recorded at the meta ta physika stage at The Great Beyond '25! i am so grateful to dustin, steve and jasmine for creating and holding an ideal space to share new music, challenging ideas, collective movement, human spirit! what a beautiful fest.

Matthew Cha @ The Great Beyond '25

25-08-01 Buchla Easel 'Otherlands’

An experiment with Buchla Synth and samples from Egmont Overture, performed by Orchestra TSUMUGI on 10th Mar. 2024, Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Japan.

Folding Egmont

Composer, producer and Buchla enthusiast Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith joins William J. Stokes to discuss her latest album Gush. She also treats listeners to a live set, performed on a carefully curated selection of Buchla 200e modules.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - Peacock Moments
06:24 - Working With Suzanne Ciani
10:54 - Discovering Buchla And Eurorack
16:40 - Blending Sensibilities
23:21 - Buchla 200e Modular System And 223e Input
28:48 - 259e and 261e Waveform Generators
36:58 - 296e Spectral Processor
43:37 - 227e System Interface
51:25 - The Performance

#buchla200e #buchla223e #buchla259e #buchla #261e #buchla296e #buchla227e

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Biog
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a classically trained American composer, producer and performer originally from the Pacific Northwest who now lives in Los Angeles. Drawing upon her formal training in composition and sound engineering from Berklee College of Music, she initially explored vocal performance, classical guitar and piano before her creative trajectory shifted when a neighbour lent her a Buchla 100 modular synthesizer. Her music combines the use of modular, analogue and rare synthesizers, orchestral textures and voice.

Her early self-released works, including Cows Will Eat the Weeds and Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga (2014), were followed by Euclid (2015), her first official album with Western Vinyl, which combined structured songwriting with ambient exploration. This was succeeded by EARS (2016), which critics praised for its seamless layering of organic instrumentation and analogue synthesis to evoke feelings of awe and disorientation. Her 2017 release, The Kid, marked a conceptual leap, tracing stages of human development through richly textured, emotionally resonant compositions that bolstered her status among experimental music audiences.

Kaitlyn has performed alongside artists like Hot Chip, Glass Beams, RY X, Caribou and Four Tet, composed original works for Apple, BBC Orchestra, Adult Swim, MoMA, Red Bull and others, plus her song “Stratus” was also synced in the 2023 film Priscilla Motion Picture Soundtrack. She has also collaborated with longtime inspiration Suzanne Ciani and other artists like Emile Mosseri, while exploring multidisciplinary projects through her label, Touchtheplants. On her latest album, GUSH, Kaitlyn sets her sights on aesthetics, focusing on the heightened awareness of and presence in the world where every interaction, whether with people, objects or nature, has the potential to become a moment of connection and personification.

https://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/
https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
https://x.com/kaitlynaurelia

William J. Stokes Biog
William J. Stokes is a producer, writer and artist in three-piece avant-psych band Voka Gentle. As well as being a critic and columnist for Sound On Sound, conceiving the popular Talkback column and heading up the Modular column, he has also written on music and music technology for The Guardian, MOJO, The Financial Times, Electronic Sound and more. 

As an artist in Voka Gentle he has made records with producers from Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Grizzly Bear, Nick Cave) to Sam Petts-Davies (Radiohead, The Smile, Roger Waters), has had songs featured on franchises from FIFA Football to The Sims and has toured across the UK, Europe and the USA, playing festivals from Pitchfork Avant-Garde in Paris to SXSW in Austin, Texas. He has collaborated with artists including the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Morcheeba, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. 

Full biog at https://www.soundonsound.com/people/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-talks-buchla-sos-podcast

https://www.vokagentle.com/

Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Electronic Music

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - My Life In Modules

Show Notes

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - My Life In Modules | Podcast

I think these little pieces
are for the end of the zipper.
Clueless as to what it is,
more so in how to install it. 
I've always wanted to learn to make dresses like this
with built in cups, how do I go about it?
How long did it take you to understand FL Studio?
Looking to custom order a prison cell door, 
so pretty, so heavy, so solid!
In case of a fire what am I to do? 


How do you measure a giantess reptilian for a bra? 
What do you do with all the B-side writing
that won't make it into your book? 
Can I credit my pen name with my other pen name? 
Superhero stories, biblical times,
why aren't there more? 


If from thin air ideas come,
more thin air I must find.
Is there a reason people ask you
to contact them on another platform? 
Why do hangovers make me feel
simultaneously hungry and nauseous? 
To hate everything I write, is it normal? 


Isn't it weird how often people ask
if some personal experience is normal? 
Is he expecting too much from his hiking shoes? 
Can dolphins live in milk?
I say "Socket Garage" my wife giggles, Why? 


What is the proper etiquette
for telling your new coworker
they have flakey skin in their braids? 
In your van, where did you install the diesel heater? 
I'm still grieving a friend
who died in a motorcycle accident. 
Can you recommend any poetry books about grief?
any on how to replace the forks on a 1979 Honda CB750?
Premature ejaculation, the number one cause,
nostalgia? 


Milk 8 29 25

Originally broadcast on www.intergalactic.fm on 7th September 2025. Presented by The Dusty Wizard live from Dresden, DE. Featuring exclusively tracks available direct from the artists/labels.

