Sonic sculptures (generative modular music)

video upload by Electrum Modular

"(For Paula)

This patch was inspired by hours (weeks?) of listening to Morton Feldman’s exquisite music. It ended up quite different harmonically from Feldman’s pieces, partly due to the limitations of a modular system. The envelope generators and attenuators required some tweaking to get that balance between repetition and divergence, revolving and evolving. In retrospect, I could have left longer silences between notes.
NOTE: no delay effect used here, as it would have reintroduced a pulse.

“Almost all of Feldman’s music is slow and soft. Only at first sight is this a limitation. I see it rather as a narrow door, to whose dimensions one has to adapt oneself (as in Alice in Wonderland) before one can pass through it into a state of being that is expressed in Feldman’s music. Only when one has become accustomed to the dimness of the light can one begin to perceive the richness and variety which is the material of the music...Feldman sees sounds as reverberating endlessly, never getting lost, changing their resonances as they die away, or rather not die away, but recede from our ears, and soft because softness is compelling, because an insidious invasion of our senses is more effective than a frontal attack.”” -- Cornelius Cardew, quoted by John Tilbury in “On Playing Feldman”

Video sequences from Works of Calder (d. Herbert Matter, 1950), an experimental film featuring a soundtrack by John Cage; available at archive.org.

Title image: Tentoonstelling Kinetische Plastiek Am. beeldhouwer Alexander Calder in Stedelij, Bestanddeelnr (October 2, 1969); creative commons.

Modules used:
Expert Sleepers’ Disting EX
Disting mk4
ALM’s Pamela’s New Workout
Behringer Neutron
ALM’s Pip Slope x2
Make Noise Maths
Intellijel Quad VCA
Tesseract’s Sweet Sixteen"

Historian Thom Holmes Examines Early Moog Modular Performances

via The Bob Moog Foundation:

"Delving Deep into Moog History: Early Live Moog Modular Performances

Historian Thom Holmes returns this month with a fascinating examination of the earliest live performances on the Moog Modular synthesizer, and the musicians who brought them to life.

Replete with rare photos, vintage concert programs, and other archival material, the blog features artists such as Herb Deutsch [pictured], Gershon Kingsley, John Cage, John Mills-Cockell, Chris Swansen, Paul Bley, Annette Peacock, and many more.

Read the entire historical blog here."

Cage Morphagened

Published on Aug 21, 2018 Todd Barton

"This rather intense composition was created from a 30 second sample of John Cage's prepared piano piece, And the Earth Shall Bear Again, using the MakeNoise Morphagene module developed by Tom Erbe. Video by Bruce Bayard http://brucebayard.com/
Better audio at: https://soundcloud.com/user7621213/ca..."

The Noise Floor of the Universe

MAKEN0ISE

"I love to make noise, and I am also keen to learn about the many ways in which noise makes me.

The observations in this video are not really anything new. If they strike any chord with you, here is some recommended further reading:

Pauline Oliveros, “Some Sound Observations” - perhaps the piece that kick-started my interest in the removal of boundaries between music and sound, sound and silence, listening and playing.

John Cage, Silence - among much other material this includes the famous story of a visit to an anechoic chamber where Cage was unable to hear “silence” because he could always hear the sounds of his own body.

Joe Allen, “Academic Archive Vol XII: The Soul of Hank Shocklee” - Shocklee discusses the unfound sounds and rhythms that emerge, consciously and otherwise, when multiple recordings are sampled and mixed together.

Eliane Radigue with Julia Eckhardt, Intermediary Spaces - Radigue discusses how underlying tones are a necessary bed for the harmonic explorations in her music to be heard, or even to exist.

Daphne Oram, An Individual Note - Oram spends the better part of her book using electronic music concepts as a sometimes clunky but always interesting extended metaphor for the human body.

George Lewis, "Improvising Tomorrow's Bodies: The Politics of Transduction" - Lewis argues for improvisation as key to "the foreshortening of distance between art and life."

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

CatSynth TV Episode 99

Published on Dec 25, 2018 CatSynth TV

"A special video for our 99th Episode!

Video shot along Highway 99 in California from Manteca through Stockton and heading towards Sacramento. Additional video and photography at CatSynth HQ in San Francisco.

