SOMA Lab Soundsystem is Vlad Kreimer and Philippe Petit.
Vlad Kreimer the brain behind the brand SOMA and inventor of today's most interesting electronic instruments plays his Pulsar 23 and this is the very first song using the instrument. 
Historical !
To match I played my Buchla Easel K... Feeling really happy to join the SOMA team which hopefully will soon be rewarded for such inventiveness and intelligence in helping us create some newer sounds...

SOMA Lab Soundsystem

I like to be introduced as a "MUSICAL TRAVEL-AGENT".
ONSTAGE I'm mostly playing an Easel K (Buchla Modular Synth) and The Pipe (from SOMA Lab) which allows mouth-synthesis... I also manipulate unique vinyls with my sounds/musics, assaulting turntables to take advantage of the vinyl material to fondle released sounds, raking the needle across the record's grooves, rubbing their stylus on paper, cardboard, metal to process unusual noises and textures. I have a physical relation to my recordings and envision my live sets like performances. 
Gesture is also a very important part of my compositional process... While composing I am also relying on the use of real instruments such as Cymbalom, Pianos, Guitar and Percs that I play like a kid discovering a new toy, improvising and attaching great importance to gesture and stressing dynamics. My moves aren’t consensual, not cozying up potential listeners. A Punky approach even if throughout the past years I have been following courses of Composition + Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory, specializing in Modular Synthesis. 
Pushing further my research in bringing together the Human and its Machine into a tapestry of sound which creates a deep sound assemblage of exotic Musiques Concrètes which guarantees to grow on you with repeated listens, slowly revealing its detailed richness…

SOMA Lab Soundsystem

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