Electronic Music

[Dave2002]

This one is short and fairly pleasant.

You can find more - with some similarities [though sometimes different] at

https://cdm.link/2020/06/free-modular-recipesin-vcv-rack-with-jw-modules/

[Mandryka]

Couple of interesting blog posts about De Natura Sonorum here

http://classicaldrone.blogspot.com/search/label/envers_dune_oeuvre

The book which it's inspired by, L'envers d'une œuvre, is here. If only I were more comfortable reading on screen I'd join scribd.

https://www.scribd.com/document/209073064/L-Envers-D-Une-Oeuvre-Parmegiani

[RichardB]

You mean the book the blogposts are inspired by, not the composition! Thanks for the link, I shall certainly read it. Although, familiar with DNS as I am, I’ll have to try to sift out the interesting facts and comments by the composer from the rest of the verbiage which doesn’t seem so promising.

[Mandryka]

Well I’ve taken the plunge and joined Scribd to read it.

Interesting how the book very much presents DNS as a sequence of studies, and that the recording plays the two series with each piece blending - very effectively blending IMO - into the next.

[Dave2002]

Couple of interesting blog posts about De Natura Sonorum here

http://classicaldrone.blogspot.com/search/label/envers_dune_oeuvre

The book which it's inspired by, L'envers d'une œuvre, is here. If only I were more comfortable reading on screen I'd join scribd.

https://www.scribd.com/document/2090...vre-Parmegiani

Thanks for this - looks very interesting - will try to read more later.

[Mandryka]

Any thoughts about Ludger Brümmer? Where to start?

[Dave2002]

Has anyone seen a copy of Allen Strange's Electronic Music [new version] book yet? Seems it's being reissued by a kickstarter campaign.

https://allenstrangeelectronicmusic.com/

Would it even be worth having?

[RichardB]

Would it even be worth having?

I doubt it, given the enormous evolution in electronic music techniques in the half century since it was written, but it's fairly easy to find a pdf copy if you want to read it.

[Dave2002]

I doubt it, given the enormous evolution in electronic music techniques in the half century since it was written, but it's fairly easy to find a pdf copy if you want to read it.

There's more about this here - https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signa...ic-kickstarter - and I guess that there are web sites which have most of the details of patches from the book.

Just borrowed a copy of Patch and Tweak from the library - very good. I may even just buy a copy even though it's expensive.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/PATCH-TWEAK-EXPLORING-MODULAR-SYNTHESIS/dp/B098RZ48B7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31JDPLN7PRJG&keywords=patch+and+tweak&qid=1684484264&s=books&sprefix=patch+and+tweak%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-2

[Dave2002]

Seems that individual module components from the Surge synth are available in VCVRack, and these can be tested and run within Cardinal in several other host environments.

Might interest anyone who wants to play around. The video shown here gives some clues.

https://youtu.be/8MavXLbI50A

[RichardB]

Now playing: François Bayle, Toupie dans le ciel, one of my favourite electronic compositions and one which seems to establish a whole new "style" of its own, derived from the techniques and sounds of musique concrète on the one hand, and the "minimalism" of Terry Riley on the other. Each of its many layers is always rotating in articulation and perspective, but the overall sound remains hypnotically consistent.

[Mandryka]

Now playing: François Bayle, Toupie dans le ciel, one of my favourite electronic compositions and one which seems to establish a whole new "style" of its own, derived from the techniques and sounds of musique concrète on the one hand, and the "minimalism" of Terry Riley on the other. Each of its many layers is always rotating in articulation and perspective, but the overall sound remains hypnotically consistent.

Thanks, sweet music. Introverted.

[RichardB]

Now playing: Morton Subotnick, Sidewinder, the Mode reissue (originally released in 1971 on CBS as a quadraphonic LP). Sidewinder, like many of Subotnick's electronic compositions, was created using a Buchla synthesizer, a very different sort of device from the contemporaneous ones from Moog and EMS and highly suited to Subotnick's improvisational approach to electronic sound (or should that be the other way around?).

[Joseph K]

Now playing - ▶︎ FIRE | Paul* Hermansen (bandcamp.com)

... and enjoying.

[Joseph K]

'Accident' from FURT's Accident & Emergency. As fascinating and colourful as usual.