Guest appearances by Sam Sam and Big Merp.

Original music by Amanda Chaudhary, based on melodies from "99 is not 100" by Moe! Staiano.

Synthesizers used:
Minimoog
Arturia MiniBrute 2S
Big Fish Audio John Cage Prepared Piano Sample Library (Kontakt)
Nord Stage EX
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Metasonix R-54 and R-53
2hp Cat module
4ms Spectral Multiband Resonator
Make Noise Echophon"

The Story of Cybernetic Serendipity Music - The World's First Compilation of Electronic Music

Published on Oct 13, 2014 The Vinyl Factory

"The Institute of Contemporary Arts & The Vinyl Factory present Cybernetic Serendipity Music, the world's first compilation of electronic music, reissued on vinyl for the first time since it was originally released as part of the ICA's groundbreaking robotics exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity in 1968.

Click here to order a copy: http://www.vfeditions.com/product/vie...

The exhibition documenting the original Cybernetic Serendipity show is on at the ICA from 14 October to 30 November 2014. For more information, visit the ICA’s website: https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/cyber...

Thank you to Peter Zinovief [EMS], Russell Haswell, Yuri Pattison and Juliette Desorgues for their contribution to this film.

Filmed by Anoushka Siegler, Kamil Dymek, Pawel Ptak and Luis Muñoz"

Vinyl Tracklisting:

Side A
1. Lajaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson - Illiac Suite (Experiment 4)
2. John Cage - Cartridge Music (excerpt)
3. Iannis Xenakis - Strategie (excerpt)
4. Wilhelm Fucks - Experiment Quatro-Due
5. J.K. Randall - Mudgett (excerpt)

Side B
6. Gerald Strang - Compusition 3
7. Haruki Tsuchiya - Bit Music (excerpt)
8. T.H. O'Beirne - Enneadic Selections
9. Peter Zinovieff - January Tensions
10. Herbert Brün - Infraudibles

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Richard Lainhart, Morton Subotnick and I Dream of Wires Screening

As many of you know, Richard Lainhart passed away on December 30, 2011. He was primarily known in his later days for his music composed with a Buchla 200e modular system and Haken Continuum. On July 7 & 8, 2012 he and Morton Subotnick's works will be featured in a concert and screening presented by Harvestworks, in association with ((audience)) and River-to-River Festival. A screening of the modular synthesizer documentary "I Dream of Wires" which features Richard will be held on July 8.

"A note from Caroline Meyers (Richard's wife).
'Richard would have been so honored to have his name linked to that of Morton Subotnick for this July 7th concert. He often spoke of his reverence and admiration for the composer's works and I believe Silver Apples of the Moon was the inspiration for Richard to begin his explorations in electronic music.

That he did not live to see this day pains my heart, but I hope that the occasion and the admission price will encourage you to mark your calendar and attend this concert in his name, and in celebration of electronic music from the master.'"

The events:

July 7, 2012, 7:30pm
Works by Morton Subotnick and Richard Lainhart Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
Pace University
3 Spruce Street, NYC
Admission: FREE

On July 7, Source of Uncertainty II presents a premiere performance of Energy Shapes by Morton Subotnick and excerpts from his legendary album Silver Apples of the Moon.

The July 7th concert's opening feature is The Orchestra of the Damned, by the late Richard Lainhart (1953-2011). The Orchestra of the Damned is a quadraphonic tape-work for the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer.

As Richard introduced the first audition of the piece on MatrixSynth (www.matrixsynth.com) in 2007, he said: "Friends: just in time for Halloween, a new piece for Buchla 200e and Continuum - The Orchestra Of The Damned...I played this live entirely with the Continuum - no sequencing or multitracking involved. I hope you enjoy it." [posted here]

In a review for Further Noise, Caleb Deupree says, "Orchestra of the Damned is cinematic with all of its texture changes, from sparse, quiet sounds to constant, siren drones, including a remarkable section reminiscent of the earliest electronic works from Cologne and Paris of the 1950s."

July 8, 2012, 6:00pm
Film screening of I Dream of Wires
including an interview with Richard Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn
Admission: $5

On July 8, ((audience)) will present a special screening of selections from I Dream of Wires, a forthcoming documentary on the modular synthesizer featuring interviews with manufacturers, collectors, designers and musicians.

