All Connected #7 & #8 Announced

"2 new dates are announced in the Al Connected series at Ancienne Belgique, Huis23, Brussels.

The series involves concerts, films, readings and instrument presentations with and about artists who play with the language of ‘voltage control’, who use the ‘modular’ as creative thought process and test musical limits with it, artists who work in the spirit of San Francisco Tape Music Centre.

On February 8 we’ll have Jenny Gräf Sheppard who’ll play a live set on, and provide explanation about, her Ciat-Lonbarde instrument. Peter Beyls will let us hear a number of old tape pieces and explain his work. And to make the evening complete, we'll be screening a number of short films by Lilian Schwartz, one of the pioneers of video- and computer art.

All info here.

On March 1 we focus upon 3 unique synths that have helped to define the history of electronic music.
Thomas Lehn play an improvised set on his EMS Synthi AKS, Kraus comes with his homemade Serge Modulaire Synth and Guy Drieghe will play a live set on 3 Buchla Music Easels.

All info here."

EMS SYNTHI 100 Coming to All Connected #6 - Special on IPEM, November 2, AB Club, Brussels, 6:30 PM

"IPEM: Established in 1963 as a joint venture between the then BRT and the University of Gent, the Institute for Psycho-acoustic and Electronic Music (IPEM) developed into an important centre of research and a studio where quite a few important composers of early electronica and contemporary music worked. People like Louis De Meester, Lucien Goethals and Karel Goeyvaerts are just a few of the important figures from this exciting period in recent (Belgian) music history.

During this evening, a number of original pieces from the IPEM studio are to be seen (coming from the collection of the MiM) together with the the EMS Synthi 100. The legendary synth in the possession of the IPEM since the 70’s.

We’ll start with a reading by Dr. Micheline Lesaffer on the history of IPEM. Right afterwards, a number of compositions played from from tape by Ivan Schepers, Head of Technolgy at IPEM.

screening: To Speak Or Not To Speak, R. Servais, 1970, 10min. Short animation film by Raoul Servais for which IPEM composer Lucien Goethals made music.

live set by Keith Fullerton Withman partly on the EMS Synthi 100

Screening: Harpya, R. Servais, 1979, 9min. Animation film in which Servais uses a technique with 35 mm projections on a multi-plane with a black back ground. The film won de Palme D’Or for best short-film in Cannes. Here too, the music is of Lucien Goethals is from the IPEM."

You'll find details on the event here.

Side note: this is the same Synthi 100 Featured in Köhn posted here.

All Connected #5, AB Brussels, September 28th -Featuring IDOW Screening & Performances

via All Connected

"For this 5th edition we’ll have a screening of the IDOW documentary, 2 Belgian artists TTZ playing a Buchla / EMS set and Thomas Ankersmit giving a lecture and playing a piece on his Serge Modular synth.

More info here"

Note I initially had this event as part of the Bozar Electronic Arts Festival posted here. This is actualy a related but separate event.

All Connected 2nd Event to Feature Kassel Jaeger and the Coupigny Modular

via Ancienne Belgique where you'll find full details.

"Kassel Jaeger is a Swiss-French composer about whom very little is known. He is a member of the Groupes de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris and has already released albums on Editions Mego, Senufo Editions and Unfathomless.

In Huis 23, Kassel Jaeger will present an evening dedicated to INA-GRM, with particular attention for the Coupigny modular synth. This unique, legendary synthesizer, there is only one in existence, was built in 1966 by Francis Coupigny. It was originally a prototype of the synth that was integrated into the GRM Studio in the late sixties. Almost every composer of any significance in musique concrète or electro-acoustic music has used the instrument in their compositions, Parmegiani, Bayle, Berio, Schaeffer,…

The synth itself can unfortunately no longer leave the GRM studios - as it is too unique, too fragile and too valuable - but Kassel Jaeger has found a solution.

The first part consists of a composition built up out of Coupigny synth sounds that will be presented in quadrophny. Then there will be a piece whereby a diffusion is screened upon a projection of the front panel of the synth.

Afterwards there will be an informal chat and Q&A with Kassel Jaeger about the famous synth, the GRM, his work,…

- See more at: http://www.abconcerts.be/en/concerts/p/detail/all-connected-2-kassel-jaeger-sound-of-the-coupigny-synth-06-12-2013#sthash.hnCiMgTp.dpuf"

Also see the Coupigny channel below for additional posts featuring pics and video of the Coupigny Modular Synth.

All Connected - Modular Event in Brussels, Belgium Starting in October

"‘All Connected’ is a new series in Huis23 that will feature concerts, films, readings and instrument presentations with and about artists who play with the language of ‘voltage control’. Artists who use the ‘modular’ as creative thinking process and who explore musical boundaries in doing so. Artists who work in the spirit of the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, a collective that came into being when pioneers like Terry Riley, Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Ramon Sender, Pauline Oliveros, and many others connected their oscillators and tape recorders together to produce the most progressive music of the period.

The title 'All Connected' is inspired by the idea of Dick Raaijmakers. He destabilised his studio and created unpredictable noises for pieces like Plumes and Flux, by connecting everything to everything and turning up the voltage as high as it would go - See more at: [link]"

You'll find full details on the event here: http://www.abconcerts.be/en/projects/p/detail/all-connected

Some additional details in via Mich:

"First day of the series [October 22] is with Daniël De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus with his collection of Korg MS synths, W. Ravenveer with a Eurorack modular system, a screening of a short Eliane Radigue documentary and Makino Takeshi will screen his movie Recorder with music from Jim O’Rourke.

On the second date, December 6, we will have Kassel Jaeger of GRM coming over with an all night event on the Coupigny synth and the INA-GRM.

Other dates will be announced soon."

Also:

In early 2014 there will also be specials on IPEM and on the San Francisco Tape Music Center.  You'll find the ‘general’ project page for that here:

http://www.abconcerts.be/en/projects/p/detail/all-connected