026. #fi2u # Noise On The Objects /28.09.2015

Taken from the album 'Toxic Cosmopolitanism' released as LP / Download

Kassel Jaeger 'Exposure Scales — Sunlight' (eMEGO 183)

The SYNTHI AKS is a legendary machine. Manufactured by Electronic Music Studios in 1971, this portable modular synthesizer was extremely flexible. Not a keyboard synth like what Moog was doing at the time, this was a generative music machine with a matrix patch panel. Think Max/MSP in analog terms. Except that being analog, it wasn't entirely stable and, thus, had an organic quality that is still valued today.

Music from the SYNTHI is a new endeavour for Yoshio Machida, a consistently surprising sound and visual artist who, among other feats, has released an acclaimed series of sound collage albums (Hypernatural), albums of improvisations on steelpan drums, and records with the bands miimo and Ohanami. This new solo album arrives almost four years after his previous one The Spirit of Beauty (a slow-evolving piece combining instruments, field recordings and electronics), and six years after his Baskaru debut Hypernatural #3.

Music from the SYNTHI consists in 13 pieces. Most of them are quirky and playful. "SYNTHI n° 30" has a longing quality you would never expect from a synthesizer. And all of them are 100% SYNTHI. "I simply recorded the repeating patterns and mixed 3 to 5 patterns per piece, without any editing or effects," explains Machida. I wanted to record rich obscure improvisations as performed by the SYNTHI. Every modulation, reverb, effect like delay, and glitch sound is produced inside the SYNTHI."

Yoshio Machida - SYNTHI n°23

Difondo's website: http://difondo.net/sampler-and-zither-crowdfunding-2/

Recorded 27.10.13 excerpt (no editing).
Sergio Camedda: sampler;
Giampaolo Campus: zither.
photo: Massimo Croce

It is characterized by the starting choice of using only two sound sources (sampler and zither) exploring their timbrical possibilities. In this way, the zither is thought as a sound body in its inner structure (strings, wood surface, zither steel pins, etc..) put in resonance through different types of obiects or suitably prepared, while avoiding any use of electronic devices. The sampler instead, takes along a research on real or prepared piano sounds which, displayed on a keyboard, are played and treated in real time. 
The aim is to create a sort of chamber music where, through the improvisation as a way of instant composing, it is developed a constant interplay based each time on the developing of a timbrical idea.


Difondo - 4'02'' _ Sampler and Zither VII

An excerpt of "Replayed" – taken from the album The Prepaid Piano & Replayed (2014).

Co-released by Entr'acte and Senufo Editions.
entracte.co.uk/projects/andrew-pekler-e177/

The Prepaid Piano

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Replayed (excerpt)

sometimes i just want to have fun and experiment on the modular with well-known themes. today i wanted to do a bit of the classic "buchla bongo"... at least use my make noise optomix to create some wood-like percussion.

the main sound is an intellijel shapeshifter being FM'd by a dixie sine wave. it goes into the make noise optomix which is being struck by a function trigger. various LFOs modulate the rate.

i decided to throw in another sound on the 2nd channel of the optomix and went for the e350 oscillator and threw an LFO on the pitch.

i really like the percussive and wooden textures you can get out of FM sounds and the optomix. how i'd use them in my own productions, i don't know yet... but it's fun to play around.

i find with modular synthesis that i need to have a rough idea going in of what i want to do. sure, it can change from there, drastically, but at least having an idea.. because you are, after all, building something from the ground up.

it's quite the opposite of a standard subtractive synthesizer where there's already a sound there to start.

part of the goal of this studio diary is to simply explore ideas.. to see if i can do them and maybe later figure out how, if ever, they'd fit into my compositions.

oct 23, 2014 (woody modular)

The A side of free jazz monster MATS GUSTAFSSON's new solo  7" for iDEAL, ltd to 200 copies on tasty transparent vinyl. Recorded live at a table in front of an audience of five at Stockholm's Bar Brooklyn a few years ago. There were some people at the bar too. True free jazz lap dance, man.

MATS GUSTAFSSON - LAP DANCE (iDEAL119 7")

疋田哲也+NIL "Water Wheel (Voile Remix)"

Murcof's debut album, "Martes". This is the original tracklist that was edited on the Mexican release by Static Discos on Frebruary 14th 2002.

track five from Streengs album, released on Senufo Editions.