The I Dream of Wires, screening will include an interview with Richard Lainhart.

Directed by Robert Fantinatto, I Dream of Wiresis a journey into the obscure but highly influential world of modular synthesizers. Learn how it revolutionized music from the pioneers that were there, why it quickly became obsolete, and how it has become all the rage again.

The film is currently in production; the directors will present a selection of raw footage and interviews. For more information, visit http://idreamofwires.org/.

The evening will also include short films by Liz Wendelbo with soundtracks by her Brooklyn-based synthesizer band, Xeno & Oaklander."

"About Richard Lainhart
Richard Lainhart was a composer, performer, and filmmaker based in New York. He studied composition and electronic music techniques with Joel Chadabe, a pioneer of electronic music and the designer of the Coordinated Electronic Music System at one time the largest integrated Moog synthesizer system in the world. From 1987-1990, Lainhart was the Technical Director for Intelligent Music, developers of innovative computer music software like M, Jam Factory, and UpBeat.

His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, ExOvo and Airglow Music labels and are distributed online via MusicZeit. As an active performer, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. He has composed over 100 electronic and acoustic works, and has been making music for forty years. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape.

Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown in festivals in the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. His film "A Haiku Setting" won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto. In 2008, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for "No Other Time", full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition computer-animated film projection."

Sonicstate Talk to DEVO

Title link takes you to the interview. They touch on Morton Subotnik and John Cage as influences, the Minimoog, circuit bending before Circuit Bending, the Synthi AKS, PAiA, their broken ARP Odyssey (they had a tech to make sure it remained broken) and more.

Death Valley [Episode 190]

Published on Oct 11, 2019 CatSynth TV

"From the depths of Badwater Basin to the heights of the Amargosa mountains, we explore and celebrate the beauty of Death Valley with original music by Amanda Chaudhary.

For more adventurous music, please subscribe to CatSynth TV and visit www.catsynth.com

Software instruments:
Tracktion BioTek
Arturia Mellotron V
Arturia Pigments
Arturia CMI V
Arturia Prophet VS
Arturia Piano
MOK Waverazor
Kontakt (John Cage Prepared Piano, Grindhouse, World Impact)
EastWest Orchestra Gold

Hardware Instruments:
Vintage Minimoog Model D
Sputnik Modular Dual Oscillator
Qu-Bit Prism module

Additional foley and sound effects via samples."

Pixelh8's SONUS (ONE)

"Sonus (One)" is a spatial realisation of aleatoric or randomly generated music. Although not all of the music is left to chance, the player can intervene albeit in a seemingly haphazard manner. Use the blocks either to block the flow of the balls or to trap them removing them from play.

The software is in part inspired by the work and teachings of John Cage, with "Sonus (One)" adding the dimension of space to the music of chance. Not only letting "sounds be themselves" but giving them room to do so.

"Sonus (One)" is part of the "Otherwise Autonomous" collection of digital instruments designed and programmed by Pixelh8."


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ARPchives LIVE! with Steve McQuarry: August 4, 2021

video upload by Alan R. Pearlman Foundation

Starts at 1:46

"Catch the wave ∿ Our ARPCHIVESLIVE series with Steve McQuarry (of Synsor).

As a composer, arranger, orchestrator, synthesist, and visualist, Steve has worked with distinguished artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Laurie Anderson, and the late John Cage. Join us as he discusses sounds, synths, and sequencers with Dina Pearlman!

More of Steve's Music here
https://synsor.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/synsormusic/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-42..."

https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/

ARPchives LIVE! posts

Gorillaz & ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet

YouTube via theondes

"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net -
Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz, "The Good, The Bad and The Queen" leader) works in his studio (London) with music supervisor David Coulter and French multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Thomas Bloch (ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet) who he has played as well with Radiohead as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world) during the preparation of his first opera : "Monkey: Journey to the West", in April 2007.

Thomas Bloch informations: http://www.thomasbloch.net
Damon Albarn informations : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Al...
David Coulter informations : http://profile.myspace.com/davidcoulter
"Monkey: Journey to the West" informations : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey:_...

