whole lot of reverb."

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Minirig: Retta

Minirig: Retta from CatManDeux on Vimeo.

"Alessandro Cortini’s masterful Retta from Forse 3, loosely adapted from the Music Easel to the 0-Coast. This song reminds me of an ascension to Heaven. Dedicated to my late dad on Father’s Day.

The usual caveats, this is not a note perfect performance but served as a inspiration to learn my instrument better. I get carried away with the dynamics but it’s in keeping with the spirit that pervades Cortini’s works.

Tech notes:

Retta translates to 'straight line'.

Think of the top line of SQ1 buttons as the 5 pitches from the Easel sequencer along with an octave transpose, and the bottom line as the 3 preset voltage pads on the Easel keyboard. I “play” it manually to allow for the musical chaos of imperfections."

Soundplane + Aalto

Soundplane + Aalto from zach goheen on Vimeo.

"This is a simple patch I made in Aalto controlled by the Soundplane - both by Madrona Labs. Filter and feedback controlled with touch pressure. Inspired by Alessandro Cortini's excellent Forse LP."

via Synth Anatomy

Forse "Scappa" rehearsal

Published on Jul 31, 2018 Alessandro Cortini