Lumen Aqua & Hadikat Raja XXII

Published on May 4, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"Composition for Virus TI, percussions and Steinway concert piano of Miroslav Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, and natural sounds."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Première Partie

Published on May 3, 2013 RADIOKLOW·82 videos

"First part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Hadikat Raja XXII, Deuxième Partie

Published on May 3, 2013

"Second part of the twenty second visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI and Little Phatty. Music, film and all arts by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

On the synths featured: "Virus, the Little Phatty and the classical percussion set of Miroslav Philarmonik. The Little Phatty can be heard at the following times, mostly playing in association with the Virus :

05:25-05:57
10:43-10:52
10:55-12:09
12:11-12:18
12:28-12:56
14:12-14:53

The percussion set of Miroslav appears two times. First, with the Virus which plays its own percussion part with sounds I created : 08:37-09:21 A second time at the very end of the piece as you will notice."

Hadikat Raja XXI

Published on Apr 27, 2013 RADIOKLOW·79 videos

"Twenty first visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI. Music, film and artistic creations in situ by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

Additional sounds: "small instant of the Steinway by Mirolasv Philarmonik and some natural sounds you will easily identify during the first minutes, some of them having been slightly transformed by the GRM Tools.

Mysterioso & Heosphoros

Published on Apr 22, 2013 RADIOKLOW·78 videos

"Composition for Keyboard Virus TI and Voices of Passion, Virtual Instrument by EastWest/SoundsOnline. Music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

"I play the Virus and uses at the end a virtual instrument I love : Voices of Passion created by Eastwest, and to be more detailed, it is the part of the instrument which is called Bulgarian voices."

Heosphoros

Published on Apr 23, 2013

"Heosphoros is the light bringer, the morning star which appears soon before the sunrise, at dawn, when the sky is still floating in colorless fluidity.
Composition for Virus TI, Miroslav Philmarmonik by IK Multimedia and Ethno Instrument by Motu.
Music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

"For this I used the Virus transformed by the GRM Tools, drop of rainstick form Ethno instrument by Motu and a clarinet of Miroslav Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, transformed very slightly by the GRM Tools."

Marc-Henri Performing in a Cathedral Video

The video of Marc-Henri's performance at the Saint Bonaventure cathedral in Lyon has been added to this post. Scroll down to the update when you get there.

Silences avec des voix I & II

Published on Apr 14, 2013 RADIOKLOW·76 videos

Virus TI and Moog Little Phatty.  RADIOKLOW is Marc-Henri Arfeux who recently sent in some pics of his setup at the cathedral Saint Bonaventure in Lyon. Video for that performance should be coming soon. It is great to see synthesizers being used in settings and performances like this.

"Poetic and electroacoustic performance given by Mohammed El Amraoui and Marc-Henri Arfeux the10th of March 2013, at Lyon's Museum of Fines Arts, during the national festival : Printemps des poètes 2013. Many thanks to the Espace Pandora, Thierry Renard, the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Pierre Lacote and Pierre Perrin.
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)"

Silences avec des voix II

Performing in a Cathedral - Marc-Henri at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon

Published on Apr 15, 2013 RADIOKLOW·77 videos

The Access Virus acts as a controller in this performance. The first sounds you hear are actually the Roland V-Synth XT. Later it controls the Snow. The Little Phatty controls the Blofeld.

'Concert with poetic reading given at Saint Bonaventure of Lyon, during the festival "Artistic Adventures at the Cordeliers' the 10th of march 2013.

With Marie-Ange Sebasti : poems and Marc-Henri Arfeux : synthesizers (Virus TI, Roland V-Synth XT, Virus Snow Blofeld, Little Phatty).

Many thanks to Michel Morlot.

This concert lasted one hour, but since we had small technical problems with the filming, I decided to select 45mn of the whole show, divided into five moments, from the beginning to the end."

Marc-Henri dedicates the performance to the people of Boston and the inocent victims.


Update: Video of the performance added above.

Pics of via Marc-Henri's (aka RADIOKLOW) setup and performance at Saint Bonaventure in Lyon. The performance was yesterday, April 10.  Four of the pics were taken in the afternoon before the performance. The second to last is a still from a video of the performance which will be available at a later date.  You can see an Access Virus TI & Snow, Moog Little Phatty, Roland V-Synth XT Rack and Waldorf Blofeld. I asked Marc-Henri if I could post the images as you do not see this every day. The video of the performance will follow when ready. Until then, see the RADIOKLOW and Marc-Henri links above for previous posts featuring Marc-Henri's work. He is a true explorer of sound and his compositions with the Access Virus Ti are reminiscent of what others do with expansive modular systems.

