Like A Real Flame (Melissa Broder) (2015)

Jonathan Fitoussi - Perspectives

An electronic piece, performed live on Moog and Roger Arrick synths, by Mark Isham in his personal studio.

Chaconne In Ab For Moog 11.27

Kinda spacey, mostly acidic, slightly bumpy, and entirely live. 

em dub - hushone

All sounds produced by the new Synthesis Technology E330. Expoits all three modes - an incredible range of timbres - with some help from the E560 Deflector Shield and E580 Delay

Here's a selection of single shot unprocessed sound samples from this piece with a few notes:
https://soundcloud.com/problivion/deconstruct-dream-within-a-dream

Dream Within A Dream

Electronic piece with an early seventies space vibe...

Supermoon

Chasin' It!

Ethereal choral piece with bowed gongs...

Tundra

Labyrinths by Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière
Buchla modular syntheszer / Ems Synthi / Resonator
Extrait de leur second album "Espaces Timbrés" à paraître le 19 mars 2018
Special vinyl edition with moiré graphic effect
PRE-ORDER THE VINYL HERE:
https://versatilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/jonathan-fitoussi-cl-mens-hourri-re-espaces-timbr-s-verlp35
3 years on, and after their first critically acclaimed album on Versatile, Five steps (aka Jonathan
Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière), who have been likened to the godfathers of the synthesizer
genre (think Suzanne Cianni,François Bayle or Morton Subotnik and you're almost there!) are
back with 'Espaces Timbrés' a brand new episode in their exploration of the legendary modular
synthesizer - The Buchla, specially crafted for Versatile Records. After 2 years of tireless work,
ever pushing and furthering their musical research, Fitoussi and Hourrière reveal to us new
territories, textures, sounds and feelings to explore with the help of the equally legendary I:Cube
on mixing duties to add even more sonic reflections and mixing desk wizardry. This one's a
hyper-jump into the future made possible through a machine from the past, giving birth to those
most captivating of electronic mantras... dive in, the water's warm!

Espaces timbrés

Labyriths

Labyrinths

( Go to my website at www.mikeolsonmusic.com to get more info about this and other pieces of music I've created. )

This is an electronic music composition which was created in 2018 using a vintage Polyfusion analog modular synthesizer. It is the first piece I’ve created using this particular instrument and I chose to restrict myself to using it exclusively as my only sound source for the piece. 

Aesthetically, this piece is a little on the dark side, (though not particularly lugubrious). It exhibits characteristics that could fall under such headings as “experimental drone” and “pattern-based minimalism”, over which sometimes ecstatic gestural outbursts emerge. Like much of my recent work, I am striving for a sense of restraint, which I am only partially successful in achieving. This ties in with the idea of limitations, which I am also very interested in. I begin every new composition by establishing meaningful limitations to work within. For this piece my limitations were that the piece must be all electronic and use only the Polyfusion as it’s sound source. This has resulted in a finished piece which unabashedly celebrates the sound of electronics and the sound of the Polyfusion modular synthesizer in particular. There is nothing in this piece which is trying to sound like an acoustic instrument of any kind. It is electronic and it sounds electronic. The only acoustic sound is the sound of the switch at the very beginning of the piece. This is literally the power switch for the Polyfusion being thrown. The hum which follows is the actual hum of the Polyfusion’s power supply. I mic-ed it and recorded the sound of that hum. Though this is not an audio signal being produced by the instrument, it is an audible hum which is in fact being generated by it. So it could be said that the piece starts with the physical sounds of the electronics, and then transforms into a sonic world that those electronic components produce as audio signals.  (more on the website)

Anachronistic

IntuitiveMike

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