Dark Buchla 200 with SciFi video - by Benge

video upload by Memetune Studio

"Another track from the new Benge album

This track is made on a cloned Buchla 200 modular system and a series of looper modules to construct the music in real time

The Buchla 200 is probably the most advanced electronic music synthesis system ever conceived by a human mind. It has such depth and nuance only perhaps some far away alien civilisation could come close to matching its experimental sonic quality

You can watch the original performance here:
• Midsome - Live Buchla 200 Performance [posted here]

This video pays homage to another of my favourite science fiction illustrators H.R.Geiger, who was responsible for creating the incredible world of the Alien movie franchise, but actually, before that I was familiar with his work as a young boy growing up in the 1970s and owning the ELP album Brain Salad Surgery, the cover of which was designed by Geiger. Actually before I had the album I had the single of an exclusive BSS track on some kind of flexi-disk which had a mini version of the fold out artwork as featured on the album. Or maybe I dreamed that? I'll have to dig it out!

I have tried to bring his work to life in my own way by putting some of his images through the Memetune VideoLab...enjoy!"



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