Hadikat Raja XX

Hadikat Raja XX, Première Partie

YouTube Published on Jul 23, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Twentieth visit to the Garden. Composed for Virus TI, Little Phatty and Blofeld"

"The twentieth piece of the HR cycle. To celebrate this number, I decided to use various means of composition. After a small introduction with the Virus TI, the first part goes on with Little Phatty solo lines, 00:41 to 6:11, with a small touch of Virus TI, 0:59 to 1:17, and some drops of Wiener Philarmonik Steinway, 5:00 to 5:53.
From that point, some Virus TI elements of the 19 previous pieces appear in a new configuration to develop at the same time echoes and brand new musical forms. It runs during the second part - with a short background call,(as a night bird call), of Doepfer coming from HR XVII, between 1:39 and 1:45. At 5:27, the Virus Ti vanishes and the end of this part is exclusively composed for Blofeld. I wanted to do something special for this twentieth composition of the HR cycle, and I will of course go on this work in progress since this issue gave me many new ideas."

Hadikat Raja XX, Deuxième Partie

Published on Jul 23, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Second part of the Twentieth visit to the Garden. Composed for Virus TI, Little Phatty and Blofeld"

Hadikat Raja XIX

Hadikat Raja XIX, Première Partie

YouTube Published on Jul 10, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Nineteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI"

A few lines of Doepfer modular from 2:29 to 2:46, in the solo from 4:00 to 4:22, and from 4:46 to 5:23. Wiener Philarmonik Steinway piano sounds transformed by GRM at 2:17.

Hadikat Raja XIX, Deuxième Partie

Published on Jul 10, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Second part of the nineteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Virus TI"

Doepfer in solo from 6:46. Everything else you hear is the Access Virus TI.

Hadikat Raja XVIII

Hadikat Raja XVIII, Première Partie

YouTube Published on Jul 7, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Eighteenth Visit to the Garden. Composed for A100 Doepfer"

"Composed for A100 Doepfer transformed with GRM Tools. There is just a small underlining with trombone and choir sounds created with the Virus from 0:20 to 1:49, and a few elements of Winer Philarmonik Steinway transformed by GRM Tools from 0:00 to 1:59. All the rest is only Doepfer."

Hadikat Raja XVIII, Deuxième Partie

Published on Jul 7, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Second part of the eighteenth Visit to the Garden. Composed for A100 Doepfer"

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

Quintette

YouTube Published on May 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Quintette is a collective work achieved with a group a four students of Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France : Laure Varichon, Noé Charmet, Clément Poignet, Kiefer Wiessler. During the year 2011-2010, they joined a course I created about philosophy of aesthetics and electronic music. The result of our work is this composition in five movements for Virus TI, Microkorg and Doepfer, to which we added parts for voices and piano. The voice parts are the free theater like interpretation of two famous texts by Emmanuel kant and Friedrich Nietzsche about the question of genius. The voices and the piano were sometimes transformed with the GRM Tools. The five films were created by the four students and I to illustrate the notion of creation in a free way, through the process of a painting's creation followed until the end of the fifth movement. A bonus consisting in one of my own composition was added to the Quintette. The whole work was shown for the first time in Lycée Edouard Herriot on friday 11 May 2012, to a large audience during the Week of Arts of this high school. I want to thank the four students for their friendly involvement and beautiful work in this project !"

The movements and synths used:

1st Movement [Doepfer for intro, Access Virus Ti for majority of piece, MicroKORG solo at end]
7:15 2nd Movement [All MicroKORG]
11:50 3rd Movement [Access Virus Ti - appearance at 17:06]
21:25 4th Movement [All Moog Filtatron]
26:35 5th Movement [Access Virus Ti]
33:57 Bonus [Access Virus Ti]

Hadikat Raja XVII

Hadikat Raja XVII, Première Partie

YouTube Published on Apr 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Seventeenth visit to the Garden. Composed for Doepfer A100"

Doepfer composition coupled with GRM tools [link] in real time. Access Virus appears four times to briefly underline the main flow of the piece: from 0.38mn to 1.29m, 3.29mn to 3.49mn, 10.11mn to 10.15mn, and at last from 10.24mn to 10.40mn.

