Dark Buchla 200 with SciFi video - by Benge

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"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!"



Additional posts in the series

Melodic ARP2500 with SciFi video - by Benge

video upload by Memetune Studio

"Another track from the new Benge album

This track is made on a vintage ARP 2500 modular system from 1970. A series of looper modules made by 2hp were used to construct the music in real time

The ARP 2500 was known as the concert grand of synths. This is because it is so magnificent in every way possible

You can watch the original performance here:
• Summersend - ARP2500 [posted here]

This video pays homage to one of my favourite science fiction illustrators Syd Mead, who was responsible for many amazing designs, including some of the world building in Blade Runner and Tron. I have tried to bring them to life by putting them through the Memetune VideoLab...enjoy!"

Melodic Buchla 100 with SciFi video - by Benge

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"Another track from the new Benge album

The track itself is made on a vintage Buchla 100 series modular system from the 1960s. A series of looper modules made by 2hp were used to construct the music in real time

How many melodic Buchla 100 videos are out there? Not many I wager

You can watch the original performance here:
• Orangey-Brown Accumulation (Buchla 100) [posted here]

This video pays homage to one of my favourite science fiction illustrators Bruce Pennington, who was responsible for many amazing book covers, which I have on my shelf. I have tried to bring them to life by putting them through the Memetune VideoLab...enjoy!"

The Evolving Riddle V2 by Benge

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"New album out now:



This track was made on a Crumar DS2 from 1978

As one’s life winds its way through the corridors of infinite time and space, I find myself relocated and reset, so to speak, in a place many miles and many moons from the West Country—my former domain—in one of the shires just north of our splendid capital

And I find myself once again following my musical instincts down yet more labyrinthine sonic rabbit holes and through yet more labyrinthine electronic circuit boards

On this outing I decided to try my hand at live sound-on-sound improvisational looping, a method of composition I find particularly rewarding when using relatively unwieldy modular synthesiser systems. The act of looping provides a convenient way of setting down short compositions in real time, allowing simple melodic studies to be created, riddles, if you will, to be solved whilst sitting at the instrument’s console and engaging with the various dials and switches

The core device used on this recording is what I call the Concrete Box - an assortment of Eurorack modules I put together consisting of four loopers, two delays, two digital reverbs, two compressors and various mixers and utility units. Using this box of tricks I was able to run sounds around upon themselves, creating the pieces you hear on this album

Not all tracks were made this way, some took a more conventional path, namely those which made use of polyphonic keyboard synthesisers (the Ensoniq Fizmo, the Crumar DS2) where I simply recorded a few layers of sound one upon the other

And on one track I made use of a rather special device called the Tempera, alongside a regular acoustic piano. The device is able to take stereo recordings and resynthesise them using granular synthesis. You are then able to layer them and manipulate the sound in a great variety of ways. Practical applications of granular synthesis have been around since the mid 1990s, but it is only now, it seems, that dedicated hardware units are beginning to appear on the market, and they seem to be taking hold as an extremely interesting synthesis path

And so it is that these riddles I have been working on have been neatly packaged up for you in this second volume, itself a kind of evolution of the idea presented in the first of the series last year. And who knows where I will find myself in another year’s time - hopefully still diving down sonic rabbit holes and exploring labyrinthine electronic circuits

Synthesisers and recording equipment used on this album:

ARP 2500
Buchla 100
Buchla 200 (cloned)
Roland System 100
Crumar DS2
Ensoniq Fizmo
Tempera Granular System
Yamaha G1 Piano
Eurorack ‘Concrete Box’
Dynacord VRS23 Vertical Reverberation System

The various track titles depict the main instrument used on each track

Released August 7th 2026

Written, recorded and mixed by Benge (B.D.Edwards) at Memetune Studios, England

Design and video work by Benge, made at the Memetune Video Lab

(c)+(p) 2026 Memetune Recordings (Memesongs) all rights reserved"