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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

BENGE LOOP SERIES ONE: BUCHLA 100



"BENGE LOOP SERIES ONE: BUCHLA 100

A series of albums recorded on a single electronic music synthesiser (or group of related instruments incorporated into a system) utilising a method of composing and recording called Looping

Looping is achieved using a technique whereby sounds are recorded either digitally or to tape which is set to loop around upon itself at various fixed lengths of time, ranging from a few seconds up to several minutes depending on the compositional effect required for each individual piece of music

There are many variables within this framework which determine the nature of the composition such as: LOOP DURATION; NUMBER OF CHANNELS; STEREO POSITIONING; LOOP FEEDBACK, etc. Thus, the ‘rules’ of each musical piece can be set up in advance allowing the composition to flow naturally from any given starting point

On this first record the sound source is a Buchla 100 modular analog synthesiser dating from the 1960s. This instrument in itself allows for extremely complex multi-dimentional events to be set up, including elements relating to pitch, timbre, time, duration, rhythm, harmony, reverberation, stereo location and the like. Furthermore it can be manipulated very easily in real time, using the various potentiometers and touch plates. The looping techniques used here included multitrack digital recording (Electro Harmonix 2880), monophonic tape loops (Roland RE501) and various combinations of the two

credits
released 11 February 2014
(c) 2014 Benge / Memetune Studios, London
expandingrecords.com
memetune.net"

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Benge Releases All EMS Polysynthi Album - Forms 3



"One of the interesting things about creating an album using just one synthesiser is that it puts you in the 'sonic era' of the machine that you are working with. So for this reason I decided to create these tracks with this idea in mind, resulting hopefully in a sound reminiscent of the musical cues found on certain late 1970s soundtrack or library albums. Therefore when listening to this record it would not be inappropriate to try and imagine yourself immersed in a progressive Television Play such as would have been broadcast on on a sunday evening in 1978

This record was made using the EMS Polysynthi electronic polyphonic synthesiser. All sounds were created and played on this single machine, and then recorded directly to multi-track tape in overlaying passes. The only exception to this was the minor addition of monophonic spring reverberation via the EMS VCS3 and some occasional band-pass filtering courtesy of the EMS 8-octave filter bank
credits
released 16 December 2013
Music created on the EMS Polysynthi
Recorded at Memetune Studios, London, UK
© December 2013 Benge / Expanding Records
All Rights Reserved
expandingrecords.com
memetune.net"

via Benge's It's Full of Stars

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Chimeror by Benge on Vintage Buchla 700


Published on Jun 16, 2013 zack dagoba·231 videos
http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com




Update: some updates in grey below.

"In December 2012 I was visiting a friend in Vancouver, BC and he showed me his working example of the legendary Buchla 700 analog / digital hybrid synthesiser. This highly advanced synthesiser was developed and produced in the late 1980s by Californian electronic instrument pioneer Don Buchla, using proprietory hardware and software components. About 12 of these machines were ever produced, and there are possibly only 4 working examples left in existance. My friend showed me some of its sound producing capabilities and then left me to explore for myself. Presented here are the results of the hour or so that I had alone with this machine

Donald Buchla began makng electronic musical instruments in 1963 with his 100 series modules appearing in 1965, which introduced the concept of analog voltage control to musical instruments (bode did it in 1959 and moog in 1964 - Moog started work with Herb Deutsch  on the first Moog modular systems in 1963). He then produced the 200 series modules in the early 1970s and continued developing systems and modules of greater complexity utilising digital control and eventually microprocessor control, culminating in the 700 system in the late 1980s. More recently Buchla introduced the 200e modules which he continues to develop

The five compositions were recorded directly to computer using overdubbing in places. No additional processing was applied. See below for a full overview of the Buchla 700 system


Track Listing:
1 - Chime One (5.06)
2 - Chime Two (4.56)
3 - Chime Three (3.06)
4 - Chime Four (2.26)
5 - Chime Five (11.24)
Total Duration (27.02)
credits
released 15 June 2013
Recorded in Vancouver, BC, December 2012
Special thanks to R.Smith for the use of his Buchla700
All Music and Design by Benge (c)2012 Ben Edwards (Benge)
All Rights Reserved

www.memetune.net
www.expandingrecords.com
www.buchla.com
myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com"

Monday, February 25, 2013

Modular Synths - Benge interview at MemeTune Studios


Published on Feb 25, 2013 FutureMusicMagazine·238 videos

"We interview the man of many modules about his studio and amazing synth collection. See a very special studio in North London and one of the finest collections of synths in the world. Home to producer and musician Benge, MemeTune Studios is wall-to-wall synth magic, featuring some of the rarest and most impressive synths ever made."

via It's Full of Stars

Update: MATRIXYSNTH magnet on the top left at 9:35. ;)
Thanks goes to James Husted of Synthwerks for spotting it. I was too busy looking at the synths! :)

Update 2:

Modular Synths - Benge takes Future Music on a tour of his collection

Published on Feb 28, 2013

"Benge shows us his Buchla 200e, Moog 3C, Serge Modular, ARP 2500, EMS VCS3 and Formant modular synthesizers at his amazing Memetune Studios in London, UK"

Modular Synths - Benge explains creating a sequence on a modular syntheziser

Published on Feb 28, 2013
Pause at 8:22 and see if you can find MATRIXSYNTH. :)

"Watch as Benge creates modular magic using his amazing stash of vintage and rare, modular synthesizers."

This one in via Lance P.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Benge - Rebisus - All Buchla & EMS VCS3 Album Release



Rebisus - the inner pulse

"Presented here are five new pieces of music exploring the relationship between an electronic system of some complexity (details below) and simple pulse based compositions. The various instruments were set up in such a way as to be considered one large interactive system and the individual pieces were thereby 'grown' or allowed to form naturally

The system comprised the following elements:

Analog sound sources including oscillators and white noise generators; voltage controllers and processors including step sequencers, clock dividers, and potentiometers; audio processors including amplifiers, reverberation units, tape delay and keyed analog compression

The various triggers and gates were used to set off reactions that, for example, would send an audio signal to a reverberation unit being modulated by a separate but rhythmically connected pulse which would in turn be fed into an analog compressor being modulated by a different pulse thereby creating multi-layered rhythms and polyrhythms. The idea was to set up as complex a patch as possible whilst maintaining the simple ryhthmic identity of the pieces

Equipment used:
Buchla 100 / 200e hybrid modular synthesiser
EMS VCS3 modular synthesiser
Roland R880 Digital Reverberator
MXR 01 Digital Reverb
Watkins Copycat valve echo
Tascam 112R casette recorder
MXR Dual Limiter
Alesis 3060 compressor
DBX 119 compressor
Avalon VT747 Compressor / EQ
Langavin passive EQ
Yamha RM16 console
credits
released 27 December 2012
All Music and Design by Benge (c)2012 Ben Edwards (Benge)
All Rights Reserved

www.expandingrecords.com
www.memetune.net
myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.co.uk"
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