Name: Pushing Squares by biergoat
Duration: 5 min 46 s
Description: 2 voice live interactive modular composition featuring a Make Noise Rene', Optomix, Mutable Plaits and a CEM oscillator.

This genre-bending compilation of original electronic music compositions features a chiptune-inspired head trip from Bonobo, an R&B-influenced synth pop track from Peter CottonTale feat. Jamila Woods, an ethereal vocal collage from Julianna Barwick, an evolving psychedelic excursion from Dan Deacon, a driving percussive electronica track from Madame Gandhi, an emotive dark wave song from Martial Canterel, and an industrial-tinged electronic pop track from Ela Minus. Each track was built around the instruments and accessories included in each artist’s Moog Sound Studio of choice: Mother-32 & DFAM or Subharmonicon & DFAM.

More From Ela Minus: https://www.elaminus.com/

More about Moog Sound Studio: https://www.moogmusic.com/news/moog-music-introduces-complete-synthesizer-studio-experience

Ela Minus - Mothers Make Mistakes

2 voice live interactive modular composition featuring a Make Noise Rene', Optomix, Mutable Plaits and a CEM oscillator.

Pushing Squares

visiting Synthplex 2022 - a teaser from our first night jamming

WarMup

Ivory II Studio Grands - Steinway Model B Grand
Adam Guettel - Composer
"Octet" from Light in the Piazza
Rob Schwimmer, Pianist & Arranger

Adam Guettel - "Octet" from Light in the Piazza, Rob Schwimmer arr. - Steinway Model B

FIGURE IT OUT

XTC Live On WFNX 5/15/1989 Bruce McDonald Interview

About:
A lifelong expatriate, Bana Haffar was born in Saudi Arabia in 1987 and spent much of
her childhood in the GCC.
Through her switch from 10 years of electric bass to modular synthesizers in
2014, Bana is attempting to dismantle years of institutional ‘conditioning’ in traditional
systems of music theory and performance. She is interested in exploring sonic
disintegration and coalescence into new forms and synthesized experiences.
Haffar is also the co-founder of Modular on the Spot, a monthly outdoor synth
happening that began on the Los Angeles river and has since spread nationally and
globally.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/banahaffarmusic
https://twitter.com/banahaffar
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4031728-Bana-Haffar
https://www.instagram.com/sinusoidaltendencies
https://banahaffar.bandcamp.com/

Data Cult Audio 0100 - Bana Haffar

My interpretation of the musical composition Double Sextet (Steve Reich), created specially for the project Arkhitektonika and performed live together with ICQ Orchestra.

Steve Reich - Double Sextet By ICQ-Project (Finetune Landscape Ver)

While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation audible.  This piece is a musical representation of the amino acid sequence and structure of the spike protein of the pathogen of COVID-19, 2019-nCoV (protein data bank identifier 6VSB [1]). 

MUSICAL DECEIT

A virus’ genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses from it.  This musical art teaches us something about the fine line between beauty of life and death as an opposite pole.  As you listen to the protein you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasing, relaxing sounds. This doesn’t really convey the deadly impacts this particularly protein is having on the world. This aspect of the music shows the deceiving nature of the virus, how it hijacks our body to replicate, and hurt us along the way. So, the music is a metaphor for this nature of the virus to deceive the host and exploit it for its own multiplication. 

HOW IT IS DONE: 

What you hear is a multi-layered algorithmic composition featuring both the vibrational spectrum of the entire protein (expressed in sound and rhythmic elements), the sequence and folding of amino acids that compose the virus spike structure, as well as interwoven melodies - forming counterpoint music - reflecting the complex hierarchical intersecting geometry of the protein [2].

Scientific references:

[1] Wrapp et al., "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation," Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507

[2] Buehler et al., "A Self-Consistent Sonification Method to Translate Amino Acid Sequences into Musical Compositions and Application in Protein Design Using Artificial Intelligence," ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b02180

Viral counterpoint of the coronavirus spike protein (2019-nCoV)

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)

minimalistic synthesizer session on the Evolver (Dave Smith) alongside the Octatrack MKI (Elektron) I can't recall the noise coming from the Evolver,..  i pushed the record button after some tweeking and i didn't save the sound : / Enjoy xxx

Pushing Squares

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