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Mini Bruitist Quartet

Published on Mar 30, 2013 RADIOKLOW·80 videos

"Collective work of improvisation for Minibrute, Little Phatty, Roland V Synth XT and Playel piano. All instruments by Marc-Henri Arfeux, Noé Charmet, Quentin Grini, Nathan Nadal. Voice by Heidi Berthier. Recorded live friday 19th of march 2013."

Quatre Fragments

Published on Jan 20, 2013 RADIOKLOW·79 videos

Metallic timbres are the Access Virus Snow. This is a follow-up to this post.

"Jamming with Nathan Nadal on Little Phatty, Snow Virus controlled by the LP, and acoustic Pleyel piano, friday 11 January 2013. All electronic sounds created by Marc-Henri Arfeux with live variations on them by the two performers."

Improvisation d'Hiver I - Synthesis in the Classroom

Published on Jan 18, 2013 RADIOKLOW·78 videos

"Improvisation of the 11th january 2013 for Little Phatty and Snow Virus played simultaneously through the Little Phatty's keyboard. Film and recording on camera by Nathan Nadal"

Improvisation d'Hiver II

Published on Jan 19, 2013

"Second Improvisation performed the 11th of January 2013, on Little Phatty and Snow Virus, played simultaneously through the Little Phatty's keyboard. Film and recording by Nathan Nadal."

Per the site guidelines, you need to be able to differentiate between the synths in any given post. The idea is you can get a feel for the synth/s featured. In this case it's not as clear what synth is producing each sound, but I thought I'd post it for the unique context. This performance is actually a lecture at a high school in France. It's great to know that students are being exposed to synthesis and the more abstract sonic soundscapes they are capable of.

Via Marc-Henri: "Winter Improvisation I and II are two pieces of music performed live for those of my students who attend the course of Philosophy and Electroacoustic music at "Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon". I created this course two years ago with the agreement of the Principal of Lycée Edouard Herriot and the Board of education of Lyon. It takes place among a program of education and culture in which i am absolutely free ti create and test new methods of teaching to transmit the taste for culture to youth. The course is also connected with the Museum of Fine Art of Lyon in which I will give a performance of electroacoustic music and poetry in march 2013.

The pieces of music presented here consist in two improvisations performed friday the 11th of january 2013. I wanted to introduce them to the question of improvisation because we plan for may a performance with a video, a recorded collective piece in which they will take the main part and simultaneously a live improvisation on this canvas. Thus, to give them an example of this kind of thing, I gave them two improvisations with my Little Phatty and my Snow Virus playing simultaneously, the second being controlled by the keyboard of the first one.

In the first attempt, I improvise on part of the recording of De Haute Vallée which is played by the computer, from00:20 until 13:14. My aim was to show them how you can recreate a former composition by playing improvisations on it and it is for me a kind a variation in the same kind of spirit I use in the Hadikat Raja series, except that I simply open a live music field over the root composition and melt it with this root composition instead of changing the position of former elements, erasing some of them, developing others and creating new elements in each new piece to produce a series of work in progress as I do in the Hadikat Raja Series. The Little Phatty played solo ends this first performance from 15:46 to 16:16.

In the second improvisation, the Little Phatty play together and with no recorded part, from the first second to the end.

All sounds are mine on both instruments, as usual, and I had no rehearsal before. This was the first time I used the LP and the Snow, since a long time. Thus, the performance is absolutely improvised.
Both improvisations were shot and recorded on a camera, by one of my students, Nathan Nadal who also created the titles and effects of the first film. I created the titles of the second, adding a the end a recent painting to conclude by a still image.

I hope the quality of sound is not to poor. The filming and recording of these two improvisations had not been planned and since Nathan asked me if he could shoot them I said yes because it is a track of the work we do in this course."

