"Day 1 - Buchla Touché live manipulation. Oct 2017"
The Buchla Touché has only been referenced twice before here on the site. This is the first post to feature a demo of one. Only a few Buchla Touché exist. Four are confirmed to be out there, and I believe this is the only fully functional one. The Touché is a digital synth with analog gates and outputs, released in 1979.
"Making a sound completely from scratch on the Elektron Analog Four. I look at oscillator, envelope, filter, LFO and FX parameters as well as how to add expression using Aftertouch"
"On the 18th November I'll be performing live at Further, an event dreamed up by DJ Food and Pete Williams. Every surface of the venue (Portico Gallery, London) will be covered in visuals as Sculpture (live tape loops and Zeotrope visuals) myself (live Buchla & Ciat Lombarde Cocoquantus) and DJ Food and Pete Williams conjure up strange textures, melodies and sound designs.
I'm sharing some footage of my preparation for the show and this is a little clip of one patch I'm working on. I don't do a lot of videos so please forgive the fact that most of the action takes place out of shot! What you can't see is the Ciat Lombarde Cocoquantus Looper/magic box, which I'm feeding from a Korg Monotron. The Buchla is providing the constantly shifting rhythmic elements.
Date : Saturday 18th November
Time: 7:30pm- midnight
Tickets – £7 (early bird price) £9 (Full price) Click the link below
DJ Food & Pete Williams present the second of their irregular evenings at the Portico Gallery by creating a temporary audio visual space to enjoy. Films, slides, oil projections, food, drink and plenty of seating form the environment to soak up the sights and sounds of Further.
Programme:
7.30 – 8.30: Doors open, there will be a record stall with stock picked to compliment the evening by Micheal Johnson from the nearby Book & Record Bar and delicious food served alongside the fully licensed Portico bar stocked with local beers and ales.
8.30 – 9.15: Simon James – former Simonsound and Black Channels member and one of the foremost exponents in today’s modular electronics scene – plays a rare live set with his Buchla easel system.
10.00 – 10.45: Sculpture bring their incredible live show to West Norwood via Dan Hayhurst’s tape loops and electronics and Rueben Sutherlnd’s zoetrope turntable visuals
10.45 – 12.00: DJ Food & Pete Williams (Further) will open and close the evening with their multi-projection Light & Sound Designs."
Published on Oct 30, 2017 Hexinverter Électronique
"Mutant Modular #4 is from long-time Montreal techno luminary Jean-Patrice Remillard, AKA Pheek. Jean-Patrice has been exploring electronic music since the early 1990s and has been a key player in Montreal’s minimal scene from its very inception. From his early work with Mateo Murphy (Mutant Modular mm002) on Montreal-based label Hautec recordings, to releases on Richie Hawtin's M_nus imprint, France's Telegraph, Denmark's Tic Tac Toe and Germany's Contexterrior, Pheek has developed an unmistakable sound – textural and spatial with a cerebral, experimental soul, and at least one foot always on the dance floor."
"I haven't posted a 100% Metasonix Wretch Jam in over 3 years so I decided to fire up that cantankerous monster for some improvised noise. Pulse wave and gate signals are being fed to the Wretch from the Knas Ekdahl Polygamist Synthesizer. The Polygamist is just out of frame and can't be heard but is acting as a dominatrix to the submissive Wretch, telling it what to do and running the show. Also, vacuum tube spring reverb is coming from the Metasonix R-56 module."
"Short jam with my modular synth. Benjolin feeding and controlling the Mutable Instruments Elements. Erbe Verb and Rainmaker doing the FX. Live recorded with Ableton Live using 2 tracks; left and right channel."
"If you like my stuff please support me on http://music.ollilab.com/ and https://www.patreon.com/theBURG
This is my first proper recorded jam using the Elektron digitakt. It is handling kickdrum, snare, reverse hh and the LOW bass + also sequencing the waldorf blofeld over MIDI.
Also introducing the Noise Engineering BIA, doing some percussion sequenced by the BSP.
This track was a bit of a struggle, trying to get so many new elements into place.. especially the digitakt, so I decided to take it slow and just do some minor things, and it feels like it went well.
The modular has a pretty complex patch, braids does the intro melody (FOLD), rings does some heavily modulated melodies, BIA does percussion and the morphagene does an extremely chopped up vocal sample + string pattern (layered) as a percussive thingy.... patched it through VCA, + maths controlling CV, and sequenced by the BSP .. good fun. :)
ms-20 does a one VCO lead sound + the el capistan delay, analog four adds some percussive sequencing, stabs + that it sequences the 0 coast over CV.
nord lead A1, stacked strings using the swell pedal to pull in some subtle fifths strings, VCF modulated by internal LFO's for some movements.
volca bass and keys, well, they do their stuff :)
Gear used: ms-20 mini, volca bass, keys, elektron digitakt, analog four, roland tr-8, yamaha reface CP, nord lead A1, waldorf blofeld, makenoise 0-coast
FX, ms-70 CDR on volca keys and bass, el capistan on ms-20, bluesky, particle and CSIDMAN on reface, timeline and eventide on blofeld, EQD transmisser, space spiral, keeley caverns, RE_20 on modular.