Tracklist:

1. ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL - Faceless

https://absolutebodycontrol.bandcamp.com/album/lost-found

2. AAAH...! - Duty Calls

https://deadwaxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/works-in-the-lab-bonus-tracks-dw040

3. CARMODY - Bones

https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-062-carmody-sleep-on-mirrors-lp

4. DAYS OF SORROW - Wild World

https://daysofsorrow.bandcamp.com/track/wild-world

5. CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE - Near Marineland

https://crashcourseinscience.bandcamp.com/album/near-marineland

6. DIE FORM - Prefazione di Pompei

https://dieform.bandcamp.com/album/die-puppe-original

7. JOHNNY YEN - Clay

https://subculturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pop-cycles-2022-remaster

8. GRAUZONE - Maikäfer flieg

https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grauzone

9. IAN ELMS - The Street Enters The House

https://ianelms.bandcamp.com/album/good-night

10. INFORMATICS - Underlife

https://informatics.bandcamp.com/album/dance-to-a-dangerous-beat

11. MARTIN DUPONT - Soft Images

https://martindupont.bandcamp.com/album/just-because

12. MALARIA! - Your Turn To Run

https://malariaband.bandcamp.com/album/compiled-20

13. OPPENHEIMER ANALYSIS - Scorpions

https://oppenheimeranalysis.bandcamp.com/album/new-mexico

14. RUINS - Daily And Blue

https://mw-ruins.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-dance

15. RATIONAL YOUTH - Ring The Bells

https://rationalyouth.bandcamp.com/album/cold-war-night-life

16. PATRICK COWLEY - Moving Bodies I

https://patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/mechanical-fantasy-box

17. PYROLATOR - Danger Cruising

https://pyrolator.bandcamp.com/album/inland-bonus-edition

18. MARTIN REV - Asia

https://martin-rev.bandcamp.com/album/martin-rev

19. HELDON - Circulus Vitiosus

https://heldon.bandcamp.com/album/electronique-guerilla-heldon-i

20. DOUG McKECHNIE - Baseline

https://dougmckechnie.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-san-francisco-moog-1968-72

21. YOU - Zero-Eighty-Four

https://you-official.bandcamp.com/album/electric-day

22. SVEN GRÜNBERG - Valgusois (Flower Of Light)

https://svengruenberg.bandcamp.com/album/hingus

23. SUZANNE CIANI - Fish Music

https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/fish-music

24. LAURIE SPIEGEL - Pentachrome

https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe

25. CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Gelb 11

https://conradschnitzler.bandcamp.com/album/gelb



Magic Waves Live Show 07 - 09 - 25 Magic Waves: DIY

Osmose - 700FM GMXE 200e

buchla easel and a pedal

Experiment using the M4L version of the 700FM GMXE .. added some strings with the Moog Muse

Buchla 701e

700FM GMXE sequenced by OXI One, additional layer with Majella Implexus and some 200e percussions

Buchla 702e

25-09-13 Buchla Easel

Body Signals for Buchla Modular, Mellotron, SOMA Cosmos, and Bioelectric signals. Recorded September 15th 2025 in Naperville IL USA.

Monday September 15th 2025 Body Signals

Thomas Breuer (aka vactrolog) und Thomas Burkhardt (aka LIN/LOG) arbeiteten an diesem Abend in ihrer 2022 gegründeten Kooperation BREUER X BURKHARDT. Aus verschiedenen musikalischen Lagern stammend und mit unterschiedlichem Instrumentarium, zeigten die beiden Musiker, dass elektronische Musik auch in in einer gemeinsamen Improvisation sowohl Sensibilität als auch Kraft entfalten kann. Ihrem Konzept treu, lieben die beiden Musiker den rohen, authentischen Sound aus den elektronischen Schaltkreisen ihrer Modularsysteme. Wie auch im Jazz bedarf es auch in diesem „elektronischen“ Duo einer kalkulierten Abstimmung, Reaktion und eines konstruktiven Freiraums für den Anderen. Sichtlich konzentriert auf ihr elektronisches Schaffen, verwoben die beiden Musiker aus ihren zunächst einzelnen Positionen heraus ein intensives klangliches Gefüge (betitelt: »Faktotum«) an den Grenzen von Tonalität, Noise, Rhythmik und Fragment.

Breuer x Burkhardt - Faktotum

Experiment in creating flat wound stringed bass and sax

Today's little Easel exploration delving into the custom program card patch and panning experiments. Video of this here: https://youtu.be/eikH6PEiP-I

easel improv 92625

Malanni

I am, on the maternal side, Haplogroup T
(Subclade T2) and, on the paternal side,
Haplogroup Q (M242)!
I have been walking the earth since the
early '50s. I am an ex-mill-rat,
ex-(Calumet)region-rat, ex-chemist,
dead-mathematician, ex-programmer,
musician, composer, earth-walker.
I have two musical directions, I play,
perform, and teach traditional Japanese
classical music for the shakuhachi
(an end blown bamboo flute), and I play,
compose, and perform experimental
electronic music. All the electronic music I
compose and perform is and can be done
in real-time (i.e. I don't use multi-tracking
or computer manipulation for my compositions).
Whenever I record anything, either electronic
or on the shakuhachi, it is done in real-time
just as it would have been done on the stage
or in an intimate setting.

Breuer x Burkhardt is the collaborative sound project of Thomas Breuer (@vactrolog) and Thomas Burkhardt (@lin-log). Main focus is creating nonlinear textures from raw patches using Serge modular system as well as IME and Wiard in Eurorack format.

Join me on my journey as i assemble a buchla system and learn to play it. Thanks to Todd Barton and Stazma for the you tube tutorials.

Experimental abstract bleepery, mostly.

https://www.instagram.com/alias_451/
https://alias451.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@alias-451

Bambino: One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.
Trinity: Well, you asked me to give you a hand.

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composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

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Trashy artist from Planet Keron. No pronouns, for grammatical reasons "she" is acceptable.

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