Other names : Ones Martenot (Catalan), Ondas Martenot (Spain, Portugal), Martenot waves (English), Onde Martenot (Italy), Fale Martenota (Poland), 0™0Û0...0˚0fi0Î0»0Œ (Japan) - wrong name : Martinot / armonica de verre (France), Armonica de vidro, orgue de verre (France, Belgium), crystal harmonica, crystal armonica, glass organ, crystal organ, Armónica de cristal (Spain), Armonica a bicchieri (Italian), glasharmonika (Germany, Denmark, Sweden), glassharmonika (Norway), Harmonika szklana (Poland), 0¢0Î0‚0À0´ (Japan), close instruments : glass harp, glassharfe, glass harfe, harpe de verre, verrophon, verrophone, seraphim, verres musicaux, musical glasses"

Ondes Martenot / Messiaen 4° Feuillet Inédit by Thomas Bloch

YouTube via theondes

"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net - Olivier Messiaen "4ème Feuillet Inédit" played by Jean-François Zygel (piano) and the French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bloch (glassharmonica, ondes Martenot, cristal Baschet) who has played as well with Radiohead, Gorillaz as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world, during a french national TV program ("La boîte à musique de Jean-François Zygel - spéciale Noël"). December 21, 2007

Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net
Jean-François Zygel informations : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-fra...

Ondes Martenot /virtuosistic Formule by Thomas Bloch-TV 1999


"Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net - "Formule" is one of the most virtuosistic piece written for solo ondes Martenot, composed by and played here by the French multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bloch himself (ondes Martenot, glassharmonica, cristal Baschet) who has played as well with Radiohead, Gorillaz, John Cage as with most prestigious classical soloists and orchestras in the world (Milano Scala, Paris opera...).
A short excerpt of the piece taken from a TV program recorded in Paris Musée de la Musique. June 8, 1999.

To hear and see the complete work, a more recent version played live at the Barbican Center (London) was added recently on youtube:

Live ondes Martenot in Barbican (London) by Thomas Bloch



"Video recorded live in the Barbican Center, London (October 2007)."

for more videos including the Glass Harmonica see theondes YouTube channel.

Light Splitting | minimal ambient with test equipment, pedals and four track cassette

Published on Feb 6, 2020 HAINBACH

"In which I perform a composition on battery powered test equipment, pedals and a four track cassette recorder.

This track stems from many ideas - the first inspiration was my visit to Willem Twee studios and their beautiful setup of sine wave oscillators, with which its possible to create all kinds of amazing tone clusters. It gave me the idea of trying a minimal take on that technique. I did not feel like engaging the test equipment wall, I wanted something small, maybe even portable.

I started with he Brüel & Kjaer 1621 bandpass filter I got as a gift from Felix of the fabolous @Fewjar , as its small and runs on batteries. It takes a saw from the @KOMA Elektronik RH301 and filters it, creating pulses as it jumps from high-low setting. The TouelSkouarn Ar Merc'het Brao is a dual filter but I love it as an oscillator, controlled by the infra-red sensor of the RH301. One out goes into the Cooper FX Outward MK2, which creates more brassy pulses and new harmonies. I then realized that I could power this all from the Koma Elektronik Strom Mobile, which lasts for about 5-6 hours on a single 6000ma USB power bank with this setup. So I set that up instead of crawling under the desk for a free power slot.

Because the setup is small I thought of ways to get more voices, so I did what Stockhausen did - record the sounds to tape. The Fostex X28H to the top right has a cassette loop running. I recorded different pitches on three tracks and play them into the Alesis Wedge reverb to the top left.

When composing and playing it I recalled Silences by John Cage, and tried to think of leaving a broad empty canvas, with music only filling up small parts of it. I hope you enjoy it!

get this track and support what I do on http://patreon.com/hainbach"

An Interview with Peter Grenader

"There are three Peter Grenaders. The first one is a renowned composer, whose works have secured wins at several festivals all over the world and whose artistic friends include some of the greatest names from the field of electronic music: Morton Subotnick, Steve Roach, Barry Schrader and many others. The second one is an instrument designer and Head of Plan B, a company producing modular analogue synthesizers. This Peter Grenader enjoys the immediate interaction between these machines and the performing musician, the way in which they allow a composer to have his instruments really do what he wants them to. Customers of his have included Nine Inch Nails and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers - again among many others. The third and final Peter Grenader is a former student at CalArts, now, retrospectively, probably considered the most important faculty of experimental media in the USA at the time. With stars like Harold Budd and John Cage working closely together with students, this was an exciting era of departure, of fresh beginnings and of discovering new technologies, timbres and tools. As a CD project and a string of new Plan B products are approaching, the first and second Peter Grenader are sure to make headlines soon. But until then, we're sitting down for a chat with the last one, talking about the "good old times" and life as a student at CalArts in the 70s."

click here for the full interview on Tokafu.