Lyon, the 15th of January, 08:25 am

De Haute Vallée

Published on Jan 6, 2013 RADIOKLOW·76 videos

"De Haute Vallée (From High Valley). Composed for Keyboard Virus TI, Morphwiz, Filtatron, Korg I MS 20 for I Pad, Curtis for I Pad. All sounds, music and photographs created by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

00:07 - 07:51 : Virus TI
00:35 - 02:49 : Filtatron
03:24 - 05:30 : Korg I MS 20
06:51 - 16:02 : Curtis (07 : 52-09:36, Curtis alone and from 09:38 with Virus TI
16:03 : Filtatron alone
17:47 - 18:56 : Virus and Filtatron, and Virus TI alone until 19:04
19:05 - 19:56 : Morphwiz alone
19:57 - 21:58 : Morphwiz and Virus TI, Virus TI alone till 22:05
22:06 - 22:24 : Filtatron, Virus TI coming from 21:08
22:40 - 24 : 08 : Virus TI and Curtis
24:08 - 24:28 : Curtis alone
24:09 : Virus TI alone
24 : 43 : Morphwiz alone, with Virus TI from 24:54, Virus TI interrupting around 25:00
25:27 - 26:09 : Morphwiz and my "Quartet"
26:10 - 29:52 : "Quartet" very often treated by GRM Tools, Virus TI coming from 29:29 until the end of the composition
30:42 - 31:03 : "Quartet" and Virus TI, and Virus TI alone
32:56 - 33:05 : Virus TI and "Quartet"
33:06 - 35 : 11 : Virus TI alone

Messe Anubienne

Published on Dec 23, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Messe Anubienne - Missa Anubia. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All sounds and photographs created by Marc-Henri Arfeux. In memory of my great friend M. N."

Nuées Oracles

Published on Dec 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Composed by Marc-Henri Arfeux for Keyboard Virus TI and some parts with Morphwiz, male, female and child voices. All sounds created by the composer, with a video after his own photographs."

0:00 Virus TI

01:42-02:22 : Virus TI and Morphwiz

03:24-05:42 : Virus TI, my voice and my nephew's voice

05:43-07:46 : Virus TI

07/46-10:00, 11:34-12:38, 13:20-14:00, 14:37-15:37 : Virus TI and Morphwiz in background

12:14-14:10 : Virus TI and my wife singing part of a song by the great egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum

16:31-16:57 : Virus TI and Morphwiz in background

20:03-21:26 : Virus TI and call for prayer in Fes ( from 20:44-21:55 & 22:39-22:54 : chinese chimes, )

21:33-22:58 : Virus TI, my voice in an imaginary tongue (from 21:51-23:15 : candies in pill boxes, water)

24:02-24:38 : Call for prayer in Fes, transformed by GRM Tools and Virus TI

24:17-24:53 : Dishtop, and Virus TI sometimes

25:05-25:16 : Morphwiz alone and with my voice, and from 26:26 : bell and Morphwiz

25:17-29:26 : Virus TI, my voice

29:26-End : Virus TI, Church bells and women praying in Italy, Orchestra of classical mystic music in Fes

Renversement d'Azur

Published on Oct 29, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Renversement d'Azur/Inversion of Azure. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI, Little Phatty, Wiener Philarmonik percussions, Omnisphere tenor and soprano, and with also the voice of Medhi de Montard, a 10 years old boy, my nephew, chanting and saying a poem I wrote. All photographs and paintings by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

0:00-0:38 : Virus alone (voices created on this instrument)
0:39-1:32 : On the Virus a few notes by the Little Phatty, easy to identify
6:44-7:44 : Wiener Philarmonik percussions on the Virus
12:21-13:15 : Little Phatty (a few notes) with Virus
13:33-14:17 : Little Phatty alone
14:18-16:00 : My Nephew's voice with the Little Phatty.
16:00-16:24 : My Nephew's voice with the Virus
16:24-17:27 : My Nephew's voice with Virus and a few notes by the Little Phatty
17:27-18:00 My Nephew's voice treated by GRM Tools with the Virus
19:49-20:30 My Nephew's voice with the Virus and the Little Phatty playing some notes.
20-31-21:10 : My Nephew's voice and the Virus ( few Little Phatty notes at 20:57-21:10
22:11-22/30 : Omnisphere soprano with voices created on the Virus
22:30-24:15 Voices created on the Virus
24:15-26:25 : Voices created with the Virus with Omnisphere tenor and soprano
26:25-end : Voice created on the Virus

"My aim there was to create something having links with contemporary lyrical music."