Hadikat Raja XVII, Deuxième Partie

Published on Apr 17, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

Hadikat Raja XVI

Hadikat Raja XVI, Première Partie

YouTube Published on Apr 10, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Sixteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI and A100 Doepfer system."

Hadikat Raja XVI, Deuxième Partie

Published on Apr 10, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Second part of Hadikat Raja XVI. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI and Doepfer A100 system."

Hadikat Raja XVI, Troisième Partie

Published on Apr 10, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Third part of Hadikat Raja XVI. Composed for Virus TI and Doepfer A100 system."

Hadikat Raja XV

Hadikat Raja XV, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Apr 8, 2012

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

Hadikat Raja XV, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Apr 8, 2012

"Second part of the fifteenth visit to the garden. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI"

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

Feuillet d'Hiver

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Feb 2, 2012

"Little composition to celebrate winter and february, month of my birth,for Keyboard Virus TI and a few natural sounds"

Méditation

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jan 28, 2012

"'Meditation' is a global work of numeric art and electroacoustic music. The video is the work of the french artist Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and the music for it was composed on Virus TI Keyboard by Marc-Henri Arfeux."

"This work, video and music, will take place in various exhibitions of numeric art in Europe in the following months."

Hadikat Raja XIII

Hadikat Raja XIII, Première Partie.dv

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Jan 7, 2012

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

Hadikat Raja XIII, Deuxième Partie

Hadikat Raja XII

Hadikat Raja XII, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Nov 26, 2011

"First part of the welth visit to the garden. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI. Drawings on Zenbrush."

Hadikat Raja XII, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Nov 27, 2011

"Second part of the twelth visit to the garden. Composed for Keyboard Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja XI

Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Nov 22, 2011

"Eleventh visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI"

Hadikat Raja XI, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Nov 23, 2011

Hadikat Raja XI, Troisième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Nov 23, 2011

IKKK Multimedia Steinway transformed by the GRM Tools for piano. Also some recordings of stones hitting and scraping together processed by GRM Tools.

Hadikat Raja X, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Oct 28, 2011

"Tenth visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja X, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Oct 28, 2011

"Second part of the tenth visit. Compose for Keyboard Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja IX, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Oct 18, 2011

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

Hadikat Raja IX, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Oct 18, 2011

"Second part of the ninth visit to the garden."

"Here, half of the prepared pianos are created on the Virus, half derive from the Wiener Philarmonik of IK Multimedia, transformed by various GRM Tools. The same with flutes."

Hadikat Raja VIII, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Sep 24, 2011

"Eighth visit to the garden. Composed with Virus TI Keyboard."

Hadikat Raja VIII, Deuxième Partie

Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Sep 24, 2011

"Second part of Hadikat Raja VIII. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja VII, Première Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on Aug 7, 2011

"Seventh visit to the garden. Composition for Keyboard Virus TI."

"Just a detail : this time the piano used in the begining is not one of my favorite prepared pianos created on the Virus TI but the Steinway of Wiener Philarmonik by IK Multimedia, transformed by various GRM Tools. On the contrary, the clarinet you will hear in solo from the third minute and at the end of second part, as all the other sounds, has been created on the Virus TI."

Hadikat Raja VII, Deuxième Partie


Update: I sent the following to RADIOKLOW and thought I'd share it here as well. I love the use of the Virus in these pieces. Here is why.

"As always, I love your use of the Virus TI and the sounds you create with it. It's refreshing to hear it used in this way. I think it's inspirational in that it reminds people you can use synths for more than rhythm based electronic music. People seem to associate music like this with Buchla and forget you can use a synth like the Virus to explore sound in a similar way. It's easy to fall into the use of synths for more conventional electronic music. Your music reminds me of when I first explored editing synths and my initial love for synthesis unbound by conventional sounds. For me it was all about creating new instruments never heard before. My first synth was the Matrix-6, hence the alias matrix and name of the site. The Matrix-6 has a pretty extensive modulation matrix, tracking and ramp generators, velocity sensitivity, aftertouch, and something not common on most synths, release velocity. You can map all of this to different parameters in the modulation matrix allowing you to essentially create unique expressive instruments." It was more about exploring sound than trying to create specific sounds to use in a mix. Note it's all good in my book, it's just nice to be reminded that you are free to explore anything you want, anytime you want. Don't box yourself in.