The Galaxy Electric - Improvised Electroacoustic Music - Bebe and Louis Barron Theme

Published on Mar 24, 2020 The Galaxy Electric

"Thanks for listening! Come on a musical voyage with us where we'll send you a new song every day, a cosmic story, and a chance to earn space treasure: https://thegalaxyelectric.lpages.co/5...

The Avant-Garde meets Sci-Fi Soundscapes

Inspired by the famous 1950s electronic music duo behind the film score for Forbidden Planet, Bebe and Louis Barron - we set out to improvise in the style of their early work with avant grade artists like John Cage and Anais Nin, whose poetry is featured in this video.

Join us every Wednesday for a ride on The Galaxy Electric Express 🚀

We perform a LIVE (improvised) Cosmic Tape Music soundtrack for your retro-futuristic travels 💫 You never know what planet you will land on…but you know it’s going to be an unforgettable journey…

Gear:
Buchla Music Easel
1979 Digital Resonator
Buchla 266 Source of Uncertainty
DIY MFOS Noise Toaster"

Mechanical piano pieces on TENORI-ON(s) [Rehearsals] by Smith

YouTube via znshn. be sure to see these prior posts (scroll).
"Digital adaptation of the "mechanical piano" (also known as "pianola" and "player piano") ways of playing as imagined by Colon Nancarrow in his "Studies for player piano" (and George Antheil in "Le ballet mécanique") using two TENORI-ON(s) and various filters.

N.B.- These rehearsals are part of a series of solo pieces inspired by Nancarrow's works and John Cage's experiments for prepared piano.

See also previous video "Studies for two TENORI-ON(s)" on Create Digital Music: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/02...
IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- 2 TENORI-ON(s)
- MI Audio Pollyanna Octave Synth
- Moog Low Pass Filter (MF-101)
- Moog Ring Modulator (MF-102)
- Jomox M-Resonator
- POG Polyphonic Octave Generator (Electro Harmonix)
- Space Echo (Boss RE-20) *only reverb used here
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for LPF Resonance)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for RM Frequency)
- Boss EV-5 for Space Echo volume *not used here

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmither...
http://www.myspace.com/znshn

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette"

Lainhart Live Online Audio/Video Performance Friday May 7

"Friends: Sponsored by the ImprovFriday group, I'll be performing a realtime audio/video set from my studio on Friday, May 7, at 9 PM EDST (GMT -4). In honor of ImprovFriday, I'll be playing structured improvisations for electric guitar and lapsteel processed with the Kyma System and laptop, and streaming live video and audio of the event with interactive chat on the ImprovFriday site:

http://improvfriday.ning.com/

To find your local time, go here

I hope you can tune in, and I encourage you to join the ImprovFriday group for more wonderful spontaneous music from around the world."

Richard Lainhart will also be performing Monday May 10 with Buchla and Haken Continuum along with Jessica Feldman and Michael V. Waller:

"LMAKseries - Live audiovisual performance event

Monday, May 10, 7:30 pm
Featuring: Jessica Feldman, Richard Lainhart and Michael V. Waller

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, filmmaker, and author - a digital artisan who workswith sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds and images that are as beautiful as he can make them. Lainhart studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany. He has composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, XI Records, Airglow Music, Tobira Records, Infrequency, VICMOD, and ExOvo labels. He has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Electronic Music Fondation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape. Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in the US, the UK, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Korea, and online at Souvenirs From Earth, ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. In 2009, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts. In January 2010, he performed as a featured Live Media audio-visual artist at Netmage 2010 in Bologna, Italy."