Le Royaume de Morphée : La Descente, Le Royaume, L'Auditorium

Published on Oct 27, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Composed for Keyboard Virus TI, music and film by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Le Royaume de Morphée : Palais intérieurs, Les Voyages

Published on Oct 26, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Music composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All photographs, paintings and drawings also by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

Le Royaume de Morphée : Palais intérieurs, Les Voyages

Published on Oct 26, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Music composed for Keyboard Virus TI. All photographs, paintings and drawings also by Marc-Henri Arfeux"

The Sound of Space

YouTube Uploaded by Chicken10843 on May 19, 2009

"Sounds from space with a machine combined.
thanks to NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html"

via Marc-Henri aka RADIOKLOW

Hadikat Raja XIV & Marc-Henri at the Museum of Fine Arts Lyon

Hadikat Raja XIV, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Apr 2, 2012

"Fourteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja XIV, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Apr 2, 2012

"Second part of the Fourteenth visit to the Garden. Composed of Keyboard Virus TI"


Update: pics of Marc-Henri at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, France for a performance with the Access Virus, a Doepfer modular system, and some poetry thrown in for good measure. Incredible setting for an electronic performance!

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Yves Usson - The Man Behind the Arturia MiniBrute

Marc-Henri aka RADIOKLOW, who has been featured on this site numerous times, sent in this image of Yves Usson's recent demonstration of the Arturia MiniBrute in Lyon, France. Yves is well respected in the synth community for his DIY work at http://yusynth.net, and most recently his work on the new MiniBrute.

I asked Marc-Henri if I could post the image and his words. Not only did he agree, but he sent some words from Yves Usson as well. Don't miss Marc-Henri's note on how design began in the modular realm.


Yves Usson on the birth of the MiniBrute: "I was contacted by Arturia in june 2010 to conceive and draw the whole chain of analogic sound production for the Mini Brute. I made a first model of the components. Then the engineers of Arturia created the transposition of the circuits into surface components, and their integration in product. Arturia developed the whole numeric control of the keyboard, of the Midi/Usb interface and of the arpeggiator. I took part in the integration process and creation of the successive prototypes until the final production was achieved. I also wrote several chapters in the user's guide, especially the didactic part about subtractive synthesis and the description of the Mini Brutes various functions."

Marc-Henri on the image, Yves Usson & the MiniBrute: "Here is a portrait of Yves Usson, the creator of the Mini Brute. He lives in Grenoble (one hour far from my city, Lyon) and is mainly a creator of modular synths (the one behind him is one of his unique pieces after various modules). Grenoble is also the home city of Arturia and this explains also why Yves Usson was asked to collaborate with this famous and beautiful label. I took this picture in my music store whose synths manager, a very good friend called Pascal, had organized the first french presentation of the Mini Brute last saturday. It was something great to face one of the six already built Mini Brutes ! Yves Usson explained us he started building the future Mini Brute in modular form before imagining its shape with the Arturia's engineers, because he is so familiar with this kind of system, it was for him the best way to conceive an analogue.

Yves Usson, as every great creator, is a very simple and passionate man, generous and open minded, and I think his instrument has the taste of genius. By pure chance, I discovered he is member of a small association of electronic music I belong to. This created a friendly connection between us. I will certainly have other opportunities to meet him in his studio and maybe try one of his fabulous self made modulars ! I love this kind of persons, highly creative with simplicity and generosity."

Note the MiniBrute filter is the Nyle Steiner filter, and I believe the physical controls and case was designed by Axel Hartmann also responsible for the designs by Access, Waldorf, Moog, and more - you can find the list on his designbox site here. Use the on-page scroll bar on the right to scroll through the list.

Big thanks to Marc-Henry and Yves Usson for this post!

Update: turns out the modular in the background is actually a custom MOS-LAB System 16.

Mayuzumi- Mandara

YouTube Uploaded by John11inch on May 16, 2009

"First Musique Concrete piece I've uploaded. Very powerful; give this piece some time. I promise it's worth it." Move over Bolero...

followed by:

"This is from a really old LP.

I can't way one way or another whether this was re-released onto Naxos or if they rerecorded it, though, so it might be the same recording."

This one in via Marc-Henri, aka RADIOKLOW

Marc-Henri Arfeux - Rituel des bols & Rituel des jardins

Rituel des bols by Marc-Henri Arfeux
"Rituel des bols, composé pour Little Phatty, explore par le jeu de l'allusion musicale les cérémonies d'offrande et de communion poétique par le thé, dans la spiritualité japonaise."

Googlish: "Ritual bowls, made to Little Phatty, explores the interplay of musical allusion ceremonies of offering and poetic communion with tea in Japanese spirituality."

Rituel des jardins by Marc-Henri Arfeux
"Rituel des jardins célèbre les métamorphoses d'un jardin sous la lumière d'une journée d'été. Cette pièce est composée pour MiniMoog Voyager."

Googlish: "Ritual of the famous gardens the metamorphosis of a garden under the light of a summer day. This piece is composed for Minimoog Voyager."