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street
New York NY 10002

Inauguration (Non measurement)

Published on Jul 16, 2017 UncertainMusicCorps

"First in what is planned to be a series of works using a very compact and self-contained modular system (known here as Tiny Dynamite v2) primarily under generative control via Wotja (by Intermorphic) on iOS.

In the spirit of the project, it seemed only right that a cut-up John Cage should act as MC.

As ever the recording is direct to camera and unedited. Headphones are recommended.

The layout of Tiny Dynamite can be seen in detail here https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/461188

Information about Wotja is here http://intermorphic.com"

Synthesizers Documentary by Katey Dawson

Published on Nov 30, 2013 Katey Dawson·1 video

"How has the development of the Synthesizer changed the traditional way of making music?"

Featured: Theremin, Ondes Martenot, Moog, Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Emu, & soft synths.

You can't cover everything in just under 24 minutes of course.  That said, there's no mention of Don Buchla, who gets as much credit as Bob Moog for starting the synthesizer revolution.  Some of the second wave including Arp, Oberheim, Sequential Circuits, EML, etc... aren't mentioned.  John Cage gets a mention for his use of raw oscillators, Wendy Carlos for her work on Switched on Bach with the Moog modular. Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Tangerine Dream get a mention for the 70s. Zap gets a mention for the use of the vocoder. Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield & Tubular Bells get a mention, but not Kraftwerk (although Autobahn gets a clip). Human League's Don't You Want Me gets credit for the first all sequenced synth track to hit number 1 on the charts. Paul Hardcastle's 19 gets a mention for its use of sampling. No mention of Morton Subotnick, YMO, ELP, Synergy, Isao Tomita, Laurie Spiegel, Suzanne Ciani, musique concrete, etc.  Still pretty cool seeing a documentary on synthesis at a high level like this.

Tristan Perich: Noise Patterns Coming to NYC This Wednesday, April 2

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
Tristan Perich: Noise Patterns
Daniel Wohl w/ Iktus Percussion
Lucky Dragons
This Wednesday: a special intimate NYC performance of Tristan Perich's "Noise Patterns", with performances by Lucky Dragons and Daniel Wohl + IKTUS.
April 2, 2014 at 8:00pm
Baby's All Right
146 Broadway (at Bedford Ave), Brooklyn, NY

Info on Noise Patterns (click through for audio and more pics)

"Expanding on Perich's 1-Bit Symphony and tonal works for electronic circuits and acoustic instruments, Noise Patterns is a composition for sequenced 1-bit patterns of white noise, programmed for and performed by microchip. Instead of synthesizing definite frequencies, the code in Noise Patterns outputs random sequences of 1s and 0s. The 'notes' of Perich’s 'score' are then varying probabilities of randomness—ranging from the sound of white noise to sporadic instantaneous pops—which he composes into rhythmic patterns. In a tidal wave of 1-bit noise, the music is an investigation into the foundational limits of computation, which surface in the seemingly simple world of randomness."


And other events featuring Tristan's work:

MAR 29
Ensemble 0 performs Tristan Perich's "Observations" (with other works by Billy Martin, John Cage, Steve Reich, Angelica Negron)
Médiathèque André Labarrère
Pau, France

MAR 30
Unwind Concert Series: Mark DeMull performs Tristan Perich's "Momentary Expanse"
The Avenue, Lansing, MI

APR 2
Frontiers Festival: the festival's Resident Ensemble presents a program of works by Birmingham Conservatoire students alongside music by Tristan Perich, Anna Clyne, and Missy Mazzoli’s Orrizonte.
Birmingham Conservatoire
United Kingdom

MAY 30
FIVE: junctQin keyboard collective plays Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq" (and works by Thierry De Mey, Elisha Denburg, Chad Martin, and Tomi Räisänen)
Gallery 345
Toronto, Canada

JUNE 5
Ensemble 0 performs Tristan Perich's "Observations"
Carcassonne, France

JUNE 12
Open Ears Festival: junctQin keyboard collective performs Tristan Perich's "qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq" (with works by Thierry De Mey, Elisha Denburg, Chad Martin, and Tomi Räisänen)
Registry Theatre
Kitchener, Canada

JUNE 21
Socrates Sculpture Park: SOUND EVENT
Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens, NY

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